2015/2016 Fellows Directory

JMC 2015/2016 FELLOWS DIRECTORY “The experience of attending the Summer Institute has encouraged me to become a sort of academic entrepreneur, designing interdisciplinary courses on economic liberty, meeting with donors, dialoguing with peers about my approach, and then teaching successful courses at my home institution.” Christopher Barker Ph.D., Claremont Graduate University 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

JACK MILLER CENTER For Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History Our Mission and Strategy The Jack Miller Center (JMC) promotes education in America’s Found- ing Principles and history on college campuses by building a community of professors committed to this education, developing a network of partner programs on individual campuses, conducting national programs that no individual professor or campus could do, and providing a range of unique services for donors who share our commitment to enriching this education.

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The professors and scholars in this directory are changing American higher education. And in the process, they are laying the foundation for millions of students, today and in the future, to be informed, thoughtful citizens prepared to be leaders in their communities, states and our nation.

These faculty are committed to teaching the ideas and history that have shaped our free institutions and sustain our liberties. They already have made a difference in the lives of thousands of students who have taken their courses and attended their lectures over the past decade.

But even more important, these faculty are part of a national community of professors whose impact is growing. As the men and women profiled in these pages spend a lifetime teaching in the classroom, they will educate some four million students over the course of their careers.

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Who are the 441 fellows in this directory? This directory includes scholars who have participated in Miller summer institutes and/or received a JMC postdoctoral fellowship. We identify ambitious new scholars to join our community who have the expertise and commitment to shape education in America’s founding principles and history.

• 94 percent of JMC fellows are teaching students, either in faculty positions or as graduate students. Others are helping to shape the profession in allied fields such as research libraries, academic presses, and academic journals.

• 80 percent of JMC postdoctoral fellows secured a position teaching in higher education after completion of their fellowship, nearly double the success rate of new political theory Ph.D’s as measured by the American Political Science Association. JMC Fellows Teaching 94% College Courses • 44 percent of JMC postdoctoral fellows landed a highly-competitive tenure-track position immediately following their fellowship compared to only 22 percent of new political theory Ph.Ds.

JMC is reaching the best and brightest, and they are now teaching students this vital education. Since 2007, JMC fellows have already taught more than 700,000 students and will teach many more over the course of their careers.

Political Theorist JMC Political Theory Ph.D ACADEMIC YEAR Secured Academic Position FOLLOWING JMC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS % New Political Theory Ph.D’s JMC FELLOWSHIP 4% Landed Tenure-Track Positions JMC POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS 44% New Political Theory Ph.D’s % 3

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The JMC community of professors is critical to achieving the JMC mission.

When JMC incorporated as a 501(c)(3) non-profit in 2007, 125 professors were involved in the “Miller project.” Today, that number stands at 750, representing a national community of professors dedicated to providing students with a profound experience in the American experiment on more than 200 campuses. These professors teach at elite institutions, flagship state universities, and leading liberal arts colleges across the United States.

We maintain an ongoing relationship with all these professors via regular mailings and email updates on our programs and professional opportunities that will advance their careers. JMC fellows are invited to additional JMC academic programs, and gain access to our online resource center, our esteemed national academic council, and our staff of former college professors.

750 We work aggressively to evaluate Community of Professors 700 2007 - 2014 our programs and to ensure we are achieving the outcomes we intend. 550 We welcome feedback and provide 492 frequent occasions for faculty to tell us how we are doing and what more 406 might be done. In addition, we rely 290 on a respected third party, Huron 235 Consulting, to conduct interviews, focus groups, and surveys of the 125 faculty in this growing community to ensure we remain on track. 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014

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Our summer institutes serve as the primary entry point into the JMC community of professors.

These two-week, intensive faculty development programs bring together promising young scholars, our “summer institute fellows,” to learn from and interact with renowned professors and leading public intellectuals, our “summer institute faculty” who include:

Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon Wood, Brown University James Ceaser, University of Virginia Wilfred McClay, University of Oklahoma Jack Greene, Johns Hopkins University Ralph Lerner, University of Chicago Joyce Appleby, University of California-Los Angeles Thomas and Lorraine Pangle, University of Texas-Austin Michael Zuckert, University of Notre Dame Steven Smith, Yale University John Tomasi, Brown University Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University Allen Guelzo, Gettysburg College Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania

Additionally, summer institute fellows participate in workshops that assist them in developing courses, securing jobs, getting published in leading journals, and establishing long-term professional advancement strategies.

Once engaged, fellows have access to a growing range of JMC-sponsored resources to support their teaching and professional development, including a robust online resource center.

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JMC Pathway to Tenure

ATTENDS JMC POSTDOCTORAL SUMMER INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP JMC invites promising TENURED young scholars to attend Scholars become Scholars TEACHING JMC Summer Institutes part of JMC burnish POSITION Community of credentials Professors JMC Postdoctoral Fellowships

The JMC launched its postdoctoral fellowship program in 2008 as a result of a $1 million gift from an anonymous donor. To date, 146 fellowships (one-, two-, or three-year appointments) have been awarded to 84 of our nation's most promising young scholars who share JMC's mission to reinvigorate education in our nation's founding principles and history. JMC and many do- nor partners have contributed millions of dollars to fund these fellowships.

During their fellowships, these outstanding young scholars have taught hundreds of courses to more than 10,000 students. Over their careers, they will touch the lives of millions of undergrad- uates and have an important impact on higher education for decades to come.

Postdoctoral fellowships provide young professors, at a crucial juncture in their professional lives, with the credentials and experience necessary to further their careers. Fellows have time to turn dissertations into publishable manuscripts—an important first step on the road to tenure. Fellowships also provide valuable teaching experience, and fellows receive mentoring from senior professors at their universities, many of whom are leading scholars in their respective fields.

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JMC Research Library Fellowships JMC has partnerships with four of America’s foremost independent research libraries: the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Huntington Library in San Marino (CA), the John D. Rockefel- ler Library in Colonial Williamsburg, and the American Philo- sophical Society in Philadelphia.

In collaboration with these libraries, JMC hosts conferences, or- ganizes seminars, and provides fellowships to scholars that advance JMC’s central mission to revitalize the study and teaching of America’s founding principles and history.

These fellowships provide scholars the rare opportunity to explore unparalleled collections of documents and manuscripts Three JMC fellows co- from the Founding era. Such opportunities enable scholars to authored The Contested Removal Power, 1789-2010 further their careers while benefiting us all with a deeper understanding of the sources and ideas that have shaped the American constitutional order.

“Making available opportunities for postdoctoral study for scholars launching their careers is absolutely essential today… Postdoctoral fellowships are now expected as stepping stones to full-time teaching positions [in the humanities and social sciences]. The JMC was ahead of the curve in perceiving this development…”

Professor Robert P. George Princeton University

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JMC fellows are building careers and enhancing their professional standing in a tough academic job market!

They are getting jobs, climbing the academic ladder, and building their professional standing. JMC and its donor partners have invested $15 million in summer institutes and postdoctoral fellowships since 2008. As the numbers on the preceding pages indicate, the return on the investment has been extraordinary.

Each year new bright and ambitious young scholars will become part of this growing community by participating in our summer institutes and postdoctoral fellowship initiative.

JMC conducts these programs as part of its work to transform access to education in Amer- ica’s founding principles and history for students on college campuses. Expanding opportunities for students to learn about our history and institutions would be impossible without the professors who actually teach the courses and work with the students in and outside the classroom. Equally important, they work to advance the scholarship that is essential if this study is to remain vital and shape the future of our nation’s intellectual life.

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“I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but the people themselves: and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their controul with a wholsome discretion, the remedy is, not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.” Thomas Jefferson 1820

Our founders understood the new republic would succeed only if colleges and universities provide Americans the understanding needed to be citizens, not subjects. Many of our early leaders, such as Thomas Jefferson (University of Virginia) and Benjamin Rush (Dickinson College), returned home to found such institutions for this very purpose.

Higher education for citizenship is no less essential today.

JACK MILLER CENTER For Teaching America’s Founding Principles and History

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I am just starting out as a scholar in what one could charitably call a difficult job market. JMC has given me tremendous help in providing me with this network, as well as the training for improving my courses, applying for grants, and consulting with book publishers. I want to thank all of you for this, and I hope to find a place at a college where I can keep alive the study of the American Founding, its ideas, and their vital role in keeping America safe, free, and prosperous.

James M. Patterson Ph.D., University of Virginia

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Corey Abel Ethan Alexander-Davey Ph.D. University of Chicago; M.Sc. Lon- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison; don School of Economics and Political Sci- M.Phil. University of Cambridge; B.A. ence; B.A. Colorado College Amherst College Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2012 Corey is a writer and editor who has taught Postdoctoral Fellow: Program on Constitu- political theory and humanities at Colora- tionalism and Democracy at the University do College and the University of Colorado, of Virginia 2014-2015 Boulder. He is the author of articles on En- glish philosopher and political theorist Mi- Ethan is a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow at the chael Oakeshott’s relationship to Aristotle, University of Virginia for the 2014-2015 as well as his ideas on religion and art. Co- academic year. Previously he was a postdoc- rey has edited two collections of essays on toral research associate at Washington Uni- Oakeshott. versity in St. Louis. His research interests include political theory, nationalism, con- Joseph M. Adelman stitutionalism, religion and politics, and Ph.D., M.A. Johns Hopkins University; critiques of liberal democracy. He is the au- A.B. Harvard University thor of “Constitutional Self-Government Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 and Nationalism: Hobbes, Locke, and George Lawson” and “Ugliness, Emptiness Joseph is an assistant professor in the his- and Boredom: Dostoevsky on Secular Hu- tory department at Framingham State manism.” His current book manuscript, ti- University, where he teaches courses on tled Birthright Democracy: Nationhood and the business and economic history of the Self-Government in History, seeks to deter- Atlantic world. A scholar of early Ameri- mine how constitutional self-government can media, communications, and politics, emerged in the West. His next book project he is currently working on two books: Rev- will consider the problem of socio-econom- olutionary Networks: The Business of Print- ic inequality from the point of view of the ing and the Production of American Politics, American Founders and other 18th century 1763-1789 and The Rise and Fall of the Post republican thinkers. Office in America.

“The principle of limited government as taught by Miller scholars exerted a major influence on my teaching.”

Phillip Bretton

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William Allen Partisan Conceptions of the Family in the Ph.D., M.A. Claremont Graduate School; Progressive Era, 1900-1920, won the Wal- B.A. Pepperdine College ter Dean Burnham Award for best disserta- Faculty Fellow: Matthew J. Ryan Center at tion in the field of politics and history. Her Villanova University 2013-2015 most recent publication is “Of Families or Individuals? Southern Child Workers and William is a professor emeritus of political the Progressive Crusade for Child Labor philosophy at Michigan State University Regulation, 1899-1920” in Children and and visiting scholar at the Matthew J. Ryan Youth during the Gilded Age and Progressive Center. His areas of expertise include the Period. Her book manuscript, titled Sec- American Founding and the Constitution; tional Origins of Family in American Party liberal arts education; and the intersection Politics, is under contract with the Univer- of race and politics. He served previously sity of Pennsylvania Press. on the National Council for the Human- ities and as Member and Chairman of David Alvis the United States Commission on Civil Ph.D. Fordham University; M.A., B.A. Rights. His most recent book is Rethinking University of Dallas Uncle Tom: The Political Philosophy of Har- Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006, riet Beecher Stowe. His other books include Charlottesville 2008, Santa Fe 2009 George Washington: A Collection; George Washington: America’s First Progressive; and David is an assistant professor of govern- Excellence in Higher Education (with Carol ment at Wofford College. His areas of M. Allen). interest are American politics, political theory, and public law. He co-wrote The Gwendoline Alphonso Contested Removal Power, 1789-2010 with Ph.D., J.S.D. Cornell University; B.C.L. JMC Fellows Jeremy Bailey and F. Flagg Oxford University; B.A., L.L.B. National Taylor. He also co-authored Statesmanship Law School of India University and Progressive Reform: An Assessment of Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Herbert Croly’s Abraham Lincoln. 2013 Elissa Alzate Gwendoline is an assistant professor of pol- Ph.D., M.A. University of California, Da- itics at Fairfield University. Her teaching vis; B.A. Florida International University interests include American politics, politi- Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 cal theory, political organizations and parties, public and social policy, constitutional Elissa is a professor of political science and law and civil liberties, politics of the family, public administration at Winona State and religion and politics. Her dissertation, University. Her research focuses on the re- Hearth and Soul: Economics and Culture in lationship between the individual and the 12 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

community, the role of religion in politics, David studies the poetry and drama of and civic education with a particular focus the English Renaissance and the relation- on early-modern philosopher John Locke. ship between literature and religion. He is particularly interested in William Shake- Mark Alznauer speare, John Milton, Christopher Mar- Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. lowe, John Donne, John Foxe, and George St. John’s College Herbert, as well as Reformation history, Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 the Western theological tradition and the work of René Girard. His first book is en- Mark is Assistant Professor in the Depart- titled Martyrs and Players in Early Modern ment of Philosophy at Northwestern Uni- England: Tragedy, Religion and Violence on versity. He specializes in German philos- Stage and was published by Ashgate Press ophy (especially Hegel), ethics, and social in 2014. It considers how the 16th century and political philosophy. His book, Hegel’s cultural crisis surrounding religious vio- Theory of Responsibility, is forthcoming lence is reflected in the tragedy of Shake- from Cambridge University Press. He is speare and his contemporaries. currently working on projects in several areas: on the foundations of dialectical social Ryan T. Anderson theory, on the distinction between finite Ph.D. University of Notre Dame; A.B. and infinite intelligence, and on the ratio- Princeton University nality of hope. Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010

Christopher Anadale Ryan is the William E. Simon Fellow at Ph.D., M.A. Emory University; B.A. Salis- the Heritage Foundation. His research and bury University writing focus on marriage and religious lib- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 erty. He also writes on justice and moral principles in economic thought, health care Christopher is an associate professor of and education, and bioethics and natural philosophy and Director of the Master of law theory. He is the co-author of What Is Arts in Philosophical Studies Program at Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense. Mount St. Mary’s University. His research interests include modern philosophy, faith Thomas Apel and reason, and epistemology. Ph.D. Georgetown University; B.A. San Jose State University David Anderson Research Library Fellow: Huntington Li- Ph.D. McGill University; M.A. Dalhousie brary, RIHA project, 2013-2014 University; B.A. Queen’s University Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Thomas is an adjunct professor at Men- lo College. He is the author of “The Rise 13 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

and Fall of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia,” raphy of Thomas Jefferson;The Relentless a book chapter in Nature’s Entrepot: Phil- Revolution: A History of Capitalism which adelphia’s Urban Sphere and its Environ- has appeared in French and German edi- mental Thresholds, and “The Thucydidean tions; and Shores of Knowledge: New World Moment: History and the Yellow Fever Discoveries and the Scientific Imagination. Controversy, 1793-1805,” an article in the Journal of the Early Republic. While a Giorgi Areshidze JMC Research Fellow at the Huntington Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin; A.B. Library he examined the reception of An- Middlebury College toine Laurent Lavoisier’s chemical system Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville in the United States through the lens of a 2012 discussion held in America’s first scientific Postdoctoral Fellow: Thomas Jefferson journal, Medical Repository. Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the University of Texas, Austin Joyce Appleby 2013-2014 Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School; B.A. Stanford University Giorgi Areshidze is an assistant professor of Summer Institute Faculty: Chicago 2010, government at Claremont McKenna Col- Chicago 2012, Pasadena 2014 lege. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of Texas, Austin Joyce is Professor Emerita of History at in 2012. In 2014 he finished a book man- the University of California, Los Angeles, uscript titled The Enlightenment’s Theolog- and former President of the Organization ical Legacy: The Liberal Transformation of of American Historians and the Ameri- Religion and the Civic Life of Democracy, can Historical Association. Her research which focuses on the theological thought has covered a wide range of topics, though of John Locke, Alexis de Tocqueville, Mar- much of her work focuses on questions tin Luther King, Jr., Abraham Lincoln, about liberal values and institutions and the and Barack Obama. His research and social and intellectual impact of economic teaching interests also include ancient and developments. She has written a number modern conceptions of leadership, separa- of books over the last fifty years, including tion of powers and executive authority, and Liberalism and Republicanism in the His- natural rights. He is currently researching torical Imagination; Economic Thought and a second book, which explores theoretical Ideology in Seventeenth Century England; and moral foundations of civil society and Capitalism and a New Social Order: The their role in America’s efforts to promote Republican Vision of the 1790s; and Inher- democracy in transitional societies. iting the Revolution: The First Generation of Americans. Since retirement she has written for the reading public: a presidential biog- 14 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Hadley Arkes Mark Arvanigian Ph.D. University Chicago; B.A. University Ph.D. University of Durham; M.A., B.A. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign California State University, Fresno Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2005- Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008 2007, Charlottesville 2008 and 2011 Mark is an associate professor of Europe- Hadley is the Edward N. Ney Professor in an and medieval history at California State American Institutions at Amherst College. University, Fresno. His research interests His research focuses on moral principles include medieval and early-modern En- and their relation to constitutional inter- glish politics and political culture, landed pretation, constitutional jurisprudence, economy and society, political ideas and natural law, and moral relativism. He has their expression, war and finance, aristo- written many books since 1972, including cratic and gentry cultures, and religious First Things and most recently Constitution- and intellectual history of later medieval al Illusions & Anchoring Truths: The Touch- England. He is the author of Ralph Neville stone of the Natural Law. He is the Founder and the Governance of England, 1367-1425. and Director of the James Wilson Insti- tute on Natural Rights and the American Ewa Atanassow Founding in Washington, D.C. Ph.D. University of Chicago; B.A. Jagiello- nian University Kathleen Arnn Postdoctoral Fellow: Harvard University Ph.D., M.A. Claremont Graduate Univer- 2008-2009 sity; B.A. University of Dallas Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Ewa is a professor of psychology and polit- 2012 ical thought at the Bard College campus in Berlin, Germany where she teaches cours- Kathleen is Headmaster of Founders Clas- es on ethics and psychology in the liberal sical Academy, a liberal arts charter school tradition of political thought. Her articles with a Great Books curriculum in Aus- and reviews have appeared in Journal of tin, Texas. Her research interests include Democracy, Kronos, Nations and Nation- American politics and institutions, ancient alism, Perspectives on Political Science, and and early-modern political philosophy, and Przeglad Polityczny. Ewa recently co-edited literature and politics. Her doctoral disser- Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democra- tation studied the two peaks of moral vir- cy, a collection of essays that grew out of a tue in the political writings of Aristotle. JMC-sponsored conference at the Univer- sity of Chicago. The volume explores the contemporary relevance of Tocqueville’s work to understanding the global challenges of democratization. 15 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Jed Atkins She is a contributor to Political Philosophy Ph.D., M.Phil. University of Cambridge; Comes to Rick’s: Casablanca and American B.A. Bowdoin College Civic Culture. The chapters “Democracy,” Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville “Civil Right,” and “Federalism” appear in 2012 American National Government, edited by Adam Lawrence. She also has a published Jed is an assistant professor of classical book review titled “Judith Allen, The Fem- studies at Duke University. His research inism of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Sexu- interests include Greek and Roman polit- alities, Histories, Progressivism” in Inter- ical philosophy and ethics, Latin literature, national Feminist Journal of Politics. history of political thought, early Christian thought, and Cicero. He has written sever- Jeremy Bailey al articles as well as a book, Cicero on Pol- Ph.D. Boston College; B.A. Rhodes Col- itics and the Limits of Reason: The Republic lege of Laws. Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006, Charlottesville 2008, Santa Fe 2009, Char- Richard Avramenko lottesville 2011 Ph.D. Georgetown University Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 Jeremy is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Honors College and Ross Richard is an associate professor of political M. Lence Distinguished Teaching Chair science and integrated liberal studies at the at the University of Houston. His research University of Wisconsin, Madison. His areas interests include executive power, the pres- of interest are ancient and continental politi- idency, and American political thought cal thought. He is the author of Courage: The and development. He is the author of Politics of Life and Limb and is working on a Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power and new book entitled The Crush of Democracy: co-author of The Contested Removal Power, Tocqueville and the Egalitarian Mind. 1789-2010, which he co-wrote with JMC Fellows David Alvis and F. Flagg Taylor. Nivedita Bagchi Jeremy’s research has been published in Ph.D. University of Virginia; B.A. Con- American Political Science Review, Review of verse College; B.A. Loreto College Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Presi- Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 dential Studies Quarterly, American Politics Research, Harvard Journal of Law and Pub- Nivedita is an assistant professor of gov- lic Policy, and Publius: The Journalof Fed- ernment and political affairs at Millers- eralism. He is currently working on a book ville University. Her teaching interests are entitled James Madison and the Politics of American government and political theory. Constitutional Imperfection.

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Chloe Bakalar ical thought, and post-modern political Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania thought. His most recent publications in- Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia clude “Camus’s The Fall: Remembering and 2014 Reconsidering the Great Books in Light of Modernity’s Fall,” “Franklin’s Classical Chloe recently received her Ph.D. from American Statesmanship,” “Learning the the University of Pennsylvania, where she Lesson of Dionysus: Aristophanes’ Tragi- studied political theory. comic Wisdom and Poetic Politics in the Frogs,” and “Thinking Nietzsche Through Thomas Balcerski and Strauss’s Recovery of Classical Political Ph.D. Cornell University; M.A. State Uni- Philosophy.” versity of New York at Stony Brook Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Joshua Bandoch Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; Thomas received his Ph.D. in U.S. histo- B.A. University of Maryland, College Park ry from Cornell University in May 2014. Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville His research focuses on pre-1900 American 2013 history, race and gender, public history, and Postdoctoral Fellow: American Democracy American literature. His dissertation, Inti- Forum at the University of Wisconsin, Mad- mate Contests: Manhood, Friendship, and ison 2014-2016 the Coming of the Civil War, studied male friendship and its influence on antebellum Joshua is a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow in the American political development. American Democracy Forum at University of Wisconsin, Madison. Previously he was Christopher Baldwin a postdoctoral research associate in the Po- Ph.D., M.A. University of Toronto; B.A. litical Theory Project at Brown University. Kenyon College His research interests include liberalism, Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville multiculturalism, and the history of politi- 2008 cal thought, especially modern and Amer- ican. He has authored several articles and Christopher is an assistant professor in the book chapters, including “On the Problem Department of Political Science, Philoso- of Forming a European Spirit – Montes- phy, and Religion at Southeast Missouri quieu’s De l’Esprit des lois” in Ideas of/for College. Previously, he was an assistant Europe: An Interdisciplinary Approach to professor of political science at Rhodes European Identity. College. His research interests are classical political philosophy, American polit-

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“The basic idea of an immersion with a small group of intelligent people with related interests and academic specialties is an excellent one, and I have felt the impact of these new ideas in all aspects of my own scholarship, from what I choose to publish on, to what I teach.” Christopher Barker

