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Abbylin H. Sellers

Ashbrook Interns — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:53:45 +0000

Abbylin H. Sellers, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at Azusa Pacific University. Her areas of teaching emphasis are American politics and public policy, specifically American government, U.S. political institutions (including the constitutional presidency and war powers; Congress and the legislative process), state and local politics, welfare policy, twentieth century communism, and American democracy for the Honors College. Sellers was awarded the university’s Teaching Excellence award in 2017. She also teaches great books and roots of American constitutionalism for Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy and is on the faculty for the James Madison Foundation’s Summer Institute in Washington, DC.

Her primary research interests include welfare policy, such as the institutionalization of welfare in the 1930s, the 1996 welfare reform legislation, and the 2005 welfare reform reauthorization legislation, as well as federalism and political behavior. Sellers’ research on welfare reform examines the effects of the caseload reduction credit on federal and state level welfare work requirements, unintended consequences in policy making, and policy implementation and evaluation. Her research on political behavior focuses on descriptive representation and how it affects political engagement, efficacy, and trust. She is currently working on a book project about immigrant entrepreneurs in Los Angeles County, how they have achieved success through their hard work and sacrifice, and how they have been able to navigate operating a business in a heavily regulated state. Her articles and reviews have appeared in scholarly journals including, Political Psychology, Politics, Groups, and Identities, Presidential Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Military History. Her work has been recognized by the American Political Science Association for “Best Paper” for the Representation and Electoral Systems section. Sellers was awarded as a 2022-2023 Fulbright Scholar to teach American constitutionalism and democracy in Japan at Yokohama National University and Hosei University (Tokyo).

Sellers earned her B.A. from Westmont College, M.A. in public policy from Regent University, and Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University.

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Abigail Vegter

Christian Pascarella — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:19:52 +0000

Abigail Vegter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Berry College. She earned her PhD in political science at the University of Kansas, concentrating in the subfields of American politics and public policy with a minor in research methodology. She maintains an active research agenda focusing on religion and politics, gun politics, public opinion, political behavior, and policy attitudes in the United States.

Her scholarship currently focuses on the relationship between religion and gun ownership, particularly looking at the role of identity in shaping policy attitudes and the policy process. Her dissertation, Faithful Firearms: The Role of Religion in Gun Owner Identity, Gun Policy Attitudes, and Gun Policy Adoption, utilizes diverse methods to approach her central theoretical questions. Her research interests, however, extend beyond religion and gun ownership. She has several forthcoming publications concerning religion and gun politics, race and gun ownership, morality policy, LGBTQ+ politics, and new methodological approaches to studying interest groups.

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Adam M. Carrington

Christian Pascarella — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:54:45 +0000

Adam M. Carrington is Associate Professor of Politics in The Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College. At Hillsdale, Carrington teaches courses on the U.S. Constitution, Constitutional Law, The American Presidency, and Politics & Literature. He publishes primarily on matters of American political institutions, especially the judiciary. His scholarly publications have appeared in American Political Thought, Presidential Studies Quarterly, ��Ի��American Journal of Legal History. His book on the jurisprudence of Supreme Court Justice Stephen Field was published in 2017 by Lexington Books. In 2018, Carrington was selected by the Hillsdale College senior class as Professor of the Year. In 2020-2021, he was a Garwood Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Baylor University and a BA in Politics and Religion from Ashland University, where he was an Ashbrook Scholar.

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Adam Seagrave

Ashbrook Interns — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:54:07 +0000

Adam Seagrave (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is Associate Professor of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. He is co-author (with Stephanie Shonekan) of the forthcoming book Race and the American Story (Oxford University Press, 2024) and co-founder of a wide-ranging educational project of the same name begun at the University of Missouri in 2017. His first book, The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2014. He has also published Liberty and Equality: The American Conversation (University Press of Kansas, 2015) and The Accessible Federalist (Hackett Publishing Co., 2017).

In addition to his academic scholarship and teaching, Professor Seagrave has worked extensively with K-12 educators and has led the development of K-12 instructional materials on American history and government topics. He was awarded the American Legion National Education Award in 2021 for his achievements in K-12 civics education. He also spent seven years as the inaugural Managing Editor of the academic journal American Political Thought (published by the University of Chicago Press). Seagrave writes and teaches widely on topics relating to American political thought and history, with a particular focus on the relationship between racism and American ideals.

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Amanda Bryan

Christian Pascarella — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:51:29 +0000

Amanda Bryan joined the ɫ��ɫ in 2021 and now serves as Publications Manager for TeachingAmericanHistory. Previously she had worked as an educator in Colorado, serving as a classroom teacher, department chair, AP instructor, online education coordinator, and curriculum leader at the secondary level. Amanda has extensive experience with curricular design and AVID instructional practices.

A 2020 MASTAHG and MAHG graduate, Amanda has also earned degrees from Metropolitan State University in Denver and James Madison University in Virginia. She calls Denver home, and she and her family enjoy hiking, camping, skiing, and anything else that gets them up into the mountains.

