Jim Ambuske

Jim Ambuske, Ph.D., is Director of Digital History at More Perfect.  At More Perfect, he leads In Pursuit's digital efforts to explore the last 250 years of the American experiment, including the podcast series, In Pursuit with Colleen Shogan.

A historian of the American Revolution, Scotland, and the British Atlantic world, Ambuske is the author of several essays and book chapters on Revolutionary America and transatlantic legal history including, "Reading Law in the Early Republic: Legal Education in the Age of Jefferson" (with Randall Flaherty) in The Founding of Thomas Jefferson's University (2019) and "The law of loyalism: The Campbell family, the court of session, and the price of loyality in the revolutionary Atlantic world," Atlantic Studies (2022). He is formerly director of the Center for Digital History at George Washington's Mount Vernon and co-head of R2 Studios at George Mason University.

Ambuske is the creator and narrator of Worlds Turned Upside Down, a narrative documentary podcast series about the history of the American Revolution, the co-host of the interview series Revolutions in Retrospect, and an executive producer of the narrative documentary series Finding Jane Austen.