Christopher Barker sical liberal theories of government and Ph.D. Claremont Graduate citizen capability and conceptions of the University Rule of Law State found in German polit- Summer Institute Fellow: ical thought. He is most interested in the Chicago 2012 thought of Smith, Kelsen, Schmitt, Hayek, Postdoctoral Fellow: Boston and Luhmann. Before beginning his grad- College Department of Politi- uate studies at Penn, Andrew taught mid- cal Science 2011-2012; Program in Consti- dle school English and social studies in the tutional Government at Harvard Universi- Teach for America program and spent a ty 2010-2011 year in Dinslaken, Germany as a member of the Congress-Bundestag Exchange. Christopher is an assistant professor of political science at Southwestern Univer- Mark Bauerlein sity. He has held postdoctoral fellowships Ph.D. University of California, Los Ange- at Ohio University, Boston College, and les Harvard University. His research interests Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2008 include early-modern liberty and anti-Ma- chiavellism, and the ways in which citizens Mark is a professor of English at Emory of democracies deal with the experience of University. He is the author of The Dumb- war. He has a forthcoming book on the po- est Generation: How the Digital Age Stupe- litical philosophy of John Stuart Mill. fies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don’t Trust Anyone Under 30), Andrew Barnard Literary Criticism: An Autopsy, and Negro- Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylva- phobia: A Race Riot in Atlanta. His schol- nia; B.A. Utah State University arly essays have appeared in PMLA, Wilson Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia Quarterly, and Philosophy and Literature. 2014 Apart from his scholarly work, he publishes in popular periodicals such as the Wall Andrew is pursuing his Ph.D. in political Street Journal, the New York Times, the science at the University of Pennsylvania, Weekly Standard, the Washington Post, and where he studies theories of legitimacy the Chronicle of Higher Education. and legal theory. Specifically his research interests lie in the overlap between clas- 18 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Scott Beaulier the Humanities and a lecturer in political Ph.D., M.A. George Mason University; science at Columbia University during the B.S. Northern Michigan University 2013-2014 academic year. Her research in- Summer Institute Fellow: Santa Fe 2009 terests include early-modern English and American political thought. Scott is the Adams-Bibby Chair of Free Enterprise, Division Chair of Economics William S. Belko and Finance, and Executive Director of the Ph.D. Mississippi State University; M.A. Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Southwest Missouri State University; B.A. Economy at Troy University. His fields of Drury College interest are applied macroeconomics, law Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville and economics, public economics, develop- 2009 ment economics, international economics, and political economy. William is an associate professor of history and Director of the Graduate Program in Sean Beienburg Early American Studies at the University Ph.D. candidate, Princeton University; of West Florida. He is the author of the B.A. Pomona University forthcoming book, Philip Pendleton Barbo- Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia ur, 1783-1841: An Old Republican in King 2014 Andrew’s Court, as well as published books The Triumph of the Antebellum Free Trade Sean Beienburg is a graduate student in Movement and The Invincible Duff Green: politics at Princeton University. His pri- Whig of the West. mary research and teaching interests include American political and constitutional David L. Berkey development, American political thought, Ph.D., M.A., M.Phil. Yale University; parties and interest groups, federalism, M.A., B.A. Johns Hopkins University and prohibition. His dissertation is about Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 states’ constitutional resistance to federal policy-making after Reconstruction. David is a research fellow for the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. His Teresa Bejan research interests are in classics and mil- Ph.D. Yale University; M.Phil. University itary history. Before joining the Hoover of Cambridge; B.A. University of Chicago Institution, Berkey was a professor in the Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 Department of History at California State University, Fresno. He has studied at the Teresa is an assistant professor of political American Academy in Rome and the science at the University of Toronto. She American School of Classical Studies in was a fellow in the Society of Fellows in Athens. 19 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Andrew Bibby Brian A.N. Bitar Ph.D. Michigan State University; B.A. Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago; Concordia University B.A. Harvard University Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2011 Andrew is a visiting assistant professor of American studies at Christopher Newport Brian is a Ph.D. candidate and lecturer at University. He is interested in modern po- the University of Chicago’s John U. Nef litical thought and American studies. He Committee on Social Thought. He is also is the author of several publications, in- a senior resident visiting scholar at Massey cluding a forthcoming book titled Montes- College, University of Toronto. His re- quieu’s Political Economy. search interests include ancient and modern political philosophy, the moral and Steven Bilakovics psychological foundations of early-modern Ph.D. University of Texas, philosophy, and political economy. His dis- Austin; M.A. University of sertation is titled Hobbes’s Psychology and Chicago; B.A. University of the Conception of Desire for Power. California, San Diego Summer Institute Fellow: Jeremy Black Santa Fe 2009, Pasadena 2014 Ph.D. Oxford University; B.A. University Postdoctoral Fellow: Center for the Liberal of Durham Arts and Free Institutions at the University Summer Institute Faculty: Chicago 2012 of California, Los Angeles 2013-2016; Yale Center for the Study of Representative In- Jeremy is a professor of history at the Uni- stitutions 2009-2012 versity of Exeter. His research interests include 18th century British politics and Steven is a postdoctoral fellow at the Univer- international relations. He has published a sity of California, Los Angeles for the Com- number of books, including War and World mercial Republic Project housed in the Cen- 1450-2000; The British Seaborne Empire: ter for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions, Maps and History; George III; and European a partner program of the JMC’s Commer- Warfare in a Global Context, 1660-1815. cial Republic Initiative. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Yale Center for Mark Blitz the Study of Representative Institutions. Ph.D., A.B. Harvard University His research interests include democratic so- Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville cial and political theory, capitalism, Ameri- 2010, Pasadena 2011 can political thought, the history of political thought, and contemporary theory. Steven Mark is the Fletcher Jones Professor of Po- is the author of Democracy Without Politics. litical Philosophy at Claremont McKen- 20 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

na College. His areas of expertise include Andrew J. Bove political philosophy, public policy, and Ph.D. candidate, Boston College; B.A. American foreign policy. He is the author Carleton College several books, including Conserving Liber- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 ty; Plato’s Political Philosophy; Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life; and Andrew is Associate Director for Academ- Heidegger’s Being and Time and the Possi- ic Advising and an instructor in the Au- bility of Political Philosophy. Mark has also gustine and Culture Seminar Program at published many articles on political phi- Villanova University. His research interests losophy and American politics, including are in the field of political philosophy and “What Conservatism Retains” in Policy include Hegel, Socrates, and Aristotle. Review and “Are America’s Political Princi- ples Universal?” in Perspectives on Political Charles Bradford Bow Science. Ph.D. Edinburgh University; M.A. Cen- tral Michigan University, University of Catherine Borck Strathclyde; B.A. Texas A & M University Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; Research Library Fellow: Huntington Li- B.A. Oglethorpe University brary, 2013 Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Charles held a three-month JMC research Catherine is an assistant professor of pol- fellowship at the Huntington Library in itics and government at the University 2013. Afterwards, he returned to Edin- of Hartford. Her research interests are burgh as a teaching fellow in Enlighten- in classical and early-modern political ment history. His research is on the intel- thought. Her current book project studies lectual history of the 18th and 19th century Socratic friendship, particularly the friend- Atlantic world with a particular emphasis ship of Socrates and Alcibiades. on Enlightenment intellectual culture in North America and Britain. He is currently at work on a new project entitled, War and

“I based my organization of a course called Modern Constitutionalism on many of the texts we read during my summer institute and used Pangle’s understanding of Montesquieu (which he presented at my summer institute) to explain a very complicated text to my students.”

Sarah Burns

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Enlightenment in the Atlantic Age of Revo- Philip Bretton lution, 1754-1815. The book manuscript Ph.D. Michigan State University; A.B. focuses on the ways in which the ethics of University of Chicago the “just war” doctrine developed an early Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 American sense of identity. Philip is an editorial assistant at the Leo Janice Chik Breidenbach Strauss Center at the University of Chi- Ph.D. candidate, University of St. An- cago. He held a University Distinguished drews; M.A. University of Texas, Austin; Fellowship at Michigan State University. B.A. Princeton University His interests include Enlightenment liber- Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 alism, religious toleration and party organization, and British and American polit- Janice is an assistant professor of philoso- ical thought. phy at Ave Maria University. Her academic research concerns the metaphysics of hu- Paul Brink man action, the philosophy of psychology, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame; M.A. and ethics. Dalhousie University; B.A. Redeemer Col- lege Luigi Bradizza Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 Ph.D. University of Dallas; B.S. University of Toronto Paul is a professor of political science at Postdoctoral Fellow: Louisiana State Uni- Gordon College. His research interests in- versity 2008-2009 clude political theory and religion, politics of divided societies, and liberal political Luigi is an assistant professor of politi- theory. cal science at Salve Regina University in Rhode Island. He teaches courses in Amer- Matthew Brogdon ican political thought, civil liberties, con- Ph.D. Baylor University; M.A., B.A. Uni- stitutional law, and political parties. He re- versity of West Florida cently published a book entitled Richard T. Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 Ely’s Critique of Capitalism. Luigi has contributed essays to publications edited by a Matthew is an assistant professor of polit- number of JMC Fellows including Dustin ical science at the University of Texas, San Gish, David Livingstone, Paul DeHart, Antonio. His research interests include and Lee Trepanier. the federal courts and federal jurisdiction, American constitutional development, the American Founding, American political thought, and politics and literature.

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Jennifer Brookhart the Political Management Program in the Ph.D. candidate, M.A. University of Wis- Graduate School of Political Management consin, Madison; B.A. Gonzaga University at George Washington University. Her re- Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 search interests include national elections, presidential aspirants, congressional in- Jennifer is currently at the University of cumbents, political scandals, national elec- Wisconsin, Madison pursuing her Ph.D. tions, political development, and the ideo- in political science. She has co-authored logical foundations of presidential rhetoric. articles that are forthcoming in the British She has authored many articles and a book, Journal of Political Science and the George- Jockeying for the American Presidency: The town Law Journal. Political Opportunism of Aspirants, which systematically studies presidential aspirants Shilo Brooks from 1796 through 2008. Ph.D., M.A. Boston College; B.A. St. John’s College James E. Bruce Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 Ph.D., M.A. Baylor University; M.A., B.A. Postdoctoral Fellow: Program on Constitu- University of Oxford; A.B. Dartmouth tionalism and Democracy at the University College of Virginia 2014-2015 Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2012 Shilo is a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow in the Program on Constitutionalism and De- James is an assistant professor of philoso- mocracy at the University of Virginia. Be- phy at John Brown University. His research fore coming to UVA, he taught political interests include ethics, philosophical the- theory at Bowdoin College. His research ology, and political philosophy. His first focuses on classical and modern political book, Rights in the Law, was published in philosophy, the foundations of liberalism, 2013. He is currently working on his sec- American political thought, and political ond book, which considers the relationship leadership. He is currently working on between distributive justice and two ques- studies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Ed- tions in philosophical theology, the prob- mund Burke. lem of evil and the afterlife.

Lara Brown Joseph Brutto Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of California, Ph.D. candidate, M.A., B.A. University of Los Angeles; M.A. University of Arizona Notre Dame Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 2011 Joseph is a Ph.D. candidate at the Universi- Lara is Associate Professor and Director of ty of Notre Dame. He has taught an intro- 23 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

ductory course in political theory for No- research interests are ancient Greek and tre Dame’s Program of Liberal Studies, a early-modern political thought. Great Books program. He is the Book Re- view Editor for American Political Thought: Daniel Burns A Journal of Ideas, Institutions, and Culture, Ph.D. Boston College; B.A. Williams Col- a journal conceived and supported by the lege JMC. His dissertation is titled “The Many Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Faces of Aristotle: Neo-Aristotelianism 2013 and Contemporary Political Theory.” Postdoctoral Fellow: Thomas Jefferson Cen- ter for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at Nicholas Buccola University of Texas, Austin 2014-2015 Ph.D., M.A. University of Southern Cali- fornia; B.A. Santa Clara University Daniel is an assistant professor of politics Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville at the University of Dallas. His research 2011, Chicago 2012 interests are in the history of political thought with an emphasis on the relation- Nicholas is a professor of political science ship between religion and politics. He is a and Founding Director of the Frederick JMC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Jefferson Douglass Forum on Law, Rights, and Jus- Center for Core Texts and Ideas at Uni- tice at Linfield College. His research inter- versity of Texas, Austin for the 2014-2015 ests include American politics with a focus academic year. Daniel is currently working on contemporary issues such as same-sex on a book entitled Augustine’s Introduction marriage and social justice, moral contro- to Political Philosophy. He also has an arti- versies, political liberals and conservatives, cle entitled “Political Theory in the Islamic and the Supreme Court and constitution- World: Al-Farabi’s Educational Project” al law. He has a number of publications and a book chapter titled “The Place of the in print, including his book, The Political Bible in the Strauss-Kojève Debate” under Thought of Frederick Douglass: In Pursuit of review. Daniel is married to JMC Fellow American Liberty. Kimberley Burns.

Jill Budny Ph.D. University of Notre Dame; M.A. “The Jack Miller Institute experience Fordham University; B.A. Marquette Uni- has allowed me…to make the versity Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville transition seamlessly from graduate 2012 researcher to a successful teacher.”

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Kimberley Burns Peter Busch Ph.D. candidate, Boston College; B.A. Ph.D. University of Toronto; B.S. Michi- University of Winnipeg gan State University Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 2013 Peter is a Gallen Teaching Fellow at Vil- Kimberley is a Ph.D. candidate at Boston lanova University. His teaching interests College and will soon defend her disserta- include the relationship between justice tion. She most recently taught Principles and peace, the intersection of philosophy of American Politics and Philosophy and and theology in the thought of Augustine the Ethical Life as an adjunct instructor and Dante, Nietzsche’s political philoso- at the University of Dallas. Her research phy, and Platonic and Aristotelian political and teaching interests include American philosophy. politics, classical and modern political philosophy, and American and Canadian po- Elizabeth Kaufer Busch litical thought. Her most recent conference Ph.D. Michigan State University; B.A. presentations were “Promises of Utility Emory University and the Soul of the Bourgeois” at The En- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007, during Challenge of Rousseau’s Thought: Charlottesville 2008 Tercentenary Conference held by Colora- do College and The Rousseau Association Elizabeth is an associate professor of Amer- and “The Sanctity of the Social Contract” ican studies at Christopher Newport Uni- at the Northeastern Political Science Asso- versity. Her research interests include the ciation Conference. Kimberley is married history of feminist thought in America, to JMC Fellow Daniel Burns. civic education, and the effects of relativism on the university. With JMC Fellow Sarah Burns Jonathan White, she edited Civic Educa- Ph.D. Claremont University; B.A. Univer- tion and the Future of American Citizenship. sity of Toronto Elizabeth is married to JMC Fellow Na- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville than Busch. 2010 Nathan Busch Sarah is an assistant professor of political Ph.D. University of Toronto; M.A. Mich- science at the Rochester Institute of Tech- igan State University; B.A. University of nology. Her areas of expertise include En- Toronto lightenment political philosophy, ideolo- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 gies of empire, institutional development, constitutionalism, the American Found- Nathan is a professor of government and ing, and American political development. Co-Director of the Center for American 25 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Studies at Christopher Newport Universi- coming to Middlebury, he served as a JMC ty. His research interests include interna- Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of tional security, foreign policy, international Virginia. His primary research is in mod- conflict, weapons of mass destruction pro- ern political thought, and he is currently liferation, and political theory. He is the completing a book manuscript on the po- author of No End in Sight: The Continuing litical philosophy of Montesquieu. He has Menace of Nuclear Proliferation and Com- published in journals such as History of Po- bating Weapons of Mass Destruction: The litical Thought and Political Research Quar- Future of International Nonproliferation terly. Policy. Nathan is married to JMC Fellow Elizabeth Kaufer Busch. Jane E. Calvert Ph.D. University of Chicago Patrick Cain Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 Ph.D. Baylor University; M.A. Brock Uni- versity; H.B.A. Lakehead University Jane is Associate Professor of History and Di- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville rector/Editor of The John Dickinson Writ- 2008 ings Project at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests are in early-modern Patrick is an assistant professor of political Anglo-American religious, political, and science at Lakehead University. His re- constitutional history, with her research search focuses on political philosophy, and focusing on Quaker political thought and he has published writings on the political Founding Father John Dickinson. She is the thought of Aristotle, Homer, and Benedict author of Quaker Constitutionalism and the XVI. He is currently working on a book Political Thought of John Dickinson. manuscript about ancient political thought and the family. Paul Cantor Ph.D., A.B. Harvard University Keegan Callanan Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2008, Ph.D., M.A. Duke University; Charlottesville 2008 B.A. Bowdoin College Summer Institute Workshop Paul is the Clifton Waller Barrett Professor Facilitator: Charlottesville 2012 of English at the University of Virginia. He Postdoctoral Fellow: Program specializes in comparative literature, Re- on Constitutionalism and naissance literature, and Romanticism. He Democracy at the University of Virginia is the author of seven books, most recently 2011-2012 The Invisible Hand in Pop Culture and Lit- erature and the Economics of Liberty. Keegan is an assistant professor of political science at Middlebury College. Before 26 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Nicholas Capaldi science at Claremont Graduate University. Ph.D. Columbia University; B.A. Universi- His research interests include American ty of Pennsylvania politics, specifically American political in- Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville stitutions and American political thought. 2011 His dissertation, in progress, is entitled “Statesmanship, Leadership, and the Rhet- Nicholas is the Legendre-Soule Distin- oric of the Obama Presidency,” an analysis guished Chair in Business Ethics at Loyola of the rhetoric of the Obama Presidency University New Orleans. He specializes in and its impact on the constitutional order. areas including higher education, bio-ethics, business ethics, affirmative action, and Brian Carso immigration. He has authored several ar- Ph.D. Boston University; J.D. State Uni- ticles and books on a variety of topics in- versity of New York, Buffalo Law School; cluding corporate social responsibility, the M.A., B.A. University of Rochester ethics of free market societies, and John Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 Stuart Mill. Brian is Associate Professor of History and William Arthur Carden Government and is the Pre-Law Program Ph.D., A.M. Washington University in Director at Misericordia University in Saint Louis; M.A., B.S. University of Ala- Pennsylvania, where he developed an un- bama dergraduate program in government, law, Summer Institute Fellow: Santa Fe 2009 and national security. He is the author of “Whom Can We Trust Now?” The Meaning Arthur is an assistant professor of eco- of Treason in the United States from the Rev- nomics at Samford University. His re- olution through the Civil War. search interests include economic history, new institutional economics, development Jason Casellas economics, and applied microeconomics. Ph.D., M.A. Princeton; B.A. Loyola Uni- He has published articles on topics rang- versity New Orleans ing from the effects of “big box” retail- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 ers to foreign aid and economic change. Jason is an associate professor of political sci- Andrew Carico ence, as well as the Faculty Affiliate for both Ph.D. student, Claremont Graduate Uni- the Center for Mexican American Studies versity; M.A. Regent University; B.A. and the Hobby Center for Public Policy at the Evangel University University of Houston. His research interests Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia 2014 include Latino politics, American politics, and public policy. He is the author of Latino Repre- Andrew is pursuing his Ph.D. in political sentation in State Houses and Congress. 27 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

James Ceaser include contemporary continental thought, Ph.D. Harvard University; ancient political philosophy, phenomenol- M.A. Cornell University; ogy, non-Western political thought, and B.A. Kenyon College political theology. He is currently work- Summer Institute Faculty: ing on a book project titled The Young Leo Princeton 2005-2007; Boul- Strauss: Political Philosophy in the Wake of der 2006-2008; Charlottes- Heidegger, 1921-1936. ville 2008-2013; Santa Fe 2009; Chicago 2010, 2012; Pasadena 2011, 2014; Philadel- Joshua Cherniss phia 2014 Ph.D. Harvard University; DPhil. Oxford University; B.A. Yale University Jim is Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2013 at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1976. His primary research in- Joshua is an assistant professor in the De- terests include American political thought, partment of Government at Georgetown campaigns and elections, and political insti- University. His research interests include tutions. He has written many books, includ- the history of political thought, liberal and ing Presidential Selection, Liberal Democracy democratic theory, political ethics, twen- and Political Science; Reconstructing America; tieth century political thought, British Nature and History in American Political De- political thought, and American political velopment; and Designing a Polity. Jim has thought. His first book, published in 2013, held visiting positions at Harvard Universi- is titled A Mind and its Time: The Develop- ty, Princeton University, Oxford University, ment of Isaiah Berlin’s Political Thought. the University of Basel, and the University of Bordeaux. He has worked closely with Kevin Cherry JMC since its inception serving as Chair- Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; man of the JMC Academic Council and on M.A. The Catholic University of America the JMC Board of Directors. Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2008 Rodrigo Chacon Ph.D., M.A. The New School for Social Re- Kevin is an assistant professor of political search; B.A. Instituto Tecnologico Autono- science at the University of Richmond. mo de Mexico (ITAM) His areas of expertise are classical political thought, American political thought, Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2011 contemporary political thought, history of Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Politi- political thought, faction and political po- cal Science at Boston College 2009-2010 larization, and religion and politics. He is Rodrigo is a lecturer on social studies at the author of Plato, Aristotle, and the Pur- Harvard University. His research interests pose of Politics. 28 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Jeffrey Church Michelle T. Clarke Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; Ph.D. Yale University; B.A. Tufts Univer- B.A. Ursinus College sity Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2010 2008

Jeffrey is an associate professor of political Michelle is an assistant professor of govern- science at the University of Houston. His ment at Dartmouth College. Her research research interests include modern political interests include Machiavelli, ancient and thought, Rousseau, Kant, German ide- modern republicanism, and Roman politi- alism, and liberal and democratic theory. cal thought. Her work has been published His recent projects include Infinite Auton- in Review of Politics, History of Political omy: The Divided Individual in the Politi- Thought, Journal of Politics, Political Stud- cal Thought of G.W.F. Hegel and Friedrich ies, and Political Research Quarterly. Nietzsche and “Personhood and Ethical Commercial Life: Hegel’s Transformation Remalian Cocar of Locke.” Ph.D., M.A. Emory University; B.A. Uni- versity of Michigan, Ann Arbor Rebecca Clark Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Ph.D. Boston College; B.A. Bowdoin Col- 2012 lege Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Remalian is an assistant professor of his- 2013 tory at Tennessee Temple University and adjunct instructor of history in the School Rebecca is a lecturer of political science of Liberal Arts at Georgia Gwinnett Col- at the University of New Hampshire. She lege. His teaching interests include Amer- was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the ican history and Western civilization. He Department of Political Science at Emory has presented several papers including “Be- University. Her research interests include tween Liberalism and Evangelicalism: Ear- early-modern political thought, American ly 20th century Mainline Protestants and political thought, American legal and con- Their Public” at the Third U.S. Intellectual stitutional history, Jewish political thought, History Conference. French Enlightenment and Montesquieu, and American political development. She is Jeffrey Coker currently working to revise her dissertation Ph.D. Ohio University; M.A. Texas State into a manuscript titled The Forests of Free- University, San Marcos; B.A. University of dom and the Steppes of Servitude: A Reflection Texas, Austin on 18th Century Political Economy. Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008

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Jeffrey is Dean for Undergraduate Studies Carli Conklin at the University of North Florida. His re- Ph.D., J.D., M.A. University of Virginia; search is in America’s political and intel- M.A.E., B.A. Truman State University lectual history. He is the author of three Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville books, including a biography on Franklin 2008 D. Roosevelt, a survey of the presidents from Taylor through Grant, and Confront- Carli is an associate professor of law and ing American Labor: The New Left Dilem- a senior fellow at the Center for the Study ma. of Dispute Resolution at the University of Missouri. Her research interests are in Alberto Coll American legal history, especially dispute Ph.D., J.D. University of Virginia; B.A. resolution and rights dialogues in early Princeton University America. Carli is Faculty Coordinator for Summer Institute Faculty: Chicago 2012 the Kinder Forum on Constitutional De- mocracy’s undergraduate society of fellows Alberto is a professor of law and Director program at the University of Missouri. Her of the European and Latin American Le- article, “Origins of the Pursuit of Happi- gal Studies and International Law L.L.M. ness” is forthcoming in the Washington programs at DePaul University College of University Jurisprudence Review. Law. His primary interests include international human rights, public international Matthew Connell law, and international trade and invest- Ph.D. candidate, M.A. Louisiana State ment. He is the author of The Wisdom of University; B.A. Thomas More College of Statecraft. Liberal Arts Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville John Colman 2010 Ph.D. Boston College; M.A., B.A. Car- leton University (Canada) Matthew is an Eric Voeglin Institute Schol- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville ar and Ph.D. candidate at Louisiana State 2010 University. His research interests include political theory and American politics. John is an associate professor and the Chair of the Department of Politics at Ave Maria Brendan Cook University. His research interests include Ph.D. University of Toronto; M.A., B.A. ancient and modern Epicurean political University of Saskatchewan philosophy, the American Founding and Postdoctoral Fellow: Carthage College the Enlightenment, and disestablishment 2011-2013 and free inquiry. He is the author of Lucre- tius as Theorist of Political Life. Brendan is an instructor in humanities 30 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

and cultural studies at the University of Elizabeth Corey South Florida, where he teaches a variety Ph.D., M.A. Louisiana State University; of courses on the foundational works of the B.A. Oberlin College Western tradition. As a JMC Postdoctor- Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008 al Fellow at Carthage College, he taught the Western Heritage core courses, which Elizabeth is an associate professor of polit- feature close readings of the Declaration ical science in the Honors Program at Bay- of Independence and John Locke’s “Let- lor University. She specializes in political ter on Toleration.” His published articles theory, from Plato through the American explore such topics as sixteenth-century Founding. She is the author of Michael biblical translation and the relationship be- Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Pol- tween religion and public morality in the itics. writings of Sir Thomas More. Harvard University Press published his translation Zachary Courser of the correspondence of the fifteenth-cen- Ph.D. University of Virginia; tury Italian humanist Lorenzo Valla in the B.A. Claremont McKenna spring of 2014. College Summer Institute Fellow: Travis Cook Charlottesville 2011 Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago; M.A. Postdoctoral Fellow: Politi- Boston College; B.A. University of Maine cal Science Department at Boston College Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 2009-2010

Travis is an assistant professor of govern- Zachary is an instructor in the Govern- ment and political philosophy at Belmont ment Department and Associate Director Abbey College in North Carolina. of the Dreier Roundtable at Claremont McKenna College, a forum that engages Ross Corbett students, policymakers, and the public in a J.D. candidate, Northwestern University discussion of current policy issues that af- School of Law; Ph.D. University of Toron- fect the prosperity of the United States and to; B.A. University of Maryland the world. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Boston College from 2009-2010, where he 2009 taught courses on congress, campaigns and elections, and parties and interest groups. Ross is a law student at Northwestern Uni- He is currently interested in the Tea Party versity School of Law. Previously, he taught Movement and has written about the Tea political science at Northern Illinois Uni- Party’s effects on the 2010 election arguing versity. He is the author of The Lockean that the Tea Party is a conservative social Commonwealth. movement, more than a political party. 31 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

In 2013, he went abroad to teach a course Tobin is Associate Professor in the Politi- on American conservatism at Sciences Po cal Theory and Constitutional Democracy in Lyon, France, while working on a book major and the Science, Technology, Envi- on the decline of republican institutions in ronment, and Public Policy specialization American politics. Zachary actively posts (STEPPs) in the James Madison College on his blog, “Detailing Democracy: Schol- at Michigan State University. His teaching arly Research and Opinion about Partici- and research focuses on the intersection pation and American Democracy.” of modern technological natural science and modern political philosophy, and the Jesse Covington thought of Francis Bacon in particular. His Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; scholarly work explores the arguments for M.A.R. Westminster Theological Semi- the encouragement and institutionaliza- nary; B.A. Pepperdine University tion of a methodical, progressive, and tech- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 nologically oriented science of nature.

