Peter S. Onuf
Peter S. Onuf is an American historian and professor known for his work on U.S. President Thomas Jefferson and Federalism. In 1989, he was named the Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of the University of Virginia, a chair he held until retiring in 2012. The chair's previous occupants included Jefferson biographers Dumas Malone and Merrill D. Peterson; he was succeeded by Alan Taylor. Life. A native New Englander, Onuf graduated from Johns Hopkins University, where he worked with eminent early American historian Jack P. Greene. He taught at Columbia University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Southern Methodist  University. In 2008, he held the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History chair at the University of Oxford. Onuf also acted as a cohost for the radio show " BackStory with the American History Guys". In 2014, he taught a free online U-Va. course on Thomas Jefferson.