Curriculum Vitae 4/01/2021 Jeffrey K. Tulis Department of Government office: 512-232-7244 The University of Texas at Austin home: 512-343-6410 Austin, TX 78712-1087 [email protected]EDUCATION: The University of Chicago, Political Science, Ph.D.1982. Brown University, Political Science, M.A., 1974 Bates College, Government, B.A. (Magna), 1972 University of Oxford (Manchester College), Philosophy & Politics, 1970-71 New Hampton School (NH), 1968 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: The University of Texas at Austin, 1988 - present Professor of Government, College of Liberal Arts (primary appointment) Professor of Law, School of Law Professor of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication Acting Chair, Department of Government, 1992-93, summers 1989-2001 Associate Chair, Department of Government, 1989-2001 Associate Professor of Government The London School of Economics and Political Science, Spring 2016 Dahrendorf Visiting Fellow, LSE IDEAS Princeton University, 2008-09 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, The University Center for Human Values & Fellow in Ethics and Public Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs. Harvard University. Spring 1991 Visiting Associate Professor of Government Harvard Law School, 1986-87 Liberal Arts Fellow in Law and Politics Princeton University 1981-87 Assistant Professor & Andrew Mellon Preceptor of Politics Instructor of Politics University of Notre Dame 1980-81 Visiting Instructor of Government University of Virginia, White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs, 1977-80 Research Associate SELECTED HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS: The Legacy Award, for a book or article, published at least 10 years prior, that has made “a continuing contribution to the intellectual development of the fields of presidency and
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Curriculum Vitae 4/01/2021
Jeffrey K. Tulis
Department of Government office: 512-232-7244 The University of Texas at Austin home: 512-343-6410 Austin, TX 78712-1087 [email protected] EDUCATION: The University of Chicago, Political Science, Ph.D.1982. Brown University, Political Science, M.A., 1974 Bates College, Government, B.A. (Magna), 1972 University of Oxford (Manchester College), Philosophy & Politics, 1970-71 New Hampton School (NH), 1968 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: The University of Texas at Austin, 1988 - present Professor of Government, College of Liberal Arts (primary appointment) Professor of Law, School of Law Professor of Communication Studies, Moody College of Communication
Acting Chair, Department of Government, 1992-93, summers 1989-2001 Associate Chair, Department of Government, 1989-2001 Associate Professor of Government The London School of Economics and Political Science, Spring 2016 Dahrendorf Visiting Fellow, LSE IDEAS Princeton University, 2008-09 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, The University Center for Human Values & Fellow in Ethics and Public Affairs, School of Public and International Affairs.
Harvard University. Spring 1991 Visiting Associate Professor of Government Harvard Law School, 1986-87 Liberal Arts Fellow in Law and Politics Princeton University 1981-87 Assistant Professor & Andrew Mellon Preceptor of Politics Instructor of Politics University of Notre Dame 1980-81 Visiting Instructor of Government University of Virginia, White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs, 1977-80 Research Associate SELECTED HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS:
The Legacy Award, for a book or article, published at least 10 years prior, that has made “a continuing contribution to the intellectual development of the fields of presidency and
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executive politics,” by the American Political Science Association. Awarded for The Rhetorical Presidency, in 2018. College Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, (Fall 2020) Lifetime Achievement Award, New Hampton School (NH), (2018) Commentator, Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Princeton University, November 2018 Princeton Classics, Book series at Princeton University Press that “includes some of the most important and influential books ever published by Princeton University Press-- works by leading scholars and writers that have made a lasting impact on intellectual life around the world.” The Rhetorical Presidency was selected in 2017. Outstanding Faculty Award, selected by the graduate students, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, 2015 Nominated by the Department of Government in 2015, in 2016, in 2017 and 2020 for the Leslie Waggener Centennial Award for honors teaching, College of Liberal Arts Keynote Lecture, 5th Annual Conference “Does the President Matter? The American Age of Political Disrepair” Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities
at Bard College. September 2012. Fellow, University of Texas Humanities Institute, Spring 2012 Tenth Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture in American Constitutionalism,
Princeton University, April 2011. Finalist, Founders Award for Best Paper, Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association, 2011 Commentator, Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Princeton University, April 2010
Dean’s Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, 2008-09 Fellow, University of Texas Humanities Institute, Spring 2002 Deans Fellow, University of Texas at Austin, Fall 2001 Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas, 1997-98 Plenary Speaker, Harold Lasswell Symposium, American Political Science
Association, San Francisco, 1996 President’s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, University of Texas, 1996 Keynote Address, Inaugural Annual Conference on Presidential Rhetoric,
Texas A & M University, Spring 1995. President, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association, 1990-91
John Olin Foundation Faculty Fellowship, 1986-87 American Council of Learned Societies Fellow, 1983-84 Nominee for American Political Science Association’s Edward S. Corwin Award,
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 1982 National Endowment for the Humanities, grant, 1979 Hillman Scholarship, The University of Chicago, 1975-76 University Fellowship, Brown University, 1972-73 Phi Beta Kappa, Bates College, 1972 High Honors in Government, Bates College, 1972
PUBLICATIONS: Books: The Rhetorical Presidency, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1987. Reviews: American Political Science Review 83 (1989) 4 Journal of Politics 5 (1989) 3 Review of Politics 49 (1987) 3 Quarterly Journal of Speech (75 (1989) 2 Polity 21 (1988) 2 Presidential Studies Quarterly (Summer 1989) Journal of American History 75 (1989) 4 Congress and the Presidency 15 (1988) 2 Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 500 (1988) Social Science Quarterly 69 (1988) 3 Harvard Law Review 1082, Volume 101. Rhetoric Society Quarterly 18:3-4 (1988) Political Science Quarterly 103 (1988) 3 Choice (April 1988) Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica 2(1991)356 Karen Orren and Stephen Skowronek, The Search for American Political Development
(Cambridge University Press, 2004) pp.108-119. Presidential Studies Quarterly, (October 2009). Edited volumes and special issues on The Rhetorical Presidency:
Martin Medhurst, ed. Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency (Texas A & M Press, 1996) Richard Ellis, ed. Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective
(University of Massachusetts Press, 1998) Martin Medhurst, ed. Before the Rhetorical Presidency (Texas A & M Press, 2008) Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society vol. 19, nos. 2-3 (2007).
A special double issue on The Rhetorical Presidency after 20 years. Reprinted and expanded as: Jeffrey Friedman and Shterna Friedman, eds.,
Rethinking the Rhetorical Presidency (Routledge, 2012). Books and Dissertations responding to The Rhetorical Presidency (selected): Colleen Shogan, The Moral Rhetoric of American Presidents (Texas A & M Press, 2006),
based on her Yale dissertation. Mel Laracey, Presidents and the People: The Partisan Story of Going Public (Texas A & M
Press, 2002) based on his Michigan dissertation. Terri Bimes, The Metamorphosis of Presidential Populism (forthcoming, Princeton University
Press), based on her Yale dissertation. Elvin Lim, The Anti-Intellectual Presidency (Oxford University Press, 2008), based on his
Oxford dissertation. Discussions of The Rhetorical Presidency in politics and culture (selected):
Robert Dahl, “The Pseudodemocratization of the American Presidency,” The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Harvard University, April 11 & 12, 1988.
Editorial, “Presidents of Precious Few Words,” New York Times, February 17, 1992. George Will,
“Rhetorical Presidency,” Newsweek, February 8, 1993 “The Veep and the Blatherskite,” Newsweek, June 29, 1992
“ Exaggeration Rules State of the Union,” Washington Post, January 23, 1994 “McCain’s Question Time,” Washington Post, May 29, 2008. “The Madisonian Persuasion Today,” The Claude Moore Lecture at the Library of Congress, September 22, 2008.
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Steven Stark, “The First Postmodern Presidency,” Atlantic Monthly, April 1993 Walter Berns, “The Prattling Presidency,” Wall Street Journal, October 31, 1994 Reprinted as “Talkers” in Democracy and the Constitution, AEI Press, 2006. Joan Didion, “The Reagan Miracle,” New York Review of Books, December 18, 1997. Reprinted in Political Fictions, Knopf, 2001. David Broder, “Dumbing Down the Presidency,” Washington Post, June 29, 2008.
