Advisory Board Members - 2007
Richard Bernstein
Adjunct Professor of Law
New York Law School
Director of Online Operations, Heights Books, Inc.
Author of Thomas Jefferson; and Are We to be a Nation?: The Making of the Constitution.
Andrew Burstein
Co-holder of the Mary Frances Barnard Chair in 19th-Century American History
University of Tulsa
Author of The Inner Jefferson: Portrait of a Grieving Optimist; and Jefferson’s Secrets: Death and Desire in Monticello.
Max Byrd
Former Professor at Yale University and University of California at Davis
Author of Jefferson; and Jackson.
Joanne Freeman
Professor of Early U.S. Republic, American Revolution, Politics, and 18th-Century Political Culture
Yale University
Author of Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic.
Annette Gordon-Reed
Professor of American Legal History and American Slavery and the Law
New York Law School
Author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controvers; and editor of Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History.
Patrick Griffin, ex officio
Professor of Early American History
University of Virginia
Author of American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier; and The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World.
Ronald Hoffman
Director
Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture
Author of Princes of Ireland, Planters of Maryland: A Carroll Saga, 1500-1782; and editor of the Charles Carroll Papers.
Jan Lewis
Acting Dean of the Rutgers Faculty of Arts and Sciences-Newark
Rutgers Chair of the Federated History Department of Rutgers-New Jersey Institute of Technology
Rutgers University-Newark
Author of Making the American Nation, 1763-1830; and The Pursuit of Happiness: Family and Values in Jefferson’s Virginia.
John McCusker
Ewing Halsell Distinguished Professor of American History and Professor of Economics
Trinity University
Author of Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775: A Handbook; and co-author of The Economy of British America, 1607-1789.
Simon Newman
Sir Denis Brogan Professor of American Studies
University of Glasgow
Author of Europe’s American Revolution; and Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia.
Peter Nicolaisen
Professor of English (retired)
Flensburg University
Author of Thomas Jefferson, published in 1995.
Barbara Oberg
General Editor
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Princeton University
Co-author of Federalists Reconsidered; and Benjamin Franklin, Jonathan Edwards and the Representation of American Culture.
Peter Onuf, ex officio
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History
University of Virginia
Author of The Mind of Thomas Jefferson; Jefferson's Empire: The Language of American Nationhood; and Jeffersonian Legacies.
Jack Rakove
W. R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies
Stanford University
Author of Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution (Pulitzer Prize winner); and James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic.
R. K. Ramazani, honorary
Edward R. Stettinius Professor Emeritus of Government and Foreign Affairs
University of Virginia
Author of numerous books and articles, and consultant to the United Nations, the White House, the State Department, and the Department of Defense.
Robert "Roy" Ritchie
W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research
The Huntington Library
Author of The Duke's Province: A Study of Politics and Society in New York, 1664-169; and Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates.
Frank Shuffelton
Chair, English Department
University of Rochester
Author of Thomas Jefferson: A Comprehensive, Annotated Bibliography of Writings About Him 1826-1980; and A Mixed Race: Ethnicity in Early America.
Herbert Sloan
Columbia University/Barnard College
Author of Principle Interest: Thomas Jefferson and the Problem of Debt.
Alan Taylor
Professor of American History
University of California at Davis
Author of William Cooper's Town: Power and Persuasion on the Frontier of the Early American Republic, (Pulitzer Prize winner, Bancroft Prize winner); and American Colonies.