Eric Lomazoff
Assistant Professor
Department of Classics and Letters
University of Oklahoma
650 Parrington Oval
Norman, OK 73019
215-327-3641 / [email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
University of Oklahoma
Assistant Professor of Classics and Letters
Faculty Affiliate of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage (IACH)
Harvard University
(Post-Doctoral) College Fellow, Department of Government
August 2011 – present
July 2010 – June 2011
EDUCATION
Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
Ph.D. in Government
November 2010
Dissertation: "Reconstructing the Hydra-Headed Monster: The Bank of the United States, Institutional Change, and American
Constitutional Development”
Winner of the Senator Charles Sumner Prize (best dissertation "from the legal, political, historical, economic, social, or ethnic
approach, dealing with any means or measures tending toward the prevention of war and the establishment of universal peace")
Committee: Daniel P. Carpenter, Nancy L. Rosenblum, Robert E. Wright
University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
B.A. (summa cum laude) with Distinction in Political Science
May 2001
PUBLICATIONS
“Approval Regulation and Endogenous Consumer Confidence: Theory and Analogies to Licensing, Safety, and Financial
Regulation,” Regulation & Governance 4, no. 4 (December 2010): 383-407 (with Daniel Carpenter and Justin Grimmer).
“Symmetry and Repetition: Patterns in the History of the Bank of the United States," forthcoming in Randall E. Parker and
Robert M. Whaples, eds., Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History
WORK UNDER REVIEW / IN PROGRESS
“Turning (Into) ‘The Great Regulating Wheel’: The Conversion of the Bank of the United States, 1791-1811” (revise and
resubmit at Studies in American Political Development)
“Speak (Again), Memory: Rethinking the Scope of Congressional Power in the Early American Republic” (under review)
“It’s About the Product, Not the Process: An Amended Model of Political Learning” (in progress)
“Toward the Iconography of Multiple Orders: Visualizing American Political Development” (in progress)
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BOOK REVIEWS
Review of Eric Slauter's The State as a Work of Art (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009)
Journal of Interdisciplinary History 41, no. 1 (Summer 2010): 153-154.
OTHER WRITING
"An Oath 'Faithfully' Reenacted," Harvard Crimson, 3 February 2009.
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
University of Virginia
Wilson Carey McWilliams Fellowship, Miller Center for Public Affairs
Harvard University
Senator Charles Sumner Prize
Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) Summer Research Grant
CAPS Dissertation Research Fellowship
CAPS Seed Grant
Committee on Undergraduate Education Teaching Award (6 times)
University of Pennsylvania
Robert Holtz Memorial Prize (top graduating senior in political science)
Dean's Scholar
Phi Beta Kappa
Dean's List (all 8 semesters)
Benjamin Franklin Scholar
July 2009 — June 2010
June 2011
June 2008
July 2007 — June 2008
Fall 2006
Fall 2005, Spring 2006
Fall 2006, Spring 2007
Spring 2009, Spring 2011
May 2001
Spring 2000
Spring 2000
Fall 1997 — Spring 2001
Fall 1997 — Spring 2001
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
The Constitution and the Economy (Lead Instructor)
Introduction to Constitutional Studies (Lead Instructor)
Political Science and the U.S. Constitution (Lead Instructor)
Theory and Practice of Republican Government (Head Teaching Fellow)
Senior Thesis Writer's Workshop (Teaching Fellow)
American Constitutional Law (Head Teaching Fellow)
Introduction to American Government (Teaching Fellow)
Constitutional Democracy in America (Teaching Fellow)
Fall 2011
Fall 2011
Spring 2011
Spring 2007, Spring 2009
Fall 2008 — Spring 2009
Fall 2005, Fall 2006
Spring 2006
Fall 2005
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Harvard University
Resident Tutor in Government — Quincy House
Resident academic advisor for undergraduates concentrating in Government
Fall 2005 — Spring 2011
Assistant to the Editor — Perspectives on Politics
May 2004 — August 2005
Worked under Prof. Jennifer Hochschild; assisted in initial review process and pre-publication fact-checking and proofreading
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Russell Sage Foundation (New York, NY)
Scholar Assistant
Full-time research assistant to Visiting Scholars in residence (five per year)
University of Pennsylvania
Research Assistant
Assistant for Prof. Marie Gottschalk and Prof. Rudy Sil (both Political Science)
August 2001 — July 2003
Spring 1998 — Spring 2001
MEDIA
Guest on Charlottesville Right Now, NPR-style show hosted by Coy Barefoot
Appeared on the October 12 show to discuss the history of the Bank of the United States
Available at http://www.cvillepodcast.com/2009/10/12/charlottesville-right-now-eric-lomazoff/
October 2009
PAPER PRESENTATIONS
MPSA Annual Meeting
Boston Area Research Workshop on History, Institutions, and Politics (HIP)
“What Causes Constitutional Construction? Gradual but Transformative Institutional
Change and the 1811 Battle to Recharter the Bank of the United States”
Policy History Conference
"'The Great Regulating Wheel': The Bank of the United States as an Instrument
of Banking Industry Oversight, 1791-1811"
APSA Annual Meeting
"Still Seeking Rents, After All These Years? Testing a Neo-Beardian
Account of the Birth of the Bank of the United States"
American Politics Research Workshop (Harvard)
“Rivals, Regulators, and Ideology: Theories of Course Reversal and the Initial Demise of the
Bank of the United States”
"'The Great Regulating Wheel': The Conversion of the Bank of the United States, 1791-1811"
"A New Order: An Amended Theory of Political Learning"
"The Birth and Death of the Many-Headed Hydra: Some Early Thoughts
on the Politics of Banking in the Early Republic"
Political Theory Workshop (Harvard)
"From London to Glasgow: The Antebellum Constitutional Thought of Frederick Douglass"
April 2011
March 2011
June 2010
September 2009
November 2009
February 2009
December 2008
April 2007
March 2006
DATASETS
Papers of Nicholas Biddle
October 2007 — May 2008
Descriptive catalog of 3,150 letters sent by Biddle in capacity as President of the Bank of the United States,
February 1823 to March 1836; available upon request; to be submitted to EH.net for publication
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
Manuscript reviewer for Studies in American Political Development, Pickering & Chatto Publishers, Cengage Publishing
Book reviewer for Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Undergraduate Liaison, Center for American Political Studies, Harvard University (2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011)
Instructor at American Republic Initiative Summer Institute, Harvard University (2008, 2009, 2010)
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