ABRIDGED VITAE
GLENN ALAN PHELPS
PHONE: (H) 602-774-6419
(O) 602-523-6531
Glenn.Phelps@nau.edu
PRESENT POSITION:
Professor of Political Science, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011
EDUCATION:
D.A. in Government, Lehigh University, l978
M.A. in Government, Lehigh University, l972
B.A. in Political Science, Lebanon Valley College, l970
Post-Doctoral Work, Harvard University, l979;
Princeton University, l986
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Assistant to Full Professor of Political Science, Northern Arizona University, 1982‑present
Assistant Professor of Political Science, Nicholls State University, l979‑l982
Visiting Assistant Professor of Politics, Moravian College, January l978‑l979
Instructor to Assistant Professor of History and Political Science, Iowa Wesleyan College, l973‑l977
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY:
Books
George Washington and the Constitutional Tradition: The Intentions of a Framer (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1993)
Contemporary Debates on Civil Liberties: Enduring Constitutional Questions, with Robert Poirier (Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, l985), 4th printing
Debates Contemporáneos sobre Libertades Civiles:Demandas Constitucionales Permanentes, translated by Susana Serdán Vázquez (Mexico City: Ediciones Prisma, 1988) Note: This is a Spanish language translation of Contemporary Debates ...
Chapters in Books
“The President as Moral Leader: George Washington in Contemporary Perspective”, in Ethan Fishman, William D. Pederson, and Mark J. Rozell, eds. George Washington: Foundation of Presidential Leadership and Character, (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2001), 3-18
“George Washington: The Republican General” in Don Higginbotham, ed. George Washington: Reconsidered (Charlottesville: Univ of Virginia Press, 2001), 165-197.
"Indian Country," in Native America in the Twentieth Century, Mary B. Davis, ed. (New York: Garland Press, 1994)
Essays on John Adams, Charles Pinckney, George Washington, Theodore Sedgwick, John Beckley, Jeffersonian Republicans, Alien and Sedition Acts, Tories, and Democratic-Republican Societies for Political Parties and Elections in the United States, L. Sandy Maisel, ed. (New York: Garland Press, 1991)
"President Washington: Precedent Setter," in Inventing The American Presidency, Thomas E. Cronin, ed. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1989), 259-281.
"Does Affirmative Action Mean Reverse Discrimination?" in American Government: Readings on Continuity and Change, Robert Harmel, ed. (New York: St. Martins Press, 1988), 127-132; 2nd ed.(1993), 129-133. Note: This is a reprint from Contemporary Debates on Civil Liberties.
Refereed Articles
“The War Powers Resolution: A Rationale for Congressional Inaction”, with Timothy Boylan, Parameters, vol. 31, Spring 2001, 109-124.
"Intentionalism in Constitutional Opinions", with John B. Gates, Political Research Quarterly, vol. 49, 1996, 245-261.
"The Myth of Jurisprudence: Interpretive Theory in the Constitutional Opinions of Justices Rehnquist and Brennan", with John B. Gates, Santa Clara Law Review, vol. 31, 1991, 567-596.
"Mr. Gerry Goes to Arizona: Electoral Geography and Voting Rights in Navajo Country," American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 15, 1991, 63-92.
"George Washington and the Paradox of Party," Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 19, 1989, 733-746.
"Rehnquist v Brennan: The Politics of Constitutional Jurisprudence," with Timothy A. Martinez, Gonzaga Law Review, vol. 22, 1986-1987, 307-325.
"George Washington and the Founding of the Presidency: Experience and the Constitution," Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 17, 1987, 345-363.
"Representation Without Taxation: Citizenship and Suffrage in Indian Country," American Indian Quarterly vol. 9, l985, l35‑l48.
"George Washington and the Building of the Constitution: Presidential Interpretation and Constitutional Development," Congress & the Presidency, vol. l2, l985, 95‑ll0.
