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Ronald J. Pestritto

Charles and Lucia Shipley Chair in American Constitution and Associate Professor of Political Science,
Hillsdale College

33 East College Street
Hillsdale, MI  49242

rpestritto@hillsdale.edu

Ronald J. Pestritto

Education:

  • Ph.D., M.A., Claremont Graduate School
  • B.A., Claremont McKenna College

Courses Taught:

  • AHG 502: The American Founding
  • AHG 505: The Progressive Era (Syllabus)

Books:

  • Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings, editor (Lexington Books, 2005).
  • Woodrow Wilson and the Roots of Modern Liberalism, (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
  • Challenges to the American Founding: Slavery, Historicism, and Progressivism in the Nineteenth Century, co-editor with Thomas G. West (Lexington Books, 2005).
  • The American Founding and the Social Compact, co-editor with Thomas G. West (Lexington Books, 2003).
  • Founding the Criminal Law: Punishment and Political Thought in the Origins of America, (Northern Illinois Press, 2000).

Recent Publications:

  • "Woodrow Wilson, the Organic State, and American Republicanism," in History of American Political Thought Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga, eds., (Lexington Press, 2003).


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