Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America

Contributors

301 Contributors NICHOLAS P. COLE is Departmental Lecturer in American History at the University of Oxford. He studies the political thought of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century, and has a particular interest in the influence of classical political thought on America’s first politicians and the search for a new “science of politics” in post-Independence America. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at Monticello and the Harmsworth Junior Research Fellow in History at St Peter’s College, Oxford. M AUR IE D. McINNIS is an Associate Professor of American Art at the University of Virginia specializing in the cultural history of American art and material culture in the colonial and antebellum South. She is the author of The Politics of Taste in Antebellum Charleston (2005) and has contributed to several exhibition catalogues, including Landscape of Slavery: The Plantation in American Art (2008). Her next book project examines the visual and material culture of the American slave trade. PETER S. ONUF, Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, is the author of many works on Thomas Jefferson and the history of the early American republic. In 2008–9 he served as Harmsworth Professor of American History at the University of Oxford. ANDR EW JACKSON O’SHAUGHNESSY, Saunders Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies and Professor of History at the University of Virginia, studies the history of British politics and the British Empire in the era of the American Revolution. His publications include An Empire Divided: The American Revolutioon and the British Caribbean (2000). 302 Contributors PAUL A. R AHE holds the Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in Western Heritage at Hillsdale College, where he is Professor of History and Politics . He is the author of Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (1992) and of many other books, including Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic (2009), and Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (2009). JENNIFER T. ROBERTS is Professor of Classics and History at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center. From 2002 to 2008 she served as president of the Association of Ancient Historians . She is the author of Accountability in Athenian Government (1982) and Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought (1994), and the coauthor of several textbooks. She is currently researching legal killing in the ancient world. ER AN SHALEV is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Haifa University, Israel. He is the author of Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic (2009). PETER THOMPSON is the Sydney L. Mayer University Lecturer in Early American History at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of St. Cross College and of the Royal Historical Society. He has published widely on early American history and is currently working on a book concerning political thought in seventeenth-century Virginia. R ICHAR D GUY WILSON is the Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History at the University of Virginia and has written and lectured extensively on American and modern architecture, including the book Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village: The Making of an Architectural Masterpiece (1993, 2009). CAROLINE WINTER ER is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Stanford University. She is the author of The Culture of Classicism: Ancient Greece and Rome in American Intellectual Life, 1780–1910 (2002), and Contributors 303 The Mirror of Antiquity: American Women and the Classical Tradition, 1750– 1900 (2007). GOR DON S. WOOD is the Alva O. Way Professor Emeritus of History at Brown University. His many books include The Creation of the American Republic , 1776–1787 (1969), the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution (1992), and Empire of Liberty: A History of the American Republic, 1789–1815 (2009). MICHA EL P. ZUCK ERT is Nancy R. Dreux Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He has written extensively on the American founding and founders, including The Natural Rights Republic (1996). He has also written a play for radio, Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson, which has been widely broadcast on public radio. ...