Mark McGarvie's (Ph.D. '00, History) academic interests and specialties are the intellectual and legal history of the United States, focusing on the legal delineation of private and public sectors, specifically as it relates to the construction of civil society, ideas and practices regarding philanthropy, and the separation of church and state. Current research and writing projects include a prospective law review article highlighting the influences of Thomas Jefferson upon the jurisprudence of Justice William O. Douglas and two books. The first, an edited volume, reconsiders the judicial treatment of the Second Amendment based on Douglas’s jurisprudential arguments regarding that text. The second is a microhistory using the life of Daniel Burnham to access the progressive movement and politics in Chicago in the early 1900s. Currently serving as Scholar-in-Residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago, McGarvie is also the author of The Pragmatic Ideal: Mary Field Parton and the Pursuit of a Progressive Society (Cornell University Press, 2022).