American Politics
Political Theory

Member, American Philosophical Society, 2007
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 2006-2007
Doctor of Humane Letters, Barat College, 2002
President, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, 2002-2003
Member, American Antiquarian Society, 2000
Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1999
Order of the Cincinnati Book Prize, 1998
Pulitzer Prize in History, 1997
Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award, 1997
Stanford Humanities Center, Faculty Fellowship, 1988‑89, 2000-2001
National Endowment for the Humanities, Constitutional Fellowship, 1984‑85
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar Instructor, 1984 (College Teachers), 1987 (Law Professors)
Project '87, research fellowship, 1982
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1977
Delancey K. Jay Prize, Harvard University, 1976
Graduate Prize Fellowship, Harvard University, 1969‑74
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship Designate, 1968

 

Books

ed., Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights (Barnes & Noble, 2006)

with Patricia Limerick and Philip Deloria, This Land (Brandywine Books, 2003)

ed., The Federalist: The Major Essays (Boston: Bedford Books, 2003)

ed., The Unfinished Election of 2000 (New York: Basic Books, 2001)

ed., with John Ferejohn and Jonathan Riley, Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2001)

ed., James Madison: Writings (New York: Library of America, 1999)

Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (Boston: Bedford Books, 1997)

Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996; main selection, History Book Club, June 1996; paperback, Vintage, 1997); awarded Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award and Pulitzer Prize in History, 1997; Order of the Cincinnati Book Prize, 1998; Chinese translation, 2008

James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (Glenview, Ill.: Scott Forsman, 1990); 2d ed., expanded (Longman, 2001); 3d ed., (Longman, 2006)

ed., Interpreting the Constitution: The Debate over Original Intent (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990)

The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979; paperback, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982)

Books in Progress

Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation, 1773-1791 (Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming 2010)

Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience: The Radical Meaning of the Free Exercise of Religion (Oxford University Press)

ed., The Declaration of Independence and Constitution: An Annotated Edition (Harvard University Press)

with Larry Kramer, eds, The Origins of Judicial Review: A Brief History with Documents (Boston, Bedford Books)

“Confederation and Constitution,” in Christopher Tomlins and Michael Grossberg, eds., Cambridge History of Law in America, (Cambridge University Press, 2008), I

“The Dilemma of Declaring Rights,” in Barry Alan Shain, ed., The Nature of Rights at the American Founding and Beyond (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007), 181-197

“The Original Justifications for Judicial Independence,” Georgetown Law Journal, 95 (2006-2007), 1061-1076

“Taking the Prerogative out of the Presidency: An Originalist Perspective,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 37 (2007), 85-100

“Ticklish Experiments: The Paradox of American Constitutionalism,” in Gary L. McDowell and Johnathan O’Neill, eds., America and Enlightenment Constitutionalism (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 217-241

“Can We Know a Foundational Idea When We See One?” in James Caeser et al., Nature and History in American Political Development: A Debate (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006)

“The Founders’ Congress,” in Julian Zelizer, ed., The Reader’s Companion to the American Congress (New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2004)

“Jefferson, Rights, and the Priority of Freedom of Conscience,” in Robert Fatton and R. K. Ramzani, eds., The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World (New York: Macmillan Palgrave, 2004), 49-64

“Presidential Selection: Electoral Fallacies,” Political Science Quarterly, 119 (2004), 21-37

“Thinking Like a Constitution,” Journal of the Early Republic, 24 (2004), 1-26

“The Constitution in Crisis Times,” Cardozo Public Law, Policy and Ethics Journal, 2 (2003), 11-20

“Once More into the Judicial Breach,” George Washington Law Review, 72 (2003), 381-86

“Confessions of an Ambivalent Originalist,” New York Univ. Law Review, 78 (2003), 1346-56

“Why American Constitutionalism Worked,” in Henry J. Turner, ed., Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Yale University Press, 2003), 248-67

“Europe’s Floundering Fathers,” Foreign Policy, September-October 2003, 28-39

“Judicial Review Before and Beyond Marbury,” in Elizabeth Zoller, ed., Marbury v. Madison: 1803-2003–Un dialogue franco-americain/A French-American Dialogue (Paris: Dalloz, 2003), 37-49

“Judicial Power in the Constitutional Theory of James Madison,” William and Mary Law Review, 43 (2002), 1513-47

“The Political Presidency: Creation and Invention,” in James Horn, Jan Lewis and Peter S. Onuf, eds., The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, and the New Republic (University Press of Virginia, 2002), 30-58

“American Federalism: Was There an Original Understanding?” in Mark Killenbeck, ed., The Tenth Amendment and State Sovereignty: Constitutional History and Contemporary Issues (Lanham, Md.: Rowman, Littlefield, 2001), 107-130

“Dangling Questions,” and “The E-College in the E-Age,” in Rakove, ed., The Unfinished Election of 2000 (New York: Basic Books, 2001), xi-xxi, 201-234

“Once More into the Breach: Reflections on Jefferson, Madison, and the Religion Problem,” in Diane Ravitch and Joseph Viteritti, eds., Making Good Citizens: Education and Civic Society (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001), 233-262

“Introduction,” and “Constitutional Problematics, circa 1787,” in John Ferejohn, Jack Rakove, and Jonathan Riley, eds., Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2001), 1-37, 41-70

“The Second Amendment: The Highest Stage of Originalism,” Chicago-Kent Law Review, 76 (2000), 103-166; revised and reprinted in Carl Bogus, ed., The Second Amendment in Law and History (New York: New Press, 2001), 74-116

“Bernard Bailyn,” in Robert Rutland, ed., Clio’s Favorites: Leading Historians of the United States, 1945-2000 (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2000), 5-22.

