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Richard E. Ellis, Professor
office: 581 Park Hall
email: reellis@buffalo.edu
phone: (716) 645-2181 ext. 581

Education: B.A. Wisconsin, Madison,1960; M.A., California, Berkeley, 1961; Ph.D. California, Berkeley, 1969.

Field(s): American

Hub(s): Politics

Research Interests: US Constitutional history and the early Republic

Current Research:
“Implementing the Constitution, 1789-1835” – A volume in the New American Nation Series under the general editorship of Richard B. Morris and Henry Steele Commager, Harper & Row. (in progress)

“Aggressive Nationalism in Early Nineteenth Century Law and Politics: McCulloch v. Maryland 1819,” (in progress)

Selected Publications:
The Union at Risk: Jacksonian Democracy. States’ Rights and the Nullification Crisis (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987), X, 267pp. Oxford brought out a paperback edition in 1989. Chapter 9. “The Nullification Crisis and Jacksonian Democracy,” is reprinted in Kermit L. Hall (ed.) Major Problems in American Constitutional History 2 vols. Lexington, Massachusetts, 1992) I. 396-404.

The Jefferson Crisis: Courts and Politics in the Young Republic (New York. Oxford University Press, 1971), xii, 377 pp. W.W. Norton brought out a paperback edition in 1974. Chapter XVII of The Jeffersonian Crisis entitled “The Meaning of the Jeffersonian Ascendancy,” has been reprinted in Stanley N. Katz and Stanley I. Kutler (eds.), New Perspectives on the American Past 1607-1877 2nd edition (Boston: Little Brown (1972), 170-186; in Annual Editions: Readings in American History, ‘73-74 (Guilford, Corn.: The Dushkin Publishing Group, Inc., 1973), 131-136; and in Stephen B. Presser and Jamil S. Zainaldin, (eds.), Law and American History (St. Paul, 1980), 238-40, 287.

“McCulloch v. Maryland (1819) and “Ogden v. Saunders (1827)” in Kermit Hall (ed.), The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions (New York, 1999), 182-85, 224-25

“Articles of Confederation,” “Bill of Rights,” “Constitution: Ratification,” “Era of Good Feelings,” “James Madison,” “John Marshall,” “Robert Morris,” Peter Parrish (ed.), Readers Guide to American History (London and Chicago, 1997), 47-48, 62-63, 172-74, 236-37, 425-26, 439-40, 466-67.

“The Market Revolution and the Transformation of American Politics, 1801-1837,” Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway (eds.) The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political and the Religious Expressions 1800-1880. (Charlottesville, 1996), 149-176.

“Anti-Masonic Party,” “Election of 1824,” “Election of 1832,” Leonard W. Levy and Louis Fischer (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the American Presidency (4 vols., New York, 1994), 57-58, 434-36, 439-41.

“Jefferson, Thomas,” “Jeffersonian Republicans,” “Louisiana Purchase,” “McCulloch v. Maryland,” “Marbury v. Madison,” “Nullification,” “Twelfth Amendment.” Donald C. Bacon and Morton Keller (eds.), The Encyclopedia of the United States Congress (4 vols., 1330-31, 1351- 52, 1487, 1993-94.

“The Impeachment of Samuel Chase,” Michael R. Belknap (ed.), American Political Trials (Westport, 1994-revised version of 1981), 57-76.

“Nullification Controversy,” Richard N. Current et. al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (4 vols. New York, 1993), III, 1159-60.

Awards:
“Continuing Faculty Development Awards,” State University of New York, 1993 and 1995

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1987

Student Association Teaching Award, State University of New York, Buffalo, 1987

New Jersey Committee for the Humanities Project Grant for a later press edition of “The Writings of William Paterson”, 1986 (with John E. O’Connor)

New Jersey Historical Commission, Bicentennial Grant-in-Aid, 1986 (with John E. O’Connor)

State University of New York Research Foundation Fellowship, Summer 1983

Canadian Embassy Faculty Enrichment Award, Summer 1982

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, American Enterprise Institute, 1978-1979

American Council of Learned Societies, Grant-in-Aid, 1978-1979

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, 1972-1973

Fellow, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, 1972-1973

Fellow, Law and History, Harvard Law School, 1972-1973

National Historical Society Book Prize, 1972

American Council of Learned Societies, Study Fellowship, 1972-1973 (declined)

Russell Sage Foundation, Residency in Law and Social Science, 1972-1973 (declined)

Sesquicentennial Associateship of the Center for Advanced Studies, University of Virginia, 1972-1973

University of Virginia, Wilson Gee Summer Fellowships, 1970 and 1971

Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Dissertation Year Fellow, 1963-1964

Woodrow Wilson Foundation, First Year Fellow, 1960-1961

History and Thesis Honors, University of Wisconsin, 1960

Last updated: Wednesday, November 5, 2003