Andrew Porwancher
Arnold Chaplik Professor
Andrew Porwancher serves as a Professor of Constitutional History and Jewish Studies at the School of Civic Leadership. A native of Princeton, he earned degrees from Brown and Northwestern before completing his PhD in history at Cambridge.
His books include The Jewish World of Alexander Hamilton (Princeton University Press, 2021), winner of the Journal of the American Revolution Book-of-the-Year Award; and The Devil Himself (Oxford University Press, 2016), which was adapted for the stage at Dublin’s historic Smock Alley Theatre. Porwancher’s fifth book—American Maccabee—(Princeton University Press, 2025)—won the Theodore Roosevelt Book Prize.
He previously served as the May Fellow at Harvard, the Horne Fellow at Oxford, and the Garwood Fellow at Princeton. In 2023, Porwancher won a national prize for mentorship—the Craig L. Brians Award—from the American Political Science Association.
His writing has appeared in the Washington Post and Wall Street Journal.