“Best Five” Books on the presidency recommended during the Obama transition, Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2008.
Damon Linker, “Opinion” The Week, January 30, 2018 http://theweek.com/articles/751036/when-divider-chief-pretends-uniter
Jill Lepore, “Annals of the Presidency,” The New Yorker, January 12, 2009. “The Obama History Project, New York Magazine, January 12-25, 2015 http://nymag.com/news/politics/obama-history-project/jill-lepore/ Bob Bauer, “The Demagogue as President: Speech, Action and the Big Parade” Lawfare
February 9, 2018. https://lawfareblog.com/demagogue-president-speech-action-and-big-parade
The Rhetorical Presidency, 30th Anniversary Edition (with a new Foreword and
Afterword) Princeton Classics, Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2017) Winner of 2018 Legacy Award, American Political Science Association, Presidents and
Executive Politics Section Favorite Book List for 2020, The Constitutionalist. https://theconstitutionalist.org/2021/01/04/favorite-books-of-2020/ Podcasts: “The Rhetorical Presidency on Steroids,” Lawfare Podcast, January 26, 2019 https://www.lawfareblog.com/jeffrey-tulis-rhetorical-presidency-steroids
“The Great Battlefield,” Resistance Dashboard Podcast, Episode 359, September 25, 2019. http://www.resistancedashboard.com/node/618?fbclid=IwAR3vKxqezADPDynd2vF_h-
g8X4fBw_pWpEl9ZSLycwAfZDD-z7PCCU-6hng Reviews: Critical Review 30 (2018) double issue, numbers 3-4. Critical Review 31 (2019) no. 2. American Political Thought 10 (Winter 2021) no. 1
Legacies of Losing in American Politics, (with Nicole Mellow) Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Book panels: Authors Meet Critics Panel, Western Political Science Association (Spring 2018) Authors Meet Critics Panel, American Political Science Association (Fall 2018) Authors Meet Critics Panel, Southern Political Science Association (Winter 2019) Published Symposia:
Forum, LSE American Politics Blog, June 2, 2019, with commentary by Sidney Milkis (Virginia),), Steven Bilakovics (UCLA), Richard Ellis, (Willamette) and a response by us. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2019/06/02/book- review-forum-legacies-of-losing-in-american-politics-by-jeffrey-k-tulis- and-nicole-mellow/
The Inheritance of Loss: Symposium on Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow, Legacies of Losing in American Politics, Political Theory, , 48 (December 2020) 6 Bryan Garsten (Yale) “Constitutionalizing Conservatism” Jennifer Hochschild (Harvard) “Four Ways to Lose Politically” Diane Rubenstein (Cornell) “The Epistemology of Failure”
Jeffrey K. Tulis & Nicole Mellow, “On Criticisms, Extensions and Elaborations of Legacies of Losing in American Politics” Podcasts: New Books Network, May 2018 Minnesota Public Radio, October 11, 2018 Law and Liberty, January 2, 2019 Resistance Dashboard, September 25, 2019
Reviews: Presidential Studies Quarterly (online 22 November 2020) Perspectives on Politics 18 (March 2020) 1 The New Rambler, August 14, 2019.
https://newramblerreview.com/book-reviews/political-science/the-presence-of-loss Political Science Quarterly 133 (Winter 2018-19) 4
Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 45 (Fall 2018) 1 Choice (August, 2018) Congressional Abdication
[under contract, Princeton University Press, expected publication, Spring 2023]. Edited Books: The Presidency in the Constitutional Order, (with Joseph M. Bessette). Baton Rouge & London:
Louisiana State University Press, 1981. Reviews: American Political Science Review 76 (1982) 1. Review of Politics 44 (1982) 2 Political Studies 30 (1982) 2 Presidential Studies Quarterly (Winter 1982) Presidential Studies Quarterly (Fall 1984) Review of Politics 47 (1985) 4 Supreme Court citations: INS V. Chadha, Justice White, dissenting
United States v. Munoz-Flores, Justice Stevens, concurring The Constitutional Presidency, (with Joseph M. Bessette). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. Reviews: Choice (March 2010) Perspectives on Politics (June 2011).
The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, (with Stephen Macedo)
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.
The Presidency in the Constitutional Order: Historical Perspectives (with Joseph M. Bessette) (Reissued classic, with a new Introduction and Appendix). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010; New York: Routledge, 2017. Articles and Chapters: “The Constitution, Politics, and the Presidency,” (with Joseph M. Bessette) in The Presidency in the
Constitutional Order, eds., Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis, Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State University Press, 1981
Reprinted in: Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis, eds., The Presidency in the Constitutional Order:
Historical Perspectives, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010. “On Presidential Character,” in The Presidency in the Constitutional Order. eds, Joseph M. Bessette
and Jeffrey K. Tulis, Baton Rouge & London: Louisiana State University Press, 1981 Reprinted in: Thomas Cronin, ed., Rethinking the Presidency. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1982; William Pederson, ed., The "Barberian" Presidency, New York: Peter Lang, 1989. Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis, eds., The Presidency in the Constitutional Order:
Historical Perspectives, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010. “The Rise of the Rhetorical Presidency,” (with James W. Ceaser, Glen E. Thurow, and Joseph M.
Bessette), Presidential Studies Quarterly, (Spring 1981) 158-171. Reprinted in: Thomas Cronin, ed., Rethinking the Presidency. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1982; Theodore Windt, ed., Essays in Presidential Rhetoric, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt
Publications, 1983, 1986, 1994; Harry A. Bailey, Jr. and Jay M. Shafritz, eds., The American Presidency: Historical and
Contemporary Perspectives, Chicago: Dorsey Press, 1988. Mary P. Nichols ed., Readings in American Government, Dubuque, Iowa, Kendall-Hunt
Publ. 1983, 1987, 1990, 1994, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2013. “The Decay of Presidential Rhetoric,” in Glen E. Thurow and Jeffrey Wallin, eds., Rhetoric and
American Statemanship, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1984. “The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political
“Constituting Liberty” in Sarah Thurow, ed., To Secure the Blessings of Liberty (Lanham, MD:
University Press of America, 1987). “The Interpretable Presidency,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System,
second edition, Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1988. “The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political
System, Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1988. [Revised and enlarged for second edition]
“The Interpretable Presidency,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System,
Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1990. [Revised for third edition] “The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political
System, Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1990. [Revised and enlarged for third edition]
“The Constitutional Presidency and American Political Development,” in Martin Fausold and
Alan Shank, eds., The Constitution and the American Presidency, Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1991
“Riker's Rhetoric of Ratification,” Studies in American Political Development, 5 (Fall 1991) 2. “On the State of Constitutional Theory,” Law and Social Inquiry, 16 (Fall 1991) 4. “The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political
System, Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1995. [Revised and enlarged for fourth edition]
“Revising the Rhetorical Presidency,” in Martin Medhurst, ed., Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency,
College Station, TX: Texas A & M Press, 1996. Lead article in volume, which won the 1997 Marie Hockmuth Nichols Award for
Outstanding Scholarship in Public Address. Reprinted in Mexico as: “La Presidencia Retorica Revisada,” Istor, Ano 1 (Invierno del
2000) Num 3. “On the Politics Skowronek Makes,” Journal of Policy History, 8 (Spring 1996) 2. “The Politics of Deference,” in Kenneth W. Thompson, ed., Governance VII: Elections and
Governance, Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1996. “Constitutional Abdication: The Senate,the President and Appointments to the Supreme Court”
Case Western Reserve Law Review, 47 (Summer 1997) 4. Reprinted in: Susan Low Bloch, Vicki C. Jackson, Thomas G Krattenmaker, Inside the Supreme
Court: The Institution and Its Procedures (American Casebook Series), (St Paul, MN: West, 2008).
