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Jim Ambuske

Charlottesville, VA | Director of Digital History, Inpursuit.org; Omohundro Institute Digital Fellow; Creator and narrator, Worlds Turned Upside Down; co-host, Revolutions in Retrospect, Scholar in Residence, Institute for Thomas Paine Studies, Iona University

Topics of Expertise digital public history early American legal history emigration and the American Revolution Loyalism Origins and history of the American Revolution Scotland transatlantic legal history

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Thomas H. Cox

Huntsville, TX | Associate Professor, Sam Houston State University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Colonial America Constitution Early Republic Early U.S.-Sino relations federalism interstate commerce

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Christopher E. Czerwonka

Albany, NY | Research Fellow, SUNY Albany; Fellow, Royal Society of Medicine

Topics of Expertise Bioethics Civil Rights and Liberties Constitutional Law Evidence FDR Federal Criminal Procedure Immigration Law and Policy Jury Trials Legal History Legal Medicine People with Disabilities in the Early Republic Presidential Libraries Simulation-Based Learning Tax

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Zachary Deibel

Lexington, VA | Assistant Professor, Virginia Military Institute

Topics of Expertise Education in the Atlantic World History of Education in Colonial and Revolutionary America Informal Learning in Early America Politicization of Education in Early America

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Carolyn Eastman

Richmond, VA | Professor of History, Virginia Commonwealth University; President of SHEAR

Topics of Expertise checks and balances contested ideas about democracy freedom of the press gender and women history of citizenship and public engagement political economy The Constitution and the Bill of Rights two-party system

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Paul Finkelman

Albany, NY | Visiting Professor, Toledo Law School; Professor Emeritus, Albany Law School

Topics of Expertise Baseball and the Rule of Law Citizenship and Immigration Civil Rights history Civil War and Reconstruction Constitutional Convention Freedom of Expression Freedom of Religion Judicial Biography Liberty in the Era of Revolution slavery and the Constitution The Constitution

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Mark Kenneth Gardner

Charlestown, RI | Historian, Western RI Civic Historical Society; History teacher, Chariho Regional High School

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Bill of Rights Constitutional Convention and Ratification Dorr Rebellion Elections federalism RI and Antifederalism RI History Separation of Church and State Slavery and Civil Rights Structure of American Government

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Jonathan Gienapp

Palo Alto, CA | Associate Professor of History and Law, Stanford University

Topics of Expertise American Political Theory Constitutional Interpretation Ideas and Principles of the American Revolution Meaning of Democracy Reconstruction Roots of American Constitutionalism Supreme Court The Constitution

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Aaron Hall

Minneapolis, MN | Assistant Professor

Topics of Expertise American constitutionalism Federal Constitution history of governance and the state political culture in the Early Republic politics of slavery

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Emma Hart

Philadelphia, PA | Director, McNeil Center; Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Capitalism Civic participation in early America Elections Local Government

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Sheri Ann Huerta

Fairfax, VA | Adjunct Professor, Honors College, George Mason University

Topics of Expertise free people of color freedom and manumission gender and slavery public history slavery and public memory Slavery in Virginia and law

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Nathan Kozuskanich

North Bay, Ontario, Canada | Professor and Chair, Dept of History, Nipissing University

Topics of Expertise Benjamin Franklin colonial and Revolutionary America John Dickinson Second Amendment

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Anna O. Law

Brooklyn, NY | Associate Professor of Political Science, Herbert Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights, CUNY Brooklyn College

Topics of Expertise checks and balances federalism Origins of migration and citizenship Origins of the US Constitution rule of law US constitutional law US migration policy

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CJ Martin

Worcester, MA | Visiting Assistant Professor, College of the Holy Cross

Topics of Expertise abolitionist movement and voting Black abolitionists party politics politics of slavery race racial justice and politics Republican Party Whig Party

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Isabela Morales

Princeton, NJ | Author and Public Historian

Topics of Expertise African American history Legal History Museum education public history slavery and emancipation social/racial justice movements

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Brian Murphy

New York, NY | Associate Professor, Rutgers-Newark; Fellow, Brennan Center

Topics of Expertise constitutional conventions early industrial and labor history Federal and state constitutions history of corporations political economy

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Giuliana Perrone

Santa Barbara, CA | Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara

Topics of Expertise 19th century political history Civil War & Reconstruction History of the Present Slavery & Abolition US Legal history

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John Ragosta

Charlottesville, VA | Independent Scholar

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Constitution early America loyal opposition religious freedom Sedition Act/Free Press

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Gautham Rao

Washington, DC | Associate Professor of History

Topics of Expertise Civil War constitutional history Culture Wars Founding of US Law and Slavery Legal History Supreme Court History

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Eric Schlereth

Dallas, TX | Professor of History, University of Texas at Dallas

Topics of Expertise American Revolution citizenship emigration and immigration national borders religion and politics religious freedom

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Andrew Shankman

Philadelphia, PA | Professor of History, Rutgers University

Topics of Expertise Constitution federalism Meaning of Democracy Principles of the Revolution rule of law Separation of Powers

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Rachel Shelden

State College, PA | Associate Professor, Penn State University and Director, Richards Civil War Era Center

Topics of Expertise Civil War Constitution Democracy in the 19th Century federalism Lincoln Reconstruction Supreme Court

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique

Northampton, MA | Associate Professor, Umass-Amherst

Topics of Expertise British empire constitutions early America and the world higher education political economy public records and archives

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Grant Stanton

Newark, NJ | Assistant Professor, Drew University

Topics of Expertise American Revolution Black Politics Civil War Colonial Society Constitution Enlightenment Legal History Race and Slavery

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Kyle G. Volk

Missoula, MT | Professor of History, University of Montana

Topics of Expertise American State Civil Rights & Liberties Grassroots Politics History of U.S. Democracy Legal History Political Thought

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