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

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).