Leo Paul Ribuffo (September 23, 1945 – November 27, 2018) was an American historian.
Born in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1945, Ribuffo graduated from Rutgers University in 1966 with a B.A.
[1] He received grants from the American Council of Learned Societies and the National Endowment for the Humanities, served as visiting professor at Fudan University in China, and held the Organization of American Historians-American Studies Association residency in Japan.
He was academic adviser to The World of F. Scott Fitzgerald (NPR), With God on Our Side (PBS-TV) and the documentary film The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg.
Ribuffo was also worked as a specialist abroad for the United States Information Agency (USIA) in Nigeria and the Republic of Korea.