compton@chapman.eduProfessorWed 12:15 pm-2:15 pm, or by appointmentRoosevelt Hall 256Digital CommonsDr. Compton joined the Chapman political science faculty in 2011 after completing his Ph.D. at UCLA. His teaching and research interests include American political development, constitutional law, and religion and politics. In 2012, he was awarded the Law and Society Association’s annual dissertation prize. His first book, The Evangelical Origins of the Living Constitution, was published by Harvard University Press in 2014. In 2015, he received the Cromwell Book Prize for excellence in scholarship in the field of American legal history by a junior scholar (for Evangelical Origins). His most recent book, The End of Empathy: Why White Protestants Stopped Loving Their Neighbors (Oxford, 2020) received honorable mention for the Hubert Morken Book Prize, awarded by the American Political Science Association’s religion and politics section. Dr. Compton’s articles have appeared in Studies in American Political Development, the Review of Politics, American Political Thought, and the Journal of Supreme Court History./our-faculty/files/curriculum-vita/john-compton-cv.pdfpr@chapman.educompton@chapman.edu(714) 628-2762