Welcome. I am an Assistant Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College. I have a PhD in political science from University of Chicago and a JD from Tulane University. My research focuses on polarization, political parties and ideology, public law, and race over the course of 20th Century American politics.

My research has been published in American Political Science Review, Law & Social Inquiry, Studies in American Political Development, American Political Thought, Journal of American Constitutional History (forthcoming), and an Oxford Handbook chapter, among other venues.

My book manuscript — Enemy Establishments: The Constitution, the Modern American State, and the Political Development of Polarization — is under review at Princeton University Press. I have a second co–authored monograph in progress: Institutions Without Ideas: Legal Liberalism and the Failure of the American Constitution Society (with Paul Baumgardner). Research is underway for a second solo-authored book project — Progressively Polarized: The Liberal Establishment and the Democratic Party, From 1980 to Today — and I have various papers either under review or in progress.

For more information, click on my CV. The research tab contains PDFs of my published articles.

I can be reached at cterbeek@cmc.edu.