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Faculty Member

Dr. Bradford Wilson

Biography

Bradford P. Wilson is the James Wilson Distinguished Visiting Scholar in the Center for Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University. He recently retired from his long-time position as Executive Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Lecturer in Politics, and Fellow of Forbes College at Princeton University.  He is a Senior Research Fellow in the Witherspoon Institute and is a presidential appointee to the Board of Trustees of the James Madison Memorial Fellowship Foundation.  Wilson has coedited, with Carson Holloway, a two-volume edition of The Political Writings of Alexander Hamilton, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017 (paperback ed., 2020).  His edition, also with Carson Holloway, of a two-volume edition of The Political Writings of George Washington was published by Cambridge in 2023.  From 1984 to 1987, served as Research Associate to two Chief Justices of the United States, Warren E. Burger and William H. Rehnquist.

Teaching

CNST 4900R

Issues and Topics in Constitutional Studies, Fall 2025

POLS 4200R

Issues and Topics in Political Science, Fall 2025

CGCL 6430

The Supreme Court in American Political Development, Summer 2025

POLS 420R

Issues and Topics in Political Science, Spring 2025

Presentations

Wilson, Bradford , Constitution Literacy Institute, "Federalism and the Founding", Center for Constitutional Studies, UVU. (June 25, 2025)
Wilson, Bradford , 2025 Annual Meeting, " Is the Constitution Worth Saving? Considering the Alternative Claims of Erwin Chemerinsky and Yuval Levin ", New England Political Science Association, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. (April 25, 2025)
Wilson, Bradford (Presenter & Author), 2025 Annual Meeting, "The Political Writings of George Washington", New England Political Science Association, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. (April 25, 2025)
Wilson, Bradford , 2025 Spring Meeting, "Our Revolutionary Founding_ Lessons for Today", The Philadelphia Society, Plano, Texas. (March 21, 2025)
Wilson, Bradford , The Political Thought of George Washington, "The Political Thought of George Washington", University of Nebraska, Omaha, Omaha, NE. (March 13, 2025)
Wilson, Bradford , A Revolution in Religious Freedom_ From the Declaration to the 1st Amendment, "I chaired a panel on the Declaration of Independence", Center for Constitutional Studies, UVU. (March 6, 2025)

Scholarly/Creative Works

Wilson, Bradford , (2025) "The American Constitution_ Covenant or Curse" . Austin, Texas: Civitas Outlook. https://www.civitasinstitute.org/research/the-american-constitution-covenant-or-curse