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.
Education
Ph.D. University of Virginia
B.A. University of Notre Dame
Publications
Colonists, Citizens, Constitutions: Creating the American Republic (Scala Arts, 2020). Foreword by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
“Petitioning as State and Federal Constitution-Making: Revolutionary Massachusetts and the American Confederation” in Miguel Dantas da Cruz, ed., Petitioning in the Atlantic World: Empires, Revolutions and Social Movements (Palgrave, 2022).
“‘The Attachment of the People’: The Massachusetts Charter, the French and Indian War, and the Coming of the American Revolution,” The New England Quarterly 89, no. 3 (Sept. 2016): 384-420.
