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His research and teaching center on American constitutional law and political development. In particular, Rana鈥檚 work focuses on how shifting notions of race, citizenship, and empire have shaped legal and political identity since the founding of the country.

His first book, The Two Faces of American Freedom (Harvard University Press) situates the American experience within the global history of colonialism, examining the intertwined relationship in American constitutional practice between internal accounts of freedom and external projects of power and expansion. His latest book, The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them (University of Chicago Press, 2024), explores the modern emergence of constitutional veneration in the twentieth century 鈥� especially against the backdrop of growing American global authority 鈥� and how veneration has influenced the boundaries of popular politics.

Rana has written essays and op-eds for such venues as n+1, Dissent, The Boston Review, The Washington Post, The New York Times, New Labor Forum, Jacobin, The Guardian, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Nation, Jadaliyya, Salon, and The Law and Political Economy Blog. He has articles and chapter contributions published or forthcoming with Yale and Oxford University Presses, The University of Chicago Law Review, California Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Texas Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal Forum, among others.

Rana is an editorial board member of Dissent, The Law and Political Economy Blog, Just Security, and The Journal of American Constitutional History. He is also a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

He received his A.B. from Harvard College summa cum laude and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He earned a Ph.D. in political science at Harvard University, where his dissertation was awarded the University's Charles Sumner Prize.

He served as associate dean for research and faculty development from 2010 to 2013. He has also been one of the organizers of the annual Constitutional Law "Schmooze", which attracts scholars from across the country to the law school.

Professor Graber is recognized as one of the leading scholars in the country on constitutional law and politics. He is the author of A New Introduction to American Constitutionalism (Oxford 2013), Dred Scott and the Problem of Constitutional Evil (Cambridge, 2006), and co-editor (with Keith Whittington and Howard Gillman) of American Constitutionalism: Structures and Powers and American Constitutionalism: Rights and Powers, both also from Oxford University Press, and co-editor with Mark Tushnet and Sandy Levinson of Constitutional Democracy in Crisis (Oxford 2018). His most recent book is Punish Treason, Reward Loyalty: The Forgotten Goals of Constitutional Reform After the Civil War (Kansas, 2023).

Professor Graber is also the author of over 100 articles, including "The Non-Majoritarian Problem: Legislative Deference to the Judiciary" in Studies in American Political Development, "Naked Land Transfers and American Constitutional Development," published in the Vanderbilt Law Review, and "Resolving Political Questions into Judicial Questions: Tocqueville鈥檚 Aphorism Revisited," published by Constitutional Commentary.

He has been a visiting faculty member at Harvard University, Yale Law School, the University of Virginia School of Law, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Oregon School of Law, and Simon Reichman University.

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After growing up in Phoenix, Sean Beienburg attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, graduating with majors in politics and history, and completed his doctorate in politics at Princeton University in New Jersey. Before coming to ASU, he taught at Haverford College and was an assistant professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

Beienburg's teaching and research interests include the U.S. Constitution and constitutional law, federalism and state constitutionalism/politics, Arizona constitutionalism, American political thought and development, executive power (both presidential and gubernatorial), parties and interest groups, 19th and early 20th century political and constitutional history, and Prohibition.

He is the author of (published by the University of Chicago Press, 2019) and (University Press of Kansas, 2024).

Before beginning his sabbatical/research leave (2025鈥�2026), he recently served as the Associate Director of SCETL as well as the Director of the . He is the project director of the initiative.

In addition to his constitutional work, he has also written about the political themes of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy and the Daniel Craig-era James Bond films.

Jack M. Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School. He is the founder and director of Yale's Information Society Project, an interdisciplinary center that studies law and new information technologies. He also directs the Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression, and the Knight Law and Media Program at Yale.Professor Balkin is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute. He is the author of over 150 articles in different fields, including constitutional theory, internet law, freedom of speech, reproductive rights, jurisprudence, and the theory of ideology. He founded and edits the group blog Balkinization, and has written widely on legal issues for such publications The New York Times, The Washington Post, New England Journal of Medicine, The American Prospect, The Atlantic, Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and Slate.

His books include 鈥淢emory and Authority: The Uses of History in Constitutional Interpretation鈥� (Yale, 2024); 鈥淭he Cycles of Constitutional Time鈥� (Oxford, 2020); "Democracy and Dysfunction鈥� (with Sanford Levinson) (Chicago, 2019); 鈥淟iving Originalism鈥� (Belknap, 2011); 鈥淐onstitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World鈥� (Harvard, 2011); 鈥淧rocesses of Constitutional Decisionmaking鈥� (with Levinson, Amar, Siegel, and Rodr铆guez) (Aspen, 8th ed., 2022); 鈥淐ultural Software: A Theory of Ideology鈥� (Yale, 1998); 鈥淭he Laws of Change: I Ching and the Philosophy of Life鈥� (Schocken, 2002); and 鈥淲hat Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said鈥� (NYU, 2001).

