Professor Benjamin Hufbauer’s book, Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory (University Press of Kansas), according to Kirk Savage, “shows how presidential libraries expose the basic tensions of American democracy: as archival shrines they serve to embody the ideal of free and open inquiry, while celebrating the concentration of power in the ‘imperial presidency.’” Prof. Hufbauer has been interviewed about presidential libraries and quoted by CNN, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, the British Radio program Monocle, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Salon, The Dallas Business Journal, Bloomberg, and others. He has also written op-eds on presidential libraries for The Chicago Tribune, The Dallas Morning News, Inside Higher Ed, and The New York Times.

Hufbauer’s work has been published in Res: The Journal of Anthropology and Aesthetics, The Journal of American History, African Arts, American Studies, Competitions, and The Public Historian. Professor Hufbauer has presented his work at conferences for the Midwest Popular Culture Association, the Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture, the Semiotic Society of America, the National Council on Public History, the Front Range Symposium on art and History, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the Savannah Symposium. He has also spoken at the Visual Studies Forum at the University of Kentucky, as well as the Crichton Club, in Columbus, Ohio.