Dr. Robert Chiles is a senior lecturer in the Department of History, with a specialization in American life, society, and politics from the Gilded Age through the New Deal years. His publications explore various facets of the early twentieth-century American polity, while his first monograph, The Revolution of ’28, is a reassessment of class and ethnic politics in the 1920s, centered on the political career of New York governor Alfred E. Smith. He is co-editor of the journal New York History and has taught numerous courses for University Honors, including inquiries into U.S. politics and American literature. Within the Deliberation cluster, his course interrogates the past, present, and potential future of education in the United States.