Faculty Directory

James W. Ceaser, Ph.D., is Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Dr. Ceaser received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Harvard University and has taught at the University of Virginia since 1975. Dr. Ceaser has also been a Visiting Professor at Claremont McKenna College, Harvard University, Laval University, Marquette University, and The George Marshall Center in Germany. 

Henry L. Chambers, Jr., J.D. has been Professor of Law at the University of Richmond School of Law since 2004. He has published articles and essays on issues as varied as constitutional law, voting rights, employment discrimination, sexual harassment, criminal law, and evidence. He also lectures on constitutional law principles in the We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution program, a civic education program for teachers. He received both his law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Virginia.

Bill Connelly is the John K. Boardman Politics Professor at the Williams School Of Commerce, Economics, and Politics at Washington And Lee University. He also was a 2007 recipient of an Outstanding Faculty Member award by given by the State Council of Higher Education in Virginia.

Professor Will Harris of the University of Pennsylvania was the director of the Center for the Constitution until 2007. He has devoted his career to studying the Constitution and its underlying principles. More recently, his work in education for democratic citizenship has extended to Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Professor Harris directs the Center’s curriculum and conducts most of the presentations and discussions in the Weekend Seminars. Under his guidance, you will explore the founding theories, conceptual innovations, and intellectual framework of American constitutionalism.

Timothy Heaphy is the United States Attorney from the Western District of Virginia. He teaches regularly in the Center's programs for law enforcement officials.

Eugen Hickok, PH.D. is a well-known constitutional scholar and former Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Education and once Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. Hickok has also taught political science at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, and served as special assistant in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel. His writings have appeared in the 'Chronicle of Higher Education,' 'Education Week,' 'The Washington Post,' 'The Washington Times,' and other publications.

A. E. Dick Howard is the White Burkett Miller Professor of Law and Public Affairs at the University of Richmond.  A Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, he was a law clerk to Mr. Justice Hugo L. Black of the Supreme Court of the United States.  His books include The Road from Runnymede: Magna Carta and Constitutionalism in America, Commentaries on the Constitution of Virginia (which won a Phi Baeta Kappa prize), and Democracy's Dawn.  He was the chief architect of Virginia's present Constitution and directed the successful referendum campaign for its ratification.  Professor Howard has compared notes with constitution-makers in such places as Brazil, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania, Russia, and Albania.  The Union of Czech Lawyers, citing Professor Howard's "promotion of the idea of a civil society in Central Europe," awarded him their Randa Medal -- the first this honor had been conferred upon anyone but a Czech citizen.  Five universities, including Wake Forest University and the College of William and Mary, have conferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Laws.  In 1994, Washingtonian magazine named him as "one of he most respected educators in the nation."

Ralph Ketcham is a Professor of History (emeritus) at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He is the author of the authoritative  biography of James Madison.  Dr. Ketcham's other publications include The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era (Univ. Press of Kansas, 2004), Framed for Posterity:  The Enduring Philosophy of the Constitution (1993), Individualism in Public Life:  A Modern Dilemma (1987), and Presidents Above Party:  The First American Presidency, 1789-1829 (1984).

Benjamin A. Kleinerman, Ph.D., received his BA in Political Science from Kenyon College and his PhD in Political Science from Michigan State University. A former Visiting Scholar in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University, Dr. Kleinerman has also taught at Oberlin College and the Virginia Military Institute. He has written articles appearing in Perspectives on Politics and American Political Science Review and he recently published The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril or Executive Power, a book addressing the role of discretionary executive power.

Timothy Longo is the Chief of Police for the City of Charlottesville, Virginia.  He is a graduate of Towson University in Baltimore where he served as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminal Justice. Chief Longo is a graduate of the University of Baltimore School of Law, and holds a Juris Doctorate from that institution. He is a member of the Maryland Bar.  Chief Longo lectures across America in the field of Ethics, Professional Standards and Internal Affairs.