Whitney McIntosh

Whitney McIntosh is an historian of the 20th Century United States and an Assistant Professor of Modern U.S. History at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Her research explores right-wing politics, American libertarianism, intellectual culture, and challenges to democracy.

Her current book project, American Libertarianism: A Philosophy, a Movement, a Sensibility, 1960-1995, is an archivally-based study of libertarianism from the 1960s counterculture to the rise of the Internet. Making use of personal papers and interviews, her work charts the history of major libertarian institutions for the first time, while also examining the development of libertarian intellectual culture.

She recently published “F. A. Hayek, Libertarianism, and the Denationalization of Money” in Modern American History. Her research has been supported by the American Historical Association, the Hoover Institute at Stanford University, the History of Economics Society, and the University of Oregon.

Prior to her graduate studies, Whitney served as a research associate at the Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University. She has consulted for the Kofi Annan Foundation for its Commission on Elections and Democracy in the Digital Age.

Born in Naarm/Melbourne, Whitney now lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.