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ANDREW E. BUSCH, Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow, is Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College, where he teaches courses on American politics and government. Busch has taught at Claremont McKenna College since 2004. Prior to that, he taught for twelve years at the University of Denver. Busch is author or co-author of eleven books, including most recently Epic Journey: The Elections of 2008 and American Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009); The Constitution on the Campaign Trail: The Surprising Political Career of America's Founding Document (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007); and Reagan's Victory: The Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right (University Press of Kansas, 2005). He has also published more than two dozen scholarly articles and book chapters. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Office: Bobst 209 Tel: (609) 258-0071
abusch@princeton.edu
JOHN J. DINAN, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow, is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wake Forest University. His research focuses on state constitutionalism, federalism, and American political development. He is the author of several books, including The American State Constitutional Tradition and Keeping the People’s Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights. For the past several years, he has edited the “Annual Review of American Federalism” issue of Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and he writes an annual review of “State Constitutional Developments” for the Book of the States. He is currently working on a book assessing the role of the Supreme Court of the United States in the development of American federalism. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia. Office: Bobst 204 Tel: (609) 258-8721
jdinan@Princeton.edu
PETER S. FIELD, Visiting Fellow, is Senior Lecturer in American History at the University of Canterbury. He has written extensively on early American culture and is the author of The Crisis of the Standing Order: Clerical Intellectuals and Cultural Authority and Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Making of a Democratic Intellectual. A graduate of Columbia University, he has previously held fellowships at Princeton, Yale, and the New York Public Library. He is completing a history of the United States through the Civil War entitled The Promise and Paradox of Freedom. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University.Office: Bobst 205 Tel: (609) 258-7101
psfield@Princeton.edu
MICHAEL I. KRAUSS, Visiting Fellow (Spring 2010), is Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law. He has taught at George Mason since 1987 and also has taught at the law schools of Seattle University, the University of Toronto, and the Université de Sherbrooke. He teaches Torts, Legal Ethics, and Jurisprudence, and has a strong interest in national security issues. His nationally known research on torts and ethics has resulted in three books and dozens of scholarly articles. In 1994, the first year the prize was created, he became the law school's only recipient of George Mason University's "Teacher of the Year" award. He was Columbia University's Law and Economics Fellow in 1981 He earned his B.A. cum laude from Carleton University, his LL.B. summa cum laude from the Université de Sherbrooke, and his LL.M. from Yale Law School. Office: Bobst 206 Tel: (609) 258-8342
ALBERTO NONES, Olin-Lehrman Postdoctoral Fellow, is a political theorist whose research and teaching interests include patriotism, nationalism, theories of war and peace, European integration, and international relations theory. He was Marie Curie Visiting Fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he conducted research on the relationship between national patriotisms and the formation of a European identity, and Fulbright Visiting Student Researcher at Princeton University, where he focused on republicanism. Nones, who is also an accomplished pianist, inquires into classical political theory and new research paths intersecting politics, culture, ethics and aesthetics. He is developing a manuscript entitled The political theory of Giuseppe Verdi. He holds a Laurea degree from the University of Bologna, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D. from the University of Trento. Office: Bobst 004 Tel: (609) 258-7104
anones@princeton.edu
RICHARD A. SAMUELSON, Garwood Visiting Fellow, is Assistant Professor of History at California State University, San Bernardino. He writes about constitutionalism, the rule of law, religion, politics, and empire in America’s founding era. He has held fellowships or teaching appointments at Claremont McKenna College, the University of Paris VIII, the National University of Ireland, Galway, the University of Glasgow, Liberty Fund, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the International Center for Jefferson Studies. Recent publications include: "Jefferson and Religion: Private Belief and Public Policy," in the Cambridge Companion to Jefferson, "The Politics of Scientific History," which will appear in A Political Companion to Henry Adams, and "An Empire Divided By Common Sense: the Paine-Hanway Argument," in 1650-1850: Ideas, Aesthetics and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era. He is currently completing a book on John Adams’ political thought, John Adams and the Republic of Laws, in addition to a collection of the Writings of James Otis, and an edition of John Adams’ Defense of the Constitutions and Discourses on Davila. He received his Ph.D. in American history from the University of Virginia.
Office: Bobst 005 Tel: (609) 258-7091
rsamuels@Princeton.edu
SARAH L. STASZAK, Postdoctoral Fellow, is a former Brookings Institution Research Fellow in Governance Studies and a Gordon Center for American Public Policy Graduate Fellow. Her research interests include courts and public policy, legal institutions, jurisprudence, and American political development. She recently received her Ph.D. From Brandeis University. Her dissertation, "The Politics of Judicial Retrenchment," examines the successes and failures of strategies to scale back judicial authority in the post-civil rights era.Office: Bobst 208 Tel: (609) 258-7102
sstaszak@princeton.edu
CATHERINE E. WILSON, William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, is Assistant Professor of Political Science and Non-Profit Coordinator of the Masters of Public Administration Program at Villanova University. She is the author of The Politics of Latino Faith: Religion, Identity, and Urban Community (NYU Press, 2008), a culmination of ten months of fieldwork at three Latino faith-based organizations to study the role that religious beliefs, values, and culture plays in Latino social and political involvement. Her current research centers upon U.S. immigration politics and social service delivery to immigrant populations. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, where she is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society.Office: Bobst 208 Tel: (609) 258-7103
cew@Princeton.edu
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