Dr. Kevin R. Hardwick, Associate Professor, received the B.A. from
Swarthmore College, M.A. and Ph.D.
from the University of Maryland at
College Park.  He teaches Colonial
British America, the Constitution,
and U.S. History.

His major publications include "Virginia Reconsidered: New Histories of the Old Dominion" (Charlottesville:
University Press of Virginia, 2003),
Hardwick and Hofstra, eds., and
Classics of the U.S. Political and
Constitutional Tradition, Hammond, Hardwick and Lubert, eds., will be released in November 2006.

Dr. Hardwick's research focuses
on the relationship between ethics
and authority in early Virginia. The
most recent product of this research
agenda, "Narratives of Villainy and
Virtue: Governor Francis Nicholson
and the Character of the Good Ruler
in Early Virginia," recently was published in The Journal of Southern History:LXXII:1, February 2006.

Kevin R. Hardwick
(Full-time faculty)
History Department
Jackson 216
MSC 2001
office phone: +1 540 568 6306
e-mail: hardwikr@jmu.edu