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Saul Cornell:

Saul Cornell 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."

Nathan R. Kozuskanich:

Nathan Kozuskanich holds a PhD in history from The Ohio State University, specializing in the colonial and Revolutionary eras. His dissertation, "'For the Security and the Protection of the Community:' The Frontier and the Makings of Pennsylvanian Constitutionalism" explores the radicalism of the 1776 Pennsylvania Constitution within the context of the colonial concern for safety and a coherent militia law. He currently teaches at the Mansfield campus of The Ohio State University.

Nathan DeDino:

Nathan DeDino is a doctoral student in political science. He obtained a bachelor of arts from Miami University, majoring in political science and diplomacy and foreign affairs. His juris doctorate is from The Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. His current interests are in the area of judicial behavior.

Dave Dzurec:

Dave Dzurec is a doctoral student in History at The Ohio State University. He is currently preparing for general exams with fields in Early American History, Modern American History, and Native American History. His current research focuses on captivity narratives in the Revolutionary Era.

John Maass:

John Maass is a Ph.D. candidate studying early US history and military history. He is the author of "All this Poor Province Could Do: North Carolina and the Seven Years War, 1757-1762," The North Carolina Historical Review, January 2002; "To Disturb the Assembly: Tarleton's Charlottesville Raid and the British Invasion of Virginia, 1781," Virginia Cavalcade, Autumn 2000; and "That Unhappy Affair:" Horatio Gates and the Battle of Camden (2001). He is a long-time hunter, muzzleloader, skeet and target shooter.

Joe Stewart-Pirone:

Joe earned his MA degree in History at The Ohio State University, with a major area focus on modern U.S. history, and with minor fields of study in early American history and modern Japanese history. His dissertation project is in the area of modern American political history, particularly the major US political parties. He is currently ABD and on indefinite leave of absence from the graduate program.

Joe was responsible for administrative coordination of the Second Amendment Research Center from January 2003 through August 2004. In particular, he managed the bulk of the web site development project, and coordinated the planning of the Center's Spring 2004 conference in New York with Fordham Law School.