Alan Gibson
Jack Miller Center Founding Civics Initiative Faculty
Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy Senior Fellow, University of Missouri
Dr. Alan Gibson is a Senior Fellow at the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri. Gibson has held fellowships from the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies, the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
His scholarship has appeared in American Political Thought, Polity, History of Political Thought, and The Review of Politics. He is also the author of two books on the historiography of the American founding, Interpreting the Foundingand Understanding the Founding. He is currently editing a volume of the political writings of James Madison (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2026) and writing a book on Madison’s notetaking at the Constitutional Convention, tentatively entitled Recorded for Posterity: Madison’s Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and the Creation of the Constitution.
He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Notre Dame in 1993.
Research Interests:
American Political Thought
Federalist and Anti-Federalist Debates
James Madison
American Founding
