Elizabeth Kaufer Busch is the Laura and Pete Walker Professor in American Studies, Co-Director of the Center for American Studies, and Director of American Studies at Christopher Newport University. Her research focuses on the evolving conceptions of sex, gender, and equality, and the role those concepts have on public policy. She (with William E. Thro) is author of Title IX: The Transformation of Sex Discrimination in Education. Professor Busch and William Thro currently are working on a number of writing projects focusing on reclaiming what they term the "Constitutionalist Creed" in an "Anti-Constitutional Culture."