Jesse is an associate professor of politi- Matthew Crawford cal science at Westmont College in Santa Ph.D. University of Chicago; B.S. Univer- Barbara, California, where he teaches and sity of California, Santa Barbara writes in the fields of political theory and Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 constitutional law. His research interests focus on the First Amendment, political Matthew is a senior fellow at the University theology, and the foundations of political of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Stud- liberalism. He recently co-edited Natu- ies in Culture, and a fabricator of compo- ral Law and Evangelical Political Thought, nents for custom motorcycles. His New to which he contributed a chapter on St. York Times bestselling book Shop Class Augustine and natural law. As a visiting as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of fellow with the James Madison Program Work, translated into nine languages, has at Princeton University, he will be working prompted a wide rethinking of education on a manuscript provisionally titled Taken and labor policies in the U.S. and Europe, on Faith: The Concept of Religion in First leading the Sunday Times to call him “one Amendment Jurisprudence. He is also work- of the most influential thinkers of our ing on an ongoing collaborative project on time.” His upcoming book, The World Be- Protestant political thought. yond Your Head: On Becoming an Individ- ual in an Age of Distraction, will be pub- Tobin Craig lished by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2015. Ph.D. Boston College Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville David Crockett 2009 Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin; M.P. Aff Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public 32 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Affairs; B.A. Georgetown University economics, political economy, state and Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 local public finance, applied microeconomics, and spatial econometrics. David is a professor and Chair of the Po- litical Science Department at Trinity Uni- Daniel Cullen versity. His research interests include the Ph.D. Boston College; M.A. Dalhousie American presidency, presidential elec- University tions, American political development, Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville 2010 classical political philosophy, and religion and American politics. He is the author of Daniel is an associate professor of polit- several books and journal articles, includ- ical philosophy and the humanities, and ing Running Against the Grain: How Oppo- co-Director of The Project for the Study sition Presidents Win the White House. of Liberal Democracy at Rhodes College. His teaching aims to cultivate civic and Matthew Crow liberal education, with special attention to Ph.D., M.A. University of California, Los the philosophical sources of modern de- Angeles; B.A. University of California, San mocracy. He is the author of Freedom in Diego Rousseau’s Political Philosophy, and his most Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 recent article, “Freedom, Religion, and So- cial Unity: Another Rousseauian Paradox” Matthew is an assistant professor of history will appear in the upcoming On Religious at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. He Liberty. teaches the colonial and revolutionary history of the United States, as well as the in- Jonathan Culp tellectual, legal, and constitutional history Ph.D. Boston College; B.A. St. John’s Col- of the United States from its European an- lege in Annapolis tecedents to the present. His publications Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2010 include “History, Politics, and the Self: Jef- ferson’s ‘Anas’ and Autobiography,” in the Jonathan is an assistant professor of politics Blackwell Companion to Thomas Jefferson. and Director of International Studies at the University of Dallas. His primary areas of George Crowley expertise are the philosophies of Plato and Ph.D. West Virginia University; B.B.A. David Hume, with secondary expertise in Mercer University the history of political philosophy, interna- Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 tional relations, and the American Found- ing. He is the author of several scholarly George is an assistant professor of econom- papers in addition to his dissertation, Pla- ics at Troy University. His research inter- to’s Critique of Injustice in the Gorgias and ests are public economics, constitutional the Republic. 33 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

William Curtis include classical leadership, statesmanship, Ph.D. Duke University; M.A. Stanford rhetoric and persuasion, legal philosophy, University; J.D. University of California, and ancient and modern political philos- Hastings; A.B. Dartmouth College ophy. His current project, entitled “How Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 Does Law Rule? Plato on Habit, Political Education, and Legislation,” is forthcom- William is an associate professor of polit- ing in the Journal of Politics. ical science at the University of Portland. His primary interests are political theory, John Danford constitutional law, and ethics and public Ph.D. Yale University policy. Summer Institute Faculty: Chicago 2010

Travis Curtright John is a professor of political theory at Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Dallas Loyola University Chicago. His research Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville interests include political theory (ancient, 2010 modern, and contemporary) and philosophy of science and social science. He is the Travis is a fellow of the Center for Thomas author of Wittgenstein and Political Phi- More Studies at the University of Dallas losophy, David Hume and the Problem of and associate professor of humanities and Reason, and Roots of Freedom: A Primer on literature at Ave Maria University, where he Modern Liberty. directs the Humanities and Liberal Studies Program. He specializes in English Renais- Kathryn Davis sance literature and is author of The One Ph.D., M.A. University of Dallas; B.A. Thomas More and co-editor of Shakespeare’s University of Kansas Last Plays: Essays in Literature and Politics. Postdoctoral Fellow: Western Heritage Program at Carthage College 2014-2015 Brent Edwin Cusher Ph.D. University of Toronto; Kathryn served as an adjunct instructor B.A. Carleton College at Southern Methodist University and the Summer Institute: Charlot- University of Dallas before beginning her tesville 2010 JMC Postdoctoral Fellowship at Carthage Postdoctoral Fellow: Project College. She has taught courses in litera- for the Study of Liberal De- ture and writing. Her research has focused mocracy at Rhodes College 2009-2011 on works by Jane Austen and Dante.

Brent is an assistant professor of leader- Samuel Decanio ship and American studies at Christopher Ph.D. Ohio State University Newport University. His research interests Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 34 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Samuel is Assistant Professor of Politi- Paul DeHart cal Science and Resident Fellow of the Ph.D., M.A. University of Texas, Austin; Institution for Social and Policy Studies. B.A. Houghton College He studies American politics, focusing on Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville American political development, demo- 2008 cratic theory, representation, state formation, regulatory policy, and public opin- Paul is an associate professor of political ion. He is the author of the forthcoming science at Texas State University. His re- Democracy and the Origins of the American search and teaching interests include polit- Regulatory State, which examines popular ical thought (ancient and modern), consti- control over the creation of the American tutional law, and the American Founding. regulatory state. His current research fo- He has published several articles in such cuses on questions involving state forma- journals as Polity, Critical Review, Locke tion, democratic theory, American pro- Studies, and Perspectives on Political Science. gressivism, and how high levels of voter He is also the author of Uncovering the ignorance influence domestic and interna- Constitution’s Moral Design and co-editor tional politics. His articles have appeared with Carson Holloway of Reason, Revela- in the American Journal of Political Science, tion, and the Civic Order: Political Philoso- Critical Review, Journal of Politics, Party phy and the Claims of Faith. Politics, and Studies in American Political Development.

Natalie DeDeo Ph.D. University of North Texas; M.A., B.A. University of Alberta (Canada) Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville “Jim Ceaser and Ralph Lerner 2008 masterfully led discussion sections at my Summer Institute. Their manner Natalie is currently a tutor at St. John’s of teaching—posing difficult but College in Santa Fe and a lecturer at Indi- exciting questions, challenging and ana University in the Hutton Honors Col- lege. Her research interests include Francis probing the various answers—has Bacon’s moral philosophy; history and phi- influenced mine.” losophy of science; early-modern political and scientific thought; literature and pol- Jeffrey Church itics; and American political thought. Her current research focuses on life extension in Francis Bacon’s political philosophy.

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Erik Dempsey itics. He has written many journal articles Ph.D. Boston College; B.A. St. John’s College and edited and authored several books, Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008 including The Odyssey of Political Theory; Postdoctoral Fellow: Thomas Jefferson Democratic Faith; Democracy’s Literature; Center for the Study of Core Texts and The Democratic Soul; and Redeeming De- Ideas at University of Texas, Austin 2008- mocracy in America. He has also received 2011 several notable fellowships and awards: three Earhart Foundation Fellowships, two Erik is a lecturer for the Thomas Jefferson fellowships with the Madison Program at Center for Core Texts and Ideas at the Princeton University, the American Po- University of Texas, Austin. He has taught litical Science Association’s Leo Strauss courses such as America’s Constitutional Award for Best Dissertation in Political Principles and Classics of Social and Polit- Philosophy, and two awards from Prince- ical Thought, a survey course in political ton University’s Committee on Research in philosophy and economics that includes the Humanities and Social Sciences. readings from Aristotle, Locke, Hayek, and Adam Smith. His primary field is political Jonathan Den Hartog theory from classical to contemporary. His Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; secondary field of interest is American pol- B.A. Hillsdale College itics. He is currently working on a book on Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 prudence in Aristotle and his interpreters. He credits his exposure to the Jack Miller Jonathan is an associate professor of histo- Center with deepening his understanding ry at the University of Northwestern in St. of the American Founding, improving his Paul. His first book,“Patriotism and Piety:” American Government syllabi, and honing Federalist Politics and Religious Struggle in his teaching approach. the New American Nation, is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press. He Patrick Deneen is currently working on two projects. One Ph.D., B.A. Rutgers University focuses on transatlantic anti-Jacobinism, Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2008, recognizing the networks throughout the Charlottesville 2009 Atlantic world that opposed the French Revolution. The other deals with John Patrick is the David A. Potenziani Memo- Jay’s political thought in the context of the rial Associate Professor of Constitutional American Revolution. Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests are ancient and mod- Ben DeSmidt ern political thought, American political Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. Columbia Universi- thought, American constitutionalism, lit- ty; B.A. University of Chicago erature and politics, and religion and pol- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2011 36 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Ben is Associate Professor of Great Ideas John Dinan and Classics at Carthage College. His re- Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Virginia search interests in the classics include Latin Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville language and literature, and the influence 2008, 2011, 2012 of ancient legal thought on the origins of the novel. His current project is a book- John is a professor of politics at Wake For- length study of legal rhetoric and its influ- est University. His research focuses on state ence on the development of the novel in the constitutionalism, federalism, and Ameri- first century. can political development. He has authored several books including The American State Paul Diduch Constitutional Tradition and Keeping the Ph.D. University of Dallas; People’s Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and M.A., B.A. University of Al- Judges as Guardians of Rights. berta (Canada) Summer Institute Fellow: Matthew Dinan Charlottesville 2010 Ph.D., M.A. Baylor Universi- Postdoctoral Fellow: Western ty; B.A. St. Thomas Universi- Heritage Program at Carthage College ty (Canada) 2011-2014 Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 Paul is an instructor in the Herbst Program Postdoctoral Fellow: The of Humanities at the University of Colo- Charles Carroll Program at the College of rado, Boulder. He was a postdoctoral fel- the Holy Cross 2011-2013 low in the Western Heritage Program and Political Science Department at Carthage Matthew is Assistant Professor of Political College for three years, where he taught Science and Catholic Studies at St. Thom- several Western Heritage core courses that as University in Fredericton, New Bruns- study the American Founding and its in- wick, Canada, where he also teaches in the tellectual roots. He is currently working on Great Books program. He has published a manuscript entitled First Hero of Philoso- articles on Plato and Jacques Derrida and phy: Understanding the Relationship between is currently completing a manuscript enti- Socrates’ Skepticism about Nature and his tled Jacques Derrida’s Democratic Future for Self-Presentation as a Moral Philosopher. He Political Philosophy. He is also at work on is married to Andrea Kowalchuk, a JMC articles on the political thought of Aristotle Summer Institute Fellow. and Hannah Arendt.

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“The Miller Center’s support allowed me, in each of the courses I taught, to start with foundational questions of American politics, and later place our current political problems in their proper historical and philosophical context.”

Zachary Courser

Nathan Dinneen Jennifer Dirmeyer Ph.D. Northern Illinois University; M.A., Ph.D. George Mason University; B.B.A. B.A. University of North Texas Loyola University New Orleans Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2011

Nathan is an assistant professor of political Jennifer is Assistant Professor of Econom- science at Rochester Institute of Technolo- ics and Assistant Department Chair of gy. His research and teaching interests in- Management at Ferris State University. clude Greek political history and political philosophy, international political thought, Daniel DiSalvo international ethics, biopolitics, and agri- Ph.D. University of Virginia cultural and environmental politics. Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005, Charlottesville 2011, Philadelphia 2014 David M. DiPasquale Ph.D., A.M. Harvard University; M.A. Daniel is an assistant professor of political Boston College; B.A. Kenyon College science at the City College of New York Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Insti- 2009 tute, as well as the co-editor of The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contempo- David is a visiting assistant professor in the rary Politics. He teaches courses on Ameri- Department of Political Science and Islam- can government, and his research interests ic Civilization and Societies Program at include political parties, unions, and fac- Boston College. He specializes in the inter- tions. section between Islamic law and political thought in pre-modern and contemporary Bernard (B.J.) Dobski contexts; the transmission and recovery of Ph.D., M.A. Michigan State University; Greek science by Arabic-speaking Muslims B.A. Boston College in the Middle Ages; the relation between Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 Islam and the West; and the political philosophy of Al-Farabi, Avicenna, and Aver- B.J. is Associate Professor and Chair of Po- roes. litical Science at Assumption College. His research interests include Athenian democ- 38 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

racy, Thucydides, Xenophon, classical po- Daniel Doneson litical philosophy, Shakespeare, and Mark Ph.D. University of Chicago; Twain. In addition to his articles, essays, B.A. Swarthmore College and book reviews, he has co-edited two col- Summer Institute Fellow: lections of essays on William Shakespeare: Charlottesville 2008, Chica- Souls with Longing: Representations of Hon- go 2010, Chicago 2012 or and Love in Shakespeare and Shakespeare Postdoctoral Fellow: Benja- and the Body Politic. min Franklin Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2013-2016; Pro- Megan Doherty gram on Constitutionalism and Democra- Ph.D. Columbia University cy at the University of Virginia 2008-2010 Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Research Library Fellow: Huntington Li- 2012 brary, RIHA project, 2013-2014

Megan is a Transatlantic Fellow at the Daniel is a senior fellow and lecturer in the German Marshall Fund of the United Department of Chemical Engineering for States where she focuses on issues related to the Benjamin Franklin Project at MIT, a leadership development, such as next gen- partner program in JMC’s Commercial eration access and equity, public diploma- Republic Initiative. He is a former visit- cy, and diversity and inclusion across the ing assistant professor of government at transatlantic space. Her expertise includes Georgetown University. Daniel’s areas of cross-cultural relations and institutional specialty include ancient, medieval, and development, and she has a particular in- modern political philosophy; the American terest in the ways different national and political tradition; and 19th and 20th cen- cultural contexts shape leaders’ worldviews tury German philosophy. He is currently and ultimately affect policy innovations. completing a book on the origins of classical constitutionalism. Erin Dolgoy Ph.D., M.A. Michigan State University; Jay Dow M.A. University of Alberta; H.B.A. Uni- Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin; B.S. versity of Toronto University of Oregon Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012, Charlottesville 2013 Erin is currently a postdoctoral fellow at Rhodes College. Her research interests in- Jay is a professor of political science at the clude political theory, science and technol- University of Missouri. His research areas ogy studies, and American politics. are American government and political behavior, voting and elections, and political science methodology. He is currently 39 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

working on a study of the United States versity of New Orleans; B.A. Emory Uni- single-member district electoral system. versity Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Alexander Duff 2009 Ph.D. University of Notre Dame Shannon is a senior lecturer of history at Summer Institute Fellow: Texas State University. Her research in- Charlottesville 2011 terests include revolutionary Boston, the Postdoctoral Fellow: Depart- Atlantic Enlightenment, and the classical ment of Political Science at tradition in 18th century America. Boston College 2012-2014; Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and James Dunson Public Life at the University of Notre Ph.D. Emory University Dame 2011-2012 Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007

Alexander is a visiting assistant professor James is an assistant professor of philos- in the Government Department at Skid- ophy at Xavier University of Louisiana. more College. He has previously held post- His research interests include 19th century doctoral fellowships at Boston College, philosophy, political philosophy, and the the University of Notre Dame, and Wake history of ethics. His most recent project Forest University. His research interests in- was a co-authored book titled Citizen of the clude the history of political thought, re- World: Suffering and Solidarity in the 21st publicanism, religion and politics, political century. philosophy, and the Classics. Alexander’s research in ancient, modern, and contem- Justin DuRivage porary political theory has been published Ph.D. Yale University; M.Phil. University in the Review of Metaphysics and the Journal of Cambridge; B.A. Pomona College of Politics. His book, Heidegger and Politics: Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2013 The Ontology of Radical Discontent, is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. Justin is Acting Assistant Professor of His- tory at Stanford University. His teaching Shannon Duffy interests include early and revolutionary Ph.D. University of Maryland; M.A. Uni- America, intellectual history, and the his-

“Your concern for the intellectual climate [at the summer institute] and our place in it was fantas- tic, and deeply appreciated.”

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tory of the early-modern Atlantic world. Between a Hockey Mom and a Pit Bull? He is currently working to revise his disser- Presentations of Palin and Gender Stereo- tation into a book titled Revolution Against types in the 2008 Presidential Election.” Empire: Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of She is currently working on a paper titled American Independence. “The Development of Private Property in Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right.” Justin Dyer Ph.D., M.A. University of Texas, Austin; Kathy Eden M.P.A., B.A. University of Oklahoma Ph.D. Stanford University; B.A. Smith Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 College Summer Institute Faculty: Philadelphia 2014 Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: Charlottesville 2012 Justin is an associate professor of political science at the University of Missouri and Kathy is Chavkin Family Professor of En- Director of the Kinder Forum on Con- glish Literature and Professor of Classics at stitutional Democracy. His research is in Columbia University. Her research interests American political development, political include the history of rhetorical and poet- philosophy, and constitutional law, with a ic theory in antiquity and the Renaissance particular focus on the interaction between and the reception of the classical tradition. the American political tradition and the Her books include Poetic and Legal Fiction perennial philosophy of natural law. He is in The Aristotelian Tradition; Hermeneutics the author of Slavery, Abortion, and the Pol- and the Rhetorical Tradition: Chapters in the itics of Constitutional Meaning and editor of Ancient Legacy and its Humanist Reception; American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the and Friends Hold All Things in Common: Declaration of Independence with David L. Tradition, Intellectual Property and the ‘Ad- Boren. ages’ of Erasmus.

Lindsay Eberhardt Pamela Edwards Ph.D., M.A. Claremont Graduate Univer- Ph.D. University College sity; B.A. University of Alaska, Anchorage London; M.A., B.A. Simon Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Fraser University; B.A. Uni- versity of British Columbia Lindsay is an adjunct instructor at Califor- Summer Institute Fellow: nia State University, San Bernardino and Boulder 2006 works for the Claremont Review of Books. Her interests include American govern- Pamela is Director of Academic Programs ment, the American presidency, and clas- at JMC. Before joining JMC in 2007, she sical and modern political thought. She is taught British history and politics at the the co-author of “What is the Difference Maxwell School at Syracuse University. 41 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Her research interests include 18th and 19th Emily Ekins century history of political thought, the Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Atlantic Enlightenment, jurisprudence, Los Angeles and moral philosophy. She is the author Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville of The Statesman’s Science: History, Nature 2012 and Law in the Political Thought of Sam- uel Taylor Coleridge; “Political Thought Emily is a research fellow at the Cato In- from Locke to Paine” in A Companion to stitute and Polling Director at the Reason Eighteenth-Century Britain, edited by Foundation. Her research interests in- H.T. Dickinson; “Coleridge on Politics and clude American politics, public opinion, Religion,” edited by Frederick Burwick and and social psychology. Her dissertation with Frederick C. Beiser; and “Philosoph- investigates the origins and heterogeneous ical Responses to the French Revolution” character of the tea party movement and in The Cambridge History of Philosophy in the underlying moral intuitions of fiscal the Nineteenth Century (1790–1870), ed- conservatism. ited by Allan Wood and Songsuk Susan Hahn. She has a forthcoming article titled Yiftah Elazar “On Progress” for the Encyclopedia of the Ph.D. Princeton University; M.A., B.A. American Enlightenment. Pamela has held Hebrew University of Jerusalem fellowships at the Huntington Library, Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 London University, Yale University, and Postdoctoral Fellow: Yale Center for Rep- Syracuse University. She is a governor of resentative Institutions 2013-2015 The Historical Society. Yiftah is a postdoctoral fellow at Yale Uni- Nicole Kvale Eilers versity. He works on the history and con- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison temporary theory of republican and demo- Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 cratic thought. More particularly, he looks at the ways in which republican ideas of Nicole is currently a historian in the World liberty, government, and citizenship have War II division of the Defense POW/Miss- shaped and may continue to shape modern ing Personnel Office. She focuses primarily democratic thought. His research interests on immigration history and contributed a also include citizenship and patriotism; chapter to a book entitled Points of Passage: theories of freedom; theories of political Jewish Migrants from Eastern Europe in change; the history of political thought Scandinavia, Germany, and Britain 1880- from Plato to Arendt; and the Scottish En- 1914. lightenment.

