Guide to Specialists

Vivien Hart
Senior Fellow, Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program
In Residence: October 2002-July 2003

ARCHIVED SPECIALIST PROFILE

Project Focus
Making Constitutions, Seeking Peace

Background

Vivien Hart has been professor of American studies at the University of Sussex since 1996 and, since 1991, director of the University's Cunliffe Centre for the Study of Constitutionalism and National Identity. As Cunliffe Center director, she coordinates an international network of scholars and practitioners conducting research on comparative constitutional processes. Her own research has focused on the potential for constitutions to facilitate dialogue in divided societies and to transform conflict. Professor Hart has been a visiting professor of government at Smith College (1982-84) and a visiting professor of history at the Ohio State University (1998-2002). She has been an American studies fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies (1981), a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution (1981), a fellow and guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1988 and 1993), and a senior resident fellow at the University of Toronto's Massey College (1997).

Hart has written three books and numerous articles on constitutional issues, including Writing a National Identity: Political, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives on the Written Constitution and Bound by Our Constitution: Women, Workers and the Minimum Wage. She has a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University.

Available on usip.org

• Democratic Constitution Making
  Special Report, July 2003
• Owning the Constitution: A Path to Peace?
  Fellow Project Summary Report, April 2003 (Summary & Audio)