Jordan Cash
- Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, 2019
Assistant Professor
James Madison College
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
2025 Jack Miller Center's Teaching Excellence Award
2026 Ken and Sandy Waltzer Teaching Excellence Award
Jordan’s teaching and research sits at the intersection of American political thought and constitutionalism. He examines how the constitutional structure of American political institutions affects the authority and behavior of individuals operating within those institutions. He has published widely in such journals as Polity, American Political Thought, Studies in American Political Development, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Laws, Congress and the Presidency, Journal of Transatlantic Studies, Congress and Presidency, and Law and History Review, and chapters in several edited volumes. He is the author of The Isolated Presidency (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Adding the Lone Star: John Tyler, Sam Houston, and the Annexation of Texas (University Press of Kansas, 2024), as well as the editor of The Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and co-editor of Congressional Deliberation: Major Debates, Speeches, and Writings, 1774-2023 (Hackett, 2024) and Constitutionalism and Liberty: Essays in Honor of David K. Nichols (Lexington, 2025).
Prior to coming to James Madison College, Jordan was a lecturer at Baylor University, a member of the Graduate Faculty, and the founder and director of the Zavala Program for Constitutional Studies. He was also a post-doctoral research fellow in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia. He received his BA in history and political science, Summa Cum Laude, from the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