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Kevin Elliott James is Gurney Professor of English Lit- Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University; erature and Professor of Comparative Lit- M.Sc. London School of Economics; B.A. erature at Harvard University. His areas University of California, Los Angeles of interest are Restoration, Enlightenment, Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia 2014 and Romantic literature and culture; rhetoric, criticism and critical theory; and envi- Kevin is currently a Ph.D. candidate at ronmental studies. He is the editor of En- Columbia University and expects to de- vironment: An Interdisciplinary Anthology fend his dissertation, titled “The Keystone and co-author of Saving Higher Education of Democracy: Prioritizing Inclusion in the in the Age of Money, as well as author of Design of Democratic Institutions,” in the several other books and articles, including spring of 2015. His dissertation reconsiders The Committed Word: Literature and Public the theoretical and institutional precondi- Values. tions of legitimate democracy, arguing that inclusion is the most important democratic Gianna Englert value and that democracy’s participatory Ph.D. candidate, Georgetown University; institutions should be reformed in specific M.A. St. John’s College; B.A. Saint Vin- ways to promote inclusion. cent College Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia Stephen Engell 2014 Ph.D., M.Phil, M.A. Yale University; M.A. New York University; B.A. Wesleyan Uni- Gianna is pursuing her Ph.D. in political versity science at Georgetown University. Her Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 research interests include liberalism (classical, modern, and contemporary), citizen- Stephen is currently an assistant professor ship and political membership, theories of of politics at Bates College. His research commercial society, and political theory and teaching focuses on American polit- and literature. Her dissertation considers ical development, inter-branch relations, the interplay between questions of political constitutional law, and social movements. membership and the demands of commer- He is the author of the book American cial society in 18th and 19th century An- Politicians Confront the Courts: Opposition glo-political thought. Politics and Changing Responses to Judicial Power. William English Ph.D., M.A., B.S., B.A. Duke University; James Engell M.St. Oxford University Ph.D., B.A. Harvard University Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: Princeton 2006, Boulder 2006 William is currently the research director 43 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Center for for Excellence in Political Science, as well Ethics and a fellow with the Harvard Ini- as a host of articles. He has just completed tiative for Learning and Teaching. He is a book entitled Images of Anarchy: The Rhet- a political theorist with wide ranging in- oric and Science in Hobbes’s State of Nature. terests in political economy, public policy, and the philosophy of social science. His Michael Faber recent research examines the promise and Ph.D., M.A. Indiana University; B.A. limits of new educational technologies, Northwestern University the value of humanistic, residential, and Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 extra-curricular learning, and questions Postdoctoral Fellow: Duke Program in about civic education and the public role American Values and Institutions at Duke of universities. University 2009-2010

Christian Esh Michael is an assistant professor of politi- Ph.D. University of Maryland; B.A. cal science at Texas State University. Previ- Houghton College ously, he taught at Indiana University and Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007, Augustana College after having completed Charlottesville 2008 his postdoctoral fellowship at Duke Uni- versity. Michael’s research is in American Christian is an associate professor of Amer- political thought, especially the ratification ican history and Chair of the History De- debates. He is the author of Our Federal- partment at Northwest Nazarene Univer- ist Constitution: The Founders’ Expectations sity. His research interests are American and Contemporary Government, and is cur- legal and constitutional history, and Amer- rently working on another book project ican political thought. titled An Anti-Federalist Constitution: The Development of Dissent in the Ratification Ioannis Evrigenis Debates. Ph.D., A.M. Harvard University; M.Sc. London School of Economics and Political Andrew Fagal Science; B.A. Grinnell College Ph.D., M.A. Binghamton University; B.A. Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Lafayette College Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 Ioannis is currently a professor of political theory at Tufts University. He is co-edi- Andrew recently defended his Ph.D. in tor of Johann Gottfried Herder’s Another history at Binghamton University. His re- Philosophy of History and Selected Political search interests are early American history, Writings. He is also the author of Fear of political economy, and military history. His Enemies and Collective Action, which re- dissertation is titled The Political Economy ceived the 2009 Delba Winthrop Award of War in the Early Republic, 1774-1821. 44 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Andrew is the author of “Terror Weapons Foundation, the Bradley Foundation, and in the Naval War of 1812” and “The Mills the National Endowment for the Human- of Liberty: Foreign Capital and Gunpow- ities. Robert formerly was the president of der Production in the Early Republic.” He the New England Political Science Associ- is currently working on a book manuscript ation. He is the author of The Jurisprudence called Guns and Butter: The Political Econo- of John Marshall; Francis Bacon and the my of War in the Early Republic. Project of Progress; and Richard Hooker and the Politics of a Christian England. Maura Jane Farrelly Ph.D., M.A. Emory University; B.A. Ford- James Fetter ham University Ph.D. University of Notre Dame; B.A. Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Emory University 2009, Pasadena 2011, Philadelphia 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow: Tocqueville Program for Inquiry into Religion and American Maura Jane is an associate professor of Public Life at the University of Notre American studies and Director of the Jour- Dame 2012-2014 nalism Program at Brandeis University. Her scholarly research focuses on the role James recently completed a postdoctor- of religion in shaping American identity, al fellowship at the University of Notre the relationship between religious asceti- Dame. During his fellowship, he taught cism and American understandings of free- courses in American political thought. His dom, and the origins and development of primary research focus is ancient political religious “relativism” in America. thought, and his dissertation, which he is now revising for publication, investigates Robert Faulkner the development of magnanimity in the Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; M.A. thought of several influential philoso- Oxford University; B.A. Dartmouth Col- phers in the tradition of Western political lege thought. James has an article forthcoming Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville in History of Political Thought entitled “Ar- 2009 istotle’s Great-Souled Man: The Limited Perfection of the Ethical Virtues.” Robert is Research Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Program Laura K. Field for the Study of the Western Heritage at Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin; M.A., Boston College. His teaching and research B.A. University of Alberta interests include modern philosophy and Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville American political and legal thought. He 2010 has held fellowships from the Ford Founda- tion, the Mellon Foundation, the Earhart 45 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

“My experiences at the JMC Summer Institute greatly influenced my development of courses on the American founding era.”

Michelle Orihel

Laura is a professorial lecturer in the School Thought of Alexander Hamilton.His newest of International Service at American Uni- book is Insights and Manipulations: What versity in Washington, D.C. She earned her Classical Geometry Looked Like at Its Peak Ph.D. in political theory and public law and and How It Was Transformed: A Guidebook. has since held positions at Rhodes College and Georgetown University. Her interests Richard Fonte include rhetoric and political change, mod- Ph.D. University of Michigan; M.A. Indi- ern malaise and nihilism, science and intel- ana University, Bloomington; B.S. George- lectualism, and environmental theory. Lau- town University ra has published articles in the Journal of Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2008 Politics and the Review of Politics and is currently working on a book about rhetoric in Richard is an adjunct professor of govern- the works of Rousseau and Nietzsche. ment at Austin Community College. He teaches his students using a “citizenship Harvey Flaumenhaft education approach” to American govern- Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Chicago ment, in which he increases students’ un- Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2006 derstanding of American political principles and their practical implication within Harvey is a tutor and former dean at St. a comparative international context. His Johns College in Annapolis. He is a leading goal is to enhance students’ abilities to be scholar on Alexander Hamilton’s states- thoughtful participants in the American manship. He has had a long and varied political process. teaching career, including former positions as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Harvard Steven P. Forde University, a Fellow at the National Aero- Ph.D., M.A. University of Toronto; B.A. nautics and Space Administration, and as Yale University a National Endowment for the Human- Summer Institute Publishing Workshop ities Constitutional Fellow. He has been a Facilitator: Chicago 2012 lecturer at Roosevelt University, the Uni- versity of Chicago, and Wheaton Col- Steven is a professor of political science at lege, as well as a visiting professor at the the University of North Texas and a co-ed- University of Delaware. Among his most itor of American Political Science Review. noteworthy scholastic accomplishments is His areas of interest are American political his acclaimed book The Effective Repub- thought, international ethics, evolutionary lic: Administration and Constitution in the psychology and political philosophy, and 46 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

ancient to modern political philosophy. He Yoav Fromer is the author of Locke, Science, and Politics Ph.D. New School for Social Research; and The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and M.A. Tel Aviv University; B.A. Columbia the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides. University Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2013 Jonathan S. Franklin Ph.D., M.A. University of Maryland; B.A. Yoav recently earned his Ph.D. and is cur- University of Minnesota rently an adjunct professor of American Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2012 politics and history at Tel Aviv Universi- ty in Israel. His areas of interest include Jonathan is an adjunct professor at Union American politics and history, literature College and Russell Sage College. His re- and politics, political theory, classics of search and teaching interests are business Western literature, postwar American fic- history, the history of economics, and poli- tion, international affairs and global poli- cymaking after 1945. He is currently work- tics, and modern Middle East and Israeli ing on a book manuscript titled Irrelevant politics. Genius: Professional Economics and Policy- making in the United States, 1880-1929 and Timothy Fuller researching a project on how regulation has Ph.D., M.A. The Johns Hopkins Universi- affected the debt collection industry since ty; B.A. Kenyon College the 1970s. He has an article forthcoming Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: in History of Political Economy titled “Truly Boulder 2006 Handmaidens to Policy? Evaluating Agri- cultural Economists’ Claim to a Distinct Timothy is a professor of political theory Tradition of Applied Economics.” in the Political Science Department at Col- orado College. He has edited a number of J. David Franks books, including The Intellectual Legacy of Ph.D. Boston College; B.A. Swarthmore College Michael Oakeshott; Reassessing the Liberal Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 State; The Voice of Liberal Learning: Mi- chael Oakeshott on Education; and most David is a member of the full-time facul- recently contributed to Political Philosophy ty of Saint John’s Seminary in Boston as in the Twentieth Century, Authors and Ar- a professor of sacred theology (theological guments. He was Distinguished Academic anthropology, moral theology, Catholic Visitor of the Government Department of social doctrine) and serves as Director of the London School of Economics and the Certificate Programs for the seminary’s Bell Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Theological Institute for the New Evan- Department of Philosophy and Religion at gelization. He also serves as Chairman for the University of Tulsa. Massachusetts Citizens for Life. 47 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Alin Fumurescu at Boise State University. He teaches The Ph.D. University of Indiana; Human Situation, which introduces the M.A. University of Missouri, philosophical sources of the principles of Columbia; B.A. Babes-Bolyai the American Founding to college fresh- University (Romania) men. He also teaches courses on American Summer Institute Fellow: government, politics, and philosophy. He Pasadena 2011 is presently working on a book about John Postdoctoral Fellow: Yale Center for the Locke. Study of Representative Institutions at Yale University 2013-2014 Richard Garnett J.D. Yale Law School; B.A. Duke Univer- Alin is an assistant professor of political sity science at the University of Houston and Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2007, a former postdoctoral fellow and visiting Santa Fe 2009 assistant professor for the Department of Political Science at Yale University. His re- Richard is Professor of Law at the Universi- search interests include early-modern po- ty of Notre Dame. He is interested in con- litical theory, the foundations of American stitutional law, particularly the freedoms political thought, republicanism, liberalism, of speech, association, and religion. He is a transitions to democracy, representation leading authority on debates and questions and self-representation, and communication regarding the role of religious believers and and political representation. He received beliefs in politics and society. He is the au- the 2013 American Political Science Asso- thor of dozens of law-review articles and ciation’s Leo Strauss Award for best doc- book chapters. Currently he is working on toral dissertation in philosophy. His book a book entitled Two There Are: Understand- Compromise – A Political and Philosophi- ing the Separation of Church and State. cal History was named a CHOICE top-25 outstanding academic title for 2013. Robert George D.Phil Oxford University; MTS, J.D. Har- Stewart Gardner vard University; B.A. Swarthmore College Ph.D. Michigan State Univer- Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton sity 2005-2007 Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Robert is McCormick Professor of Juris- Postdoctoral Fellow: Amer- prudence and Director of the James Mad- ican Founding Institute at ison Program at Princeton University. He Boise State University 2010-2012 is primarily interested in current political issues in relation to morality, law, religion, Stewart is a lecturer of political science 48 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

and conservatism. He has published six- Earl (Judge) Glock teen books, including Embryo: A Defense of Ph.D. candidate, Rutgers University; Human Life; What Is Marriage? Man and M.A., B.A. College of William and Mary Woman: A Defense; and Conscience and Its Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal 2012 Secularism. Judge is a Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers Uni- Jonathan Gienapp versity and for the 2014-2015 academic Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University; A.B. year a Miller Center Fellow (not JMC af- Harvard University filiated) at the University of Virginia. His Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 research focuses on political and financial history in the Progressive Era and New Jonathan is currently an assistant professor Deal. He spent one year teaching English of history at the University of Mississippi. in China and two years researching Native His research and teaching interests center American and environmental lawsuits for a on the political culture and constitution- contractor with the Department of Justice. alism of revolutionary and early republican America. He is also keenly interested in the Samuel Goldman philosophy and methodology of historical Ph.D. Harvard University; B.A. Rutgers practice. University Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 Dustin Gish Ph.D., M.A. University of Dallas; M.A. St. Samuel is an assistant professor of political John’s College, Santa Fe; B.A. University science at George Washington Universi- of Oklahoma ty where he directs the Politics and Values Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Program, a year-long honors program for 2008 exceptional freshmen. In addition to Poli- tics and Values, Samuel teaches the history Dustin is an instructional assistant profes- of political thought. His research interests sor in the Honors College at the University include religion and politics, political theol- of Houston and a former visiting assistant ogy, and secularization theories. Outside the professor of American studies at Christo- classroom and the library, Samuel is a senior pher Newport University. His research contributor for the The American Conserva- interests include American constitution- tive and writes often for other publications. alism, American political thought, democratic theory, history of political thought, classical and early-modern political philosophy, and politics and literature.

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Jan Golinski Jack Greene Ph.D University of Leeds; M.A., B.A. Ph.D. Duke University Cambridge University Summer Institute Faculty: Pasadena 2011, Research Library Fellow: Huntington Li- Philadelphia 2014 brary, RIHA project, 2013-2014 Jack is the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in Jan has a joint professorship in the De- the Humanities Emeritus in the History partment of History and the Humanities Department at Johns Hopkins University. Program at the University of New Hamp- His primary area of expertise is in colonial shire, where he teaches history of science, British America and the American Revo- European intellectual history, and histo- lution. He has been a prolific author for riography. His research focus is the En- many years. The Constitutional Origins of lightenment in the 18th century and he is the American Revolution is one of his most the author of three books: Science as Pub- recent books. lic Culture: Chemistry and Enlightenment in Britain, 1760-1820; Making Natural Jakub Grygiel Knowledge: Constructivism and the History Ph.D., MPA Princeton University; BSFS of Science; and British Weather and the Cli- Georgetown University mate of Enlightenment. As a JMC Research Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville Fellow at the Huntington Library, Jan ex- 2012 amined outbreaks of yellow fever in the American northeast during the 1790s, par- Jakub is the George H.W. Bush Associ- ticularly how they were interpreted against ate Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School a background of Enlightenment thinking of Advanced International Studies at the about climate and disease. Johns Hopkins University. His research interests include American foreign policy Nan Goodman and diplomacy, European Union transat- Ph.D. Harvard University; J.D. Stanford lantic relations and foreign policy, NATO, University; M.A. University of California, strategic and security issues, military pow- Berkeley; B.A. Princeton University er and strategy, irregular warfare, and mil- Research Library Fellow: Huntington Li- itary history. He has been recognized for brary, RIHA project, 2013-2014 his leadership in foreign policy scholarship, winning the 2005 Rear Admiral Ernest M. Nan is a professor of law and humanities at Eller Prize in Naval History. He is a prolific the University of Colorado, Boulder. Her fo- author, including such works as Great Pow- cus is on American literature, cultural stud- ers and Geopolitical Change, “The Power of ies, and 18th century literature. As a JMC Statelessness,” “Vacuum Wars,” “Empires Research Fellow at the Huntington Library, and Its Discontents,” and “The Dilemmas she studied the colonial legal system. of US Maritime Supremacy in the Ear- 50 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

ly Cold War.” He regularly writes for the James Guest Foreign Policy Research Institute and The Ph.D., M.A. University of Dallas; B.A. American Interest. Northern Illinois University Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Allen Guelzo 2009 Ph.D., M.A. University of Pennsylvania; M.Div. Re- James is a former instructor at the Univer- formed Episcopal Seminary; sity of Texas, Austin and the University B.S. Philadelphia Biblical of Dallas. His research interests include University ancient political philosophy, early-modern Summer Institute Faculty: political philosophy, American political Princeton 2005 and 2006 thought, and politics and literature. His dissertation explores justice and happiness Allen is the Henry R. Luce, III Professor in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics and Pol- of the Civil War Era and Director of Civ- itics. il War Era Studies Program at Gettysburg College. He is widely recognized as a pre- Phillip Hamilton eminent scholar on the Civil War, particu- Ph.D. Washington University; M.A. larly the life of Abraham Lincoln, the Lin- George Washington University; B.A. Get- coln-Douglas debates, the Emancipation tysburg College Proclamation, and Lincoln as president. Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 He has been awarded various fellowships during his career by the American Council Phillip is a professor of history at Christo- of Learned Societies, the McNeil Center for pher Newport University. His research and Early American Studies at the University of expertise focus mainly on Virginia history, Pennsylvania, the Charles Warren Center U.S. history from the early republic to the for the Study of American History at Har- Civil War, and the American South and vard University, and is an appointed member slavery. He is the author of The Making and of the National Council on the Humanities. Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family. He has also won the Lincoln Prize of the Abraham Lincoln Institute three times— Nora Hanagan in 2000, 2005, and 2008—for his books Ph.D. Duke University; B.A. Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President; Lin- Wesleyan University coln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Summer Institute Fellow: Slavery in America; and Lincoln and Douglas: Charlottesville 2012 The Debates That Defined America.His most Postdoctoral Fellow: Ameri- recent book, Gettsyburg: The Last Invasion, can Democracy Forum at the was on the New York Times best-seller list University of Wisconsin, Madison 2011- for eight weeks. 2012 51 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Nora is Visiting Assistant Professor and William Anthony Hay Managing Director of the Program in Ph.D., M.A. University of Virginia; B.A. American Values and Institutions at Duke Sewanee: University of the South University. Her teaching interests include Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008, American political thought, contemporary Chicago 2010 democratic theory, environmental politics, and feminist theory. She has published an William is an associate professor of history article on Jane Addams and is currently at Mississippi State University. He special- working on a book manuscript titled De- izes in European history. He is the author mocratizing Responsibility: Responsibility in of Lives of Victorian Political Figures: Walter American Political Theory and Practice. Bagehot and The Whig Revival, 1808-1830.

Jonathan Hand L. Joseph Hebert Ph.D. University of Chicago; B.A. Har- Ph.D., M.A. Toronto University; B.A. vard University University of Maine Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008 Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005

Jonathan is a faculty member at St. John’s Joseph is a professor of political science and College, Santa Fe. His research interests Director of Pre-Law Studies at St. Ambrose are philosophy, theology, political science, University in Iowa. His research interests and political theory. include political philosophy; natural law, natural rights, and regime theory; leader- James Harrigan ship and civic virtue; politics and religion; Ph.D., Claremont Graduate School; M.A., First Amendment issues and Catholic so- B.A., University of Connecticut cial thought; liberal democracy and global- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007, ization; and politics and literature. Charlottesville 2008 Ariel Helfer James is Director of Academic Programs Ph.D. candidate, University of Texas, Aus- for Strata in Logan, Utah. His research and tin; B.A. Kenyon College teaching interests include political philos- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville ophy, constitutional law, economics, and 2013 American politics.

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Ariel is a Ph.D. candidate at the University Randal Hendrickson of Texas, Austin. His research interests in- Ph.D., M.A. Boston College; clude political ambition, Greek philosophy, B.A. University of North Texas deliberative democracy, political method- Summer Institute Fellow: ology, and ancient and modern natural Charlottesville 2008, Santa Fe science. His dissertation is titled Political 2009 Ambition and Socratic Philosophy: Plato’s Postdoctoral Fellow: Duke Presentation of Socrates and Alcibiades, and Program in American Values and Institu- he has presented at a number of confer- tions 2010-2011; Department of Political ences on related topics. Science at Michigan State University 2009- 2010 Sara Henary Ph.D., M.A. University of Randal is Director of Faculty Development Virginia; B.A. Rhodes Col- at the JMC. His research interests include lege ancient and modern republicanism and Summer Institute Fellow: American political thought. He has writ- Boulder 2007, Charlottesville ten on themes ranging from republicanism 2013 to evolutionary psychology in such publi- Postdoctoral Fellow: Program in Constitu- cations as the Journal of Politics, Perspec- tionalism and Democracy at the University tives on Political Science, the New Atlantis, of Virginia 2012-2014 and the Encyclopedia of Political Thought. He most recently authored an essay on Sara is an assistant professor of political sci- “Trade as International Communication” ence at Missouri State University. Her refor the Handbook of the International Polit- search and teaching interests include mod- ical Economy of Trade. Before joining JMC, ern political thought; American political Randal was a fellow in the Gerst Program thought; religion and politics; and politics for Economic and Humane Studies at and literature. She has an article entitled Duke University, where he taught political “Tocqueville and the Challenge of Histor- theory for two years. Prior to that appoint- icism” that is forthcoming in the Review ment, he was a fellow at the Symposium of of Politics. Sara’s other projects include a Science, Reason and Modern Democracy book manuscript entitled Nature and Con- at Michigan State University and a govern- vention in Locke’s Political Philosophy and ment fellow at Harvard University. an article that explores the “politics” of An- thony Trollope’s “political” novels.

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Aaron Herold issues of ambition and civic engagement in Ph.D. University of Texas, modern politics. Aaron is married to JMC Austin; M.A. University of To- Fellow Carly Herold. ronto; B.A. Emory University Summer Institute Fellow: Carly Herold Charlottesville 2011 Ph.D., M.A. University of Texas, Austin; Postdoctoral Fellow: Proj- B.A. Tufts University ect for the Study of Liberal Democracy at Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 Rhodes College 2011-2012; Political Sci- ence Department at Boston College 2010- Carly is Charles Carroll Postdoctoral 2011 Teaching Fellow in the Department of Po- litical Science at the College of the Holy Aaron is a visiting assistant professor of Cross. Her research interests include classi- American politics in the Department of cal Greek, Roman, and early-modern polit- Political Science at the College of the Holy ical philosophy; the impact of public intel- Cross. His research focuses on political lectualism and science on politics; modern philosophy and on the way the Enlight- paternalism and republicanism; how de- enment continues to inform the theory mocracies deal with non-democratic or and practice of American politics. He has anti- democratic elements; comparative taught courses such as Liberal Democ- constitutional law; and constitutional the- racy and Its Critics, Tocqueville and the ory. Her dissertation, Virtue and Irrational- Challenges of Democratic Politics, and an ity in Republican Politics: Cicero’s Critique introduction to political science entitled of Popular Philosophy, examines how Cice- Political Questions. At Rhodes College, ro can help us understand the influence of he also taught the first two semesters of science on politics in regimes committed to an interdisciplinary humanities sequence self-government. Carly is married to JMC for first-year students (the “Search” pro- Fellow Aaron Herold. gram). His research has been published in Political Research Quarterly and the Re- Emily Hess view of Politics, and he is currently writing Ph.D., M.A. Case Western Reserve Uni- a book about the contributions of Spinoza versity; B.A. Malone University and Tocqueville to ongoing debates about Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 the separation of church and state and the place of religion in public life. In addition, Emily is a visiting assistant professor of he is writing a series of articles examining history at Ashland University. Her area of the writings of political philosophers and expertise is 19th and 20th century African- statesmen (such as Tocqueville and Lin- American history, specifically of the coln) who have drawn attention to the con- Reconstruction era and the civil rights nections between the place of religion and movement. 54 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Joshua P. Hill Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton Ph.D., M.A. George Mason University; University, the National Endowment for B.A. Whitworth University the Humanities, the American Council of Summer Institute Fellow: Santa Fe 2009 Learned Societies, the University Center for Human Values at Princeton, and The Joshua is an assistant professor of econom- Bunting Institute. ics at Montana State University, Billings. His current research focuses on the ways in In addition to many articles published in which states seek to project their power be- leading journals, she has written a num- yond their borders and the consequences of ber of books including Gender, Class, and these efforts, both in the age of empire and Freedom in Modern Political Theory; The in the modern era. He taught at the Amer- Subject of Liberty: Toward a Feminist The- ican University of Iraq, which culminated ory of Freedom, which won the 2004 Vic- in his editing and publishing a two-vol- toria Schuck award from the APSA; and ume compilation of students’ research es- Rethinking Obligation: A Feminist Method says entitled The Economic Freedom of Iraq. for Political Theory. She is also co-editor of He also has an article in the Independent several volumes including Revisioning the Review titled “Real Incentives for Real Re- Political, Women and Welfare, and most reform: Inducing Meaningful Institutional cently Civil Disabilities: Citizenship, Mem- Change in Developing Economies.” bership and Belonging.

Nancy Hirschmann J. Michael Hoffpauir Ph.D., M.A. Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D. candidate, Claremont Graduate A.B. Smith College University; M.A. Boston College; B.A. Summer Institute Faculty: Philadelphia 2014 Louisiana State University Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 Nancy is a professor in the Political Science Department and Director of the Program Michael is a Ph.D. candidate at Claremont on Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Stud- Graduate University, where he is working ies and the Alice Paul Center for Research on his dissertation in political theory. He on Gender, Sexuality and Women at the is also teaching classes in political theory University of Pennsylvania. She works in at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the history of political thought, analyti- married to Petria Hoffpauir, a JMC Sum- cal philosophy, feminist theory, and the mer Institute Fellow. intersection of political theory and public policy. She has served as Vice-President Petria Hoffpauir (Fleming) of the American Political Science Associ- Ph.D. candidate, Claremont Graduate ation (APSA) and serves on many editorial University; B.A. Skidmore College boards. She has also held fellowships at the Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 55 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Petria is a lecturer at California State Uni- Danielle Holtz versity, San Bernardino. She is married to Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsyl- J. Michael Hoffpauir, a JMC Summer In- vania; B.A. Barnard College; B.A. Jewish stitute Fellow. Theological Seminary of America Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Matthew Holbreich 2011, Philadelphia 2014 J.D. candidate, New York University School of Law; Ph.D. University of Notre Danielle is a Ph.D. candidate in the Histo- Dame; B.A. Tufts University ry Department at the University of Penn- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2009 sylvania. She studies political, diplomatic, and intellectual history, and specializes in Matthew is a resident scholar and adjunct transnational history and the U.S. and the professor at Yeshiva University in the Straus world. Under the supervision of historian Center for Torah and Western Thought. Walter McDougall, her dissertation focus- His research interests include Lincoln’s po- es on the growth of conservative parties litical thought, especially his use of Bibli- internationally and examines their impact cal themes. He assisted in the authorship on party-affiliation and the ideological lex- of Hebraic Ideas for the American Republic icon in the U.S. in the 19th century. Dan- with Straus Center director Rabbi Solove- ielle served as Assistant Editor for the Ox- ichik and Jonathan Silver. ford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History and is currently a Lynde Mirya Holman and Harry Bradley Foundation Fellow. Ph.D. Claremont Graduate University; B.A. Loyola University New Orleans Kevin Honeycutt Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2012 Ph.D., M.A. Emory University; B.A., B.S. Mercer University Mirya is an assistant professor in the Political Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 Science Department at Florida Atlantic Uni- versity. Her research and teaching interests Kevin is an assistant professor of philos- include women and politics, urban politics, ophy at Mercer University. His research environmental politics, and American gov- interests are moral and political philoso- ernment. Her book, Women in Politics in the phy, philosophy and literature, the history American City, is a comprehensive evaluation of philosophy, and the history of political of the role of gender in local politics in the thought. He is currently writing essays on United States. She is currently working on sev- Plato, Rousseau, and Machiavelli. eral research projects, including the role of the county sheriff in American politics.