“Reflections on the Rhetorical Presidency in American Political Development,” in Richard Ellis,
ed., Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
“The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political System, Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1999. [Revised for fifth edition]
“The President in the Political System: In Neustadt’s Shadow,” in Robert Y. Shapiro, Martha
Joynt Kumar and Lawrence R. Jacobs, eds., Presidential Power: Forging the Presidency for the 21st Century, New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
“The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political
“Andrew Johnson,” in James Tranto and Leonard Leo, eds., Presidential Leadership: Rating the Best
and the Worst in the White House, New York: Wall Street Journal Books/Free Press, 2004. “The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political
System, Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2006. [Revised and for eighth edition]
“Andrew Johnson and the Politics of Failure” (with Nicole Mellow) in Stephen Skowronek and
Matthew Glassman, eds., Formative Acts: Reckoning with Agency in American Politics, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007.
Featured in a review in Perspectives on Politics (September 2008). “The Rhetorical Presidency in Retrospect,” in Critical Review: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Politics
and Society, vol. 19 (2007) nos. 2 & 3. “On the Forms of Rhetorical Leadership,” in Martin J. Medhurst, ed., Before the Rhetorical
Presidency, College Station: Texas A & M Press, 2008). “On the Constitution, Politics, and the Presidency,” (with Joseph M. Bessette) in Joseph M.
Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis, eds., The Constitutional Presidency, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
“Impeachment in the Constitutional Order,” in Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis, eds., The
Constitutional Presidency, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
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“The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political
System, Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2009. [Revised as the lead chapter for the ninth edition.]
“On Congress and Constitutional Responsibility,” Boston University Law Review, 89 (April 2009) 2. “Constitutional Boundaries,” (with Stephen Macedo) in Jeffrey K. Tulis and Stephen Macedo,
eds., The Limits of Constitutional Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2010). “The Possibility of Constitutional Statesmanship,” in Jeffrey K. Tulis and Stephen Macedo, eds.,
The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, (Princeton University Press, 2010). An earlier version of this paper presented at a Yale conference on statesmanship and
demagoguery was discussed in the Arts section of the New York Times: Edward Rothstein, “Connections: It’s a Complicated Dance Between Strong Leadership
and Popular Will,” New York Times, April 17, 2006. “Introduction,” (with Joseph M. Bessette), The Presidency in the Constitutional Order: Historical
Perspectives, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010. “Plausible Futures,” in Charles Dunn, ed. The Presidency in the Twenty-first Century, Lexington,
KY; University Press of Kentucky, 2011. “The Rhetorical Presidency in Retrospect,” in Jeffrey Friedman and Shterna Friedman eds.,
Rethinking the Rhetorical Presidency (Routledge, 2012). [Revised and expanded version of essay in Critical Review (2007).]
“The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency and the Political
System, 10th ed., Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2014. [Revised to include reflections on Obama.]
“The Anti-Federal Appropriation,” (with Nicole Mellow), American Political Thought, 3 (Spring
2014) 1. “The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency in the Political
System, 11th ed., Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2018 [Revised and expanded to include reflections on Trump.]
“Conspiracism and Delegitimation” (with Russell Muirhead, Nancy Rosenblum, Matthew
Landauer, Stephen Macedo, and Nadia Urbanati), Contemporary Political Theory, 19 (March 2020) 1. (First online, December 10, 2019)
“The Inheritance of Loss: Symposium on Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow, of Legacies of Losing
in American Politics,” (with Bryan Garsten, Jennifer Hochschild, Diane Rubenstein, Jeffrey K. Tulis, and Nicole Mellow), Political Theory, 48 (December 2020) 6. (First Online March 5, 2020).
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“Will the Election of 2020 Prove to be the End or a New Beginning,” (with Russell Muirhead) Polity, 52 (July 2020) 3. (First online, May 27, 2020).
“The Two Constitutional Presidencies,” in Michael Nelson, ed., The Presidency in the Political System, 12th ed., Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2021. [Revised] “Intersecting Puzzles,” Constitutional Studies 7 (2021) 1 [forthcoming]. OTHER PUBLICATIONS:
Review Essays and Occasional Pieces
“The Demon at the Center” University of Chicago Law Review, vol.55 (Summer 1988) 2. “Ronald Reagan, Great Communicator,” Abridged and Reprinted from The Rhetorical Presidency
in Mary P. Nichols and David K. Nichols, Readings in American Government, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall-Hunt, 1990, 1994, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2013.
“Amending America,” Review of Politics, 55 (Summer 1993) 3. “Rhetorical Presidency,” in Leornard W. Levy and Louis Fisher, eds., Encyclopedia of the American
Presidency, New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993. “Foreword,” to John R. Vile, Presidential Winners and Losers: Words of Victory and Concession,
Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2002. Review, “On Deaf Ears: The Limits of the Bully Pulpit,” Perspectives on Politics 2 (2004) 838-839. “Is the Presidency Too Weak?,” HA: The Journal of the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the
Humanities at Bard College, Fall 2014. Keynote Remarks delivered for the conference “Does the President Matter?” September
21,2012. Hannah Arendt Center, Bard College “Foreword,” to John Finn, Peopling the Constitution, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas,
2014. “Foreword,” to Sotirios A. Barber, Constitutional Failure, Lawrence, KS: University Press of
Kansas, 2014. “Foreword,” to Clement Fatovic, America’s Founding and the Struggle Over Economic Inequality,
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2015. “The Traditional Interpretation of the Pardon Power is Wrong,” (with Corey Brettschneider) The Atlantic, July 13, 2020.
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Public Sphere Essays: “The State of Disunion in Government Deliberation,” New York Times, February 9, 1986.
“Its Time Bush Explained Why He Only Talks to Supporters,” Nieman Watchdog, Harvard
University, March 02, 2005. http://niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=ask_this.view&askthisid=0098 “Obama’s Beef,” Balkinization, January 30, 2008. http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/01/obamas-beef.html “Obama, McCain, and the Permanent Campaign,” Balkinization, June 20, 2008.
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2008/06/obama-mccain-and-permanent campaign.html “Just How ‘Transformational’ Does Obama Intend To Be?” Nieman Watchdog, Harvard University, January 7, 2009.
