THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES RIVAL VISIONS OF AMERICA

THOMAS JEFFERSON AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES RIVAL VISIONS OF AMERICA October 10-11, 2013 If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. Thomas Jefferson (1816) Thursday, October 10 9:30am CNU Student Panel [DSU, Washington Rm] Papers: Dr. Jonathan White Assistant Professor and Fellow Thomas Jefferson s Conception of Religious Freedom Benjamin Coffman (American Studies) Thomas Jefferson: Father of the U.S. s General Education System Xenia Kertanski (American Studies) Thomas Jefferson s Impact on U.S. Naval Power and National Security Oliver Thomas (Political Science, American Studies) Comments: Dr. Peter Onuf Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor, Emeritus Department of History, University of Virginia 11:00 am Thinking with Jefferson: American Constitutional & Political Thought [DSU Ballroom] Jefferson s Revolutionary Constitution Dr. Jeremy Bailey Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Houston Jefferson and Hamilton on Technology and Constitutionalism Dr. Daniel Klinghard Associate Professor of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross

12:20pm Luncheon Address (invitation only) [DSU Boardroom] Introduction: Dr. Philip Hamilton Professor of History, CNU John Marshall and Thomas Jefferson: An Enduring Rivalry Dr. Charles Hobson Senior Editor of the Papers of John Marshall Lecturer, Department of History, William & Mary College 1:30pm Living with Jefferson: Free & Enslaved Families at Monticello [DSU Ballroom] Slavery in Jefferson s Worlds Dr. Christa Dierksheide Research Historian International Center for Jefferson Studies Monticello White Lies Dr. Jan Lewis Dean of Faculty and Professor of History Rutgers University Interpreting the Lives of Enslaved and Free People at Monticello Ms. Susan Stein Gilder Senior Curator & Vice President for Museum Programs Thomas Jefferson Foundation Monticello 3:00 pm Perspectives on Religion at the Founding [DSU Ballroom] Dr. Carl Scott On the Role of Religion in American Public Life Dr. Daniel Dreisbach Professor of Constitutional Law and History Department of Justice, Law, and Society, American University Jefferson, Adams, and Madison: A Conversation on Religious Liberty Dr. John Ragosta Fellow, Virginia Foundation for the Humanities

4:30pm Keynote Address [DSU Ballroom] Introduction: Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch Associate Professor and Co-Director Jefferson and Washington: Nation-Making and the Problem of Slavery Dr. Peter Onuf Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor, Emeritus Department of History, University of Virginia 5:45pm Reception [DSU Boardroom] Friday, October 11 9:00am Jefferson and His Contemporaries: A Round-Table Discussion [Luter Atrium] Discussants: Dr. Daniel Dreisbach (American University D.C.) Dr. Daniel Klinghard (College of the Holy Cross) Dr. Jan Lewis (Rutgers University) Dr. Peter Onuf (University of Virginia) Dr. John Ragosta (Virginia Foundation for the Humanities) 11:00am BB&T Colloquium Series on Capitalism [DSU Ballroom] Introduction: Dr. Michelle Vachris BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism Professor of Economics, CNU From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government Dr. Randall G. Holcombe DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics Florida State University