Professor Balkin received his Ph.D. in philosophy from Cambridge University, and his A.B. and J.D. degrees from Harvard University. He served as a clerk for Judge Carolyn D. King of the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit and practiced as an attorney at Cravath, Swaine, and Moore in New York City before entering the legal academy. He has been a member of the law faculties at the University of Texas and the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a visiting professor at Harvard University, New York University, the Buchman Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University, and the University of London.

Dr. Fatovic鈥檚 primary research and teaching interests are in modern and contemporary political and constitutional theory, including American political thought, democratic theory, and executive power.

Professor Fatovic鈥檚 research focuses primarily on the development of liberalism and modern constitutionalism in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century political thought, especially at the American Founding. Much of his research has explored how liberal political thinkers such as John Locke, Alexander Hamilton, and Thomas Jefferson have addressed the limits of the law and the dangers of discretionary power in dealing with emergencies and other extraordinary occurrences. He is particularly interested in the relevance of their ideas to current debates over the tensions between emergency powers and the rule of law in the context of the 鈥渨ar on terror.鈥�

His first book, Outside the Law: Emergency and Executive Power (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009), examines the extra-legal powers of the executive in liberal constitutional thought from John Locke to the creation of the American presidency. Extra-Legal Power and Legitimacy: Perspectives on Prerogative (Oxford University Press, 2013), which was co-edited with Benjamin A. Kleinerman, surveys the ways that different models of emergency power legitimize and constrain the use of extra-legal measures.

In 2015, Professor Fatovic published America鈥檚 Founding and the Struggle over Economic Inequality (University Press of Kansas), which surveys debates over the proper role of the government in dealing with various forms of economic inequality during the early decades of the American Republic. He is currently working on a book project that explores how treason has functioned in law and in rhetoric to constitute political authority and legitimacy, fix the boundaries of political community and identity, and establish the parameters of permissible thought.

Professor Fatovic鈥檚 articles have appeared in academic journals such as the American Journal of Political Science, Perspectives on Politics, History of Political Thought, Journal of the History of Ideas, American Political Thought, the Maryland Law Review, and Constitutional Studies. He is also the co-editor with Sean Noah Walsh of Interpretation in Political Theory (Routledge, 2016).

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George Thomas is Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions and Director of the Salvatori Center at Claremont McKenna College. His research and teaching focus broadly on American constitutionalism.

He is the author of The (Un)Written Constitution (Oxford University Press, 2021), The Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and The Madisonian Constitution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

In addition to numerous scholarly articles, his work also has appeared in The Atlantic, The Bulwark, and the Washington Post. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Huntington Library, and is the recipient of the Alexander George Award from the American Political Science Association.

Michael A. Dichio is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science. He teaches classes on Constitutional Law, Civil Rights and Liberties, Law and Politics, and American Political Institutions. His research centers on American political and constitutional development with a focus on the U.S. Supreme Court and constitutional law.

Dichio's book, The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority (2018, SUNY Press), appears in SUNY Press's American Constitutionalism series. It traces how the Court's constitutional jurisprudence affects the growth of the federal government from the founding era forward, and how this jurisprudence persistently centralizes and consolidates the reach and scope of the federal government.

His research has also appeared in Studies in American Political Development, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and Just Security, among other places.

Dichio received his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University in 2014, and his undergraduate degree in political science and history, with honors, from Boston College, and is a member of the Order of the Cross and the Crown. Prior to joining the University of Utah, he was an assistant professor at Fort Lewis College, a public liberal arts college in Durango, Colorado.

Dr. Paul Herron is Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College. His teaching and research interests are in Public Law, American Political Development, Southern Politics, and American Constitutional Development.

His most recent article, 鈥�The Constitutional Foundations of White Supremacy: Evidence from the States鈥� (co-authored with Daniel Kryder), appears in Publius: The Journal of Federalism. He has also published in Studies in American Political Development and the Journal of Policy History.

His 2017 book, Framing the South: The State Constitutional Conventions of Secession, Reconstruction, and Redemption 1860鈥�1902 (University Press of Kansas), explores state constitutional development in the American South.

Herron received his Ph.D. in Politics from Brandeis University, J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, and B.A. in History (Phi Beta Kappa) from American University.

Professor Smith centers his research on constitutional law, American political thought, and modern legal and political theory, with special interests in questions of citizenship, race, ethnicity, and gender. He is the author or co-author of nine books and numerous articles.

His 1997 book, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Citizenship in U.S. History, was a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History. He received five teaching prizes from Yale University, where he taught from 1980 to 2001, and the University of Pennsylvania, where he taught from 2001 to 2002.

He is a recipient of the Frank J. Goodnow Award of the American Political Science Association, among other recognitions. He was elected as an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow in 2004, a Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science in 2011, and a Member of the American Philosophical Society in 2016.

