Sean Beienburg

After growing up in Phoenix, Sean Beienburg attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, graduating with majors in politics and history, and completed his doctorate in politics at Princeton University in New Jersey. Before coming to ASU, he taught at Haverford College and was an assistant professor at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania.

Beienburg's teaching and research interests include the U.S. Constitution and constitutional law, federalism and state constitutionalism/politics, Arizona constitutionalism, American political thought and development, executive power (both presidential and gubernatorial), parties and interest groups, 19th and early 20th century political and constitutional history, and Prohibition.

He is the author of Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights  (published by the University of Chicago Press, 2019) and Progressive States' Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism (University Press of Kansas, 2024.)

He currently serves as the Associate Director of SCETL as well as the Associate Director of the Center for American Civics.

He is the project director of the Arizona Constitution Project initiative.

In addition to his constitutional work, he also written about the political themes of Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy.