Andrew Porwancher

A native of Princeton, Andrew Porwancher earned degrees from Brown and Northwestern before completing his PhD in history at Cambridge. Currently he serves as a Professor of Constitutional History and Director of Graduate Studies at SCETL.

His books include The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Princeton University Press, 2021), winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book-of-the-Year Award; and The Devil Himself (Oxford University Press, 2016), which was adapted for the stage at Dublin’s historic Smock Alley Theatre. Porwancher’s fifth book is entitled American Maccabee: Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews (Princeton University Press, 2025).

He previously served as the May Fellow at Harvard, the Horne Fellow at Oxford, and the Garwood Fellow at Princeton's James Madison Program. In 2023, Porwancher won a national prize for mentorship—the Craig L. Brians Award—from the American Political Science Association.

His writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. He spent twelve years on faculty at the University of Oklahoma before coming to ASU.