Faculty

Academic Interests: Political History, History of the Early American Republic, Comparative History

Research: Democratization of the United States, 1787-1825; research on politics, electioneering practices, and voting 1788-1824.

Publications: Beyond the Founders: New Approaches to Political History in the Early American Republic, edited by Jeffrey L. Pasley, Andrew W. Robertson, and David Waldstreicher (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004).

The Language of Democracy: Political Rhetoric in Britain and the United States, 1790-1900 (1995; paper ed. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005)

Honors: A. Lindsay O'Connor Professor of American Institutions, at Colgate Univ., Hamilton, NY (2003-2004)