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Assistant Professor

• Fields of Study

  • Law and Politics
  • Political Theory
  • American Government and Politics

• About

  Zeisberg's primary research interests lie in constitutional theory, philosophy of law, liberal and democratic theory, and American political development. She is interested in the challenge that subjectivity, pluralism, and institutionally-rooted conflict pose to liberal ideas about political authority, which she addresses through research specifically on US constitutional practice. Zeisberg received her Ph.D. from Princeton University. She has been a Tatum Fellow at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and, before arriving at Michigan, was a postdoctoral fellow at Brown University's Political Theory Project.

• Education

  • Princeton University, Ph.D. (Politics)
  • University of Texas at Austin, B.A. (Government/Plan II Liberal Arts Honors)

• Awards

  • Forced to be Free: Coercive Acquisition and Constitutional Imperialism (manuscript)
  • Frederick Douglass, Citizen Interpreter (manuscript)

• Grants

  • Stephen Tatum Scholar, University of Texas at Austin School of Law (2009-10)
  • Course Development Grant for American Constitutional Politics, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan (2007)

• Presentations

  • Coercive Acquisition as Constitutional Imperialism (APSA Annual Meeting, 2009)
  • Evaluating Constitutional War Authority in Two Cases: The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Cambodian Incursion (Conference on American Constitutional Development, Harvard Law School, 2008)
  • Frederick Douglass, Citizen Interpreter (APSA Annual Meeting, 2007)

• Selected Teaching

  • The Constitution Outside of the Court (University of Michigan)
  • Constitutional Theory and Politics (University of Michigan)
  • War and the Constitution (University of Texas Law School)
  • Judicial Politics (University of Michigan)

• Selected Publications:

• Books

  • War Powers: The Politics of Consitutional Authority

• Articles

  • (2009) Should We Elect the US Supreme Court?, Perspectives on Politics
  • (2008) A New Framing?  Constitutional Representation at Philadelphia's National Constitution Center, Perspectives on Politics

• Book Chapters

  • (2010) "The Relational Conceptions of War Powers", The Limits of Constitutional Democracy