Jeff Roche

Jeff Roche

Jeff Roche is the author and editor of four books that examine the relationships between politics and place, culture and history. They include Restructured Resistance: The Sibley Commission and the Politics of Desegregation in Georgia (1996, 2010),  The Conservative Sixties with David Farber (2001), and The Political Culture of the New West (2008). His most recent book is The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right, published October 2025. He is currently at work on a cultural biography of cereal magnate and anti-labor zealot C.W. Post. He received his Ph.D. from the University of New Mexico and his BA and MA from Georgia State University. Since 2001, he has taught at the College of Wooster in Ohio. He is also the founder and director of the Monday Night Mile, a non-profit organization that raises money for children’s hospitals.