Sean Beienburg's teaching and research interests include the U.S. Constitution and constitutional law, federalism and state constitutionalism/politics, Arizona constitutionalism, American political thought and development, executive power (both presidential and gubernatorial), parties and interest groups, 19th and early 20th century political and constitutional history, and Prohibition.
He is the author of Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights (published by the University of Chicago Press, 2019) and Progressive States' Rights: The Forgotten History of Federalism (University Press of Kansas, 2024.)
He currently serves as the Associate Director of SCETL as well as the Director of the Center for American Civics.
He is the project director of the Arizona Constitution Project initiative.