2008 James Madison Seminar

The James Madison
Seminar on Teaching American History
Freehold Regional History Consortium, Summer 2008

Adam F. Scrupski is a certified social studies teacher and former middle school principal, and was a faculty member at the Rutgers University Graduate School of Education for thirty-five years. At Rutgers, he was director of teacher education for seven years and chair of the teacher education faculty for twelve years. In the latter position he led the state-financed project that constructed Rutgers’ five-year teacher education program. He has supervised student teachers in social studies and has taught the social studies student-teaching seminar. Scrupski was employed by the New Jersey State Department of Education in its development of core goals in social studies. He led a team of social studies teachers in the construction of framework components for the core goal that related the humanities to learning experiences in history. Scrupski also served the New Jersey Council for the Humanities in supplementing its summer content-focused workshop with credit-bearing experiences for teacher participants. From 2001 to 2004, he was a member of the statewide committee to revise New Jersey’s social studies goals. He received his Ed.D. from Rutgers University.

Bradford P. Wilson is Associate Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions and occasional Lecturer in Politics at Princeton University. He is president of the Association for the Study of Free Institutions. Wilson is the author of Enforcing the Fourth Amendment: A Jurisprudential History and co-editor of American Political Parties and Constitutional Politics, Separation of Powers and Good Government, and The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism. Wilson was a Fulbright Senior Scholar at Moscow State University and the International Juridical Institute in Russia in 1994-95, and served three years as research associate to two Chief Justices of the United States, Warren E. Burger and William H. Rehnquist. His Ph.D. is from The Catholic University of America.

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He served previously on the National Council for the Humanities and as Chairman and Member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. He has published extensively, most notably, George Washington: A Collection. His Re-Thinking Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of H. B. Stowe, will appear in the fall, as also George Washington: American-General-Thinker-President-Believer-Slaveholder-Founder-Statesman. He previously published Habits of Mind: Fostering Access and Excellence in Higher Education (with Carol M. Allen).

Ulysses Grant Dietz, great-great-grandson of Ulysses S. Grant, has been the curator of Decorative Arts at The Newark Museum since 1980. He was appointed Senior Curator in 2007. With a specialty in American material culture and decorative arts, Mr. Dietz has been the curator of over 90 exhibitions during his tenure in Newark. He has to date given over 300 lectures all across the country on a wide range of topics drawn from Newark’s collections, as well as over 500 docentries and lectures in the Museum itself.  

Matthew J. Franck is Professor and Chairman of Political Science at Radford University, Radford, Virginia, where he has taught constitutional law, American politics, and political philosophy since 1989.  He earned his B.A. from Virginia Wesleyan College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Northern Illinois University.  Franck has been a Henry J. Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Fulbright Professor of American Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, and next year will be a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.  He is the author of Against the Imperial Judiciary: The Supreme Court vs. the Sovereignty of the People (University Press of Kansas, 1996); co-editor and co-author with Richard G. Stevens of Sober As a Judge: The Supreme Court and Republican Liberty (Lexington Books, 1999); and a contributor to History of American Political Thought (Frost and Sikkenga, eds., Lexington Books, 2003), and The Heritage Guide to the Constitution (Meese, Spalding, and Forte, eds., Regnery, 2005).  Franck has published essays and reviews in numerous scholarly quarterlies and journals of opinion, has lectured widely in the U.S. and overseas, and is a regular blogger on National Review Online’s "Bench Memos" page.  He is married to Professor Gwen O. Brown of the Radford University Department of Communication.

Suzanne L. Hickman is Co-Chair of the Music Department and Associate Professor of Music at The College of New Jersey, where she has taught since 1984. As a soprano performer, she has enjoyed a singing career in Europe and the United States. Dr. Hickman was a TCNJ Exchange Professor to Universität Frankfurt from 1992-1993.  She has also been a faculty member of the New Jersey Governor’s School for the Arts since 1993 and a National Association of Teachers in Singing (NATS) member since 1978, having served as both N.J. NATS Secretary and N.J. NATS President.  Prior to moving to New Jersey, Dr. Hickman was the Producer and Stage Director for the Opera Theater at Northeast Louisiana University where she also taught Studio Vocal Studies, Diction, Vocal Pedagogy, Class Voice, and Performance Techniques. She received her B.M. in Performance from DePauw University and her M.M. and D.M.A. in Performance and Literature from the University of Illinois.

James M. McPherson is the George Henry Davis '86 Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. He has published numerous volumes on the Civil War, including Lincoln and the Second American Revolution, Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War, This Mighty Scourge: Perspectives on the Civil War, For Cause and Comrades: Why Men Fought in the Civil War, which won the prestigious Lincoln Prize in 1998, and the magisterial Battle Cry of Freedom, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History. A former president of the American Historical Association, McPherson was awarded in 2007 the $100,000 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for lifetime achievement in military history--the first person to be awarded the prize.

Paul D. Moreno is the William and Bernice Grewcock Chair in the American Constitution at Hillsdale College. In 2005-06, he was a visiting fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Moreno’s research interests focus on U.S. constitutional history, civil rights, and political economy. He is the author of From Direct Action to Affirmative Action: Fair Employment Law and Policy in America, 1933-1972 (1997) and the recently published Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History (2006). He is currently working on a book on the constitutional revolution of the New Deal. He serves as the historical consultant to the Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society and as president of the Michigan Association of Scholars, and has been a John M. Olin faculty fellow. Moreno earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.

Richard Sylla is the Henry Kaufman Professor of The History of Financial Institutions and Markets and Professor of Economics, Entrepreneurship, and Innovation at New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He teaches courses in financial history, economic history of the United States, and firms and markets. His primary areas of research include historical studies of money, banking, and finance. He is the author of several books, including The American Capital Market and A History of Interest Rates (now in its 4th edition). His writings have appeared in numerous publications, including the Journal of Economic History, Explorations in Economic History, Small Business and American Life: A History and Business and Economic History. Sylla is also on the editorial board of many journals that include the Financial History Review, Enterprise and Society, and Economic and Financial History Abstracts. He has been the recipient of several awards and grants, including the National Science Foundation grant, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grants, and the Citibank Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Stern School. He has served as president of the Economic History Association and as president of the Business History Conference, and is currently a trustee of the Museum of American Financial History. Sylla received his Ph.D. from Harvard University.

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