Mari Jo Buhle


Mari Jo Buhle is an American historian and William J. Kenan Jr. University Professor Emerita at Brown University.

Early life

Buhle was born in 1943 as Mari Jo Kupski. She graduated from North Chicago Community High School in 1961. Listed as Mari Jo Kupski Buhle in 1968, she received her Master of Arts degree in history from the University of Connecticut. She earned a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1974.

Career and legacy

Since the 1980s, Buhle, husband Paul, and Dan Georgakas have been co-writing and publishing Encyclopedia of the American Left, first published in 1990. In 1991, Buhle was named a MacArthur Fellow.
Buhle's papers are held at Smith College.

Personal life

On December 30, 1963, she married Paul Buhle.

Works