“The Obama History Project, “ New York Magazine, January 12-25, 2015. http://nymag.com/news/politics/obama-history-project/jeffrey-tulis/
“The Hail Mary Pass That Could Deny Trump the Presidency: Its Up to You Electors,” with Sanford Levinson and Jeremi Suri, New York Daily News, November 21, 2016. http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/tulis-levinson-suri-hail-mary-defeat-donald-trump-article-1.2882315 “How the Electoral College Could Deny Trump the Presidency,” LSE US Centre Blog, November 22, 2016. http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2016/11/23/how-the-electoral-college-could-deny-donald-trump-the-presidency/ Republished in Newsweek as “Can Trump Be Stopped By the Electoral College?” November 29, 2016. http://www.newsweek.com/can-trump-be-stopped-electoral-college-526453 “Can History Prepare US for the Trump Presidency?” Politico Magazine, January 22, 2017 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/01/can-history-prepare-us-for-the-trump-presidency-214676
“The Senate as an Impeachment Court Should Not Be the Senate as Usual,” The Bulwark, December 11, 2019. https://thebulwark.com/the-senate-as-an-impeachment-court-should-not-be-the-senate-as-usual/ Republished in LSE American Politics and Policy Blog, December 16, 2019. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2019/12/17/the-senate-as-an-impeachment-court-should-not-be- the-senate-as-usual/ Featured on The 11th Hour With Brian Williams, MSNBC, December 13, 2019 “How A Small Group of Senators Can Shape the Impeachment Trial and Vindicate the Constitutional Order, (with William Kristol) The Bulwark, December 15, 2019. https://thebulwark.com/how-a-small-group-of-senators-can-shape-the-impeachment-trial-and- vindicate-the-constitutional-order/
“America’s Mitch McConnell Problem,” (with William Kristol) The Bulwark, December 20, 2019 https://thebulwark.com/americas-mitch-mcconnell-problem/ “Is the Oath a Joke” (with William Kristol) The Bulwark, January 20, 2020. https://thebulwark.com/is-the-oath-a-joke/” Jonathan Tilove, “Like Andrew Johnson’s, Trump’s Rhetoric Was Ripe For Impeachment,” Austin American Statesman, January 24, 2020. https://www.statesman.com/opinion/20200124/like- andrew-johnsonrsquos-trumprsquos-rhetoric-was-ripe-for-impeachment
“A Post-Impeachment Roadmap for Congress,” The Bulwark, February 14, 2020. https://thebulwark.com/a-post-impeachment-roadmap-for-congress/ Republished at Public Seminar, February 17, 2020. https://publicseminar.org/2020/02/a-post-impeachment-roadmap-for-congress/ Republished at LSE American Politics and Policy Blog, February 18, 2020. https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2020/02/18/long-read-a-post-impeachment-roadmap- for-congress/ Featured in Greg Sargent, “The Plum Line” Washington Post, February 19, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/19/trumps-corruption-will-get- worse-his-own-advisers-just-showed-how/ “The Speech Mike Bloomberg Should Have Given Last Week,” Public Seminar, March 2, 2020. https://publicseminar.org/2020/03/the-speech-that-mike-bloomberg-should-have-given-last-week/ “Governing and Campaigning in the Pandemic, The Bulwark, May 1, 2020. https://thebulwark.com/governing-and-campaigning-in-the-pandemic/ Republished at LSE American Politics and Policy Blog, May 1, 2020. “What Is John Bolton’s Legacy?” The Bulwark, June 19, 2020. https://thebulwark.com/what-is-john-boltons-legacy/ “The Traditional Interpretation of the Pardon Power is Wrong,” (with Corey Brettschneider) The Atlantic, July 13, 2020 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/traditional-interpretation-pardon-power-wrong/614083/ “A Party Without A Platform,” The Bulwark, August 25, 2020. https://thebulwark.com/a-party-without-a-platform/ Republished at LSE American Politics and Policy Blog, August 26, 2020. “The Dangerous Interregnum,” (with Jeremi Suri) The Bulwark, November 2, 2020. https://thebulwark.com/the-dangerous-interregnum/ Republished at LSE American Politics and Policy Blog, November 3, 2020. [#2 on Top 10 most popular articles, of the 400 published in 2020.] “Trump’s ‘Hail Mary’ Pass,” The Constitutionalist, November 30, 2020. https://theconstitutionalist.org/2020/11/30/trumps-hail-mary-pass/ Republished at LSE American Politics and Policy Blog, December 4, 2020.
“No, Trump can’t pardon himself or other insurrectionists. Impeachment would strip him of that power,” (with Corey Brettschneider) Washington Post, January 13, 2021. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/01/13/no-trump-cant-pardon-himself- impeachment-would-strip-him-that-power/
“Trump’s Dereliction of Duty on Jan. 6 Is Part of His Incitement to Insurrection,” (with William Kristol) The Bulwark, January 19, 2021.
“Presidential Rhetoric and the Challenge to American Constitutionalism: A Conversation with Jeffrey Tulis” Law and Liberty Podcasts, February 1, 2018.
http://www.libertylawsite.org/2018/02/01/presidential-rhetoric-and-the-challenge-to-american-constitutionalism-a-conversation-with-jeffrey-tulis/ “Jeff Tulis on the Conservative Tradition and Legacies of Losing: A Conversation With Larry Jacobs,” Minnesota Public Radio, October 11, 2018 https://www.mprnews.org/story/2018/10/11/legacies_of_losing_in_american_politics Jeffrey Tulis, “The Rhetorical Presidency on Steroids:” A conversation with Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare Podcast, Brookings Institution, January 26, 2019 https://www.lawfareblog.com/jeffrey-tulis-rhetorical-presidency-steroids Jeffrey Tulis, Interview with “The Great Battlefield,” Resistance Dashboard Podcast, Episode 359, September 25, 2019. http://www.resistancedashboard.com/node/618?fbclid=IwAR3vKxqezADPDynd2vF_h-g8X4fBw_pWpEl9ZSLycwAfZDD-z7PCCU-6hng
“Reflections on Impeachment, with Gary Jacobsohn and Daniel Brinks, The Texas Politics Project video, December 19, 2019. https://texaspolitics.utexas.edu/blog/experience-less-tense-discussion- how-and-why-us-constitution-provides-impeachment “Constitutional Decay in the U.S. Senate,” Impeachment Explained Podcast with Ezra Klein, January 18, 2020. https://www.vox.com/pages/podcasts
Texas This Week on KVUE, “The Impeachment Process Explained,” January 19, 2020
UT Professor Describes “High Crimes and Misdemeanors” and How It Applies to Trump,” with Karina Kling, Spectrum News, January 28, 2020. https://spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/austin/news/2020/01/28/ut-professor-describes--high-crimes- and-misdemeanors--how-it-applies-to-trump?cid=twitter_TXCapTonight UT Professor Describes “High Crimes and Misde meanors” and How it Applies to Trump
“Jeffrey Tulis on Impeachment and the State of Our Union,” Bulwark Podcast, with Charlie Sykes, February 5, 2020. https://podcast.thebulwark.com/jeffrey-tulis-on-impeachment-and-sotu?fbclid=IwAR0fyySG9W30z0X_d7NPsKdSBjQmFLwa70BIFPC44Pn_yCSnX1Oh2o2WxD8 “Impeachment: Clinton to Trump,” This is Democracy Podcast, Ep. 76, with Jeremi and Zachary Suri, February 6, 2020. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-76-impeachment/id1420520464?i=1000464726288&fbclid=IwAR18_dfY8JWm7EMUe_Z-bAh8i9qMQpsRFbrk_UKPVpOIc3_OSho0l7J7TBQ Interview on “The Public Morality,” with Byron Williams, NPR Radio, June 30, 2020. https://soundcloud.com/the-public-morality/episode-171-jeffery-tulis “The President’s Opening Lines; Jeff Tulis and Gary Schmitt on the Inaugural Address,” Unprecedential Podcast, with Adam White, Episode 32, December 22, 2020. https://www.aei.org/multimedia/the-presidents-opening-lines-jeff-tulis-and-gary-schmitt-on-the-inaugural-address/ [Chosen by Adam While as one of Top Five Podcasts for 2020] “Politics High and Low: Impeachment, the Pardon power, and more with Jeffrey Tulis and Connor Ewing, Podopticon, January 15, 2021. https://podopticon.com/politics-high-and-low/ “The Second Trump Impeachment,” Panel Discussion sponsored by University of Notre Dame and James Madison’s Montpelier, with Benjamin Kleinerman, Jeffrey Tulis and John Yoo, February, 3, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lK401RBfe3I
EDITORIAL:
Co-Editor (with Sotirios A. Barber), The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought (Johns
Hopkins University Press, 1987-1998)
Anne Norton, Reflections on Political Identity (1989) Sheldon S. Wolin, The Presence of the Past (1989) Harvey C. Mansfield, America’s Constitutional Soul (1990) James W. Ceaser, Liberal Democracy & Political Science (1990) William F. Harris, II, The Interpretable Constitution (1991) Thomas L. Pangle, The Ennobling of Democracy (1992) Sotirios A. Barber, The Constitution of Judicial Power (1993) Gerald Berk, Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American
Industrial Order, 1865-1917 (1994) [J.David Greenstone Prize, American Political Science Association 1995]
Co-Editor (with Sanford Levinson), The Johns Hopkins Series in Constitutional Thought (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998-2010)
Leslie Friedman Goldstein, Constituting Federal Sovereignty: The European
Union in Comparative Context (2001) Johnathan O’Neil, Originalism in American Law and Politics: A Constitutional History (2005) Thomas L. Pangle, Leo Strauss and Political Science (2006)
Walter F. Murphy, Constitutional Democracy (2006) [Best Book in the Social Sciences 2007 & Best Book in Government & Politics 2007, Association of American Publishers]
Kathleen S. Sullivan, Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth Century America (2007).
