Troy E. Smith is a Professor and Director of the Constitutional Federalism Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University. He is also a fellow at the Center for the Study of Federalism and the editor of the online Federalism in America_ An Encyclopedia.
He has published on the American founding, intergovernmental lobbying, presidential-congressional relations, among others.
He was awarded the “Best Paper in Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations” at the 1998 A.P.S.A. Annual Meeting.
His academic work has appeared in Publius: The Journal of Federalism; The Review of Politics; Congress & the Presidency; Thinking Skills & Creativity; and others. Dr. Smith received a Ph.D. from the University at Albany, and an M.A. from George Washington University.