PAUL J. BAUMGARDNER 913.742.2353 pb9@princeton.edu EDUCATION Princeton University Joint Ph.D., Politics & Humanistic Studies Fall 2013-Present Research Interests: American Political Development, Constitutional Politics, Law & Society, Legal Theory, Politics & Religion, American Political Thought Princeton University Fall 2013 - Spring 2015 M.A., Politics Baylor University, summa cum laude Fall 2008 - Spring 2012 B.A., University Scholars (Concentrations: Political Science and Philosophy) Phi Beta Kappa Honors Program, with distinction GPA 4.00 PUBLICATIONS Books & Book Chapters Artifactual Beings, Artifactual Institutions, in Exploring the Political Economy and Social Philosophy of James M. Buchanan, eds. Paul Dragos Aligica, Christopher J. Coyne, and Stefanie Haeffele-Balch (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018) Keywords; For Further Consideration and Particularly Relevant to Academic Life (with D. Graham Burnett, Kate Yeh Chiu, Jeff Dolven, Michael Faciejew, Thomas Matusiak, Candela Potente, Matthew Rickard, Jessica Terekhov, Enzo E. Vasquez Toral), eds. D. Graham Burnett, Matthew Rickard, and Jessica Terekhov (Princeton University Press, 2018) Articles Originalism and the 80s: How Ideological Interdisciplinarity Survived the Legal Academy, Law and History Review (Accepted for publication in Originalism and Legal History: Rethinking the Special Relationship special issue) Constraining Moses: The Growing Case Against Presidential Thanksgiving Day Proclamations, Chapman Law Review (2018) To Harm or To Harm, That Is the Question: Judging Between Harms In Twenty-First Century Religious Rights Jurisprudence, ConLawNOW (2018) The Fundamental Contradiction Redux? Liberty, Coercion, and American Legal Development, Law & Social Inquiry, Vol. 42, No. 3 (2017) Your Land Is Holy To Me: The Constitutional Battle to Access Sacred Sites on Public Lands, Journal of Church and State, Vol. 59, No. 2 (2017)
Stories of Society, State, and Science, Tulsa Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (2017) On Commonsense Inferences and Radical Indeterminacies: The Murky Future of Abortion Law After Whole Woman s Health (with Brian Miller), Syracuse Law Review, Vol. 67, No. 3 (2017) The Critical Legal Studies Movement: Another Time, A Greater Task, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 26 No. 8 (2016) Legal Right and Personhood in Hegel s Phenomenology of Spirit, Birkbeck Law Review, Vol. 4, No. 1 (2016) Kennedy, Consciousness, and the Monostructural Account of the American Legal Order, Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, Vol. 1o (2015) Re-Evaluating Reynolds: The Constitutional Case for Religiously-Motivated Polygamy," Journal of Politics and Law, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2013) Lessons on Government from One Non-State Entity to Another: How the Irish Republican Movement Informs Hezbollah s Attempt at the Clausewitzian Political Arm, Cornell International Affairs Review, Vol. 6, No. 1 (2012) From Washington to Jefferson A Changing Vision, A Changing First Amendment: Charting the Ideological Connection of First Amendment Adjudication to Our Founding Fathers, The International Journal of Religion and Spirituality in Society, Vol. 1, Issue 2 (2011) RESEARCH & EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Institute for Law and Philosophy, Rutgers Law School Visiting Fellow August 2017-Jan. 2018 Service & Civic Engagement Steering Committee, Princeton University University Administrative Fellow August 2016- Jan. 2017 Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University of Buffalo Law School Visiting Scholar Summer 2016 Princeton University, Professor Keith Whittington Graduate Researcher July 2015-May 2016 Princeton University, Professor Paul Frymer Graduate Researcher June 2015-September 2015 Constitutional Rights Foundation Writer June 2011-February 2014 Princeton University, Professor Stephen Macedo Graduate Researcher July 2013-September 2013 U.S. Department of Defense, Minerva Research Initiative Head Graduate Researcher August 2012- July 2013
State Farm Youth Advisory Board Access to Higher Education Chairman July 2008- January 2011 CONFERENCE & SEMINAR PARTICIPATION 2018 Southern Political Science Association Conference, New Orleans, LA January 4, 2018 Rethinking the Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement: Professors, Activists, and the Legal Academy of the 1980s Symposium on Constitutional Remedies November 10, 2017 Center for Constitutional Law, University of Akron To Harm or To Harm, That Is the Question: Judging Between Harms In Twenty-First Century Religious Rights Jurisprudence 2017 Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL April 6-9, 2017 (1) A Man Who Interferes In What Does Not Concern Him : Towards A Contemporary Theory of Engaged Intellectuals (2) Public Intellectuals and Advocacy Reform, Reaction and Constitutionalism in Twentieth-Century America Seminar Fall 2015 Institute for Constitutional History Philosophy, Politics and Economics of Liberty Colloquium June 9, 2015 George Mason University Constitutional Consciousness British Sources of American Constitutionalism Colloquium January 15-18, 2015 George Mason University 2014 Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL April 6, 2014 "The Missing Link: Establishing Lyng v. NICPA as the Harbinger of Current Free Exercise of Religion Jurisprudence" Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association (1988) 25 Years Later November 8, 2013 UC Davis School of Law Dialectical Lessons in American Constitutionalism: The Rocky Battle for Rights after Legal Defeat
2013 Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA May 30, 2013 "Re-Evaluating Reynolds: The Constitutional Case for Religiously-Motivated Polygamy" 23 rd Annual National Service Learning Conference, Minneapolis, MN April 13, 2012 Civic Action Project: The Power of Tying Constitutional Literacy to Service-Learning 2012 International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Vancouver, BC February 22, 2012 "Re-Evaluating Reynolds: The Constitutional Case for Religiously-Motivated Polygamy" 2011 International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Chicago, IL February 17, 2011 "From Washington to Jefferson A Changing Vision, A Changing First Amendment: Charting the Ideological Connection of First Amendment Adjudication to Our Founding Fathers GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONORS & AWARDS $415 Grant, Dean's Fund for Scholarly Travel 2017 $1000 Research Grant, State Historical Society of Iowa 2017 Alpheus Thomas Mason *23 Fellowship in Politics 2017, 2015, 2013 $750 Dissertation Research Grant, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions 2016 $1000 Award, J. Reuben Clark Law Society & BYU Center for Law and Religion Studies Religious Freedom Student Writing Competition 2014 5-Year Princeton University Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences 2013 $500 Grant, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions 2013 $300 Conference Grant, James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions 2013 Adam Smith Fellowship 2013, 2014, 2016 Phi Beta Kappa 2012 BIPI Research Fellowship 2011 TEACHING EXPERIENCE American Politics (Two sections under Paul Frymer and Sarah Staszak) Fall 2017 Civil Liberties (Two sections under Robert George) Spring 2017 American Statesmanship and Symbolism (Two sections under Peter Field) Fall 2015 PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS Princeton University, Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities Lunchtime Talk Series Co-Organizer September 2017 - May 2018
Princeton University, Program in Law and Public Affairs Graduate Associate September 2013 - Present Princeton University, Public Law Working Group Coordinator September 2015 August 2017 American Political Science Association Member Midwestern Political Science Association Member Southern Political Science Association Member Law and Society Association Member