George Thomas, The Madisonian Constitution (2008) Beau Breslin, From Words to Worlds: Constitutional Functionality (2008)
Joseph M. Bessette and Jeffrey K. Tulis, eds., The Constitutional Presidency (2009) Clement Fatovic, Outside the Law: Emergency and Executive Power (2009)
Co-Editor (with Sanford Levinson), Constitutional Thinking (University Press of Kansas, 2010- 2019) Justin J. Wert, Habeas Corpus in America: The Politics of Individual Rights (2011)
Mark E. Brandon, States of Union: Family and Change in the American Constitutional Order (2013) [Finalist, Silver Gavel Award 2014, American Bar Association]
John E. Finn, Peopling the Constitution (2014) Sotirios A. Barber, Constitutional Failure (2014) Mark Tushnet, Red, White and Blue: A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law (2015) Stephen M. Griffin, Broken Trust: Dysfunctional Government and Constitutional
Reform (2015) Clement Fatovic, America’s Founding and the Struggle Over Economic Inequality (2015)
Sanford Levinson, ed., Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought (2016)
Keith Whittington, Repugnant Laws: Judicial Review of Acts of Congress from the Founding to the Present (2019) [2020 Thomas M. Cooley Book Prize] Co-Editor (with Sanford Levinson, Emily Zackin and Mariah Zeisberg) Constitutional Thinking University Press of Kansas, 2019-present) Michael Zuckert, ed., Lincoln and Democratic Statesmanship (2020) Editorial Boards – Polity,1993-1999. Rhetoric & Public Affairs,1997-2000; 2019-2020. Journal of Policy History, 1995-2001 Law, Ethics, and Philosophy, 2011-present Critical Review, 2012-present American Political Thought, 2019-present Regular Contributor/Author – The Constitutionalist, 2020 – present Guest Contributor/Author – The Bulwark; The Atlantic; Balkinization; Public Seminar; LSE American
Politics and Policy Blog; Washington Post INVITED LECTURES: "The Federalist on Executive Power,” Rutgers University, National Endowment for the Humanities
Seminar, July 1983. "Interpreting American Politics," Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University, February
1984. "Reading The Federalist," Center for the Study of Early American History, University of
Pennsylvania, July 1985. "The Two Constitutional Presidencies," faculty seminar on constitutionalism, Harvard University,
April 1986. "The Rhetorical Prerogative," Bicentennial Lecture Series, James Madison College, Michigan State
University, May 15, 1987.
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"The Modern Presidency and Domestic Policy," Bicentennial Lecture Series, SUNY, Geneseo, November 5, 1987). [Also presented on panel on political economy at American Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago 1987.]
"Constituting Politics: The Theory of the Constitution," Bicentennial lecture series, The Clark
Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA, December 11, 1987. "Emergency Power and the Constitution," University Bicentennial Lecture, University of
California, Irvine, March 11, 1988. "The Federalist on Executive Power," Bicentennial Lecture, The Tocqueville Forum, Wake Forest
University, March 14, 1988. "The President, Constitution, and Political Development," Center for American Politics,
Department of Government, Harvard University, December 2, 1988. "Constitution and Revolution," Legal Theory Workshop, Yale Law School, December 14, 1989. "Images and Reality of Public Leadership," President's Lecture Series, Bates College, November
21, 1992. "The Politics of Deference," Kenyon College, March 1994. "Constitutional Abdication," Lecture Series on American Constitutionalism, Southwest Texas
State University, October 28, 1994. Keynote Address, “The Future of the Rhetorical Presidency,” Inaugural Annual Conference on
Rhetoric, The Center for Presidential Studies, Texas A & M University, Spring 1995. “Forbearance and the Politics of Deference,” Faculty Seminar on Constitutional Theory, NYU
Law School, April 1996. Invited Speaker, APSA Plenary Session, The Harold Lasswell Symposium on Presidential Politics, San
Francisco, 1996 “Today’s Neo-Whig Presidency,” St. Vincent’s College, Latrobe, PA, November 1997. “On the Politics of Deference,” Claremont-McKenna College, Claremont, CA, April 1999. “On the Forms of Rhetorical Leadership,” Before the Rhetorical Presidency, Response to Keynote,
Annual conference of the Program on Presidential Rhetoric, Texas A & M University, Spring 2002.
“Impeachment,” President’s Day endowed lecture, McConnell Center, University of Louisville,
(actually delivered on Veteran’s Day), November 2005. “On Constitutional Statesmanship,” Alpheus T. Mason Lecture in Constitutional Thought, James
Madison Program, Princeton University, February 22, 2007. “Impeachment in the Constitutional Order,” Fox Leadership Program, University of
Pennsylvania, April 4, 2008. “Congress and Constitutional Responsibility,” Boston University Law School conference on
Congress and the Constitution. November, 2008. “Plausible Futures,” Symposium on The Future of the Presidency, Regent University, February 6,
2009. Available on video from C-Span. “On the Rhetorical Presidency,” evening keynote, Conference on The Art of Rhetoric, Hillsdale
College, November 8, 2010.
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“Constitutional Decay and the Politics of Deference,” 10th Annual Walter F. Murphy Lecture on American Constitutionalism, Princeton University, April 4, 2011. Available on video at:
http://web.princeton.edu/sites/jmadison/calendar/flash/Tulis.html Versions of the Murphy Lecture subsequently presented as the “Constitution Day” Lectures at
Claremont McKenna College and at Michigan State University (September 2011). “The Possibility of Constitutional Statesmanship,” Tocqueville Program and Department of
Political Science, University of Notre Dame, February 6, 2012. Keynote, “Is the President Too Weak?” 5th Annual Conference of the Hannah Arendt Center for
Politics and the Humanities at Bard College, September 21, 2012. http://www.totalwebcasting.com/view/?id=bard President’s Day Lecture, “Is the Presidency Too Strong?,” Thomas Aquinas College, California,
February 22, 2013. http://thomasaquinas.edu/news/audio-presidency-too-strong Constitution Day Lecture, “The Anti-Federal Appropriation of the Constitution,” Baylor
University, September 17, 2015. Constitution Day Lecture, “The Anti-Federal Appropriation of the Constitution,” Carroll College,
September 12, 2016. Constitution Day Lecture, “The Anti-Federal Appropriation of the Constitution, Mercer University,
September 19, 2016. Constitution Day Lecture, “The Anti-Federal Appropriation,” University of Houston, September
15, 2017. Keynote, “Legacies of Losing in American Politics,” Shawnee Trail Conference on American
Political Development and Thought, Colorado Springs, CO, April 20, 2018. “How The Federalist Opened the Door to the Anti-Federal Appropriation of the Constitution,”
University of Notre Dame, Constitutional Studies Program Lecture Series, February 21, 2019. https://constudies.nd.edu/news-and-events/news/video-how-the-federalist-opened-the-door-to-the-antifederalist-appropriation-of-the-constitution/
“Federalist #10 and the Science of Indirect Government,” Jack Miller Center Summer Program,
Philadelphia, PA. July 1, 2019. Emory Williams Lecture in the Liberal Arts & Constitution Day Lecture, “The Anti-Federal
Appropriation,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA, September 18, 2019 Constitution Day Lecture, “The Civic Constitution,” Bates College, September 16, 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvcrnhDmqDQ “Congressional Abdication,” Election Series Events, Bates College, October 26, 2020. “The Civic Constitution,” SUNY Geneseo, Forum on Constitutionalism and Democracy,
November 19, 2020. https://events.geneseo.edu/event/jeffrey_tulis_the_civic_constitution#.X80-bh17mqA
PAPERS: "Hume and The Federalist," American Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago, 1976. "Thought, Speech and Deed: On Studying Presidential Rhetoric," Foundations of Political Theory
Group, American Political Science Association Meetings, New York, 1978.
"The Decay of Presidential Rhetoric," Conference on Rhetoric and Statesmanship, University of Dallas, October 1980.