"Hollywood and the American Voter: Images of Political Efficacy in American Movies." International Social Science Review, vol. 60, l985, l66‑l75.
"Frank Capra and the Democratic Hero" Film Criticism, vol. 5, l98l, 49‑57.
"The Populist Films of Frank Capra," Journal of American Studies, vol. l3, l979, 377‑392.
Book Reviews
Garrett Ward Sheldon's Political Philosophy of Thomas Jefferson and David Mayer's Constitutional Thought of Thomas Jefferson for William and Mary Quarterly, Jan. 1995, 203-206
Herman Belz et.al.'s To Form a More Perfect Union: The Critical Ideas of the Constitution for Journal of American History, 1995
Maeva Marcus's Origins of the Federal Judiciary: Essays on the Judiciary Act of 1789 for Journal of the Early Republic, vol. 13, 1993, 422-423.
Thomas Shevory's John Marshall's Achievement: Law, Politics, and Constitutional Interpretation, for Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 22, 1991, 611-613.
Calvin Jillson's Constitution Making: Conflict and Consensus in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Donald Lutz's The Origins of American Constitutionalism, for American Political Science Review, vol. 84, 1990, 315-17.
Papers Presented
“Lessons for Presidents: George Washington and His Foreign Policies”, Conference on Bicentennial of George Washington's Death, U. S. Air Force Academy, October 1999
“Discourses of War: The Landscape of Constitutional Rhetoric", with Timothy S. Boylan, American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 1999
“When Congress Interprets Its Own Law: The Case of the War Powers Resolution", with Timothy S. Boylan, Southwestern Political Science Association, San Antonio, April 1999
“ The War Powers Resolution at 25: Intentions and Prospects”, with Timothy S. Boylan, Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, November 1998
"The Nature of Extrinsic Argument in Constitutional Opinions", with John B. Gates, American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 1995
"History as a Moving Target: Intentionalism in the Constitutional Opinions of Justices Brennan and Rehnquist", with John B. Gates, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 1994
"Now You See Them, Now You Don't: The Use of History in the Decisions of Rehnquist and Brennan", with John B. Gates, Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, March 1992
"The Myth of Jurisprudence: Interpretive Theory in the Constitutional Opinions of Justices Rehnquist and Brennan," with John B. Gates, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 1991
"The Jurisprudence of William Rehnquist: The Relevance of Constitutional Theory," Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 1989.
"Does Jurisprudence Matter?: A Content Analysis of Judicial Opinions," with John B. Gates, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1988.
"George Washington and the Paradox of Party," (revised version), Southwestern Political Science Association, Houston, TX, March 1988.
"George Washington and the Paradox of Party," American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 1987.
"Brennan v Rehnquist: The Politics of Constitutional Jurisprudence," Western Social Science Association, Reno, NV, April l986.
"The Intent of a Framer: George Washington in l787," American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, August l985.
"George Washington and the Building of the Constitution," Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, March l985.
"Representation Without Taxation: The Navajo-Anglo Voting Dispute in Northern Arizona," Western Social Science Association, Albuquerque, NM, April l983.
"Hollywood and the American Voter: Images of Political Efficacy in American Movies," Southwest Social Science Association, San Antonio, TX, March l982.
"Frank Capra, Meet John Doe, and the Democratic Hero," Southwest Social Science Association, Dallas, TX, March l98l.
"Democracy and Elites in America: The 'Populist' Films of Frank Capra," Louisiana Political Science Association, Baton Rouge, LA, March l980.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
Burlington Northern Award for the Outstanding University Teacher, NAU, 1987.
Ford Foundation/American Political Science Association, Grant to participate in Seminar: The Philosophical Roots of the Bill of Rights: The Federalists' and Anti-Federalists' Conceptions of Rights, Atlanta, GA, 1989.
Earhart Foundation, Research grant for "George Washington and the Constitutional Tradition," l986‑87.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, l986, Princeton University.
National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Seminar for College Teachers, l979, Harvard University.