Saul Cornell

Saul Cornell is Professor of History at The Ohio State University. He specializes in the American Revolution, the Early Republic, American Political Thought and Culture, and Constitutional history. He is one of the nation's leading experts on the Second Amendment and has lectured and published widely on this controversial topic. He has studied at the University of Sussex and has a BA from Amherst and an MA and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. He joined the faculty of The Ohio State University in 1991 after teaching at College of William and Mary. In 1995 he was the Thomas Jefferson Chair at the University of Leiden in The Netherlands. Professor Cornell has written The Other Founders: Anti-Federalism and the Dissenting Tradition in America, 1788-1828 (Institute of Early American History and Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 1999), voted a Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 2001 and winner of the triennial Society of Cincinnati prize for the best work on the Revolutionary era. He has also published Whose Right to Bear Arms Did the Second Amendment Protect? Bedford Book's "Historians At Work" series edited by Edward Countryman. He has written articles in the Journal of American History, American Studies, William and Mary Quarterly, Constitutional Commentary, and others. His book reviews have appeared in the Journal of the Early Republic, Reviews in American History, and many others. Prof. Cornell is currently writing a section of a new textbook, American Visions: A History of the American Nation, and a comprehensive history of the rights to bear arms American history, to be published by Oxford University Press. Professor Cornell has won the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching at the University of Pennsylvania and the Colonial Daughters of Pennsylvania Prize in Early American History. He has been a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Early American History and Culture, the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Studies in connection with his Fulbright Lecturing Award, and a Fellow with the American Council of Learned Societies. He has delivered invited lectures at Oxford University, Columbia University, NYU Law School, the Capitol Historical Society, Erasmus University, and Vanderbilt University Law School. He has presented papers at meetings of the American Historical Association, the American Society of Legal History, the American Studies Association, the Organization of American Historians, and many others. He has a strong interest in teaching with technology. He has written about pedagogical tools in the AHA's Perspectives and is on the Board of Advisers of Pearson's website, "The History Place."