American Politics

Jeffry Morrison is Professor of American Studies and Honors at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, and Director of Academics at the federal government’s James Madison Foundation in Alexandria.  In 2024-25 he will be Visiting Professor in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy, Department of Politics, at the University of Virginia.  He has also taught in the Government Department at Georgetown University, the Political Science Department at the U. S. Air Force Academy, and the Politics Department at Princeton University.  He earned the M.A. and Ph.D.

Howell Keiser is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy. He is an American historian specializing in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century U.S. History. His primary research focus is on political economy, the Civil War era, Southern politics, and American political thought. His current book project documents how the political economies of Thomas Malthus and David Ricardo shaped Southern economic thought and action during the sectional crisis.