About the Presenter
David Marsich is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. He is an Assistant Professor of History at Germanna Community College, where he teaches U.S. History. His dissertation project examines the ways that people in the early United States engaged with their members of Congress and conceived of political representation over the first half-century of the republic from the Jay Treaty Crisis through the controversy over the Gag Rule.