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“I was only tangentially familiar with Jack Greene’s constitutional history approach, and his presentation [at the summer institute] was a real, exciting discovery for me which made me include a completely new dimension in my American politics courses.”

Ivan Jankovich

Jeremy Horpedahl clude patriotism and cosmopolitanism, the Ph.D., M.A. George Mason University; role of place in political life, and the future B.S. University of South Dakota of the nation-state. She won the triennial Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2013 Best Edition award in 2012 by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers Jeremy is an assistant professor of econom- for her edition of Hannah Mather Crock- ics in the Harold Walter Siebens School er’s Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston. of Business at Buena Vista University. His Her current project, a book tentatively ti- research interests include public choice, po- tled Recovering Patriotism: Friendship and litical economy, and economic history. He the Politics of Place, studies the ethics of has authored several articles and other pub- patriotism. lications and is currently working on a paper titled “Does Size Matter? Government James Hrdlicka Size, Economic Growth, and Economic Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia Freedom.” Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia 2014 Sarah Houser Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; James is pursuing his Ph.D. in history at B.A. Rhodes College the University of Virginia with a focus on Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville early American history. His dissertation is 2010 entitled “War and Constitution-Making in Postdoctoral Fellow: Tocqueville Forum at Revolutionary Massachusetts, 1755-1788.” Georgetown University 2010-2012 Kimberly Hurd Hale Sarah is a lecturer in the Department of Ph.D. Louisiana State University; M.A. Government in the School of Public Affairs Boston College; B.A. Washington and Lee at American University, where she teaches University Individual Freedom vs. Authority, Con- Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 temporary Political Thought, and Feminist Political Theory. Her research interests in- Kimberly is currently a visiting assistant

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professor of politics in the Williams School co-editor of the forthcoming Between Sov- at Washington and Lee University. Her ereignty and Anarchy: The Politics of Violence research interests range from ancient po- in the American Revolutionary Era. litical philosophy to contemporary global politics. She is the author of the forthcom- David C. Innes ing book Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis in the Ph.D. Boston College, M.Div. Reformed Foundation of Modern Political Thought. Presbyterian Theological Seminary; B.A. University of Toronto Wesley Hussey Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 Ph.D. University of California, Los Ange- les; B.A. University of California, Irvine David is an associate professor of politics Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 at The King’s College in New York. His research interests include religion in polit- Wesley is an associate professor of govern- ical thought, and he is a scholar of Francis ment at California State University, Sacra- Bacon. He is the author of Left, Right, and mento. His research interests include the Christ: Evangelical Faith in Politics. broad intersection between demography, elections, and political institutions. This Benjamin Irvin includes studying the political left and Ph.D. Brandeis University; J.D. University right voting together in Congress. Wesley of Kentucky College of Law; M.A. Bowl- is also interested in California government ing Green State University; B.A. Sewanee: and politics, and was a finalist for the state’s The University of the South Citizens Redistricting Commission. Research Library Fellow: Newberry Li- brary 2014 Robert G. Ingram Ph.D., M.A. University of Virginia; B.A. Benjamin is an associate professor of histo- Sewanee: The University of the South ry at the University of Arizona specializing Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 in the social and cultural history of early and 2008, Charlottesville 2011, Philadel- America and the United States. He was a phia 2014 JMC Research Fellow at the Newberry Li- brary in 2014 where he studied the lives of Robert is an associate professor of histo- disabled Revolutionary War veterans. ry at Ohio University and Director of the George Washington Forum on American Richard Alexander Izquierdo Ideas, Politics and Institutions. He teaches Ph.D., M.A. Stanford University; J.D. and writes about 18th century British reli- University of Pennsylvania; B.A. Rutgers gious, political, and intellectual history. University He is the author of Religion, Reform and Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 Modernity in the Eighteenth Century and 58 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Richard is the 2013-2015 fellow at the sity of Notre Dame, and a former visiting Center for the Constitution at George- lecturer of philosophy at the University of town University Law Center. His prima- North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research ry areas of research are constitutional law, interests include political philosophy, mor- contracts, executive power, and American al theory, philosophy of religion, and phi- constitutional development. He is the au- losophy of science. He is currently author- thor of “The American Presidency and the ing an article titled “What Has Athens to Logic of Constitutional Renewal” in the do with Rome? Tocqueville and the New Journal of Law and Politics at the University Republicanism,” as well as a book tenta- of Virginia School of Law. He is currently tively titled The Hurricane Notebook: Three working on two law review articles having Dialogues on the Human Condition. to do with the practice of construction, both in the Constitution and in contract Jason Jividen law. Ph.D. Northern Illinois University; M.A., B.A. Marshall University Ivan Jankovic Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Ph.D. candidate, Simon Fraser University; 2012 M.A. University of Windsor; B.A. Univer- sity of Belgrade Jason is Associate Professor of Politics in the Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia 2014 McKenna School and Fellow in Civic and Constitutional Affairs for the Center for Ivan is pursuing his Ph.D. in political Political and Economic Thought at Saint science at Simon Fraser University. His Vincent College. His areas of expertise research interests include political and include political philosophy, American po- economic theory and the American intel- litical thought, and American institutions. lectual and constitutional tradition. His He has authored several works, including dissertation is entitled, “Men of Little his book, Claiming Lincoln: Progressivism, Faith: America’s Failed Rebellion against Equality, and the Battle for Lincoln’s Legacy the Modern State, 1765-1865,” in which he in Presidential Rhetoric in which he exam- analyzes American resistance to political ines attempts of modern liberals and pro- centralization. gressives to incorporate Lincoln into their rhetoric. Alexander Jech Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; Preston Jones B.A. University of Washington Ph.D. University of Ottawa; M.A. Univer- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2011 sity of California, Sonoma; B.A. Califor- nia State University, San Bernardino Alexander is Assistant to the Chair in the Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007, Department of Philosophy at the Univer- Boulder 2008 59 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Preston is an associate professor of history Wisconsin, Madison. He has edited twen- at John Brown University. His research and ty-six volumes of the Documentary History teaching interests include American mili- of the Ratification of the Constitution and tary conflicts, the American Empire, and twenty-six other volumes of biographies, moral philosophy. He is the author of eight quotation books, edited volumes, and books, including The Fires of Patriotism: monographs. Alaskans in the Days of the First World War; City for Empire: An Anchorage History; Daniel Kapust and God’s Hiddenness in Combat: Toward Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison Christian Reflection on Battle. Preston has Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 led numerous seminars on practical ethics in Guatemala and with the U.S. Army, Daniel is an associate professor of politi- Walmart, the Gates Corporation, and oth- cal science at the University of Wisconsin, er organizations and businesses. Madison. He is interested primarily in political thought, specifically Greek, Roman, Will R. Jordan Renaissance, early modern, American, and Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago; B.A. Scottish Enlightenment. He is the author Washington and Lee University of several articles and books, including Re- Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008 publicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. Will is the McDonald Center for Ameri- ca’s Founding Principles Co-Director and Thomas Karako Associate Professor in the Political Science Ph.D. Claremont Graduate Department and Great Books Program at University; B.A. University of Mercer University. His research interests Dallas involve the history of political thought, fo- Summer Institute Fellow: cusing on the major thinkers of the Scot- Boulder 2008 tish Enlightenment and the American Postdoctoral Fellow: Henry Founding. Salvatori Center for the Study of Individu- al Freedom in the Modern World at Clare- John P. Kaminski mont McKenna College 2008-2009 Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison; M.S., B.S. Illinois State University Thomas is an assistant professor of political Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville science and Director of the Center for the 2012 Study of American Democracy at Kenyon College, a JMC partner program. For the John is Director of The Center for the 2014-2015 academic year, he is a fellow Study of the American Constitution in the with the Center for Strategic and Interna- Department of History at the University of tional Studies (CSIS), where he is working 60 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

with their International Security Program husband Leon Kass); and What So Proud- and the Project on Nuclear Issues. He has ly We Hail: America’s Soul in Story, Speech, also been an American Political Science and Song (with Diana Schaub and husband Association Congressional Fellow, during Leon Kass). which he worked with the professional staff of the House Armed Services Committee Leon Kass on U.S. strategic forces, nonproliferation, Ph.D. Harvard University; M.D., B.S. and NATO. His areas of expertise include University of Chicago national security, arms control, and public Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville law. He has published on U.S. defense pol- 2012 icy, state politics, national security, and executive-congressional relations. Currently, Leon is the Addie Clark Harding Profes- he is writing on ballistic missile prolifera- sor Emeritus in the Committee on Social tion and on the independent constitutional Thought and the College at the University authority of the president to enter into in- of Chicago and the Madden-Jewett Chair ternational agreements. at the American Enterprise Institute. His research interests include the ethical and Amy Kass philosophical issues surrounding biomed- Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University; M.A. ical advances and other moral and cultural Brandeis University; B.A. University of issues. He has received many awards, in- Chicago cluding the 2009 Jefferson Lecturer Award Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville from the National Endowment for the Hu- 2012 manities, the Harvard Centennial Medal, the Intercollegiate Studies Institute’s 2003 Amy is Senior Fellow at the Hudson Insti- Gerhard Niermeyer Award, and the 2004 tute and Senior Lecturer Emerita of classic Bradley Prize from the Lynde and Harry texts at the University of Chicago. She has Bradley Foundation. Leon served on the received several awards during her career, President’s Council on Bioethics from including the Quantrell Award for Excel- 2002-2007. He has authored and edited lence in Undergraduate Teaching from the many articles and books, including Toward University of Chicago and the Florence a More Natural Science: Biology and Hu- Bamberger Award from Johns Hopkins man Affairs; The Hungry Soul: Eating and University, as well as grants from the Lilly the Perfecting of our Nature; Life, Liberty, Endowment for her project on civic leader- and the Defense of Dignity: The Challenge ship. She has authored and edited numer- for Bioethics; and most recently (with Di- ous articles and books, including Giving ana Schaub and wife Amy Kass), What Well, Doing Good: Readings for Thoughtful So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Philanthropists; Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Story, Speech, and Song, which promotes Readings on Courting and Marrying (with American identity and citizenship. 61 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Steven Kautz Charles Kesler Ph.D., B.A. University of Chicago Ph.D., A.M., A.B. Harvard University Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2005 2009 and 2011 and 2006, Boulder 2006, Charlottesville 2008, Pasadena 2011 Steven is Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs in the College of Social Charles is Senior Fellow of the Claremont Science and Associate Professor in the De- Institute, Editor of the Claremont Review partment of Political Science at Michigan of Books, and Professor of Government at State University. His research interests are Claremont McKenna College. His prima- in modern political philosophy and Amer- ry research interests are American constitu- ican political thought. He is the author of tionalism, political thought, and The Fed- Liberalism and Community, a defense of the eralist Papers. His edition of The Federalist classical liberalism of Locke and Montes- Papers is the best selling in the country. He quieu against its contemporary critics. regularly contributes to the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal and the Los An- Aaron Keck geles Times. Ph.D., M.A. Rutgers University; B.A. Hope College Thomas Kidd Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Ph.D. University of Notre Dame; M.A., 2011 B.A. Clemson University Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 Aaron is currently working in journalism. He is a reporter, news anchor, and com- Thomas is a professor of history at Baylor mentator for WCHL radio in Chapel Hill. University. He is the author of Patrick Hen- He plans to return to teaching and aca- ry: First Among Patriots; American Chris- demic writing. tians and Islam: Evangelical Culture and Muslims from the Colonial Period to the Age of Terrorism; and George Whitefield: Ameri- ca’s Spiritual Founding Father.

“I also emerged from the Summer Institute experience as a better citizen. I now find myself better acquainted with the complexities and profundities of the American experience, and am more cognizant of the deep roots nearly every facet of the American experience has in the Founding Era. Regardless of one’s political leanings, this knowledge can only empower the citizen and render the experience and commitments of citizenship more meaningful.”

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Paul Kirkland Daniel Klinghard Ph.D., M.A. Fordham University; B.A. Ph.D. Brandeis University; B.A. Rhodes Ursinus College College Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2008 Paul is Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Political Science at Carthage College. Daniel is an assistant professor of political He specializes in political philosophy and science at the College of the Holy Cross. is the author of Nietzsche’s Noble Aims: Af- His areas of interest are political parties firming Life, Confronting Modernity. and interest groups, politics and technology, and American political development. Benjamin Kleinerman He is the author of The Nationalization of Ph.D. Michigan State University; B.A. American Party Organizations, 1880-1896. Kenyon College Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005, Rita Koganzon Charlottesville 2008 and 2013, Santa Fe Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University; B.A. 2009, University of Chicago Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Charlottesville 2011 2013

Benjamin is an associate professor in the Rita is a graduate student in the Depart- James Madison College at Michigan State ment of Government at Harvard Univer- University. His research interests include sity. Her research focuses on modern and American government and the Constitu- American political thought. She is current- tion. He formerly taught at Harvard Uni- ly working on her dissertation examining versity in the Program on Constitutional the relationship between political and fa- Government, Oberlin College, and the milial authority in Locke and Rousseau. Virginia Military Institute. He has written a number of articles on executive power Robert Koons and the Constitution appearing in the Per- Ph.D. University of California, Los Ange- spectives on Politics, American Political Sci- les; B.A. Oxford University; B.A. Michi- ence Review, and Nomos. Benjamin’s book, gan State University on the same subject, is The Discretionary Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2006 President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power. He is currently working on a book Robert is a professor of philosophy at the on the separation of powers and the politi- University of Texas, Austin. He is also Pres- cal structure of the Constitution. ident of the Texas Association of Scholars,

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the statewide affiliate of the National Asso- with an eye to the intersections between ciation of Scholars and the Senator-at-Large the environment and the political-econom- of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. His areas ic system. He will focus his research on the of specialization include metaphysics and ways environmental theorists and political epistemology, philosophical logic, and economists conceive of the environment philosophy of religion. He is the author of ontologically, normatively, and as a polit- Paradoxes of Belief and Strategic Rationality ical issue. and Realism Regained: An Exact Theory of Causation, Teleology, and the Mind. He also Andrea Kowalchuk co-edited The Waning of Materialism. He is Ph.D. University of Dallas; M.A., B.A. currently working on a textbook in meta- University of Alberta physics for Wiley-Blackwell. Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2010 Alan Charles Kors Ph.D., M.A. Harvard University; B.A. Andrea is a lecturer in the Herbst Program Princeton University of Humanities at the University of Colora- Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2006 do, Boulder. Her research interests include and 2007 ancient philosophy; political philosophy; ethics and moral philosophy; ancient trag- Alan is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of edy, comedy, and epic poetry; history of History at the University of Pennsylvania. the natural and social sciences/philosophy His area of expertise is 17th and 18th centu- of science; and history of American po- ry European intellectual history. He has a litical thought. Her recent papers include special research interest in the relationships “On Civic Education: The Character and between orthodox and heterodox thought Extent of the City’s Authority,” “Individual in France after 1650. He is the editor of the Perfection and the Common Good: Aristo- four-volume set Encyclopedia of the Enlight- tle on the Two Ends of Virtue,” and “Rec- enment. ognizing the Longing for Virtue: A Note on Teaching Aristotle’s Nicomachean Eth- Gregory Koutnik ics.” She is married to Paul Diduch, a JMC Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylva- Summer Institute Fellow and Postdoctoral nia; B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madi- Fellow. son Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia Thaddeus Kozinski 2014 Ph.D. Catholic University of America; M.A. St. John’s College Graduate Institute; Gregory is pursuing his Ph.D. in political B.S. Villanova University science at the University of Pennsylvania. Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 He studies environmental political thought 64 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Thaddeus is an associate professor of phi- William is Editor of the Weekly Standard. losophy and humanities at Wyoming He regularly appears on Fox News Sunday Catholic College. He specializes in Pla- and the Fox News Channel. He has taught tonic, Aristotelian, and Thomistic politi- political philosophy and American politics cal theory, ethics, and philosophy of man; at the University of Pennsylvania and Har- political theology; modern political theory; vard University and served as Chief of Staff virtue ethics; and the ethical and political to the Vice President under Dan Quayle in thought of John Rawls, Alasdair Mac- the George H.W. Bush administration. Intyre, Rene Girard, and Jacques Maritain. He is the author of The Political Problem of Michael Krom Religious Pluralism: And Why Philosophers Ph.D. Emory University; M.A. Boston Can’t Solve It. College; B.A. St. Mary’s College of Cali- fornia Magdalena Krajewska Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 Ph.D. Brandeis University; B.Sc. London School of Economics and Political Science Michael is Associate Professor and Chair Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville of Philosophy at St. Vincent College. His 2012 research focuses on Hobbes’s political philosophy and the general history of political Magdalena is an assistant professor of polit- thought. In 2012, he published The Limits ical science specializing in comparative and of Reason in the Hobbesian Commonwealth. American politics at Wingate University. Her research interests include identifica- Michelle Kundmueller tion documents, national ID cards, identi- Ph.D., J.D., M.A. University of Notre fication policies, citizenship, immigration, Dame; B.A. Flagler College homeland security, public policy, policing, Postdoctoral Fellow: Tocqueville Program surveillance, British politics, Western Eu- for Inquiry into Religion and American ropean politics, and American politics. She Public Life at the University of Notre is currently working on a book entitled The Dame 2014-2015 Politics and History of National Identifica- tion Documents in the United Kingdom and Michelle is a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow the United States, 1915-present. at the University of Notre Dame for the 2014-2105 academic year. Michelle has William Kristol expertise in political theory, American pol- Ph.D., B.A. Harvard University itics, and public law. Within political the- Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville ory she focuses on ancient, early-modern, 2009 and American political thought with particular interests in institutions, separation

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“Basically, thanks to the JMC, I am in the midst of rethinking the Constitution historically.” Joshua Rice

of powers, women, and the family. She has idential Greatness; The Environmental Pro- taught courses in constitutional law and tection Agency from Nixon to Clinton: Ask- law in literature and film. Her dissertation ing the Wrong Questions; and his textbook, is titled Politics and the Flight from Honor: American Government: Balancing Liberty Homer and the Human Good. and Democracy, now in its third edition.

Drew Kurlowski John Langdale Ph.D. University of Missouri; M.A. Uni- Ph.D. University of Florida; M.A. Univer- versity of Virginia sity of Mississippi; B.A. Mercer University Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 2014 John is the Social Science Division Chair, Drew is currently a visiting assistant pro- Head of the Honors Program, and Assis- fessor at the University of Missouri, from tant Professor of History at Andrew Col- which he earned his Ph.D. in political sci- lege in Georgia. He is the author of Super- ence in 2014. His research interests include fluous Southerners: Cultural Conservatism primaries and nomination, campaign strat- and the South, 1920-1990. He is currently egy, and election forecasting. His disserta- working on a biography of the Southern in- tion was titled “Selection Before Election: tellectual Richard Malcolm Weaver. The Direct Primary and Responsible Party Nomination,” which explores the rules and Stephen Lange purposes of primary elections, both cur- Ph.D. Boston College; M.A., B.A. Univer- rently and historically, in the United States. sity of Alberta Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2012 Marc Landy Ph.D. Harvard University; B.A. Oberlin Stephen is Associate Dean and Associate College Professor of Government in the School of Summer Institute Faculty: Pasadena 2011 Public Affairs at Morehead State University. His research interests include the classical Marc is a professor of political science political philosophies of Plato and Aristotle, and Faculty Chair of the Irish Institute at theoretical foundations of liberal democra- Boston College. He is a prolific author of cy, homeland security, and the role of public journal articles and books, including Pres- education in a liberal democratic society.

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John Larrivee Ralph Lerner Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison; Ph.D. University of Chicago M.P.P., A.B. Harvard University Summer Institute Faculty: Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 Boulder 2006, Charlottes- ville 2010, Chicago 2010 and John is an associate professor of economics 2012, Pasadena 2014 in the Bolte School of Business at Mount St. Mary’s University. His areas of interests Ralph is the Benjamin Franklin Professor are economics and religion, economics and Emeritus in the College, and professor in culture, Catholic social teaching, history the Committee on Social Thought at the of economic thought, welfare economics, University of Chicago. His teaching in- family and welfare policy, state and local terests include Tocqueville, 17th and 18th finance, rural poverty and development, century British political thought, Ameri- education, environmental economics, and can political thought, and political philos- land conservation. ophy. Ralph has taught at the University of Chicago for the entirety of his distin- Peter Lawler guished career. He has received fellowships Ph.D., M.A. University of Virginia; B.A. from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Allentown College National Humanities Center. He has also Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2005, received a Quantrell Award for Excellence Boulder 2006-2008 in Undergraduate Teaching and the Jack Miller Center Chairman’s Award. He is a Peter is the Dana Professor of Government prolific scholar whose works include Aver- at Berry College. He serves on the editorial roes on Plato’s “Republic”; The Thinking boards of several political science journals. Revolutionary: Principle and Practice in the He has also written many books, including New Republic; Revolutions Revisited: Two Modern and American Dignity, for which he Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment; and was named a Georgia Author of the Year. Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times. Caitlin Lawrence Ph.D. candidate, University of Missouri David Levy Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia Ph.D. Boston College; M.A. Pennsylvania 2014 State University; B.A. St. John’s College Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 Caitlin is pursuing her Ph.D. in history at the Postdoctoral Fellow: Program in Democ- University of Missouri. She is interested in the racy and Citizenship at Emory University intersections of politics, society, and gender in 2011-2012 early America and early American consump- tion, particularly boycotts and embargoes. David is a professor of political science at 67 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

St. John’s College, Santa Fe. He previous- tice, Rights, and Law” in the Cambridge ly held a postdoctoral fellowship at Emory Companion to Adam Smith; “The Mixed University, where he taught several courses Constitution and the Common Law” in in American political thought, including The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Cen- Framing the Constitution. He credits his tury Political Thought; “Legislation in a experience at the JMC Summer Institute Common Law Context” in Zeitschrift fur with improving his understanding of the Neuere Rechtsgeschichte; and “Law/Cus- views of property rights at the time of the tom/Tradition” in Questions of Tradition. Founding. He is the author of Eros and So- cratic Political Philosophy. Hugh Liebert Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. Hyrum Lewis Harvard University Ph.D. University of Southern California; Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 M.A. Brigham Young University; B.A. Boise State University Hugh is an assistant professor of social sci- Summer Institute Fellow: Santa Fe 2009 ences at the United States Military Acade- my. His primary areas of interest are Greek Hyrum is an assistant professor of history and Roman political thought and Ameri- at Brigham Young University, Idaho. His can politics. He is currently awaiting pub- research interests include the history of ide- lication of his first book,Plutarch’s Politics. ology and the intersection of political and intellectual culture. He has published on Alexander Limanowski the evolution of the meaning of conserva- Ph.D. candidate, Tulane University tism during the Cold War. Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia 2014

David Lieberman Alexander is currently lecturing at Roosevelt Ph.D. London University; M.A., B.A. University while working on his dissertation Cambridge University in philosophy at Tulane University. Summer Institute Faculty: Pasadena 2014 Donald Livingston David is a professor of jurisprudence and Ph.D. Washington University at St. Louis history at the University of California, Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2007 Berkeley. He currently is president of the Pacific Coast Conference on British Stud- Donald is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy ies. He recently completed a critical edi- at Emory University. His research has fo- tion of Jean Louis De Lolme’s 1771 The cused on the writings of David Hume, the Constitution of England. His other recent compact nature of the Union, and Southern publications include “Adam Smith on Jus- tradition. He is the author of Hume’s Philos-

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“[T]he Institute is what academic gatherings ought to be like.” Kevin Elliott

ophy of Common Life and Philosophical Mel- University. His research focuses on classi- ancholy and Delirium. Donald is currently cal political thought, particularly the clas- President of the Abbeville Institute. sical understanding of virtue and its place in politics and the life of an individual. He David Livingstone has published articles on classical political Ph.D., M.A. University of Dallas; M.A., thought in the Review of Politics, Polis, and B.A. University of Alberta Interpretation. As an Israeli citizen, he has Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 also written and lectured on Jewish philosophy and contemporary Israeli politics, in- David is Chair of the Political Studies De- cluding a paper on Jewish thinker Gershom partment and Liberal Studies Department Sholem. He is currently working on a study at Vancouver Island University. His inter- of Plato’s Republic that examines the doubts ests include Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Abra- that the dialogue raises about the possibility ham Lincoln, and American and Canadi- of creating a perfectly just society. an politics. He is currently editing a book for McGill-Queens University Press titled Daniel Lowenstein Liberal Education, Civic Education, and the LL.B. Harvard University; A.B. Yale Uni- Canadian Regime. He contributed a chap- versity ter and the introductory essay to the book. Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: Pasadena 2014 Benjamin Lorch Ph.D. Boston College Daniel is Professor of Law Emeritus at the Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville University of California, Los Angeles. He is 2009 also Director of the Center for the Liberal Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Polit- Arts and Free Institutions and Co-Director ical Science at Michigan State University of the Commercial Republic Project, JMC 2011-2014; Thomas Jefferson Center for partner programs at UCLA. His published the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the research focuses on election law, including University of Texas, Austin 2008-2009 campaign finance, redistricting, voting rights, political parties, and initiatives. Benjamin is a visiting assistant professor He has also published literary criticism on in the Department of Political Science and works such as The Merchant of Venice and the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Bleak House. Modern Democracy at Michigan State 69 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Nelson Lund Christopher is Associate Professor of Great Ph.D., A.M. Harvard University; J.D. Uni- Ideas and Political Science at Carthage versity of Chicago; M.A. Catholic Univer- College. His research primarily focuses on sity; B.A. St. John’s College Western political thought and theory, with Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2005 a particular emphasis on Machiavelli.