"Public Policy and the Rhetorical Presidency" American Political Science Association Meetings, New York, 1981.
"The Presidency and the Reinterpretation of American Politics" Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 1984.
"The New Constitutionalists" (with Sotirios A. Barber), American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 1987.
"Problems of Design, Identity, and Hierarchy in Constitutional Theory," American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 30, 1991.
“American Politics as Layered Text,” American Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, 1996.
“Remarks on Cynicism,” Workshop sponsored by the Institute for Contemporary Studies, Washington, D.C., August 1997.
“Deliberation Between Institutions,” Deliberating About Deliberative Democracy, University of Texas at Austin February 4-6, 2000.
“What is Politics?” Plenary Session of the Western Political Science Association meetings, April 2001.
“Andrew Johnson and the Politics of Failure,” (with Nicole Mellow) American Political Science Association meetings, Chicago, 2004.
“Leadership Failure and Political Success: The Case of Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction,” (with Nicole Mellow), American Political Development Conference, Yale University, October 21-23, 2004.
“On Constitutional Statesmanship,” Conference on Statesmen and Demagogues: Democratic Leadership in Political Thought, Yale University, March 31 – April 1, 2006. Revised version, Conference on The Limits of Constitutional Democracy, Princeton University, February 14-16, 2008 and also at the Columbia University faculty seminar, Studies in Political and Social Thought, October 28, 2008.
“Impeachment in the Constitutional Order,” Southern Political Science Association Meetings, New Orleans, January 8-10, 2007.
“Carl Schmitt on Separation of Powers: Notes and Contrasts,” Advanced Workshop on Constitutional Theory,” Program in Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University, December 2008.
“Structure and Power in American Politics,” Department of Political Science, Baylor University November 2009.
“Barry Goldwater and American Political Development,” (with Nicole Mellow) American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C., September 1-4, 2010.
2011 Founders Award for Best Paper, Honorable Mention, Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association.
“Plausible Futures,” Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, (February 2012). “The Art of Rhetorical Appropriation” (with Nicole Mellow) prepared for American Political
Science Association meetings, New Orleans, LA, September 1, 2012. “The Anti-Federal Appropriation,” Department of Government, Harvard University, October 16,
2015. “Separation of Powers as a New Theory,” Prepared for Jack Miller Center Conference,
Philadelphia, PA, August 18, 2018. “Comment on Michael McConnell’s Tanner Lecture,” Princeton University, November 29, 2018. “Separation of Powers as a New Theory and Congressional Abdication,” American Politics
Workshop, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, March 8, 2021. “Separation of Powers as a New Theory,” Cambridge Political Thought and Intellectual History
Seminar, University of Cambridge, March 15, 2021.
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OFFICES: Selection Committee, American Council of Learned Societies, Fellowships for Recent Recipients
of the PhD.,1985-86; 1986-87; 1987-88. Selection Committee, NEH Fellowships for University Faculty, August 1990. Executive Committee, Presidency Research Group, American Political Science Association, 1988-
90. Section Chair, Executive Politics, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Program Committee, San Francisco, September 1990. E. E. Schattschneider Award Committee, American Political Science Assoc., 1989-90. President, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association, 1990-91. Founder’s Best Paper Award Committee, Presidency Research Group, American Political Science
Association, 1995-96. J. David Greenstone Prize Committee, Politics and History Section, American Political Science Association, 1995-96.
Section Chair, Politics and History, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting
Program Committee, San Francisco, September 2001. Chair, J. David Greenstone Prize Committee, Politics and History Section, American Political
Science Association, 2006-07. Chair, Committee on Teaching and Learning, American Political Science Association, 2005-08. Co-Chair (with Stephen Macedo), Princeton University Conference on “The Limits of
Constitutional Democracy,” February 14-16, 2008. Board of Advisers, American Political Thought -- Related Group, American Political Science
Association. 2010-2016. Richard Neustadt Prize Committee, Presidency and Executive Politics Section, American Political
Science Association, 2014-15. Chair, Best Article Award Committee, American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions and
Culture, 2020. Chair, Search Committee for Editors, American Political Thought: A Journal of Ideas, Institutions and
Culture, 2020. President, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha chapter of Texas, The University of Texas at Austin, 2017- OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Discussant, Memorial Panel for Herbert J. Storing, American Political Science Association
Meetings, Washington, DC, 1980. Chair, panel on "Constitutional Theory and Institutional Capability," American Political Science
Association Meetings, Chicago, 1983. Discussant, panel on "The Presidency and Public Opinion," Midwest Political Science Association
Meetings, Chicago, 1984.
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Chair, panel on "The Presidency and American Political Culture," American Political Science Association Meetings, New Orleans, 1985.
Discussant, panel on "Separation of Powers and Constitutional Reform," American Political
Science Association Meetings, New Orleans, 1985. Consultant, Educational Testing Service, Foreign Service Examination, 1985. Chair, panel on "Principles of Liberty," NEH Bicentennial Conference on the Constitution,
University of Dallas, Dallas, Texas, October 1985. Talk, on The Rhetorical Presidency, to the Neiman Fellows Colloquium, Harvard University,
February 11, 1987.
Discussant, Bradley Foundation Conference on "The American Constitutional Experiment," Harvard University, March 12, 1987.
Discussant, panel on "New Studies on Presidential Prerogative," American Political Science
Association Meetings, Chicago, 1987, and on panel "Adapting the Twentieth Century to the Constitution."
Invited speaker, University of Toronto colloquium on the 1988 American presidential election, November 21, 1988.
Talk on the new constitutionalism and the new institutionalism, Department of Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania, February 6, 1989. Discussant, panel on The Rhetorical Presidency, Speech Communication Association Annual
Meetings, Chicago, November 4, 1990. "The Politics of Deference," Department of Political Science, Bates College, Maine, March 1991. "Rethinking Separation of Powers," presented to Ashbrook Center Conference on Separation of
Powers, Ashland University, Ohio, November 1991. Chair, panel on "Locating Political Culture: Language, Ideology and Structure in Comparative
Perspective," APSA meetings, Washington, DC, August 31, 1991. Chair, panel on "Presidential Rhetoric," APSA meetings, Washington, DC, September 2, 1993. Co-director (with Stephen Skowronek) APSA Short Course, "The Turn to History in the Study of
American Politics," Washington, DC, September 1, 1993. Discussant, “The Character and Psychology of Early Founders,” APSA meetings, San Francisco,
1996. Invited Speaker, Case Western Reserve Law School Symposium on the Presidency, Cleveland,
April 1997. “The Politics of Deference,” Oberlin College, April 1997. Participant, Roundtable on the Presidency in American Political Development: A Twentieth Century Retrospective, American Political Science Association meetings, Washington, D.C., August 31 - September 3, 2000. Chair, panel on “Conceptualizing Culture: Culture and Method in Political Science,’ APSA, August 31 - September 3, 2000.