Professor Smith served as Penn's Associate Dean of Social Sciences from 2014 to 2018 and as President of the American Political Science Association in 2018鈥�2019. He was the founding director of the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy and the co-founder of the Teachers Institute of Philadelphia.

Jonathan Gienapp is Associate Professor of History and Law and the Nehal and Jenny Fan Raj Civics Faculty Fellow in Undergraduate Teaching. He specializes in the constitutional, political, legal, and intellectual history of the early United States. His primary focus to date has been the origins and development of the U.S. Constitution, in particular the ways in which Founding-era Americans understood and debated constitutionalism across the nation's early decades. His historical interests intersect with modern legal debates over constitutional interpretation and theory, especially those centered on the theory of constitutional originalism.

His first book, (Harvard University Press, Belknap, 2018), rethinks the conventional story of American constitutional creation by exploring how and why founding-era Americans鈥� understanding of their Constitution transformed in the earliest years of the document鈥檚 existence. It investigates how early political debates over the Constitution鈥檚 meaning altered how Americans imagined the Constitution and its possibilities, showing how these changes created a distinct kind of constitutional culture, the consequences of which endure to this day. It won the 2017 Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize from Harvard University Press and the 2019 Best Book in American Political Thought Award from the American Political Science Association and was a finalist for the 2019 Frederick Jackson Turner Award from the Organization of American Historians. In addition, it was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2019 and a Spectator USA Book of the Year for 2018. It was reviewed in , was the subject of a symposium at , and was chosen for the co-hosted by the Stanford Constitutional Law Center and the Stanford Center for Law and History. He wrote about some of the book's central themes in an op-ed for the Boston Globe, and has discussed the book on "", "", "", and "", as well as in interviews for and the

His second book, (Yale University Press, 2024), critiques originalism's engagement with history. It argues that recovering Founding-era constitutionalism on its own terms fundamentally challenges originalists' unspoken assumptions about the U.S. Constitution and its original meaning and thereby the foundation of the theory itself. about the book's themes in connection with the current Supreme Court. The book was longlisted for the 2025 and was named a History Today Book of the Year for 2024. It has been reviewed in several high-profile venues. The Washington Post declared that "What are the chances that, in 2024, a new book could fundamentally reorient how we understand America鈥檚 founding? Jonathan Gienapp . . . has written such a book. . . . You read it, and you get vertigo. . . . Gienapp鈥檚 book comes as a thunderclap. . . . this brilliant book is . . . the most forceful objection to originalism to date." The New Republic said the book "injects a fresh, powerful new argument against originalism into the debate." It was also selected by The New Yorker as a book that sheds light on the current state of the United States. Gienapp discussed the book for the 2024 Lofgren Lecture in Constitutionalism at Claremont McKenna College, participated in a National Constitution Center Town Hall debate on the book, and took part in a conversation about the book at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center. He has been interviewed about the book on Strict Scrutiny, "New Books in Law", The Loopcast, Past Precedent, and for Stanford Humanities & Sciences. The book was featured in a symposium in the Boston University Law Review. The book builds on Gienapp's prior work on originalism and history, especially his article which was identified as one of the best works of recent scholarship in constitutional law in a review at Jotwell. It also builds on two essays of his that appeared on Process: A Blog for American History, published by the Organization of American Historians, that have been widely cited and discussed. His work on originalism has also been featured in The New York Times.

Gienapp's next book is on the forgotten history of the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, currently entitled We the People of the United States: The Struggle over Popular Sovereignty and Nationhood. It tells the story of the Preamble's early vitality and eventual descent into political and legal irrelevance as a way of exploring the broader struggle over popular sovereignty and national union in the early United States. It probes the often entwined debates over popular rule, sovereignty, federalism, and constitutionalism in the nation's earliest years to understand the full meanings of the Constitution's opening words: "We the People of the United States." Central to this project is the recovery of a distinct, yet forgotten, vision of constitutionalism that predominated at the American Founding and treated the Preamble as the central feature of the Constitution, which was most vigorously championed by the leading constitutional framers, James Wilson and Gouverneur Morris. For a preview of the book's themes, see various articles and book chapters he has published on the idea of constitutional nationalism at the Founding, the early Preamble, intellectual differences among early constitutional nationalists, and Gouverneur Morris's nationalist constitutionalism.

In addition to these, Gienapp has published a range of articles, book chapters, and essays on early American constitutionalism, politics, and intellectual history, modern constitutional interpretation, and the study of the history of ideas. They have appeared in venues such as the Journal of the Early Republic, Law and History Review, The New England Quarterly, and Constitutional Commentary. He also co-organized a symposium for the Fordham Law Review, entitled "The Federalist Constitution."

