James Hrdlicka

James Hrdlicka is an Assistant Teaching Professor at ASU. An historian of early America, he focuses on the origins and development of democratic constitutionalism. He is the author of Colonists, Citizens, Constitutions: Creating the American Republic, a companion to an exhibition he curated for the New-York Historical Society (which you can view at https://colonistscitizensconstitutions.org/virtual-exhibition/). He is currently writing a book about constitution-making in Revolutionary America. At ASU, he teaches courses that explore American, European, and Atlantic history, and also historical methods and public history. Before coming to ASU, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.