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Richard E. Ellis, Professor (deceased, May 16, 2009) Please check News of the Department for more information

Education: B.A. Wisconsin, Madison,1960; M.A., California, Berkeley, 1961; Ph.D. California, Berkeley, 1969.

Field(s): American

Hub(s): Politics

Research Interests: US Constitutional history and the early Republic

Selected Publications:

Books:

Aggressive Nationalism: McCullock v. Maryland and the Establishment of Federal Authority (New York, Oxford University Press, 2007).

Andrew Jackson. American Presidents Reference Series (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2002).

The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy. States’ Rights and the Nullification Crisis (New York, Oxford University Press, 1987). Paperback edition, 1989.

The Jeffersonian Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic (New York, Oxford University Press, 1971). Paperback edition, W.W. Norton, 1974.

Selected articles:

“The Market Revolution and the Transformation of American Politics, 1801-1837,” Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway (eds.) The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political and the Religious Expressions 1800-1880. (Charlottesville, 1996), 149-176.

"A Symposium on Charles Sellers," The Market Revolution: Jacksonian America, 1815-1846,

Journal of the Early Republic, 12 (Winter 1992), 445-50.

"The Path Not Taken: Virginia and the Supreme Court, 1789-1821," in A.E. Dick Howard and Melvin I. Urofsky (eds.) Virginia and the Constitution (Charlottesville, 1992), 24-52.

"The Persistence of Antifederalism after 1789," in Richard Beeman et al., Beyond Confederation: Origins of the Constitution and American National Identity (Chapel Hill, Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1987), 295-314.

“The Impeachment of Samuel Chase,” Michael R. Belknap (ed.), American Political Trials (Westport, 1994-revised version of 1981), 57-76.

Awards:
“Continuing Faculty Development Awards,” State University of New York, 1993 and 1995

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1987

Student Association Teaching Award, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1987

New Jersey Committee for the Humanities Project Grant for a later press edition of “The Writings of William Paterson”, 1986 (with John E. O’Connor)

New Jersey Historical Commission, Bicentennial Grant-in-Aid, 1986 (with John E. O’Connor)

State University of New York Research Foundation Fellowship, Summer 1983

Canadian Embassy Faculty Enrichment Award, Summer 1982

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, 1978-1979

American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid, 1978-1979

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1972-1973

Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 1972-1973

Fellow, Law and History, Harvard Law School, 1972-1973

National Historical Society Book Prize, 1972

American Council of Learned Societies, Study Fellowship, 1972-1973 (declined)

Russell Sage Foundation, Residency in Law and Social Science, 1972-1973 (declined)

Sesquicentennial Associateship of the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, 1972-1973

University of Virginia, Wilson Gee Summer Fellowships, 1970 and 1971

Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Dissertation Year Fellow, 1963-1964

Woodrow Wilson Foundation, First Year Fellow, 1960-1961

History and Thesis Honors, University of Wisconsin, 1960

Last updated: Monday, October 26, 2009