Gienapp has lectured widely on the U.S. Constitution and the American Founding era. He is an OAH Distinguished Lecturer. He gave one of the keynotes at the 2024 Bissell-Heyd Symposium at the University of Toronto, 鈥�American Constitutionalism in Crisis?鈥� Among other appearances, he discussed the Constitution's history in an episode of the podcast Writ Large, participated in a National Constitution Center Town Hall, "The Founders' Library: Intellectual Sources of the Constitution," an episode of We the People on "The Intellectual Inspirations Behind the Constitution," and a Constitution Day discussion of the Constitutional Convention, discussed originalism on the current Supreme Court in a Brennan Center Live event, talked about originalism and current legal issues on Stanford Legal, explored political culture in the early American republic on an episode of Ben Franklin's World, discussed James Wilson's contributions to U.S. constitutionalism in a webinar hosted by the James Wilson Institute on Natural Rights and the American Founding, was interviewed about the history of election disputes in the United States for The New York Times, and discussed the history of minority rule in the United States on NPR's All Things Considered. He also helped compile the National Constitution Center's Founders' Library.

Gienapp is a member of the Historians Council on the Constitution at the Brennan Center for Justice and has contributed to a number of amicus briefs to the Supreme Court of the United States. He is one of the founding editors of the Journal of American Constitutional History where he serves as a senior editorial advisor. He is also a member of the Stanford Civics Initiative and a charter member of the Alliance for Civics in the Academy.

In addition to his scholarship, Gienapp has been widely recognized for his teaching. At Stanford, he has been awarded the Walter J. Gores Award for Excellence in Teaching (the university's highest teaching award), the Phi Beta Kappa Teaching Prize, and the Dean鈥檚 Award for Distinguished Teaching in the School of Humanities and Sciences in the area of First Years of Teaching. Beyond Stanford, he has been awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association.

She is the author or editor of numerous articles and seven books on social movement struggles around reproduction and the law. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in leading legal, medical, and public health journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the California Law Review, the N.Y.U. Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the Law and History Review, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and the American Journal of Bioethics.

Her critically acclaimed books include Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment (Yale University Press, 2022), Roe: The History of a National Obsession (Yale University Press, 2023), Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2020), Beyond Abortion: Roe v. Wade and the Fight for Privacy (Harvard University Press, 2018), Reproduction and the Constitution (Routledge, 2022), and the award-winning After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate (Harvard University Press, 2015), which won the Harvard University Press Thomas J. Wilson Prize for best first manuscript in any discipline. She is also the editor of a major international collection with Elgar Press about abortion law around the world. Her new book, Personhood: The New Civil War over Reproduction, is forthcoming with Yale University Press in 2025.

Ziegler has advised governors and members of Congress, submitted congressional testimony on questions involving reproduction, served on the committee of scholars charged with helping to create a museum of U.S. Women鈥檚 History, organized a major exhibit and conference at Harvard鈥檚 Radcliffe Institute on the 50th Anniversary of the Roe decision, and lectured on topics related to the history and law of reproduction to audiences around the world.

Her work has frequently appeared in or been covered by major national and international news outlets including A糖心传媒, CBS, N糖心传媒, MSN糖心传媒, the New York Times, the Atlantic, PBS Newshour, CNN, and the Washington Post. She has held positions of leadership on the American Society for Legal History's Board of Directors, the American Association of Law Schools Section on Legal History, and the American Bar Association鈥檚 Committee on Historic Commemorations.

Before coming to Davis, Ziegler served as the Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School and the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University School of Law, where she won several teaching awards.

R. Shep Melnick is the Thomas P. O鈥橬eill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College and co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government. He is the author of The Crucible of Desegregation: The Uncertain Search for Educational Equality (University of Chicago Press, 2023); The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education (Brookings, 2018); Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights (Brookings, 1994); and Regulation and the Courts: The Case of the Clean Air Act (Brookings, 1983), as well as many articles on courts, agencies, and public policy. He is currently completing a book on education and the civil rights state.

In 2012, he received the American Political Science Association Law and Courts Section鈥檚 鈥淟asting Contribution鈥� award. He received his B.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard, and taught at Harvard and Brandeis before moving to Boston College. He has also been a Research Associate at Brookings, President of the New England Political Science Association, and an elected member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives.

He is the author of the following books: Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia (Cambridge University Press, 2000), Shaping the Economic Space of Russia (ed., Ashgate, 2000), Capital, Coercion, and Post-Communist States (Cornell University Press, 2012), The Tsarina's Lost Treasure (Pegasus, 2020), and Last Stand of the Raven Clan: When Russia Went to War in America (Pegasus, forthcoming).

He joined the Political Science faculty at Boston College in 2000. He also taught at Georgetown University, Miami University (Ohio), European University in Saint Petersburg, Venice International University, and University of Rome at Tor Vergata. He is currently the Department Chair.