Lindsay Chervinsky

Dr. Chervinsky is a historian of early America, the presidency, and the government.

Lindsay M. Chervinsky joined the CPH in August 2017. She also teaches on the American Presidency at the George Washington University. Her research explores the development of political institutions in the Early Republic. Chervinsky is the author of The Cabinet: George Washington and the Creation of an American Institution, now out in paperback, and the forthcoming book An Honest Man: The Inimitable Presidency of John Adams.

Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Ms. Magazine, The Daily Beast, The Bulwark, Time Magazine, USA Today, CNN, NBC Think, and the Washington Post.

Lindsay earned her Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Davis in 2017, and completed her B.A. in history and political science from the George Washington University (2010).