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Andrew E. Busch

Ashbrook Interns — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:54:07 +0000

Andrew E. Busch is Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, where he teaches courses on American politics and government. He is the author or co-author of more than three dozen scholarly chapters and articles as well as more than 20 books, including ;��;��;��;��; ��Ի��

Busch served as Associate Dean of the Faculty at CMC from 2006-2009. In 2009-2010 he was Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, and from 2011 to 2021 was Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at CMC.

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Andrew Lang

Christian Pascarella — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:54:45 +0000

Andrew F. Lang specializes in the history of nineteenth-century America and the U. S. Civil War era. His most recent book, A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era (2021), is published in University of North Carolina Press’s landmark series, Littlefield History of the Civil War Era. From a field of more than 90 submissions, the book ranked as one of seven finalists for the 2022 Gilder Lehrman Lincoln Prize, which stands among the foremost awards in American historical scholarship. The book features diverse casts of nineteenth-century Americans who regarded the United States as the modern world’s pinnacle nation. But the commanding place of slavery within a republic of liberty imposed irreconcilable understandings of American nationhood, informing the causes, conduct, and consequences of the Civil War. Taking seriously how and why nineteenth-century Americans considered their Union as the zenith of modern political enterprises, the book interrogates the complex reasons why Americans waged a civil war over the very existence and meaning of their nation.

The Society of Civil War Historians presented his first book, In the Wake of War: Military Occupation, Emancipation, and Civil War America (2017), with the 2018 Tom Watson Brown Book Award. The prize recognizes “the best book published on the causes, conduct, and effects, broadly defined, of the Civil War,” measured by original scholarship and literary style. More than 50 books competed for this annual award. The book reappraises scholarly assumptions on nineteenth-century American military culture, Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, and the scope of Reconstruction. It reveals contested attitudes on state-sanctioned social and political change and the limits of state power in transitioning from war to peace. The prize committee extolled the book as “one of the very best examples of social-cultural history of the army to be done for the Civil War,” making “good use of cultural, social, and political history, as well as military theory.”

Prof. Lang serves on the Executive Council of the Society of Civil War Historians (SCWH), the field’s flagship professional organization. He also sits on advisory boards of the John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History (University of Virginia); the American Civil War Museum (Richmond, Virginia); and Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library. He has also served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Civil War Era, the discipline’s leading journal.

He is now working on two book-length projects. The first is an intellectual biography of Abraham Lincoln’s concept of Union and philosophy of history. The second is a narrative history of the relationship between Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant.

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Brent J. Aucoin

Christian Pascarella — Fri, 19 Nov 2021 17:28:48 +0000

Brent J. Aucoin is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at The College at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is particularly interested in post-Civil War Southern history, race relations and American religious history. He is married to his wife, Amanda, who is also a professor at the college, and they have four sons. He is the author, most recently, of Thomas Goode Jones: Race, Politics and Justice in the New South (University of Alabama Press, 2016)

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Candee Collins

Christian Pascarella — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:47:52 +0000

A native of Oklahoma, Candee has a Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology and History from Oklahoma Baptist University, Shawnee, and a Master of Science in Adaptive Physical Education ��Ի��Exercise Science from The University of Oklahoma, Norman and is just 4 courses shy of her Master of American History and Government at Ashland.

She has 40 years experience teaching and coaching at the high school and college level in Texas and Oklahoma, retiring in 2018. A recipient of the Pine Tree ISD Pirate Pride Award ��Ի��District Community Service Award, she also received the Texas Safe School Award and the National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO) Safe School Leadership Award. Candee has also been presented with the coveted Leon Jaworski Award for Teaching Excellence in Law Focused Education. During her coaching career, her teams were District Champions and state playoff contenders and because of her team’s successes, she was named the Longview News Journal East Texas Coach of the Year for Women’s Basketball and for the Women’s Golf Teams, received the Texas Girls Coaches Association Points Award and the Texas High School Coaches Association and Coaches Education Foundation Milestone of Victories Award. She currently serves as a local consultant and photographer for the American Exchange Project and has been a wedding planner for over 16 years.

Candee and her husband Greg live in east Texas and enjoy traveling, playing golf, watching her Oklahoma Sooners and his Oklahoma State Cowboys, and serving in their church; Candee on the Worship Team and Greg as Deacon.

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Cara Rogers Stevens

Christian Pascarella — Mon, 19 Jul 2021 16:54:45 +0000

Cara Rogers Stevens is an Associate Professor of History at Ashland University, where she also co-directs the Ashbrook Scholar Program. She has a master’s degree in history from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Ph.D. from Rice University. Her research, which focuses on race, slavery, and freedom in the Jeffersonian Age, has been published by the Journal of Southern History ��Ի��American Political Thought, ��Ի��she has also written for the Journal of the Early Republic ��Ի��Law & Liberty. She won the American Political Science Association’s award for Best Article in American Political Thought in 2022.

Her first book, (Kansas University Press, 2024), examines what Jefferson did—and did not—do to end slavery and bring equality to America.

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