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SAMUEL GOLDMAN George Washington University 2115 G St. NW, Monroe Hall 440 Washington, DC 20052

[email protected] 617-999-6002

CURRENT POSITION

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Director of the Program on Politics & Values George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

EDUCATION

Ph.D. in Political Science, 2010 Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

B.A. in Political Science, 2002 Rutgers College, New Brunswick, New Jersey

PUBLICATIONS

Book in Progress • God’s Country: American Christian Zionism from the Mayflower to War on Terror

Articles • “Beyond the Markers of Certainty: Thoughts on Claude Lefort and Leo Strauss”, Perspectives on Political Science, January 2011.

Book Chapters • “More Cartesian than Descartes: Reflections on Spinoza in the Spirit of Tocqueville”, The Science of Modern Virtue, eds. Marc Guerra and Peter A. Lawler (Dekalb, IL: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014). • “Robert Nisbet”, Conservatieve Vooruitgang. De grootste denkers van de twintigste eeuw, eds. Thierry Baudet and Michiel Visser (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2010).

Book Reviews • Leo Strauss and the Crisis of Rationalism, Corine Pelluchon. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, May 21, 2014. • A Political Companion to Henry Adams, ed. Natalie Fuehrer Taylor. Perspectives on Political Science, April 15, 2011.

Translations • Responses to Spinoza (The Brandeis Library of Modern Jewish Thought), ed. Daniel Schwartz (Brandeis University Press, forthcoming).

1 NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Senior Contributor, The American Conservative

FELLOWSHIPS AND AFFILIATIONS

Tikvah Postdoctoral Fellowship in Religion, Ethics, and Politics, Princeton University (2011-2013)