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Ken I. Kersch |
Ken I. Kersch is Associate Professor of Political Science at Boston College. His primary interests are American political and constitutional development, American political thought, and the politics of courts. He is the recipient of the American Political Science Association's Edward S. Corwin Award (2000), the J. David Greenstone Prize (2006) from APSA's politics and history section, and the Hughes-Gossett Award from the Supreme Court Historical Society (2006). He has published articles in Studies in American Political Development, Political Science Quarterly, The Journal of Supreme Court History, The University of Chicago Law Review, The University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Constitutional Commentary, Social Philosophy and Policy, The Good Society, Critical Review, Commentary, The Public Interest, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other academic, intellectual, and popular journals. Prof. Kersch's most recent book, co-authored with Ronald Kahn, is The Supreme Court and American Political Development (Kansas, 2006). He is also the author of Constructing Civil Liberties: Discontinuities in the Development of American Constitutional Law (Cambridge, 2004), and Freedom of Speech: Rights and Liberties Under the Law (ABC-Clio, 2003). Prof. Kersch is member of the bar of New York, Massachusetts, and the District of Columbia,. He received his B.A. from Williams College, his J.D. from Northwestern University, and his Ph.D. in Government from Cornell University. Kersch will be a visiting professor of Government at Harvard University in the Spring of 2008. He comes to Boston College from Princeton University, where he was the inaugural Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions (2001-2002) and Assistant Professor of Politics (2003-2007). Office: 219 McGuinn |
