Professor Gordon Lloyd is the Author and Editor of a series of Online
Exhibits on the American Founding hosted by the Ashbrook Center’s
website, TeachingAmericanHistory.org. These Online Exhibits focus on the
Constitutional Convention, the Federalist-Antifederalist Debate, the
Ratification of the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
Drawing from over fifty years of scholarship and teaching, Professor Lloyd
has compiled within these Online Exhibits a wide range of primary and
secondary sources from the American Founding. In addition, he has created
or overseen the development of resources designed to help introduce
interested teachers, students, and citizens to the American Founding, and
to support scholars in their research and teaching about these topics.
Lloyd is a Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center and Dockson Emeritus
Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. Professor Lloyd earned
his bachelor’s degree in economics and political science at McGill
University. He completed all coursework toward a doctorate in economics
from the University of Chicago before receiving his master’s and Ph.D.
degrees in government at Claremont Graduate School. The coauthor of
three books on the American founding and sole author of a book on the
political economy of the New Deal, he also has numerous articles, reviews,
and opinion-editorials to his credit. His latest coauthored books are The
Two Narratives of Political Economy (2010) and The New Deal and Modern
American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry (2013). In 2014, Lloyd published
a new edition of Madison's coverage of the Debates of the Constitutional
Convention.
He has received many teaching, scholarly, and leadership awards including
admission to Phi Beta Kappa and the Howard White Award for Teaching
Excellence at Pepperdine University. He currently serves on the National
Advisory Council for the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Presidential
Learning Center through the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.