Conference Participants Jeremy Bailey is Associate Professor of Honors and Political Science at the University of Houston, where he teaches courses on American Politics and Political Thought. He received his B.A. from Rhodes College and his Ph.D. from Boston College, where his dissertation was the 2004 co-winner of the E. E. Schattschneider Prize from the American Political Science Association for best dissertation in American politics. He is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and co-author of The Contested Removal Power, 1789-2013 (University Press of Kansas, 2013). His research interests include executive power, the Presidency, and American political thought and development, and he is now writing a book on James Madison and the problem of constitutional imperfection. His research has been published in American Political Science Review, The Review of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, and Publius: The Journal of Federalism. Christa Dierksheide is Historian at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies (ICJS) at Monticello and teaches in the History department at the University of Virginia. She completed her M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia, and her research focuses on the history of plantations in Age of Revolutions, with a special focus on Jefferson. Her forthcoming book, Amelioration and Empire: Progress and Slavery in Plantation America, 1770-1840, to be published by the University of Virginia Press in 2014, interrogates visions of progressive slave societies by planters in Virginia, South Carolina, and the British Caribbean. From 2006 to 2012, she served as the Assistant Curator of two exhibitions at Monticello, The Boisterous Sea of Liberty and The Landscape of Slavery: Mulberry Row at Monticello, and is co-author of Monticello s introductory film, Thomas Jefferson s Worlds. Daniel Dreisbach is Professor of Justice, Law and Society in the School of Public Affairs at American University (D.C.), where he earned the highest faculty honor as Scholar/Teacher of the Year. His research interests include constitutional law and the intersection of politics, law and religion in the American founding era. He earned a Ph.D. from the University of Oxford, where he was a Rhodes Scholar, and a law degree from the University of Virginia. Dreisbach serves on the editorial board of Politics and Religion; has authored or edited eight books, including Thomas Jefferson and the Wall of Separation between Church and State (2002) and The Sacred Rights of Conscience (2009), as well as numerous book chapters, reviews, and articles in scholarly journals, including American Journal of Legal History, Politics and Religion, Journal of Church and State, and William & Mary Quarterly. Charles Hobson is a retired historian and editor affiliated with the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture at the College of William & Mary. From 1979 to 2006, he was the Editor of The Papers of John Marshall, a 12-volume edition of Marshall s correspondence, papers and selected judicial opinions. In 2013, he published the three-volume St. George Tucker s Law Reports and Selected Papers, 1782-1825. Hobson also wrote The Great Chief Justice: John Marshall and the Rule of Law, and edited John Marshall: Writings, a volume published by the Library of America.

Daniel Klinghard is Associate Professor of Political Science at the College of the Holy Cross, where he teaches courses on American political development, political parties, and interest groups. He earned his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and his book, The Nationalization of American Political Parties, 1880-1896 (Cambridge University Press, 2010), won the Leon D. Epstein Outstanding Book Award from the Political Parties and Organizations section of the American Political Science Association. His research has been published in The Journal of Politics, Polity, and Presidential Studies Quarterly, and his current research projects explore the role of technology in shaping party development and in Thomas Jefferson s Notes on the State of Virginia. Jan Lewis is acting Dean of Faculty and Professor of History at Rutgers University (Newark) and has also served as a visiting professor at Princeton University. She earned a Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan. A specialist in colonial and early national history, with a particular interest in gender, race and politics, she is the author of several articles and books, most recently, The Revolution of 1800: Democracy, Race, & the New Republic. Peter Onuf is Thomas Jefferson Foundation Professor Emeritus in the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia and senior research fellow at the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies. He earned a Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University and has taught at Columbia University and Oxford University. He is the author of The Mind of Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson s Empire, and the editor or co-editor of many other volumes, including Jeffersonian Legacies and Thomas Jefferson, the Classical World, and Early America. He is also the co-host of the public radio program BackStory with the American History Guys. John Ragosta is a resident fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He has taught law and history at the University of Virginia, George Washington University, Hamilton College and Randolph College. Ragosta has degrees in history and law from the University of Virginia. He is the author of Religious Freedom: Jefferson s Legacy, America s Creed; and Wellspring of Liberty: How Virginia s Religious Dissenters Helped to Win the American Revolution & Secured Religious Liberty; and has published in legal, historical and scientific journals. Susan Stein is the Richard Gilder Senior Curator and Vice President of Museum Programs at Monticello, overseeing both the curatorial and restoration departments. She has been involved in the presentation and interpretation of Monticello since 1986, including the Landscape of Slavery project, and was the project director of interpretive elements at the new Visitor Center at Thomas Jefferson s Monticello, including four exhibitions and the film, Thomas Jefferson s World. Ms. Stein s accomplishments include the landmark 1993 catalogue and exhibition The Worlds of Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, which returned more than 150 art works to Monticello. Trained as an art historian at the University of Chicago where she did graduate work in American history, Ms. Stein speaks to museum audiences on various aspects of Jefferson and Monticello. Her research interests involve material culture at Monticello, especially the decorative arts and art acquired by Jefferson in France, and she is now engaged in planning exhibitions, the refurnishing of Monticello s upper floors, the reinstatement of Jefferson s mountain-top road scheme, and the re-creation of two lost structures on Mulberry Row.