George Thomas, Ph.D.

Burnet C. Wohlford Professor of American Political Institutions

Department

Government

Areas of Expertise

American Constitutionalism
American Political Thought
Constitutional Law
Supreme Court

Education

B.A., University of Utah; Ph.D., University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Assistant Professor, Williams College.

Awards and Affiliations

Huntington Library grant (2013)

National Endowment for the Humanities grant (2010)

American Political Science Association’s Alexander L. George Award (2006)

Research and Publications

The Madisonian Constitution (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).

 “Christianity, Enlightenment, and the American Experiment” Political Science Quarterly Vol. 140, No. 1 (Spring 2025): 175-192.

“The Constitution at War with Itself: Race, Citizenship, and the Forging American Constitutional Identity” in Ran Hirschl and Yaniv Roznai, eds., Deciphering the Genome of Constitutionalism: The Foundations and Future of Constitutional Identity (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2024). 

 

 

Religious Liberty, Same-Sex Marriage and Public Accommodations,” Perspectives on Politics Vol. 16, No. 1 (March 2018): 58-72.

 

 

“The Other Fear of the Founders” The Atlantic, February 12, 2025

Contact:
By Appointment
Thursday, 1:30 – 3:00 PM
Tuesday, 1:30 – 3:00 PM