Jack Rakove

William Robertson Coe Professor of History and American Studies

Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) of Law

At Stanford Since 1980

Ph.D., Harvard University 1975
A.B., Haverford College 1968

• Origins of the American Revolution
• Creation of a national polity and government between the early 1770s and 1800
• Origins of the Constitution and the early history of its interpretation
• Political ideas and career of James Madison
  

• Colonial and Revolutionary America

• The Constitution: A Short History

• Creating the American Republic

• Constitutional Interpretation in History and Theory

• The Beginnings of National Politics: An Interpretive History of the Continental Congress (Knopf, 1979)

• ed., Interpreting the Constitution: The Debate over Original Intent (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1990)

• James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic (Scott Forsman, 1990); expanded ed., (Longman, 2001)

• Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution ( Knopf, 1996)

• Declaring Rights: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford 1997)

• ed., James Madison: Writings (Library of America, 1999)

• ed., The Unfinished Election of 2000 (Basic Books, 2001)

• ed., with John Ferejohn and Jonathan Riley, Constitutional Culture and Democratic Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2001)

• ed., The Federalist: The Major Essays (Bedford, 2003)

• Revolutionaries: Inventing an American Nation (Houghton Mifflin, forthcoming)

• 1997 Pulitzer in History
• Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Prize
• Society of the Cincinnati Book Prize for Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution

• Doctor of Humane Letters, Barat College, 2002

• Appointments and Promotions Committee, School of Humanities & Sciences, 2004-2006

• Decanal Search Committee, Stanford Law School, 2004

• Athletic Compliance Committee, 2002-2005

• Provostial Search Committee, 2000

• Board of Governors, The Hanna House, Stanford, California 1996-

• Board of the Stanford University Press, 1997-99

• Overseas Studies Advisory Committee, 1997-99

• University Committee on Land, Building, and Development, 1993-96

• Committee on Graduate Studies, 1993-96 (chair, 1994-96)

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, 1991-97, 1999-2000

• Director, American Studies Program, 1985-88, 2002-2003

  
  

• Society for the History of the Early American Republic (Council 1994-1997; President 2002-2003)
• Associate, Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture (Council 1999-2002)
• Organization of American Historians
• American Historical Association
• American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1999)
• American Antiquarian Society
• American Political Science Association