Charles Kromkowski

Lecturer in the Department of Politics

Charles Kromkowski has served as a Lecturer in the Department of Politics and in the Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies Program at the University of Virginia since 1998. He was a faculty fellow for the Center on Religion and Democracy from 2003 to 2006. He previously taught at Washington & Lee University, the Catholic University of America, and James Madison University. At UVa, he teaches courses on Democracy in America, State and Local Politics, Congress, American Political Development, and Religion and Politics. His book, Recreating the AmericanRepublic: Rules of Apportionment, Constitutional Change, and American Political Development, 1700-1870 (Cambridge University Press, 2002/2005) is an interdisciplinary, comparative historical study of the breakdown, creation, and maintenance of political order. His other research interests and publications are interdisciplinary, and include articles on the size of the U.S. House of Representatives; the conceptualization and historical measurement of voter turnout; Presidential and Congressional uses of the Declaration of Independence; the historical development of voting rights; William of Ockham; and Thomas Aquinas. Since 2000, he has directed the Virginia Elections and Elected Officials Database Project, 1776-2008, a digital database and archive supported and sustained by Alderman Library at the University of Virginia.