Zachary German

Zachary German is an Assistant Professor for the Institute of American Civics at the Howard Baker Jr. School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is the author of Making a Constitution: Montesquieu and the Challenges of the American Founding (University Press of Kansas, forthcoming), and he is currently coediting, with Tyler Moore, The Cambridge Companion to Localism. His research focuses primarily on American political and constitutional thought, along with early modern thought, regarding questions of statesmanship, political culture and civic character, civic education, politics and religion, and constitutional design. His published and ongoing research projects include work on Montesquieu, Adam Smith, James Madison, the American Founding more generally, Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, C.S. Lewis, the Hamilton musical, constitutional humility, and localism.  

German teaches courses on political thought, constitutionalism, and leadership, with an emphasis on American civic life. He has also contributed to and participated in a number of K-12 civic education initiatives, including teacher workshops and high-school summer learning experiences.  

Prior to joining the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, German was an Assistant Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University.