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Consultant, Center for Civic Education, Washington, D.C., June 2002, November 2002, January 2003, April 2003, January 2004, March 2005. Lectures on The Federalists and Anti-Federalists, “We The People” Summer Institute, Texas State Bar, Austin, TX, June 2002, June 2003, Columbia, MO, June 2003. Conference Organizer (with Peter Trubowitz and Jesus Velasco), American Politics in a New Millenium, in honor of Walter Dean Burnham, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico City, Mexico, April 25-26, 2002. Lecturer and Consultant, U.S. Embassy, Israel. July 30 – August 11, 2002. Co-led seminar in Tel Aviv for academics, leaders of non-governmental organizations, and staff from several ministries of the Israeli government: “Issues in Democracy and Constitutionalism: Principles and Lessons from the U.S. Model.” Lectures included: “Democracy as a Source of Social and Political Problems,” and “Institutional Conflict as a Solution to Political Irresponsibility in the U.S.” Consultant on programs in civic education for a variety of Arab and Jewish NGO’s throughout Israel. Discussant, “Value Pluralism and Constitutional Practice,” American Political Science Association meetings, Philadelphia, August 2003. Lectures on “The Relation of the Declaration and the Constitution,” and on “The Federalists and Anti-federalists,” National Academy, Center for Civic Education, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, July 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013. Lecture on “The Politics of Rights in the First Congress of the U.S,” NEH summer workshop for teachers, James Madison’s Montpelier, Virginia, June 2005, 2006, 2008. Discussant, “Tulis’s Rhetorical Presidency After Twenty Years,” Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, April 2007. Invited participant, Advanced Workshop in Constitutional Theory: Executive power. Princeton University, December 2007. Invited participant, Advanced Workshop in Constitutional Theory: Carl Schmitt. Princeton University, December 2008. Chair and Discussant, “Emergency Power and Law,” American Political Science Association Meetings, Toronto, September 2009. Chair, “Political Theory and Democratic Leadership,” American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, DC, September 2010. Invited participant, Academic Exchange Mission to Israel sponsored by the Rabin Center and the Rand Corporation, Summer 2011. Met with academics, activists and political leaders in Tel Aviv, Jaffa, Haifa, Kibbutz Manara, Gush Etzion, Jerusalem and Ramallah. Colloquium on the 2012 Election, Williams College, October 2012. “Reflections of the 2012 Election,” Tarleton State University, Stephenville, Texas, November 2012. Roundtable on “The Constitution and the Election of 2016” American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 3, 2016. “Roundtable on the Obama Legacy,” Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 12-14, 2017. Panelist, “The Imperial Presidency in the Age of Trump, American Enterprise Institute, Washington, DC, January 27, 2017. https://www.aei.org/events/the-imperial-presidency-in-the-age-of-trump/ “Afterword “for The Rhetorical Presidency (2017). Presentation at the Phronesis Forum in The Honors College, University of Houston, September 15, 2017.
Talk on Legacies of Losing in American Politics, American Politics Workshop, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, January 24, 2018.
Conversation with William Howell (Political Science, U of Chicago), Seminary Cooperative Bookstore on Legacies of Losing in American Politics, February 24, 2018.
Book Panel, Legacies of Losing in American Politics, Western Political Science Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA. March 29, 2018.
Book Panel on Legacies of Losing in American Politics, American Political Science Association (Fall 2018) with Russ Muirhead (Dartmouth), Diane Rubenstein (Cornell), Anne Norton (Penn), Vicki Hattam (New School) and Sidney Milkis (Virginia).
“Impeachment in the Constitutional Order,” Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, October 11, 2018. Talk on Legacies of Losing in American Politics, Center for the Study of Democratic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, November 30, 2018. Book panel on Corey Brettschneider’s The Oath and the Office, American Political Science Association Meetings, Washington, DC, August 31, 2019 Talk on Legacies of Losing in American Politics, Political Philosophy Workshop, Brown University, November 18, 2019. Book panel on Gary J. Jacobsohn and Yaniv Rosnai’s Constitutional Revolution, University of Texas Law School, Conference on Constitutional Making and Change, January 17, 2020. Panelist, “The Constitutional Politics of Impeachment,” University of Texas Law School, January 24, 2020. “Congress and Constitutional Reform,” American Enterprise Institute, Zoom Webinar, October 16, 2020. https://www.aei.org/events/congress-and-constitutional-reform/ “What Just Happened?: Analyzing the 2020 Presidential Election,” LSE American Centre Events Panel, November 5, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=827584974737793&ref=watch_permalink Austin Community College, Political Science faculty book club discussion of The Rhetorical Presidency. April 23, 2021.
REFEREE SERVICE:
Publishers: Princeton University Press; The University of Chicago Press; The Free Press; University Press of Kansas; CQ Press; University of Alabama Press; University of Notre Dame Press; Harvard University Press; Little, Brown & Co.; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Stanford University Press; Yale University Press; Univ. of Pennsylvania Press. Journals: American Political Science Review; Political Science Quarterly; The Review of Politics; World Politics; Western Political Quarterly; Journal of Politics; Congress and the Presidency; Presidential Studies Quarterly; Polity; Studies in American Political Development; Political Communication; Perspectives on Politics, Political Studies, American Political Thought; European Journal of Political Theory, Journal of the History of Ideas; American Journal of Political Science; Political Theory Foundations: Earhart Foundation; National Endowment for the Humanities; The Canada Council; National Science Foundation; Smith Richardson Foundation; Russell Sage Foundation; American Council of Learned Societies.
Promotions and Senior Appointments: Harvard (5), Yale (4), Cornell, University of Pennsylvania, New School (2), Amherst, Duke, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, UCLA, Cornell Law School, Northwestern, Villanova, Baylor, and others. External review committee: Hobart and William Smith Colleges
UNIVERSITY SERVICE: Princeton University Interdepartmental Committee for American Studies, 1984-87 Faculty Fellow, Butler College, 1987; 2008-09 Faculty Adviser, Rockefeller College, 1984-86; Butler College, 1987 Undergraduate Program Committee, Politics, 1984-86, 1987 Director of Senior Thesis Work, Politics, 1984-86, 1987. Chair, Undergraduate Prize Committee, Politics, 1986 Chair, Public Law Graduate Subfield, Politics, 1985-86 Truman Scholarship Committee 1984, 1985 Harvard University Visiting Scholar, Kirkland House, 1986-87 & Spring 1991 The University of Texas at Austin Acting Chair, Department of Government, 1992-93; Summers 1989-2001 Associate Chair, Department of Government, 1989-2001 Courtesy appointment, Department of Communication Studies, 1989-present Promotion & Tenure Committee, College of Liberal Arts, 1988-91 Executive Committee, Department of Government (elected), 1988-89, 1989-90, 1993-94, 1994-95,
Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Government, 1989-90; 1991-92; 1992-93; 1993-94; 1995-96; (chair)2000-01, 2003-04, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2013-2015.
MacDonald/Long Fellowship Committee, Department of Government, Spring 2016 Financial Aid Committee, Department of Government, 1989-90; 1991-92; 1997-98, 2017-18. Numerous faculty search committees, Dept. of Government, 1989-present Dean's Ad-hoc Committee on Graduate Student Workload, 1990-91 Dean's Ad-hoc Committee on Graduate Tuition, 1991-92 President's Ad-hoc Committee on the Graduate School, 1994-95 University Research Institute, Fellowship Committee, 1993-94, 1994-95 President’s Ad-hoc Building Committee for Batts, Mezes and Benedict Renovations, 2000-2003. Temple Scholarship committee, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05. Plan II Honors Program (admissions, sophomore advising, thesis colloquium, Voltaire’s coffee) Chair, Department Building Committee for Batts and Mezes Renovations, 1999-2006. Faculty Council, 2007-08 Dean’s Advisory Committee, Telluride Association Summer Program 2003-2010 Chair, Dean’s Committee for Reappointment of Jefferson Center Directors (Fall 2013) Ad-hoc committee for Certificate in Law, Justice and Society, 2017-18 Teaching committee, Department of Government, 2017-18 Chair, Public Law Graduate Subfield, Department of Government 2020-2023.