Nelson is a professor at George Mason Benjamin Lynerd University School of Law. His areas of ex- Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. pertise are constitutional law, federalism, University of Maryland, College Park separation of powers, the Second Amend- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville ment, the Commerce Clause, the Speech 2009 and 2013, Pasadena 2014 or Debate Clause, the Equal Protection Postdoctoral Fellow: Benjamin Franklin Clause, the Uniformity Clause, jurispru- Project at Illinois Institute of Technology dence, and political philosophy. 2012-2014; Montesquieu Forum at Roos- evelt University 2014-2016 James Lundberg Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. Yale University; B.A. Benjamin is a postdoctoral fellow in the Connecticut College history of political thought at Roosevelt University’s Montesquieu Forum, a partner James is the Uihlein Assistant Professor program in JMC’s Commercial Republic of History at Lake Forest College. He has Initiative. He was previously a visiting as- taught courses such as Foundations of the sistant professor of political science and the American Republic, Colonial America in Benjamin Franklin Postdoctoral Fellow at the Atlantic World, and The New Amer- the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has ican Nation, 1787-1848. He specializes taught courses such as American Political in 19th century American history. He has Thought, Social and Political Thought, contributed to The Early Republic and Ante- The U.S. Congress, and The Presidency. bellum America: An Encyclopedia of Social, His research and teaching interests include Political, Cultural, and Economic History political theory; political theology and civil and written a number of articles and re- religion; American political thought; mor- views for popular publications such as the al philosophy; and the Scottish Enlighten- New York Times and Slate. ment. He is the author of the book Republi- can Theology: The Civil Religion of American Christopher Lynch Evangelicals, which explores the question of Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. American evangelicals maintaining a pro- St. John’s College nounced and qualified commitment to an Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 ideology of limited government.

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Benjamin Lyons Melissa has taught political science at the Ph.D. candidate, Columbia University University of La Verne. Her interests in- Research Library Fellow: Huntington Li- clude political philosophy, American polit- brary, RIHA project, 2013-2014 ical thought, civic education, international development, and literature. She is cur- Benjamin is pursuing his Ph.D. in U.S. histo- rently working on her dissertation propos- ry at Columbia University where his interests al, which will focus on civic dignity and include antebellum slavery and abolition, the political participation initiatives. development of Anglo-American law, and the influence of international law on the Ameri- Rafael Major can Revolution. He is writing his dissertation Ph.D. University of North Texas; M.A., on John Jay as revolutionary diplomat, first B.A. University of Dallas chief justice, and early opponent of Ameri- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 can slavery. Before coming to Columbia, Ben worked for two years in Tianjin, China. He Rafe is a lecturer in the Honors College is proficient in Mandarin Chinese, as well as at the University of North Texas. He was modern Hebrew and Spanish. Director of Faculty Development at JMC from 2008-2013. His research interests in- Daniel Mahoney clude political philosophy and politics and Ph.D., M.A. Catholic University of Ameri- literature. He is particularly interested in ca; B.A. College of the Holy Cross Shakespeare, Plato, and Leo Strauss. He Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2007 is the editor of Leo Strauss’s Defense of the and 2008 Philosophic Life: Reading “What is Political Philosophy?” Daniel is a professor of political science at Assumption College. His areas of interest in- Tamara Mann clude statesmanship, French thought from Ph.D., M.Phil., M.A. Columbia Universi- Tocqueville to Aron, contemporary political ty; M.T.S. Harvard Divinity School; B.A. philosophy, and anti-totalitarian thought. He Duke University is the author of The Conservative Foundations Postdoctoral Fellow: American Studies of Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Program at Columbia University 2014- Its Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends. 2015

Melissa Mahoney Tamara is a postdoctoral fellow in the Ph.D. candidate, Claremont Graduate American Studies Program at Columbia University; A.L.M. candidate Harvard University. Her research interests include University; M.A. Claremont Graduate philanthropic history, legal history, and University; B.A. Assumption College American intellectual and cultural histo- Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 ry. Her articles have appeared in the Jour- 71 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

nal of World History, the Journal of Intel- nus College in Pennsylvania. His research lectual History and Political Thought, and interests include political philosophy, pol- ORIGINS: Current Events in Historical itics of education, politics and literature, Perspective. Tamara recently received the Rousseau, and American government. He K. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award is the author of Perfection and Disharmo- from the Association of American Col- ny in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. leges and Universities for her dedication He has also written for Commentary, Inside to teaching and mentorship. Higher Ed, the Chronicle of Higher Edu- cation, the Weekly Standard, and the Wall Harvey Mansfield Street Journal. Ph.D., A.B. Harvard University Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2005- Christopher Scott Martin 2007, Boulder 2006 and 2007 Ph.D., M.A. George Mason University; M.Phil Cambridge University; B.A. Yale Harvey is Professor of Government at University Harvard University, where he has been Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 on the faculty since 1962 and teaches political philosophy. He has written on Ed- Christopher is currently an assistant pro- mund Burke and the nature of political fessor of economics at Hillsdale College. parties; on Machiavelli and the invention His publications include “Adam Smith and of indirect government; in defense of lib- Liberal Economics: Reading the Minimum eralism; and in favor of a constitutional Wage Debate of 1795-96;” “Hayek and American political science. He has won the Nomothetes,” in F.A. Hayek and the the Joseph R. Levenson award for his Modern Economy: Economic Organization teaching at Harvard, received the Sidney and Activity, edited by JMC Fellow Sandra Hook Memorial award from the National Peart and David Levy; and his forthcom- Association of Scholars, and in 2004 ac- ing “Equity, Besides: Adam Smith and the cepted the National Humanities Medal Utility of Poverty.” from President George W. Bush. Harvey is the co-founder of the Program on Con- Gabriel Martinez stitutional Government at Harvard with Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; William Kristol. B.A. University of South Carolina Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007, Jonathan Marks Santa Fe 2009 Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Chicago Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007, Gabriel is an associate professor of business Santa Fe 2009 and economics, Chair of the Department of Business, and Director of Online Educa- Jonathan is a professor of politics at Ursi- tion at Ave Maria University. His research 72 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

interests include open-economy macroeco- Armin is a Kinder Research Fellow at the nomics, international finance, Latin Amer- Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democ- ica, Catholic social teaching, and econom- racy, a JMC partner program. He was a ics and ethics. Gilder Lehrman Research Fellow at the Robert H. International Center for Jef- James Mastrangelo ferson Studies before joining the Kinder Ph.D. Rutgers University; Forum. He recently completed his forth- B.A. Amherst College coming book, Citizens of a Common Intel- Summer Institute Fellow: lectual Homeland: The Transatlantic Origins Chicago 2010 of American Democracy and Nationhood. Postdoctoral Fellow: Tocque- Armin is currently working on a new proj- ville Program for Inquiry into ect on the transformation of the mean- Religion and American Public Life at the ing and practice of political patronage in University of Notre Dame 2009-2011 America from 1750-1850.

James is an assistant professor at South- Sean Mattie western College, where he teaches political Ph.D. University of Dallas; M.A. Boston science and legal studies courses. He was College; B.A. Middlebury College previously a postdoctoral fellow at Univer- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 sity of Notre Dame. His research interests include American political thought, dem- Sean is an Independent Scholar. His re- ocratic theory, and religion and politics. search areas are American government, His dissertation examines the relationship American political thought, law and between American religious history and courts, and politics in literature and film. individualism and its impact on American political thought. Luke Mayville Ph.D. Yale University; B.A. University of Armin Mattes Oregon Ph.D. University of Virginia Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow: Kinder Forum on Constitutional Democracy at the Univer- Luke is currently a postdoctoral fellow in sity of Missouri 2014-2015 the Department of Government at Amer-

“I met many people with whom I will be keeping in touch, learned about a number of interesting research projects, and had lots of opportunity to share and test out my ideas with receptive scholars [at the summer institute].” Luke Mayville 73 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

ican University. His primary research in- in the History of Liberty at the University terests are the history of political thought, of Oklahoma. His research interests include contemporary political theory, and Amer- the intellectual and cultural history of the ican political thought. His current book United States, particularly during the 19th project, entitled Sympathy for the Rich: and 20th centuries, American religious his- Wealth & Power in the Political Writings tory, and the writing of biography. He is a of John Adams, draws on John Adams’ senior scholar at the Woodrow Wilson In- treatises, essays, and letters to uncover a ternational Center for Scholars, senior fel- theory of the political power of wealth. low at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and a former councilman on the advisory Joseph McAlhany board for the National Endowment for the Ph.D. Columbia University; B.A. Haver- Humanities. He is also a decorated schol- ford College ar, having received the 2013 Distinguished Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 Teacher/Editor Award from the Freedoms Foundation and the 2006 Richard M. Joseph is Chair of the Classics Department Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters awarded and Associate Professor of Great Ideas and by the Ingersoll Foundation. He is a prolific Classics at Carthage College. He published author whose books include The Masterless: a translation, Guibert of Nogent: Mon- Self and Society in Modern America and Fig- odies and On the Relics of the Saints with ures in the Carpet: Finding the Human Person Jay Rubenstein, and has a forthcoming in the American Past. Bill has worked closely two-volume text and translation, Marcus with JMC since its inception serving as Vice Terentius Varro: The Collected Fragments, as Chairman of the JMC Academic Council part of the Loeb Classical Library. For the and on the JMC Board of Directors. 2014-2015 academic year he is a fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Christopher McClure Institute. Ph.D. Georgetown University; M.A., B.A. University of Toronto Wilfred McClay Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Univer- 2010 sity; B.A. St. John’s College, Postdoctoral Fellow: Program in Constitu- Annapolis tional Government at Harvard University Summer Institute Faculty: 2013-2015 Boulder 2006-2008, Charlot- tesville 2009-2013, Santa Fe Christopher is a JMC Postdoctoral Fel- 2009, Chicago 2010 and 2012, Pasadena low in the Program on Constitutional 2011 and 2014, Philadelphia 2014 Government at Harvard University. His research interests include the history of Bill is G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair political thought and questions of mortali- 74 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

ty, religion, honor, and rightly understood Steven McGuire self-interest. He has authored several arti- Ph.D. Catholic University of America; cles on Hobbes, Rousseau, and Benjamin M.A. University of Saskatchewan; B.A. Franklin. He is currently writing a book University of Lethbridge manuscript entitled The Artifice of Eternity: Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 Hobbes and the Eclipse of Immortality. Steven is an assistant professor of politi- Briana McGinnis cal science at Eastern University and Re- Ph.D. candidate, Georgetown University; search Director at the Agora Institute for B.A. University of Wisconsin, Madison Civic Virtue and the Common Good. His Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 research focuses on late-modern German philosophy and political thought, especial- Briana is a Ph.D. candidate in the De- ly Kant and Schelling. partment of Government at Georgetown University. She specializes in citizenship Kenneth McIntyre theory, immigration, and the history of po- Ph.D., M.A. Tulane University; M.Sc. litical thought, with minor concentrations University of Wales; A.B. Princeton Uni- in American government and public law. versity Her dissertation is titled “Exile in America: Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 Political Expulsion and the Limits of Lib- eral Government.” Kenneth is an associate professor of political science at Sam Houston State Uni- Bryan McGraw versity in Texas. His research interests in- Ph.D. Harvard University; A.M. Brown clude the philosophy of history and social University; M.A. Georgetown University; science, the philosophy of law, American B.A. Vanderbilt University political thought, and the political philoso- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 phy of the British idealists. He is the author of The Limits of Political Theory: Oakeshott’s Bryan is an associate professor of politics at Philosophy of Civil Association and Herbert Wheaton College. He focuses on contem- Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skep- porary political thought, particularly on tical Politics. He is currently working on a how political traditions intersect with reli- book entitled Language, Practice, and His- gious belief and practice. He is the author tory: The Cambridge School and the History of Faith in Politics: Religion and Liberal Po- of Political Thought. litical Thought.

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Peter McNamara is the author of Traveling Back: Toward a Ph.D. Boston College; B.A. University of Global Political Theory. Her teaching and Queensland, Brisbane, Australia research interests include the history of po- Summer Institute Faculty: Chicago 2010, litical thought, American political thought, Charlottesville 2010 and politics and literature.

Peter is an associate professor of political Matthew Mendham science and Co-Director of the Project on Ph.D., M.A. University of Liberty and American Constitutionalism Notre Dame; M.A. Fordham at Utah State University. He specializes University; B.A. Taylor Uni- in early-modern and American political versity thought. He is the author of Political Econ- Summer Institute Fellow: omy and Statesmanship: Smith, Hamilton, Chicago 2010 and the Foundation of the Commercial Re- Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Politi- public and the editor of The Noblest Minds: cal Science at Emory University 2010-2011 Fame, Honor and the American Founding. He is currently working on a book on lib- Matthew is an assistant professor of govern- eralism and the problem of human nature. ment at Christopher Newport University. He has taught Capitalism and Modernity Michael McShane at Christopher Newport, which examines Ph.D., M.A. University of Pennsylvania; documents such as The Autobiography of B.A. St. John’s College, Annapolis Benjamin Franklin. He also includes sub- Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 stantive American components in his interdisciplinary honors courses Utopias and Michael is Associate Professor of Great Dystopias, and Violence and Civilization. Ideas and Philosophy and the founder of In addition, he teaches the introductory, the Hannibal Lecture Series at Carthage classical, and modern surveys in political College. He is currently working on a book theory. He has published several articles, about Shakespeare’s King Lear. including “Gentle Savages and Fierce Citi- zens against Civilization: Unraveling Rous- Susan McWilliams seau’s Paradoxes.” He will soon complete Ph.D., M.A. Princeton University; B.A. a book manuscript on whether Rousseau’s Amherst College life can be reconciled with his principles. Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005, Boulder 2008 Thomas Merrill Ph.D., M.A. Duke University; B.A. Uni- Susan is an associate professor in the Pol- versity of Chicago itics Department at Pomona College. She Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010

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Thomas is an assistant professor in the Sarah Miglio Department of Government in American Ph.D., M.A. University of Notre Dame; University’s School of Public Affairs. His M.A. Wheaton College; B.A. Moody Bible research interests include political philoso- Institute phy, especially early-modern political phi- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2013 losophy, bioethics, and public policy. He is currently working on a book on David Sarah is Assistant Dean of Academic Af- Hume’s political philosophy. fairs at Wheaton College. Her research combines a study of American culture Jeremy Mhire and religion with Middle Eastern history Ph.D., M.A. Louisiana State University; during the previous two centuries. B.A. University of Louisiana, Lafayette Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006- Paul Milazzo 2008 Ph.D., M.A. University of Virginia; A.B. Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Gov- Amherst College ernment at Harvard University 2009- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2010; Program on Constitutionalism and 2011 Democracy at the University of Virginia 2006-2008 Paul is a professor of history at Ohio Uni- versity. His research interests include pol- Jeremy is an associate professor of political itics, political institutions, federal policy science at Louisiana Tech University, where after 1945, conservative politics, and eco- he teaches Introduction to American Gov- nomic policy. He has authored several ar- ernment, Introduction to Political Theory, ticles and books, including his recent book and Special Topics in Political Thought. project, a biography of influential libertari- His research interests include political phi- an journalist Henry Hazlitt. losophy, especially Plato and Aristophanes, as well as American government. He is the co-editor of the collection The Political “I gained a lot through the discussions Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Po- and really enjoyed meeting so many etic Wisdom. He is also the author of “The Forgotten Comedy of the Socratic Turn: other people in such a wide variety of Assessing the Role of al-Razi’s The Philo- related areas [at the summer institute]. sophical Way of Life in Leo Strauss’s Socrates They provided some of the best insight and Aristophanes.” He has a forthcoming and conversation inside and outside of article titled “The Poetic Past as Democrat- break out sessions.” ic Prologue: Robert Penn Warren’s Democ- racy and Poetry.” Caitlin Lawrence

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Kathryn Milne Svetozar is an associate professor of philos- Ph.D. University of Pennsyl- ophy at Roosevelt University and a former vania; M.A. University of JMC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachu- Manchester; M.A. University setts Institute of Technology. He has also of Glasgow taught at Kenyon College and the Univer- Summer Institute Fellow: sity of Chicago. He is the editor of Man Charlottesville 2011 and His Enemies: Essays on Carl Schmitt and Postdoctoral Fellow: Program on Freedom Enlightening Revolutions: Essays in Honor of and Free Societies at Cornell University Ralph Lerner. Together with Gabriel Bart- 2010-2011 lett, another JMC Fellow, he has translated Leo Strauss’s Hobbes’s Critique of Religion. Kathryn is an assistant professor of history Svetozar is also the author of Francis Ba- at Wofford College. While a JMC Post- con’s “Inquiry Touching Human Nature: doctoral Fellow at Cornell University, she Virtue, Philosophy, and the Relief of Man’s worked with Barry Strauss, Director of the Estate” a study of Bacon’s moral philoso- Program on Freedom and Free Societies, a phy in relation to the Enlightenment. He is JMC partner program. Her research inter- currently working on another book about ests include Latin, Greek, mythology, won- Bacon and essays on Plato. ders of the ancient world, warfare in antiquity, the origins of military thought, and Mark T. Mitchell ancient history from Mesopotamia to the Ph.D., M.A. Georgetown University; M.A. medieval period. She has authored several Gonzaga University; B.A. Crown College papers and publications on the ancient Ro- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 man army, including “Family Paradigms in the Roman Republican Military.” She Mark is Government Department Chair teaches several classes in military history, at Patrick Henry College, where he teaches examining the practical requirements of courses in political theory. He is the author maintaining and defending a republican of The Politics of Gratitude: Scale, Place, and form of government. Community in a Global Age and Michael Polanyi: The Art of Knowing. He is current- Svetozar Minkov ly working on a book on private property. Ph.D. University of Chicago; M.S. George- town University Mark Molesky Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006, Ph.D., A.M. Harvard University; B.A. Chicago 2010 University of Michigan Postdoctoral Fellow: Benjamin Franklin Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 Forum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2008-2009 Mark is an associate professor of history at Seton Hall University. His research in- 78 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

terests include the Lisbon Earthquake of tington Library, he examined American 1755, the Enlightenment, World War One, sermons in the 18th century for consisten- World War Two, the Holocaust, and clas- cies and inconsistencies in the theological sical scholarship. He specializes in the in- dimension of American political devel- tellectual, cultural, and political history of opment. He is currently researching the modern Europe. developing idea of a “Christian polity” in Western thought. Roosevelt Montas Ph.D., M.A., A.B. Columbia University James Muller Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Ph.D., A.M. Harvard University; A.B. Harvard College Roosevelt is Lecturer in American Stud- Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2007 ies and Director of the Center for the Core Curriculum at Columbia University. James is a professor of political science at His research interests include antebellum the University of Alaska in Anchorage. He American literature and culture, specifical- is an expert on Winston Churchill and ly citizenship and American national iden- is the editor of several books, including tity. His current project examines the place Churchill as Peacemaker and Churchill’s of undergraduate core curricula in the re- ‘Iron Curtain’ Speech Fifty Years Later. search university. J. Patrick Mullins Glenn Moots Ph.D. University of Kentucky; M.A. Flori- Ph.D., M.A., Louisiana State University; da Atlantic University; B.A. New College, M.S. Walsh College; B.A. University of University of South Florida Michigan Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005, Boulder 2008 Patrick is an associate professor of history at Library Research Fellow: Huntington Li- Marymount University. His research inter- brary, RIHA project, 2013-2014 ests include the ideological, political, and religious origins of the American Revolution; Glenn is Professor and Chairman of Philos- the interrelation of religion, political ideol- ophy and Political Science and Director of ogy, constitutionalism, slavery, property, the Forum for Citizenship and Enterprise trade, and empire in the Atlantic World rev- at Northwood University. He is primarily olutions from 1600-1865; and transatlantic interested in religion in early modern Eu- intellectual movements (Puritanism, the ropean and American politics. He is author Enlightenment, Whiggism). He is currently of Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American completing a book called Father of Liberty: Legacy of Covenant Theology. During his Dr. Jonathan Mayhew and the Political Prin- JMC Research Fellowship at the Hun- ciples of the American Revolution. 79 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Michael Munger William is a faculty member in the Histo- Ph.D. Washington University, Saint Louis ry Department at State University of New Summer Institute Faculty: Santa Fe 2009, York at Oswego. His areas of specialization Pasadena 2011 are American politics, democracy, late 19th century America, the Gilded Age and Pro- Michael is Director of the Philosophy, gressive Era, and constitutional history. Politics, and Economics Program and a professor of political science, econom- Barton Myers ics, and public policy at Duke University. Ph.D., M.A. University of His research interests include the study Georgia; B.A. College of of morality of exchange and the work- Wooster ing of legislative institutions in produc- Summer Institute Fellow: ing policy. He co-edited the forthcoming Charlottesville 2010 book Philosophy, Politics, and Econom- Postdoctoral Fellow: Program ics: An Anthology and co-authored the on Freedom and Free Societies at Cornell forthcoming book Choosing in Groups. University 2009-2010

Vincent Phillip Muñoz Barton is an assistant professor of histo- Ph.D. Claremont Graduate School; M.A. ry at Washington and Lee University. He Boston College; B.A. Claremont McKenna previously taught at Texas Tech University. College His teaching interests include U.S. military Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006, history, policy, and institutions, as well as Charlottesville 2008 African-American, U.S. Southern, and environmental history, particularly as they Phillip is the Tocqueville Associate Profes- intersect with military history. He is the sor of Political Science and current Asso- author of a number of books and articles, ciate Professor of Law at the University of including Executing Daniel Bright: Race, Notre Dame. His research and teaching in- Loyalty, and Guerrilla Violence in a Coast- terests include American political thought, al Carolina Community. His forthcoming American constitutional law, early-modern book is entitled Rebels Against the Confeder- political theory, and church and state is- acy: North Carolina’s Unionists, which stud- sues. ies southern-born unionist sympathizers in Civil War era North Carolina. William Murphy Ph.D., M.A. Syracuse University; B.A. Robert Nagel State University of New York, Geneseo J.D. Yale Law School; B.A. Swarthmore Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville College 2008 Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2008

