Publications (Books)
Cherokee Nation Citizenship: A Political History (University of Oklahoma Press, 2025)
A Hero in All of Us? Heroism and American Political Thought as Seen on TV (Lexington Press, 2024) (Co-edited with Stephen Clouse)
Publications (Refereed)
"Consent, Revolution, and the End of the World: America's Apocalyptic Fixation as Politics." Perspectives on Political Science 55 (2026): 1-14 (with Trevor Shelley)
"Swords into Plowshares: A Catholic Answer to America's Hero Problem." Catholic Social Science Review 30 (2025):117-133
"John Wick in Purgatorio," in Jonathan Ashbach, ed., Winning the Crowd: The Politics of Popular Films (Lexington Press, 2025): 207-220
"Forgotten Founder: The Short Life of Michael Cunniff, Arizona's First Legislative Leader." Journal of Arizona History 65 (2024): 429-643. (with Sean Beienburg)
"Citizenship and the Good Life: Cherokee and American Regimes in Conflict." Political Science Reviewer 48 (2024): 238-271 (with Stephen Clouse)
"Conservative Progressivism? Michael Cunniff, Federalism, and the Founding of Arizona." American Political Thought 12 (2023): 552-580 (with Sean Beienburg)
- *Winner: APSA award for "Best Article Published in American Political Thought, 2024"
“The Imposition of Freedom: Tribal Citizenship and the Case of the Cherokee Freedmen,” in Steve Pittz and Joseph Postell, eds., American Citizenship and Constitutionalism in Principle and Practice (University of Oklahoma Press, 2022): 83-108
“Cherokee Political Thought and the Development of Tribal Citizenship.” Studies in American Political Development 35 (2021): 1-15
“Caso McGirt v Oklahoma: el Cumplimiento de los Tratados Indígenas y los Titulos Colectivos a la Tierra.” Revista de Derecho Universidad de Concepción 89 (2021): 397-408 (with Katherine Becerra Valdivia)
Publications (Book Review)
Review of Kristofer Ray, Cherokee Power: Imperial and Indigenous Geopolitics in the Trans-Appalachian West, 1670-1774 in Western Historical Quarterly (2025)
Review of Eric W. Cheng, Hanging Together: Role-Based Constitutional Fellowship and the Challenge of Difference and Disagreement in The Review of Politics (2023)
Publications (Popular)
"The Socialists' Institutionalism - Tried and Failed" Law & Liberty (August 10, 2026)
"Conservative Progressivism?" Law & Liberty (January 6, 2025)
"Homeschooling and Civic Education." Homeschool Arizona (October 15, 2022)
"'The Power of the Dog' Messages the Urgent Need for Civic Education." Popmatters (March 30, 2022)
"Removing 'by blood': Context and Politics in the Cherokee Supreme Court's Decision to Alter the Constitution." Starting Points Journal (April 5, 2021)
"Who gets Cherokee citizenship has long been a struggle between the tribe and the US government." The Conversation (March 25, 2021)
“Holding the Government to its Word: McGirt v. Oklahoma and Tribal Sovereignty.” Starting Points Journal (July 15, 2020)
“Parasites: Montesquieu on the End of Civic Virtue in a Republic.” PopMatters (April 29, 2020)
“Republicanism—A Going Concern.” Starting Points Journal (September 3, 2019)
“No, Term Limits Won’t #DrainTheSwamp. We did the Research.” The Washington Post (May 8, 2018) (with Jordan Butcher)
Other Media
"Professors Debate Second Amendment in Civil Discourse Exercise," The State Press (March 31, 2026)
"Cherokee Nation Citizenship: A Political History: The Page 99 Test." Campaign for the American Reader (July 24, 2025)
"Cherokee Nation Citizenship: A Political History: An Interview with Aaron Kushner," Jack Miller Center (Summer 2025)
Prospective Publications (Works in Progress)
"Disputatio: Modeling Civil Discourse in the Classroom"
- Accepted/ Forthcoming in Conversatio
The Pennsylvania State Constitution (with Sean Beienburg)
- Book manuscript under advance contract with Oxford University Press; due January 15, 2027
"The Forgotten Faith of Theodore Frelinghuysen: American Christian Statesmanship in Defense of Liberty"
- Article Under Review, American Political Thought
Impetuous Vortex: Congress and the Indian Removal Act of 1830
- A narrative history of the spring of 1830 and the passage of the Indian Removal Act in Congress; preparing proposal targeting Princeton University Press
