Jonathan Gienapp is an Associate Professor of History and Law at Stanford University’s School of Humanities and Sciences. He also serves as the Nehal and Jenny Fan Raj Civics Faculty Fellow in Undergraduate Teaching. He specializes in the constitutional, political, legal, and intellectual history of the early United States. His primary focus to date has been the origins and development of the U.S. Constitution, in particular the ways in which Founding-era Americans understood and debated constitutionalism across the nation's early decades. His historical interests intersect with modern legal debates over constitutional interpretation and theory, especially those centered on the theory of constitutional originalism.

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