“Our Jefferson,” in Peter S. Onuf and Jan Lewis, eds., Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson: History, Memory, and Civic Culture (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1999), 210-35

“Statement on the Background and History of Impeachment,” George Washington Law Review 67 (1999), 682-92
                                                                                                                                   
“The Super-Legality of the Constitution, or, A Federalist Critique of Bruce Ackerman's Neo-Federalism,” Yale Law Journal, 108 (1999), 1931-1958

“Making a Hash of Sovereignty, Part One” Green Bag, 2 (1998), 35-44; “Part Two,” ibid., 3 (1999), 51-59 

University Service
Appointments and Promotions Committee, School of Humanities & Sciences, 2004-2006
Graduate Program in Communications, Review Committee, 2004
Decanal Search Committee, Stanford Law School, 2004
Athletic Compliance Committee, 2002-2005
Provostial Search Committee, 2000
Board of Governors, The Hanna House, Stanford, California 1996-
Board of the Stanford University Press, 1997-99
Overseas Studies Advisory Committee, 1997-99
University Committee on Land, Building, and Development, 1993-96
Committee on Graduate Studies, 1993-96 (chair, 1994-96)
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 1991-97, 1999-2000
Director, American Studies Program, 1985-88, 2002-2003

Other Academic Service
United States Embassy Lecturer, Austria, May 2006
Visiting Professor, Beijing Foreign Studies University, September 2005
Co-chair, Annual Meeting of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History, 2005
Gilder-Lehrman Institute, Summer Seminar Instructor, 2003-
President, Society for the History of the Early Republic, 2002-2003
Academic Advisory Committee, National Center for the Constitution, 2001-
Chair, Advisory Committee, James Madison Commemoration Commission, 2001
Littleton-Griswold Book Prize, American Historical Association, 2000-2003
Council, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 2000-
Seminar Leader, Institute of Constitutional History, Supreme Court Historical Society, June 2000
Council, Omohundro Institute of Early American History, 1999-2002
Board of Editors, William and Mary Quarterly, 1999-2002 (chair 2002)
Juror, Pulitzer Prize in History, 2000
Program Chair, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, 1998
Council, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, 1994-1997
Visiting Professor, New York University School of Law, Sept. 1997-Sept. 2003
Member, California Bicentennial Commission, 1986-1987
United States Information Agency, lecturer, Spain and Turkey, September 1986

Media Engagements
Participant and adviser, Whose Curse Is Worse: Red Sox and Cubs on Trial, produced for ESPN by K2 Productions
Consultant, Liberty’s Kids, a 40-episode animated program produced for PBS by DIC   Entertainment, Burbank (Humanitas Prize nominee, 2003), and accompanying educational software, Riverdeep–The Learning Company
Consultant, Craven Street, a 5-episode radio program recreating Benjamin Franklin's   years in London, American Dialogues Foundation, Los Angeles
Consultant to and commentator for Dateline '87, a 14‑episode radio program recreating the Federal Convention, produced by National Radio Theatre of Chicago
Interviewed on NPR Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Weekend Edition; PBS News Hour; Fox News; KQED Forum with Michael Krasny; WBUR Odyssey (Chicago); C-SPAN Booknotes and Washington Journal; and other radio and educational programs

Manuscript Reader: William and Mary Quarterly, Journal of American History, Polity, Publius, Journal of Southern History, Journal of the Early Republic, Journal of Politics, Social Science Quarterly, Political Theory, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, W. W. Norton, and the North Carolina, Pittsburgh, Yale, Northeastern, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Kansas, Oxford, Northern Illinois, Stanford, Harvard, and Cambridge university presses

Professional Memberships: American Historical Association, Organization of American Historians, Society of American Historians, Associates of the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Society for the History of the Early American Republic, American Political Science Association, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Antiquarian Society

Legal and Political Consulting
Author, amicus curiae brief submitted to the U. S. Supreme Court in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, in consultation with the Supreme Court Clinic of Stanford Law School
Author, amicus curiae brief submitted to the U. S. Supreme Court in Vieth v. Jubelirer, 2003, in consultation with Jenner, Block and Sidley, Austin
Consultant to the Attorney General of the State of Maryland in re Virginia v. Maryland (2000-)
Witness, Hearings on The Background and History of Impeachment, Subcommittee on the Judiciary, Committee on the Judiciary, U. S. House of Representatives, November 9, 1998
Consultant to O'Melveny and Myers in re U.S. House of Representatives v. U.S. Dept. of Commerce (1998), and Commonwealth of Virginia v. U.S. (2000)
Consultant to the Attorney General of the State of New York in re Seneca Indian Nation v. New York (1997-2000 )
Consultant to Zuckerman, Spader (Washington, D.C.) in re Oneida Indian Nation history and litigation (1997-)
Consultant to New York Power Authority in St. Regis Mohawk v. New York Power Authority (1989)
Member, California Bicentennial Commission on the United States Constitution, 1986‑87
Consultant to Goodwin, Procter & Hoar (Boston) and expert witness in re Oneida Indian Nation v. State of New York (1983‑88)