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Robert is the Rothberger Professor of Con- and Community: Reflections on Plato’s Sym- stitutional Law at the University of Colo- posium, Phaedrus, and Lysis; Citizens and rado Law School. He is the author of four Statesmen: A Study of Aristotle’s Politics; and books, most recently Unrestrained: Judicial Socrates and the Political Community: An Excess and the Mind of the American Law- Ancient Debate. yer, and over fifty law review articles. Laura Beth Nielsen Curt Nichols Ph.D., J.D. University of California, Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin; M.A. Berkeley; B.A. University of California, Georgia State University; B.S. United Santa Cruz States Military Academy at West Point Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: Postdoctoral Fellow: Kinder Forum on Pasadena 2014 Constitutional Democracy at the Univer- sity of Missouri 2014-2015 Laura Beth is a research professor at the American Bar Foundation, as well as an Curt is a former captain in the U.S. Army associate professor of sociology and Di- and an assistant professor of political sci- rector of the Center for Legal Studies at ence at Baylor University, as well as a Kind- Northwestern University. She is also Di- er research fellow at the University of Mis- rector of the Alexander Hamilton Project, souri for the 2014-2015 academic year. He a partner program in JMC’s Commercial specializes in American politics, with an Republic Initiative, at Northwestern. Her interest in both political institutions and research focuses on the law’s capacity for political development. His current research social change. Her primary field is the so- project focuses on presidential leadership ciology of law, with particular interests in within the constitutionally-structured legal consciousness (how ordinary people American governing cycle. understand the law) and the relationship between law and inequalities of race, gen- Mary Nichols der, and class. Ph.D. University of Chicago; M.A. Uni- versity of Kansas; B.A. Newcomb College Christena Nippert-Eng of Tulane University Ph.D. State University of New York, Stony Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 Brook; M.A. Temple University; B.A. State University of New York, Cortland Mary is a professor of political science at Baylor University. Her research interests Christena is a professor of sociology at the include the history of political thought— Illinois Institute of Technology and Di- especially Greek political theory, politics rector of the Benjamin Franklin Project, and literature, and politics and film. Her a partner program in JMC’s Commercial publications include Socrates on Friendship Republic Initiative. Her research areas in- 81 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

clude cognitive sociology, culture in ev- ities and Humanities Coordinator at Rog- eryday life, privacy, and innovation and ers State University. His research interests technology. She is the author of the book include the history of philosophy—focus- Islands of Privacy: Selective Concealment ing on political philosophy—from the clas- and Disclosure in Everyday Life and Home sical through the early-modern period, as and Work: Negotiating Boundaries Through well as art and intellectual history through Everyday Life. the same eras, and philosophy and literature. Specifically, his interest is the signif- Jack Nowlin icance of the interplay of philosophy, poli- Ph.D., M.A. Princeton University; J.D. tics, and literature for human flourishing. University of Texas; B.A. Angelo State University Matthew O’Brien Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2005 Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin; A.B. and 2006 Princeton University Postdoctoral Fellow: Villanova University Jack is Associate Dean for Faculty Devel- 2011-2012 opment, Professor of Law, and Jessie D. Puckett, Jr. Lecturer at the University of Matthew was a postdoctoral fellow from Mississippi School of Law. His research in- 2011-2012 at the Matthew J. Ryan Center terests are judicial power, interpretive theo- in the Department of Political Science at ry, constitutional structure, and human life Villanova University. While at Villanova, issues. O’Brien taught the Augustine and Culture Seminar, a first-year course examining the Matthew Oberrieder great works of the Western Tradition, in- Ph.D., M.A. Tulane University; B.A. Uni- cluding those thinkers central to the thought versity of Tulsa of the American Founders. Previously, he Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 taught as a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Rutgers University. His recent Matthew is Assistant Professor of Human-

“The Summer Institute ably fulfilled its mission of supporting scholars engaged in understanding and teaching the American Founding. I was inspired by professors like Robert Ingram who model the teaching environment I hope to create—one that deeply cherishes and celebrates American principles without descending into an unhelpful, uncritical idolatry that does them a disservice.” Sean Beienburg 82 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

essays have appeared in American Catholic ferson; Nations, Markets, and War: Modern Philosophical Quarterly, the British Journal History and the American Civil War (with for American Legal Studies, and the National Nicholas Onuf); and Jefferson’s Empire: The Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. He is working Language of American Nationhood. He is on a book about authority and obligation in currently working on a project examining neo-Aristotelian ethics. Thomas Jefferson and the origins of Amer- ican democracy. Jonathan O’Neill Ph.D., M.A. University of Maryland; B.A. Michelle Orihel Colgate University Ph.D. Syracuse University; M.A. Queen’s Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2009 University in Ontario; B.A. Brock University Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2009 Jonathan is Associate Professor and Chair of History at Georgia Southern Universi- Michelle is an assistant professor of histo- ty. His research interests include Ameri- ry at Southern Utah University. Her re- can constitutional and legal history and search and teaching focus mainly on early American political thought. He is current- American history, including colonial and ly working on a book project entitled Con- revolutionary America, the early republic, stitutional Knowledge and Constitutional and journalism history. She has published Maintenance in Twentieth-Century Ameri- articles in the Historian and the New En- ca. He is also the author of Originalism in gland Quarterly and is currently working American Law and Politics: A Constitutional on a book about opposition politics in the History and co-editor of American and En- Trans-Appalachian West of the 1790s. lightenment Constitutionalism. Lydia Ortega Peter Onuf Ph.D., M.A. George Mason University Ph.D., A.B. Johns Hopkins University Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Summer Institute Faculty: Pasadena 2011 2012 and 2014, Charlottesville 2013 Lydia is Professor and Department Chair Peter is the Thomas Jefferson Memori- of Economics at San Jose State University. al Foundation Professor, Emeritus in the Her research and teaching interests include History Department at the University of microeconomics, public finance, industrial Virginia. His research interests include the organization, political economy, and eco- American Revolution and the early Amer- nomic education, particularly the use of com- ican republic. He has been awarded the puter-based learning modalities and prob- Jack Miller Center Chairman’s Award. He lem-solving techniques in economics. is the author of many books and journal articles, including The Mind of Thomas Jef- 83 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Alexander Orwin Evan Oxman Ph.D. candidate, University of Chicago; Ph.D., M.A. Princeton Uni- B.A. University of Toronto versity; B.A. Duke University Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010, Charlottesville Alexander is a graduate student at the Uni- 2012 versity of Chicago. His research interests Postdoctoral Fellow: Department include the history of political thought of Politics at Lake Forest College 2010-2012 from Plato to the present, including Is- Research Library Fellow: Huntington Li- lamic thought and comparative political brary, RIHA project, 2013-2014 theory. His dissertation is entitled “Caught Between City, Empire, and Religion: Al- Evan is the Uihlein Assistant Professor of farabi’s Concept of the Ummah.” American Politics at Lake Forest College. He has taught courses such as American Poli- Kenneth Owen tics, Great Political Ideas, American Political Ph.D. Oxford University Thought, The American Founding, and Dem- Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 ocratic Theory. His areas of specialization are political theory, U.S. politics, and public law. Kenneth is an assistant professor of histo- As a JMC Research Fellow at the Huntington ry at the University of Illinois, Springfield. Library, he researched the interplay of religion He specializes in the history of the Amer- and science in America during the late 18th cen- ican Revolution and the early American tury. He is currently working on two projects: republic, especially focusing on the study “Hobbes on the Constitution of Self and Peo- of political organization and mobilization ple” and “The Productive Ambiguities of Popu- and the ways in which ordinary Ameri- lar Sovereignty.” can citizens used this activism to influence the activities of the government. He is the Michael Pack author of the forthcoming book Political Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: Community in Revolutionary Pennsylvania, Chicago 2010, Chicago 2012 1774-1800. Michael is President of Manifold Pro- ductions, Inc., an independent film and television production company. He has

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written, directed, and produced numerous Sung-Wook is a Kinder Postdoctoral Fel- award-winning nationally broadcast doc- low at the University of Missouri’s Kinder umentaries as well as corporate and edu- Forum on Constitutional Democracy, a cational films. Michael has also served as JMC partner program. His research ex- Senior Vice President for Television Pro- amines the ways in which historical events gramming at the Corporation for Pub- have caused fundamental changes in con- lic Broadcasting. He launched two major stitutional development, particularly in re- initiatives there: America at a Crossroads, lation to judicial power. His dissertation, which was a series of twenty documentary Foundations of Juristocracy, contends that films addressing issues facing America in the restructuring of political power from the wake of 9/11, and the American History legislatures to courts is rooted in changed and Civics Initiative, addressing the poor understandings of democracy in the U.S. historical knowledge of middle and high and Europe after World War II. school students. Michael Pakaluk Maria Pia Paganelli Ph.D., A.B. Harvard University; M.Litt. Ph.D., M.A. George Mason University; University of Edinburgh M.A. B.A. Università Cattolica del Sacro Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2005 Cuore Milan Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Michael is a professor of philosophy at Ave Maria University. He specializes in Aristo- Maria is currently an associate professor tle, Plato, ancient philosophy, St. Thomas of economics at Trinity University. She re- Aquinas, David Hume and Scottish philos- searches the history of economic thought, ophy, ethics, political philosophy, and John focusing particularly on Adam Smith, Rawls. He has written several books and David Hume, monetary theories, and articles and is currently working on a book the Scottish Enlightenment. She regular- entitled Aristotle’s Psychological Writings. ly publishes in History of Political Econo- my, the Journal of the History of Economic Lorraine Pangle Thought, and History of Economic Ideas. She Ph.D. University of Chicago; is the book review editor of the Journal of B.Ed. University of Toronto; Economic Thought, and in 2013 she co-ed- B.A. Yale University ited the Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith. Summer Institute Faculty: Chicago 2012 Sung-Wook Paik Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park Lorraine is a professor of government and a Postdoctoral Fellow: Kinder Forum on co-director of the Thomas Jefferson Center Constitutional Democracy at the Univer- for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas at the sity of Missouri 2014-2015 University of Texas, Austin. She specializ- 85 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

es in ancient, early modern, and American ities. He has also been awarded the Benton political philosophy, with special interests Bowl by Yale University and the Robert in ethics, the philosophy of education, and Foster Cherry Great Teacher of the World problems of justice and moral responsi- Prize by Baylor University. He has written bility. She has been awarded fellowships many books, including Montesquieu’s Phi- from the Searle Foundation, the Olin losophy of Liberalism; The Spirit of Modern Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, the Republicanism: The Vision of the American Social Sciences and Humanities Research Founders and the Philosophy of Locke; The Council of Canada, and the National En- Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas dowment for the Humanities. She is the of the American Founders (co-authored with author of The Political Philosophy of Benja- wife, Lorraine Pangle); and Political Philos- min Franklin; Aristotle and the Philosophy of ophy and the God of Abraham. Friendship; and The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders Benjamin Park (co-authored with husband Tom Pangle). Ph.D., M.Phil. University of Cambridge; M.Sc. University of Edinburgh; B.A. Thomas Pangle Brigham Young University Ph.D. University of Chicago; Postdoctoral Fellow: Kinder Forum on A.B. Cornell University Constitutional Democracy at the Univer- Summer Institute Faculty: sity of Missouri 2014-2015 Charlottesville 2009, Charlot- tesville 2010, Pasadena 2011 Benjamin is a Kinder Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Missouri’s Kinder Fo- Thomas is the Joe R. Long Endowed Chair rum on Constitutional Democracy, a JMC in Democratic Studies in the Department partner program. His interests include cul- of Government at the University of Texas, tural, religious, political, and intellectual Austin and Co-Director of The Thomas Jef- history of the 18th and 19th century Atlan- ferson Center for the Study of Core Texts tic world, especially in the early American and Ideas. His research interests include republic. His current research focuses on classical political philosophy, 18th century the intersections between local contexts, foundations of modern American consti- broader affiliations, and cultural identities. tutionalism, 19th and 20th century German Benjamin is working on a book manuscript political philosophy, moral foundations of that investigates early American concep- international relations, and the relationship tions of nationalism, as well as a short book between political theology and political that explores the democratic thought of philosophy. He has been awarded fellow- Transcendentalist thinkers. ships by the Guggenheim, Killam-Canada Council, Carl Friedrich von Siemens, and the National Endowment for the Human- 86 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

William Parsons Madison Program in American Ideals and Ph.D., M.A. University of Toronto; B.A. Institutions at Princeton University for the University of Maine 2014-2015 academic year. His research in- Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 terests include American politics, religion and politics, American political thought, William is an associate professor in polit- and media and politics. He has a forth- ical science and Chair of the Department coming article in the Journal of Church and of Political Science at Carroll College. His State titled “The American Nehemiad, or area of expertise is political thought, par- The Tale of Two Walls.” ticularly that of Machiavelli, Paine, and the American Founding. Emily Pears Ph.D. candidate, University of Virginia Jeffrey Pasley Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia Ph.D. Harvard University 2014 Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville 2013, Philadelphia 2014 Emily is pursuing her Ph.D. in political science at the University of Virginia. Jeffrey is a professor of history at the Uni- versity of Missouri and Associate Director Sandra Peart of the Kinder Forum on Constitutional Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Toronto Democracy. His research focuses on Amer- Summer Institute Faculty: Pasadena 2011 ican political culture between the Amer- and 2014, Charlottesville 2013 ican Revolution and the Civil War. He explores topics including the history of the Sandra is a professor of leadership studies partisan press, lobbying, and campaigning. and Dean of the Jepson School of Lead- He has written several articles and books, ership Studies at the University of Rich- including his current project, The First mond. Her research interests include the Presidential Contest, which explores the history of economic thought, experimental 1796 presidential election in which John economics, and public choice economics. Adams and Thomas Jefferson both “won” She has received fellowships from the Na- without participating in the campaign. tional Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council on Education. She James Patterson has authored over fifty journal articles, as Ph.D., M.A. University of Virginia; B.A well as several books including The Street University of Houston Porter and the Philosopher: Conversations on Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2013 Egalitarian Economics and The “Vanity of the Philosopher:” From Equality to Hierar- James is the Thomas W. Smith Postdoc- chy in Post-Classical Economics, which she toral Research Associate for the James co-wrote with David Levy. 87 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Patrick Peel resentative Institutions at Yale Universi- Ph.D., M.A. Johns Hopkins ty. His research focuses on the history of University American political thought, with a special Summer Institute Fellow: focus on American national culture. He Santa Fe 2009 has a book about Lincoln, Douglas, and Postdoctoral Fellow: George American nationalism under contract with Washington Forum at Ohio Yale University Press. University 2010-2012 Laura Phillips Sawyer Patrick is a visiting assistant professor of Ph.D. University of Virginia; B.A. Bel- political science at the University of Mon- mont University tana. He previously was a JMC Postdoc- Postdoctoral Fellow: Political Theory Proj- toral Fellow at Ohio University, where he ect at Brown University 2012-2013 taught courses on American constitutional history. In 2010 he received the Edward Laura is an assistant professor in the Busi- S. Corwin award for best doctoral disser- ness, Government, and International Econ- tation in the field of public law. His dis- omy Unit in the Harvard Business School. sertation is Building Judicial Capacity in She specializes in post-Civil War political, the Early American State: Legal Populism, legal, and intellectual history. Previous- County Courts, and Credit, 1645-1860. His ly, she was a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow at current research focuses on the historical Brown University’s Political Theory Project development of American law and its con- where she taught U.S. Legal and Business tribution to state-building. History and Prosperity: The Ethics and Economics of Wealth Creation. Her schol- Danilo Petranovich arship focuses primarily on the legal and Ph.D. Yale University; B.A. economic development of U.S. competi- Harvard University tion policy from the passage of the Sher- Summer Institute Fellow: man Antitrust Act of 1890 through the Charlottesville 2009 New Deal era. She is currently completing Postdoctoral Fellow: Yale a book titled American Fair Trade: Propri- Center for the Study of Rep- etary Capitalism, Networks, and the ‘New resentative Institutions 2013-2014; Duke Competition,’ 1890-1940, which blends Program in American Values and Institu- business history, legal theory, and the his- tions 2008-2010 tory of economic thought to demonstrate the importance of small firms and coop- Danilo is the Associate Research Professor erative associations in the development of at the Yale Center for the Study of Rep- American capitalism.

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“I came back brimming with ideas for future courses…” Carolyn Purnell

Jonathan Pidluzny modern political theory. His dissertation is Ph.D. Boston College; M.A., B.A. Univer- titled The Political Implications of Karl Pop- sity of Alberta per’s Critical Rationalism. Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2012 David M. Pollio Ph.D., M.A. Bryn Mawr College; M.A. Jonathan is an assistant professor of gov- Tufts University; B.A. Rutgers University ernment in the School of Public Affairs at Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Morehead State University. His teaching 2010 interests include American foreign policy, Middle Eastern studies, modern politi- David is an associate professor in the cal thought, Islamic thought, American Classical Studies Program at Christopher political thought and development, and Newport University. His areas of expertise public policy and administration. He has include classical Greek and Latin, ancient authored many papers and articles, includ- epic poetry, and the American classical tra- ing “Combating Radical Islam Without dition. Understanding It: US Foreign Policy Since 9/11” in Liberty and Security in the Age of James F. Pontuso Terror. Ph.D., M.A. University of Virginia; B.A. University of Massachusetts Evan Pivonka Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: Ph.D. University of Virginia; B.A. Santa Princeton 2006 Clara University Postdoctoral Fellow: Program on Constitu- James is the Charles Patterson Professor of tionalism and Democracy at the University Government and Foreign Affairs at Hamp- of Virginia 2012-13 den-Sydney College. He is the author of Assault on Ideology: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Evan is a lecturer in the Department of Political Thought and Vaclav Havel: Civic Politics at the University of Virginia, where Responsibility in the Postmodern Age. he teaches American Political Tradition. This course examines the theoretical ideas Rebecca Pooler-Lunse that informed the creation and develop- Ph.D. candidate, Claremont Graduate ment of America’s political system and University considers some of the major contemporary Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville challenges to the maintenance of American 2010 democracy. He has also taught courses in 89 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Rebecca is a graduate student at Claremont Joseph is an assistant professor of politi- Graduate University. Her areas of inter- cal science at the University of Colorado, est are political philosophy and American Colorado Springs. His research focuses on government. Her dissertation topic is on regulation, administrative law, and the ad- citizenship in the works of Jean-Jacques ministrative state. He is the editor of Re- Rousseau. discovering Political Economy and Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Andrew Porwancher Conservatism During the Progressive Era. Ph.D. University of Cambridge; A.M. Brown University; B.A. Northwestern Thomas Powers University Ph.D., M.A. University of Toronto; B.A. Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 University of Chicago Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 Andrew is an assistant professor of classics and letters at the University of Oklahoma. Thomas is Director of the Social Science He is the author of The Devil Himself: A Program and Associate Professor of Great Tale of Honor, Insanity, and the Birth of Ideas and Political Science at Carthage Modern America, which is under contract College. His research interests include con- with Oxford University Press. stitutional law, political theory, anti-discrimination politics, civil liberties and the Trisha Posey war on terror, and the religion clauses of the Ph.D. University of Maryland; M.Phil. First Amendment. He is currently working University of Kent (Canterbury, England); on a book on American civil rights politics, B.A. Grand Canyon University entitled American Multiculturalism and the Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Anti-Discrimination Regime: The Transfor- 2009 mation of Liberal Pluralism.

Trisha is an associate professor of history Stephen Presser and Director of the Honors Scholars Pro- J.D., A.B. Harvard University gram at John Brown University. Her re- Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville search interests include religion and reform 2013 in the 19th century United States, slavery in the United States, and African develop- Stephen is the Raoul Berger Professor of ment. Legal History at Northwestern University School of Law, a professor of business law Joseph Postell at the Kellogg School of Management, and Ph.D., M.A. University of Dallas; B.A. a professor of history at Northwestern Uni- Ashland University versity. His major teaching interests include Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 corporations, American legal history, and 90 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

business law. He has authored and co-au- and Curriculum and The Culture Wars: De- thored many books, articles, and book bating the Bible’s Place in Public Schools. chapters, including textbooks on business law, constitutional law, and jurisprudence. Eric Pullin Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison; Sara Price A.M. University of Illinois, Urbana-Cham- Ph.D. University of California, Davis; paign; M.A. Northern Illinois University; M.A., B.A. University of Houston B.A. Rockford College Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2012 Sara is a recent Ph.D. and an adjunct instructor of Texas government at Odessa Eric is an associate professor of history College. Her research interests are early and Asian studies at Carthage College. and late modern political theory, theory His primary research interest is inter- of history, theory of progress, ancient and national relations between the United modern Republicanism, modernity and its States and India during the 20th century. critics, French and British Enlightenment, and auto-critique of the Enlightenment. Carolyn Purnell The title of her dissertation is What Can Be Ph.D., M.A. University of Done in Light of What Has Been Done: The Chicago; B.A. Pomona Col- Intersection of Theory and Practice in Rous- lege seau. Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Joseph Prud’homme Postdoctoral Fellow: Benja- Ph.D. Princeton University; B.A. Texas min Franklin Project at the Illinois Insti- A&M University tute of Technology 2013-2016 Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 Carolyn is a visiting assistant professor in Joseph is an associate professor of political the Department of Social Sciences as well as science and Director of the Institute for the JMC Postdoctoral Fellow for the Benjamin Study of Religion, Politics and Culture at Franklin Project at IIT, a partner program Washington College. His research inter- in JMC’s Commercial Republic Initiative. ests are political philosophy, legal theory, Her research interests include the history of intellectual history, and conceptual and the senses; the relationship between med- historical approaches to the study of reli- icine, philosophy, and social reform; and gion and political and cultural affairs. He the history of everyday life. She has taught has published numerous works including courses on European history, social theory, the books Religion and Politics in America and history of science. from the Colonial Period to the Civil War 91 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Kevin Pybas Laura Rabinowitz Ph.D. University of Georgia; J.D. Univer- Ph.D. candidate, M.A. University of Tex- sity of Tulsa; B.S. Oklahoma State Univer- as, Austin; B.A. Skidmore College sity Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 Laura is a Ph.D. candidate in the Depart- Kevin is the pre-law advisor and an associ- ment of Government at the University of ate professor of political science at Missouri Texas, Austin. In Fall 2014, she joined the State University. His research interests in- University of Toronto as the Allan Bloom clude the law of church and state, constitu- Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow for Re- tional law, modern and contemporary lib- search in Classical Political Thought. Her eral political thought, American political research interests include political theory, thought, and religion and politics. classic and modern political thought, political philosophy and literature, American Linda Rabieh legal philosophy, comparative constitu- Ph.D. University of Toronto tionalism, and American political thought. Summer Institute Fellow: Her current research is entitled “Harmony Charlottesville 2009 of City and Soul: Plato and the Classical Postdoctoral Fellow: Benja- Virtue of Moderation.” min Franklin Project at the Massachusetts Institute of Andrea Radasanu Technology 2010-2012 Ph.D., M.A. University of Toronto Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Linda is a lecturer of ancient and medieval 2010 studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She teaches in the Concourse Andrea is Associate Professor of Political Program, which combines a rigorous science Philosophy and Director of Undergradu- and humanities core to provide an integrat- ate Studies at Northern Illinois University. ed approach to fundamental philosophical Her research interests include political phi- questions, looking at thinkers as varied as losophy and international relations theory Plato, the American Founders, and Einstein. and ethics. She has authored several articles She is the author of Plato and the Virtue of and book chapters on 18th century liberal- Courage, which was the inaugural winner of ism focusing on Montesquieu’s thought, the Delba Winthrop Mansfield prize for ex- such as her recent work, “Montesquieu on cellence in political science. She is currently Ancient Greek Foreign Relations: Toward researching the Islamic political philosopher National Self-Interest and International Averroes’ re-working of Plato’s Republic and Peace,” published in the Political Research Plato’s account of the education necessary Quarterly. for statesmanship. 92 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Paul A. Rahe terests include the Enlightenment, capital- Ph.D., B.A. Yale University; B.A., M.A. ism, Western political thought and theory, University of Oxford and Adam Smith. He is the author of The Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2006 Pragmatic Enlightenment: Recovering the Liberalism of Hume, Smith, Montesquieu, Paul is a professor in the Department of and Voltaire and The Problems and Promise History and Political Science, as well as of Commercial Society: Adam Smith’s Re- The Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee sponse to Rousseau. Chair in the Western Heritage, at Hills- dale College. His most recent book is en- Joshua Rice titled Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: Ph.D. candidate, University of Missouri; War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, M.A. University of Nebraska, Kearney; Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of B.A. Western Washington University Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of Summer Institute Participant: Philadelphia the Modern Republic. He is awaiting pub- 2014 lication of his book, The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge, Joshua is currently working on a Ph.D. in which is forthcoming in 2015. American history at the University of Mis- souri. His dissertation is an examination David Ramsey of Native American and missionary rela- Ph.D. Baylor University; M.A. St. John’s tionships on the antebellum frontier, and College; B.A. Berry College how the interaction between these groups Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 profoundly affected the development of the American West. David is Assistant Professor of Government and Pre-Law Advisor at the University of Carl Richard West Florida. His research and teaching in- Ph.D. Vanderbilt University terests include American political thought, Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2007 constitutional law, and political philoso- and 2008 phy. He is the author of Antitrust and the Supreme Court. Carl is a professor of history at the Univer- sity of Louisiana. His research focuses on Dennis Rasmussen early national American history and U.S. Ph.D., M.A. Duke University; B.A. Mich- intellectual history. He is the author of The igan State University Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008 and the American Enlightenment.

