Alec Zuercher Reichardt

Biography

Alec Zuercher Reichardt received a Ph.D. at Yale University and currently serves as an Associate Professor of Constitutional Democracy and an Assistant Professor of History, joining the Kinder Institute in 2018 after spending a year as a junior visiting fellow at the Center for Humanities & Information at the Pennsylvania State University. Prof. Reichardt’s research revolves around 18th century European and Indigenous empires in North America and the Atlantic World, as seen in the 2025 University of Pennsylvania Press monograph, Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis, which examines the contest for the American Interior in the decades before the American Revolution and maps the development of communications infrastructure over the long Seven Years’ War. Prof. Reichardt’s next project will turn toward the spatial politics of native and Euro-American transportation landscapes, from the colonial period through the rise of the early American state. ​