EDUCATION
Ph. D. in Political Philosophy, 吃瓜网
M.A. in Political Philosophy and Literature, 吃瓜网
B.A. in Political Science, Belmont Abbey College
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dean, Braniff Graduate School, 吃瓜网, 2024
Professor of Politics, 吃瓜网, 2020
Chairman, Department of Politics, 吃瓜网, 2011-2019
Associate Professor of Politics, 吃瓜网, 2000-2020
Visiting Professor of Political Science, Department of Comparative Political Science,
Katholische Universit盲t Eichst盲tt-Inglostadt, Eichst盲tt, Germany, 2016
Director, Center for Christianity and the Common Good, 吃瓜网, 1993-present
Faculty Representative, Lilly Foundation's Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and
the Arts, 1997-present
RECENT COURSES
POL 1311 Principles of American Politics
POL 3312/5301 Political Regimes: Plutarch, Augustine, Machiavelli
POL 3326/5302 The Presidency
POL 3332/5305 Aristotle's Politics
POL 3368/5307 Catholic Political Thought
POL 4353 The Federalist/Anti-Federalist
POL 5357 Tocqueville
POL 6377 Cicero
POL 6377 Politics and the Bible
POL 4351 Senior Seminar
POL 4353 Catholic Political Thought
POL 7380 Medieval Political Philosophy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Editor and Contributor, with an Introduction, Augustine鈥檚 Political Thought. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press. 2019.
鈥淣atural Law in Augustine,鈥� in Research Handbook on Natural Law Theory, eds. Jonathan Crowe and Constance Youngwon Lee, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019: pp. 57-75.
鈥淪t. Augustine and the Problem of Political Ethics,鈥� in Augustine鈥檚 Political Thought, ed. Richard J. Dougherty. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2019: 13-35.
鈥淪olidarity and the American Political Order: Migration and America.鈥� Essay in Migration und Solidarit盲t. ed. Stefan M眉ckl. Berlin, Germany: Duncker & Humblot (forthcoming in 2020): pp. 161-173.
Author, Full entry on St. Augustine鈥檚 City of God, Oxford Bibliographies. Forthcoming, 2019; available online at http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/.
鈥淪t. Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Man in the 鈥楾reatise on Law鈥�,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Divus Thomas 121 (Fall, 2018): 167-177.
鈥淭he Role of Religion in the American Political Experience,鈥� Essay in Der 枚ffentliche Charakter der Religion in der liberalen Demokratie (The Public Character of Religion in Liberal Democracy), ed. Klaus Stuwe. Berlin, Germany: Duncker & Humblot (2018): pp. 1-14. Available .
鈥淪t. Thomas on the Acquisition of Virtue and the Natural Law,鈥� in The Virtuous Life: Thomas Aquinas on the Theological Nature of Moral Virtues, ed. Henk J. M. Schoot and H. Goris (Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishing, 2017).
Co-Editor, and Co-Author of Introduction, with Thomas Neumayr, Reprint of Charles N. R. McCoy鈥檚 The Structure of Political Thought. Piscataway, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers (2016). Available .
鈥淛ustice, Charity, and the Political Order: Assessing the Encyclical Tradition,鈥� article in Free Markets with Solidarity and Sustainability: Facing the Challenge, eds. Martin Schlag and Juan Andres Mercado, Catholic University of America Press (2016): 135-154.
鈥淔ederalism and American Politics: The Founders and the Modern State.鈥� Essay in Besinnung auf das Subsidiaritatsprinzip, ed. Anton Rauscher, Berlin, Germany: Duncker & Humblot (2015): 51-63.
鈥淪t. Thomas Aquinas on the Acquisition of Knowledge,鈥� in Thomas Aquinas: Teacher of Humanity, ed. John P. Hittinger and Daniel C. Wagner. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015: 228-242.
PRESENTATIONS
鈥淪t. Augustine鈥檚 Roman Heroes: A Reconsideration of Roman Virtue.鈥� Paper presented
at XVIII International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University, Oxford,
United Kingdom, August 19-24, 2019.
Keynote Lecturer, week-long program, 鈥淧residents and the Constitution: Historic Turning Points,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Summer Institute for Teachers, Bill of Rights Institute (Alexandria, VA), Washington, D.C., July 22-26, 2019.
鈥淎voiding 鈥楾he Absurdity of Wicked Meanings鈥�: St. Augustine, Scripture, and the Liberal Arts,鈥� Plenary Lecture for Conference on 鈥淪cripture and the Disciplines,鈥� Braniff Graduate Student Association Fifth Annual Conference on the Liberal Arts, University of Dallas, February 15-16, 2019.
鈥淐hallenges to Executive Discretion: The War Powers Resolution and the Courts,鈥� Paper presented at a panel on 鈥淭he Presidency, the Courts, and Separation of Power Politics,鈥� Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 30-September 2, 2018.
鈥淪olidarity and the American Political Order: Migration and America,鈥� Paper delivered at the German-American Colloquium on 鈥淢igration and Solidarity,鈥� Hosted by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Kloster Banz, Bad Staffelstein, Bavaria, Germany, July 23-28, 2018.
鈥淐颈肠别谤辞鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;de re Publica on Statesmanship and Political Philosophy,鈥� Paper presented at a panel on 鈥渄e Tocqueville: Old World, New World,鈥� Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference, Association for Core Texts and Courses, Framingham, MA, April 19-22, 2018.
Participant, Rumsfeld Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program, 鈥淎merican Leadership: Advancing the Interests of the American People at Home and Abroad,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Rumsfeld Foundation, Washington, D.C., September 14-15, 2017.
鈥淪t. Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Man in the Treatise on Law.鈥� Paper presented at the Sixth Thomas Aquinas International Society Conference (Societ脿 Internazionale Tommaso d鈥橝quino, SITA), 鈥淭he Human Person: La persona umana: Id quod est perfectissimum in tota natura.鈥� Bologna, Italy, April 20-22, 2017.