Scholarship
The New History of Federalism: Fall 2024 Conference
While study of federalism was long mired in outdated, 19th-century paradigms, a rising generation of historians, political scientists, and legal scholars have, in recent decades, begun to imagine the field newly. In Fall 2024, the Kinder Institute, the Richards Civil War Era Center at Pennsylvania State University, and Oxford’s Rotheremere Institute will jointly host a conference featuring their innovative research. “The New History of Federalism,” which will take place from September 26-28 on the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, will bring together scholars studying federalism from a broad spectrum of chronological, disciplinary, and thematic approaches for a wide-ranging exploration of new directions in federalism studies in the 21st century.
This page will be updated with more information, including a full schedule of conference panels, as we get nearer the September 26 kickoff.
Conference Description
Use the link below for a detailed description of the origins and objectives of the conference:
Conference Organizers and Participants
Organizers
Grace Mallon, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kinder Institute & Rothermere Institute
Jay Sexton, Kinder Institute
Rachel Shelden, Richards Civil War Era Center
Adam I.P. Smith, Rothermere Institute
Participants
Gregory Ablavsky, Professor of Law, Stanford University
Tanner Allread, History Graduate & Law Student, Stanford University
Maggie Blackhawk, Professor, NYU Law School
Bobby Cervantes, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University
Nicholas Cole, Professor of History, University of Oxford
Moyra Eaton, History Graduate Student, Penn State
Laura Edwards, Professor of History, Princeton University
Bridget Fahey, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Jonathan Gienapp, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
Hidetaka Hirota, Associate Professor of History, UC-Berkeley
Alison LaCroix, Professor, University of Chicago Law School
Josh Lappen, History Graduate Student, University of Oxford
Anna Law, Associate Professor of Political Science, CUNY-Brooklyn
Jacob Lee, Associate Professor of History, Penn State
Derek Litvak, History Graduate Student, University of Maryland
Jane Manners, Assistant Professor, Temple Law School
Sarena Martinez, History Graduate Student, University of Oxford
Kate Masur, Professor of History, Northwestern University
Heather Menefee, History Graduate Student, Northwestern University
Cynthia Nicoletti, Professor, University of Virginia Law School
Jamila Michener, Associate Professor of Political Science, Cornell University
Bill Novak, Professor, University of Michigan Law School
Gautham Rao, Associate Professor of History, American University
Tracy Steffes, Associate Professor of Education and History, Brown University
Brooks Swett, Independent Scholar, State Department Historian’s Office
Karen Tani, Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Annie Twitty, Associate Professor of History, Stanford University
Heather Walser, History Graduate Student, Penn State
Cooper Wingert, History Graduate Student, Georgetown University
Robinson Woodward-Burns, Associate Professor of Political Science, Howard University