COURSES TAUGHT: Introduction to American Government (Notre Dame, Princeton, Texas) The Presidency in the Constitutional Order (Notre Dame, Princeton, Texas) Mass Media and American Politics (Notre Dame, Princeton) American Political Thought (Princeton, Texas) President, Congress and Court (Texas) Honors course: Constitutional Thinking (Texas) Honors seminar: America From the Outside (Texas) Honors seminar: Regime Perspectives on American Politics (Texas) Honors seminar: Emergency Politics in the United States (Texas)
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Honors seminar: Founding and Constitutional Design (Texas) Graduate Seminar: Problems in the Study of Politics (Texas) Graduate Seminar: Presidency (Princeton, Texas) Graduate Seminar: Tocqueville (Princeton, Texas) Graduate Seminar: American Founding (Princeton, Texas Law School) Graduate Seminar: Constitutional Conflict (Harvard, Texas) Graduate Seminar: Constitutional Theory (Texas) Graduate Seminar: Supervised Teaching in Government (Texas) Graduate Seminar: Interpretations of American Politics (Texas) Graduate Seminar: Emergency Power and the Constitution (Texas Law School) Graduate Seminar: Democratic Theory (Texas) Graduate Seminar: Republicanism and Liberalism (Texas) SUPERVISOR: Completed Ph.D Dissertations Michael Bailey, Deliberation and the Constitution, core idea subsequently published as “Surrogates for
Deliberation and the United States Constitution,” Polity (Summer 2002). (tenured, Berry College
Terri Burney Davis,, Multiculturalism and States’ Rights (tenured, and department Chair, Lamar University)
Tamara Waggener, Gender, Race and Political Violence in US Social Movements: 1966 – 1976 (tenured,and department Chair, Sam Houston State University). David Anthony Crockett, A Time To Rule:The President as Opposition Leader, subsequently published as The
Oppositional Presidency. (tenured,Trinity University) Jasmine Farrier, An Institutional Capacity Explanation of Congressional Budgetary Delegation, 1985-1996,
subsequently published as Passing the Buck (tenured, University of Louisville) Bruce Garin Peabody, Recovering the Political Constitution: Nonjudicial Interpretation, Judicial Supremacy and
the Separation of Powers (tenured, Fairleigh Dickenson University) Kathleen Susan Sullivan, Liberalism’s Domesticity:The Common Law Domestic Relations as Liberal Social
Ordering, subsequently published as Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America (tenured, Ohio University)
Richard Holtzman, When Talking the Talk is Enough: Rhetorical Policymaking and George W. Bush’s “Call to Service” (tenured, Bryant University)
Steven Bilakovics, Constituting Political Freedom and the Democratic Way of Life , subsequently published as Democracy Without Politics, Harvard University Press (2012). (Post Doctoral Fellowships, Yale University and UCLA)
Justin Dyer, After the Revolution: Natural Law and the Anti-Slavery Constitutional Tradition, subsequently published as Natural Law and the Anti-Slavery Constitutional Tradition, Cambridge University Press (2012) (tenured, University of Missouri)
Curtis Nichols, The Governing Cycle and the Dynamics of New Majority Formation (tenured, Baylor University)
Eric Svenson, Reconceptualizing Divided Government (non-tenure track, Dartmouth College, followed by, tenure track, Sam Houston State University)
Connor Ewing, The Politics of Sovereignty: Federalism in American Political Development (Post Doctoral Fellowship, University of Virginia, followed by Assistant Professor at University of Toronto)
Anthony Ives, Congressional Health, Congressional Failure: A Purposive Conception of Legislative Design (Visiting Assistant Professor, Texas A & M University) Thomas Bell, The Architectonic Constitution: Higher Order Principles and Separation of Powers (Assistant Professor, tenure track, Knox College) Alec Arellano, Tocqueville and Mill on Doubt and the Demands of Democratic Citizenship
(Visiting Assistant Professor, Occidental College) Charles Zug, Demagoguery and American Constitutionalism (Visiting Assistant Professor, Williams College) Jonathan Wensveen, Making History Safe for Democracy: Understanding Alexis de Tocqueville’s “Profoundly Ambiguous” Theory of History (Lecturer, University of Lethbridge)
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COMMITTEE MEMBER: Completed Ph.D Dissertations (Texas): Rhonda Case, John Nugent, Kurt Senske, Jesus Velasco, John Janssen, Tevi Troy [American Studies], John McCullough, Wesley Widmaier, Clare Sheridan, Farid Kahat, Doygul Koksal, David Williams, Gerrit Devries, Brent Lollis, Betigul Argun, Michael Mclendon, Paul DeHart, Michael Towle, Mary Beeman, Louis DeSipio, Nicole Mellow, Allison Martens, Aaron Herrold, Robert DeLuca Arthur Shuster, Scott Truelove, Giorgi Areshidze., Jacqueline Hunsicker, Steven Pitzz, Jeremy Fortier, Carly Herrold, Sarat Krishnan, Lewis Fallis, Jennifer Lamm, Duncan Moench [American Studies], Jeremy Fortier, Hillel Offek, Christina Noriega Bambrick (Princeton): Uday Mehta, William F. Harris II, Sagiv Hadari, Timothy Kaufman-Osborne, Fred Wright, Joshua Miller. (Claremont Graduate School) Andrew Carico OTHER NOTABLE STUDENT RESEARCH: Michael Freeman Barry, Senior Thesis, “PACs and Congress: A Theory of Influence and Significance,” Lyman H. Atwater Prize for the Best Thesis in Politics, Princeton University, 1982. Raphael Guerero, Honors Thesis, “Why We Should Hate Political Parties” Awarded best undergraduate thesis prize by the Southwestern Social Science Association. 1998 Allison Martens, M.A. Thesis “On the Counter Majoritarean Difficulty” Revised and published in Perspectives on Politics, one of the two lead journals of the American Political Science Association. 2006 John Nugent, graduate seminar paper on the 17th amendment. Developed into a substantial book: Safeguarding Federalism: How States Protect Their Interests in National Policymaking (University of Oklahoma Press, 2009). Aaron Herrold, graduate seminar paper, “Lincoln and Tocqueville on Democratic Ambition,” Graduate student paper award, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, 2007. Arun Venkataramen, undergraduate seminar paper, “Islam and Democracy: A Tocquevillian Approach” Awarded second place prize, 15th Annual National Conference on Student Research in Political Science, Illinois State University, 2007. Anjali Mohan, undergraduate seminar paper, “Liberating Women in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America” Awarded third place prize, 15th Annual National Conference on Student Research in Political Science, Illinois State University, 2007. Curt Nichols, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Exploiting the Opportunity for Reconstructive Leadership,” [co-authored with Adam Myers, American Political Science Association, Presidency Research Group, 2008 Founders Award for Best APSA conference paper by a graduate student. Ryan Cooper, undergraduate seminar paper, “Meaning versus Authority: A Defense of Extra-Constitutional Prerogative” Awarded second place Pi Sigma Alpha prize, 17th Annual National Conference on Student Research in Political Science, Illinois State University, 2009. Ryan Cooper, Plan II Model Senior Thesis, “The Detainee Problem: An Examination of the Outer Limits of the American Constitution,” 2010. Nathan Abell, undergraduate seminar paper, “Theory and Practice of Structural Agenda Setting: A Case Study of U.S. HIV/AIDS Policy from 1979 to 1989” Award first place Pi Sigma Alpha Prize, 18th Annual National Conference on Student Research in Political Science, Illinois State University, 2010 Steven Bilakovics, Inaugural Dissertation Prize, American Political Thought Related Group, American Political Science Association, 2011.
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James Lamon, undergraduate seminar paper, “Race as Political Metaphor in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.” One of three Pi Sigma Alpha best paper prizes, 20th Annual National Conference on Student Research in Political Science, Illinois State University, 2012. Hart Murphy, “Dusting Off Dirty Hands,” M.A. Thesis 2013. Nominee of the Department of Government for university award for best M.A. thesis, university-wide. Ethan Levinton, undergraduate seminar paper, “Tocqueville and the Question of Legalism.” One of three Pi Sigma Alpha best paper prizes, 23rd Annual National Conference on Student Research in Political Science, Illinois State University, 2015. Ethan Levinton, senior honors thesis, “Tocqueville and the Rise of Legalism in American Politics,” Rapaport-King Thesis Scholarship for 2014-15 William Jennings Bryan Prize for Best Honors Thesis in Government, University of Texas at Austin, May 2015. Zachary Dwyer, undergraduate seminar paper, “The Founding Nightmare Realized: Demagoguery and Donald Trump,” One of three Pi Sigma Alpha best paper prizes, 25th Annual Conference on Student Research in Political Science, Illinois State University, 2017. Sydney Smith, undergraduate seminar paper, “Civic Virtue and America’s Revision of Rome,” One of three Pi Sigma Alpha best paper prizes, 27th Annual Conference on Student Research in Political Science, Illinois State University, 2019.
