Jeffrey Lingan Pasley (born February 27, 1964) is a professor of American history at the University of Missouri, specializing in the Early Republic.
Pasley spent most of his childhood in Topeka, Kansas, graduating from Washburn Rural High School in 1982.
After graduating, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked on the staff of Al Gore's attempted campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1988 election,[1] during much of 1986 and 1987.
[1] In addition, Pasley has taught classes on the United States during the Cold War, especially in the field of popular conspiracy theories.
[5] In a 2015 interview with Vox Magazine (an arm of the Columbia Missourian newspaper), Pasley talked about the role of comic books in reflecting the social political climate of the time in postwar America.