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A constitutional law scholar and professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law was awarded the Dorothy Tapper Goldman Guggenheim Fellowship in Constitutional Studies, a prestigious fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for 2026, the law school announced Tuesday.
Gerard Magliocca is one of 223 people representing 55 disciplines for the 101st class of Guggenheim Fellows. He was selected for his work in constitutional studies.
Magliocca has authored six books on constitutional law, including “The Actual Art of Governing: Justice Robert H. Jackson’s Concurring Opinion in the Steel Seizure Case,” published by Oxford University Press in 2025.
As part of the fellowship, Magliocca will receive a stipend that he intends to use for a project about the constitutional work of late Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh. Some of the money will be used to travel to Bloomington to look at the Birch Bayh Archives. The tentative title of his book is “Congressional Supremacy: Birch Bayh’s Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.”
“I’m deeply honored to receive a Guggenheim, but I’m especially pleased that this award will support a book about the constitutional contributions of one of our greatest Hoosiers — Birch Bayh,” Professor Magliocca said.
Magliocca joined the McKinney faculty in 2001. In 2024, he was named an IU distinguished professor, the most prestigious appointment honoring IU faculty, for his knowledge and work in studying the original meaning and application of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. His work includes a biography of 14th Amendment drafter John Bingham and his 2021 article “Amnesty and Section Three of the Fourteenth Amendment,” the latter of which is the foundational document that informed the country’s understanding of President Trump’s eligibility to hold national office after the Jan. 6, 2021, events at the U.S. Capitol, according to an article from McKinney.
“This recognition from the Guggenheim Foundation is a profound testament to Professor Magliocca’s transformational contributions to the field of constitutional law scholarship,” said IU McKinney Dean Karen E. Bravo. “Our law school community is immensely proud to have such a visionary scholar as a member of our faculty, and we look forward to the vital research this fellowship will bring to fruition.”
Each year, the Guggenheim Foundation awards fellowships to individuals pursuing scholarship in “any field of knowledge and creation in any art form,” according to the foundation’s website. Since its founding in 1925, the foundation has awarded more than $400 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 fellows.
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