Dennis is an associate professor of political science at Tufts University. His research in- 93 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Benjamin Richards Ariel Ron Ph.D. candidate; M.A. University of Vir- Ph.D., M.A. University of California, ginia; B.A. College of William and Mary Berkeley; B.A. University of Maryland, Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia 2014 College Park Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Benjamin is pursuing a Ph.D. in philos- Postdoctoral Fellow: Yale Center for the ophy from the University of Virginia. He Study of Representative Institutions 2014- specializes in ancient philosophy, especially 2016 the moral and political thought of Aristo- tle, and in moral philosophy. Benjamin’s Ariel is a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow at the dissertation deals with the intersection and Yale Center for the Study of Representative interrelation between moral and political Institutions, a partner program in JMC’s philosophy, particularly the connection be- Commercial Republic Initiative. Formerly, tween liberal political thought and certain he was a visiting research associate at the understandings of moral psychology. McNeil Center for Early American Stud- ies at the University of Pennsylvania and a Patrick S. Roberts lecturer for the Richard Stockton College Ph.D. University of Virginia; M.A. Clare- of New Jersey during the 2013-2014 aca- mont Graduate University; B.A. University demic year. He was a postdoctoral fellow of Dallas in the Program in Early American Econo- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 my and Society at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Ariel has taught courses on Patrick is Associate Professor and Associate the American Civil War and 19th century Chair and Program Director for the Cen- political economy. He has published “‘Sci- ter for Public Administration and Policy entific Agriculture’ and Economic Devel- at Virginia Tech’s Alexandria campus. His opment in the American School of Political primary interests are in how disaster and Economy” in the Journal of the History of security organizations prepare for extreme Economic Thought. events, and in how public organizations respond to political conflict over time. He Jessica Choppin Roney has published a book entitled Disasters Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University; M.A. and the American State: How Politicians, College of William and Mary; B.A. Bureaucrats, and the Public Prepare for the Swarthmore College Unexpected. Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2011

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history of early America and the Atlantic previously was a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow world. Her first book titledGoverned by a at the University of Virginia, teaching The Spirit of Opposition: The Origins of American American Political Tradition. His research Political Practice in Colonial Philadelphia interests include the history of political was released in 2014. She is working on a thought, American political thought, states- second book tentatively titled A Revolution- manship, rhetoric, and religion and politics. ary Inheritance about settler societies on the He is the author of “When Philosophers United States frontier and in Canada in the Rule: The Platonic Academy and States- first decades after the American Revolution. manship” in History of Political Thought.

Jason Ross Leonard J. Sadosky Ph.D. Georgetown University; M.A. Pep- Ph.D. University of Virginia; M.A. Miami perdine University University (Ohio); M.B.A Baruch College, Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 City University of New York; B.A. Univer- sity of Connecticut Jason is Director of Programs at the Ash- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville brook Center at Ashland University. His 2010 research interests include American history, public policy, and civic education. He Leonard is an independent scholar and published a chapter titled “The Wisdom freelance writer working out of New York of Twenty Thousand Teachers: Strengthen City, specializing in early American histo- State Requirements, Stop Marginalizing ry. He is the author of Revolutionary Ne- the Founders” in Teaching America: The gotiations: Indians, Empires, and Diplomats Case for Civic Education. in the Founding of America, co-author of Jeffersonian American, and the co-editor of Jeremiah Russell Old World, New World: America and Eu- Ph.D. Louisiana State Univer- rope in the Age of Jefferson. sity; M.A. Baylor University; M.Div. The Southern Baptist Robert P. Saldin Theological Seminary; B.A. Ph.D. University of Virginia; B.A. David- Boyce College son College Summer Institute Fellow: Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 Charlottesville 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow: Program on Constitu- Robert is an associate professor of political tionalism and Democracy at the University science at the University of Montana. His of Virginia 2010-2012 research interests are American political thought, American political development, Jeremiah is an assistant professor of political and public policy. He is the author of War, science at Jacksonville State University. He the American State, and Politics since 1898, 95 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

and serves as Director of The Project on Brian Satterfield American Democracy and Citizenship. Ph.D. University of Chicago; B.A. St. John’s College, Annapolis Richard Samuelson Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Ph.D., M.A. University of Virginia; B.A. 2009 Bates College Postdoctoral Fellow: Ryan Center for the Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007, Study of Free Institutions at Villanova Charlottesville 2008 University 2008-2010

Richard is an associate professor of history at Brian is the Lawrence C. Gallen Fellow in California State University, San Bernardi- the Humanities at Villanova University. no. His research interests are the American His primary research focus is on the ori- Revolution, the American Founding, colo- gin of the problem of natural right in the nial America, the early American republic, poets and philosophers. He is the author American constitutional history, American of “The Beginning of the Iliad: The ‘Con- political thought, and the rule of law. His tradictions’ of the Proem and the Burial of essays and reviews have appeared in the Hektor,” an article in Mnemosyne. William and Mary Quarterly, the Review of Politics, the Public Interest, Commentary, Rory Schacter the Weekly Standard, National Review, the Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University; Wall Street Journal, and other publications. M.A. Hebrew University in Jerusalem; He is currently working on a book called B.A. University of Toronto John Adams and the Republic of Laws. He Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville is also the editor of The Political Writings 2009 of James Otis, to be published by Liberty Fund in 2015. Rory is a Ph.D. candidate in the Depart- ment of Government at Harvard Univer- Eric Sands sity. He has served as a teaching fellow in Ph.D., M.A. University of Virginia; B.A. the Department of Government and head Hampden-Sydney College teaching fellow in the Department of Eco- Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 nomics at Harvard. His research interests and 2008 include Jewish political thought, early-modern philosophy (especially Spinoza), Eric is an associate professor of government democratic theory (including that of Rous- at Berry College in Georgia. His primary seau and Tocqueville), and the relationship research subject is Abraham Lincoln and between modern liberal democracy and the Civil War. He is the author of Amer- religion. ican Public Philosophy and the Mystery of Lincolnism. 96 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Nathan Schlueter nism, the statesmanship of Abraham Lin- Ph.D., M.A. University of Dallas; B.A. coln, and John Stuart Mill and his critics. Miami University (Ohio) He is the author of Lincoln’s Defense of Pol- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 itics: The Public Man and His Opponents in the Crisis over Slavery. Nathan is an associate professor of philosophy at Hillsdale College. He is the author Kevin Schultz of One Dream or Two? Justice in America Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, B.A. Vanderbilt University Jr. and the editor, with Mark Mitchell, Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville of The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry. His 2009 most recent book, Naïve Libertarians and Socialist Conservatives: The Foundations of Kevin is an associate professor of history the Libertarian-Conservative Debate, writ- and Catholic studies at the University of ten with Nikolai Wenzel, will be published Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of the by Stanford University Press. His research forthcoming book Buckley and Mailer: The interests include politics and literature, Difficult Friendship that Shaped the 1960s, constitutional law, ethics, and American to be released in 2015, as well as Tri-Faith government. America: How Postwar Catholics and Jews Held America to its Protestant Promise. He Thomas Schneider is also the author of a popular U.S. histo- Ph.D. Boston College ry textbook, HIST, which is now out in its Summer Institute Fellow: third edition. Charlottesville 2009 Postdoctoral Fellow: Depart- Melvin L. Schut ment of Political Science at Ph.D. University of Chicago; M.Litt. Emory University 2008-2010 University of Oxford; M.Phil. University of Cambridge; L.L.B. Leiden University; Thomas is Program Director for Political B.A. Leiden University Science and Assistant Professor of Political Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006 Science at the University of Saint Francis in Indiana. He was previously a JMC Post- Melvin teaches at Amsterdam University doctoral Fellow at Emory University, where College in the Social Sciences Division. In he taught courses on Abraham Lincoln and recent years he has also taught at Leiden the American Founding. His research in- University, both in the Philosophy Depart- terests include topics in political theory ment and in the Law Faculty. His research and American political thought, political interests center on intellectual history, with rhetoric, liberalism, representation, utopia- particular attention to legal and political

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philosophy, as well as to European, inter- Sean is a visiting assistant professor in the national, and constitutional law. His Ph.D. Department of Leadership and American thesis is entitled “Tocqueville on Liberty.” Studies at Christopher Newport Univer- sity. He has taught U.S. history to 1877, Michelle Schwarze Western civilization, American civiliza- Ph.D., M.A. University of California, Da- tion, and a seminar on Abraham Lincoln. vis; B.A. University of Nevada, Reno His primary research interests include the Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Civil War and Reconstruction and U.S. re- and 2014 ligious history. In 2011, Scott published A Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Politi- Visitation of God: Northern Civilians Inter- cal Science at the University of Wisconsin, pret the Civil War with Oxford University Madison 2013-2016 Press.

Michelle is a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow in Roger Scruton the Benjamin Franklin Initiative (BFI) at Ph.D., M.A., B.A. University of Cam- the American Democracy Forum at the bridge University of Wisconsin, Madison. The Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville BFI is a partner program in JMC’s Com- 2009 mercial Republic Initiative. Her research interests include political theory, moral Roger is a senior fellow of the Ethics and psychology, David Hume, Adam Smith, Public Policy Center. He is known for his Francis Hutcheson, and James Wilson. work on aesthetics and culture and for his defense of environmental conservatism. He Sean Scott has authored dozens of books. His most Ph.D. Purdue University; recent are Our Church: a Personal History B.A. Bob Jones University of the Church of England; The Face of God; Postdoctoral Fellow: Center and How to Think Seriously About the Plan- for American Studies, Chris- et: The Case for an Environmental Conser- topher Newport University vatism. 2011-2012

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S. Adam Seagrave berry Library, Samantha looked at a range Ph.D., M.A. University of of manuscript and published sources on Notre Dame; B.A. Thomas Indian removal in the Ohio Valley in the Aquinas College post-revolutionary period. She was partic- Summer Institute Fellow: ularly interested in the series of conflicts Santa Fe 2009, Pasadena 2011 between 1783 and 1795 resulting in the Postdoctoral Fellow: Tocque- Treaty of Greenville, which radically refor- ville Program for Inquiry into Religion and mulated the geography of white and Indian American Public Life at the University of territorial claims in the Ohio country. Notre Dame 2010-2012 Scott P. Segrest Adam is an assistant professor of politi- Ph.D. Louisiana State University; M.A. cal science at Northern Illinois Univer- University of Dallas; B.A. Baylor University sity, where he teaches American Political Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 Thought. His research interests include the history of political thought, American po- Scott is an assistant professor of political litical thought, and democratic theory. He science at The Citadel. His expertise is in has published articles in leading journals of political philosophy, radical Islamist ideol- political science, philosophy, history, and ogy, and the American Founding. He is the biopolitics. He is the author of The Foun- author of America and the Political Philoso- dations of Natural Morality: On the Com- phy of Common Sense. patibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law. He also serves as the managing editor Christopher Shannon of American Political Thought: A Journal of Ph.D., M.Phil. Yale University; B.A. Roch- Ideas, Institutions, and Culture, a journal ester University conceived and supported by the JMC. Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006

Samantha Seeley Christopher is an associate professor of Ph.D. New York University; B.A. Brown history at Christendom College in Vir- University ginia. His areas of expertise are modern Research Library Fellow: Newberry Li- American cultural and intellectual history, brary, 2013 Irish-American history, American Catholic history, and historiography. Samantha is an assistant professor of history at the University of Richmond. She Mark Shiffman specializes in the social and cultural history Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. of the early United States republic, with a St. John’s College focus on migration, slavery, and freedom. Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 While a JMC Research Fellow at the New- and 2008 99 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Mark is an associate professor of human- David is the Henry Kaufman Fellow in ities at Villanova University, where he also Business History in the Robert H. Smith teaches courses in classical studies and po- School of Business, and an associate pro- litical theory. His research interests include fessor of history at the University of Mary- ethics, social and political theory, ancient land. His research interests include Amer- philosophy, metaphysics, and philosophi- ican business, economic and technology cal themes in literature. history since colonial times, U.S. history since 1865, and global capitalism since Arthur Shuster 1450. He has authored several articles and M.D. candidate, Western University; books, including Constructing Corporate Ph.D. University of Texas, Austin; B.Sc. America: History, Politics, Culture. University of Toronto Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 Daniel Silver Postdoctoral Fellow: Henry Salvatori Cen- Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. ter for the Study of Individual Freedom in University of California, Berkeley the Modern World at Claremont McKenna Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 College 2010-2011 Daniel is an assistant professor of sociology Arthur is a medical student at Western at the University of Toronto. His research University in Ontario. He was previous- interests include social theory, cultural pol- ly a visiting scholar of political science at icy, urban sociology, and cultural sociolo- Boston College, where his research inter- gy. He won the 2013 Theory Prize for best ests included classical (especially Socratic) article from the American Sociology Asso- political thought, early-modern political ciation section on Sociological Theory. Sil- thought, German idealism, 20th centu- ver co-edited The Politics of Urban Cultural ry German thought, American political Policy and his work has appeared in Social thought, American constitutional theory, Forces; Sociological Theory; the European and political themes in Greek tragedy. He Journal of Sociology; the Journal of Urban is the author of Punishment in the History Affairs; the European Journal of Social Theo- of Political Thought: From Classical Repub- ry; the Canadian Journal of Sociology; Theo- licanism to the Crisis of Modern Criminal ry, Culture, and Society; Simmel Studies; the Justice. Canadian Journal of Political Science, and elsewhere. David Sicilia Ph.D. Brandeis University; B.A. Hofstra David Skarbek University Ph.D., M.A. George Mason University; Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville B.S. San Jose State University 2013 Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011

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David is a lecturer in political economy at social, cultural, and political integration of the King’s College in London. His research Muslims and Arabs in the United States. explores how extralegal governing institutions form and operate, and particularly, Steven Skultety how property rights and trade are enforced Ph.D. Northwestern University; B.A. Uni- without government. He has authored sev- versity of Montana eral journal articles, as well as his recent book, The Social Order of the Underworld: Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008 How Prison Gangs Govern the American Pe- Steven is Associate Professor and Chair of nal System. He is married to JMC Fellow Philosophy and Religion at the University Emily Skarbek. of Mississippi. His areas of specialization are ancient philosophy, ethics, and political Emily C. Skarbek (Schaeffer) philosophy. Ph.D., M.A. George Mason University; B.B.A. Loyola University, New Orleans Alison Smith Mangiero Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Ph.D. candidate, M.A. Boston College; B.A., University of Richmond Emily is a lecturer in political economy at Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2010 the King’s College in London. Her research examines how voluntary associations can Alison is a tenure-track instructor in the solve complex public goods problems fol- Department of Political Science at the Col- lowing natural disasters. She has published lege of the Holy Cross. She is also Director several articles and book chapters, includ- of Outreach for the Adam Smith Society ing “The Chicago Fire of 1871: A Bottom and a consultant for the Veritas Fund of the Up Approach to Disaster Relief” in Public Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Choice. She is married to JMC Fellow Da- Her research interests include American vid Skarbek. politics, public law, and public policy.

Peter Skerry Brian Smith Ph.D., M.A., Ed.M. Harvard University; Ph.D., M.A. Georgetown University; B.A. B.A. Tufts University University of California, Los Angeles Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville Summer Institute Fellow: Santa Fe 2009 2008 Postdoctoral Fellow: Tocqueville Forum at Georgetown University 2008-2009 Peter is a professor of political science at Boston College. His work deals primar- Brian is currently an associate professor ily with politics, racial and ethnic issues, of political science and law at Montclair immigration, and social policy. He is cur- State University. His research interests rently working on a project that studies the include early-modern European thought, 101 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

critics and defenders of modernity, philos- University. He is Co-Director of the Yale ophies of history, American political Center for the Study of Representative thought, literature and politics, and the Institutions, a partner program in JMC’s history of political economy. He is current- Commercial Republic Initiative. His rely completing a book manuscript, The Po- search focuses on the history of political litical and Social Thought of Walker Percy, philosophy, especially the problem of the and is the co-editor of A Political Compan- ancients and moderns, the relation of re- ion to Walker Percy. He is also the author of ligion and politics, and theories of repre- numerous articles, including “Democracy sentative government. His publications in America and the Possibilities for Law include Hegel’s Critique of Liberalism; Spi- without the State,” “Adam Smith and the noza, Liberalism, and Jewish Identity; and Culture of Enterprise,” and “Losing Sight The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss. of Man: Tocqueville and Percy on the Fate of the Human Sciences.” Travis Smith Ph.D. Harvard University Mark Caleb Smith Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 Ph.D., M.A. University of Georgia; M.A. Trinity Evangelical Divinity School; B.A. Travis is an associate professor of politi- Bryan College cal science at Concordia University. He is Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 primarily interested in the intersection of politics, religion, and science, especially in Mark is an associate professor of political early-modern political philosophy. science and Director of the Center for Po- litical Studies at Cedarville University. His Mark Somos areas of expertise are American govern- Ph.D., A.M. Harvard University; Ph.D., ment, American constitutional law (rights Leiden University; LL.M. Sussex Law and liberties), American political thought, School; M.Phil., B.A. Cambridge Univer- campaigns and elections, church and state sity in America, public policy, politics and pop- Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 ular culture, and Southern politics. Research Library Fellow: Huntington Li- brary, RIHA project, 2013-2014; Hunting- Steven Smith ton Library, 2014 Ph.D. University of Chicago Summer Institute Faculty: Mark is a lab fellow at the Edmond J. Sa- Princeton 2007, Charlottes- fra Center for Ethics at Harvard Universi- ville 2011, Pasadena 2014 ty, senior visiting research fellow at Sussex Law School, and Managing Director of Steven is the Alfred Cowles Professor Cornerstone Global Associates (a political of Government and Philosophy at Yale consultancy firm). He has published ex- 102 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

tensively on international law, seculariza- include American political thought, the tion, constitutional history, commerce and foundations of modern republicanism, re- peace, politics ethics, and civil society. His ligion and politics in modern political phi- first book,Secularisation and the Leiden losophy, and ancient and modern theories. Circle, was published by Brill in 2011. As a His dissertation at Boston College was on JMC Research Fellow for the RIHA proj- the education of the moral imagination in ect, Mark examined sermons, pamphlets, Rousseau. Nicholas credits his JMC Post- and letters from the Founding era to better doctoral Fellowships as an “invaluable understand a uniquely American discourse source of support, help, and inspiration” in on the “state of nature.” his teaching and scholarship.

Daniel Spillman Devin Stauffer Ph.D. Emory University; M.A. Kent State Ph.D. Boston College University; B.A. Asbury College Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2008 Devin is an associate professor of govern- Daniel is an assistant professor of history ment at the University of Texas, Austin. and Chair of the Department of History His research interests include classical and Government at Williams Baptist Col- thought, the origins of liberalism, the the- lege in Arkansas. His research interests in- oretical foundations of modernity, and the clude intellectual, political, religious, and divide between ancient and modern polit- cultural U.S. history, including African ical thought. The most recent of his three historiography and coerced labor in the At- published books is entitled The Unity of lantic World. Plato’s Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice, and Phil- osophic Life. Nicholas Starr Ph.D. Boston College; B.A. St. John’s Col- Susan Gaunt Stearns lege Ph.D. University of Chicago; B.A. Yale Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville University 2013 Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Postdoctoral Fellow: Program on Constitu- Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Legal tionalism and Democracy at the University Studies at Northwestern University 2013- of Virginia 2012-2014; Department of Po- 2016 litical Science at Emory University 2014- 2015 Susan received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago and taught Nicholas is a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow at Mary Baldwin College before becoming in the Department of Political Science at the postdoctoral fellow for the Alexander Emory University. His teaching interests Hamilton Project housed in the Depart- 103 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

ment of Legal Studies at Northwestern Benjamin Storey University. The Alexander Hamilton Proj- Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. ect is a partner program in JMC’s Com- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill mercial Republic Initiative. She has taught Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 courses on the Constitution and the Amer- ican Revolution. Her current research fo- Benjamin is an associate professor of politi- cuses on the political economy of the early cal science and Co-Director of the Tocque- American frontier through an examination ville Program at Furman University. His is of the Mississippi River. currently working on a book that explores the question of self-knowledge in modern Brian Steele political philosophy. Ph.D. University of North Carolina, Chap- el Hill; M.A., B.A. University of Tulsa Barry Strauss Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Ph.D., M.A. Yale University; 2013 B.A. Cornell University Summer Institute Faculty: Brian is an associate professor of history at Boulder 2007, Charlottesville the University of Alabama, Birmingham. 2008 and 2012 His research interests include American intellectual and cultural history, the Amer- Barry is the Bryce and Edith M. Bow- ican Revolution and early republic, histo- mar Professor in Humanistic Studies and riography, nationalism, and gender. He is Director of the Program on Freedom and the author of Thomas Jefferson and Ameri- Free Societies at Cornell University. He can Nationhood. is a military historian with a focus on ancient Greece and Rome. He teaches courses James R. Stoner, Jr. on the history of ancient Greece, war and Ph.D., M.A. Harvard University; A.B. peace in the ancient world, history of bat- Middlebury College tle, introduction to military history, and Summer Institute Faculty: Princeton 2005, specialized topics in ancient history. He Boulder 2006 has been awarded fellowships by the Na- tional Endowment for the Humanities, the James is a professor of political science at American School of Classical Studies, the Louisiana State University. His research MacDowell Colony for the Arts, the Ko- interests include political theory, English rea Foundation, and the Killam Founda- common law, and American constitution- tion of Canada. He is the author of Battle alism. of Salamis: The Naval Encounter That Saved Greece—And Western Civilization, and Masters of Command: Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar and the Genius of Leadership. 104 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Edward Stringham Michael Sullivan Ph.D. George Mason University; B.A. Ph.D. Princeton University; M.A. Baylor College of the Holy Cross University; B.A. Wilfrid Laurier University Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2007 Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005

Edward is an associate professor at the Michael is an assistant professor of inter- Rawls College of Business and Free Mar- national relations at St. Mary’s University ket Institute at Texas Tech University. His in Texas. His research focuses on the caus- interests include economics, entrepreneur- es of international migration, the ethics of ship, public regulation of business, alterna- immigration enforcement and regulation tive economic systems, market behavior, policy, and the rights and obligations of comparative economics, and the economic membership in political communities. organizations of the early American colo- nies. He is the author of the forthcoming Nathan Tarcov book, Private Governance, as well as the Ph.D. Harvard University; B.A. Cornell published book Anarchy and the Law: The University Political Economy of Choice. He has been Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2006, featured in the media, including an inter- Chicago 2010 view on Fox Business, about private governance. Nathan is a professor of social thought and political science, a coordinator of the Po- Benjamin Sullivan litical Theory Workshop, and Director of Ph.D. University of California, Irvine; the Leo Strauss Center at the University B.A. St. John’s College of Chicago. His research interests include Postdoctoral Fellow: Cornell University political theory, education and family in 2011-2012 political theory, principles of American foreign policy, ancient political thought Benjamin is a visiting assistant professor at including Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Binghamton University. His research inter- Aristotle, and Plutarch, and modern polit- ests are in ancient history, particularly the ical thought including Machiavelli, Locke, organization of violence, state formation, the American Founders, and Leo Strauss. and the history of religion to late antiqui- He received the 1997 Quantrell Award for ty. He has a book under contract with Brill Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. He Publishers entitled Organizing Violence in has written many articles and books, in- Early Greece, c. 725-500 BCE and has pub- cluding Locke’s Education for Liberty, Ma- lished articles and reviews in the Classical chiavelli’s Discourses on Livy, and The Legacy Journal and Michigan War Studies Review. of Rousseau.

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Darrick Taylor Charlotte is a Professor of Philosophy and Ph.D. University of Kansas; M.A., B.A. Co-Director of the Center for America’s University of Florida Founding Principles at Mercer University. Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Her research interests include Plato, Aristo- 2011 tle, Plutarch, Shakespeare, Descartes, Vico, political philosophy, and philosophy and lit- Darrick is an adjunct assistant professor erature. She teaches courses in both philoso- of history at Johnson County Communi- phy and the Great Books Program at Mercer. ty College. His research interests include early-modern and modern Britain, the Diana Thomas British Empire, early-modern and modern Ph.D., M.A., B.S. George Mason Univer- Europe, and Western civilization. He has sity given several research presentations, and Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 his dissertation was titled L’Estrange His Life: Public and Persona in the Life and Ca- Diana is an associate professor of eco- reer of Sir Roger L’Estrange, 1616- 1704. He nomics at the Heider College of Business is currently preparing a manuscript of his at Creighton University. Her research ex- dissertation in book form and is also work- plores public choice economics and Aus- ing on an academic article on John Locke’s trian economics. She has authored several idea of God. book chapters and journal articles, and has also testified before Congress on the regres- F. Flagg Taylor sive effects of regulation. Ph.D. Fordham University; B.A. Kenyon College George Thomas Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Am- herst; B.A. University of Utah Flagg is an associate professor of gov- Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2006, ernment at Skidmore College. His area Charlottesville 2008 and 2009, Santa Fe of expertise is political theory. He is the 2009, Pasadena 2011 co-author of The Contested Removal Power, Research Library Fellow: Huntington Li- 1789-2010 with JMC Fellows Jeremy Bai- brary, RIHA project, 2013-2014 ley and David Alvis and editor of The Great Lie and Totalitarianism on Screen: The Art George is an associate professor of govern- and Politics of The Lives of Others. ment at Claremont McKenna College. He specializes in American constitutionalism, Charlotte Thomas constitutional theory, and American polit- Ph.D., M.A., Emory University; B.A. Mer- ical thought. He is the author of The Mad- cer University isonian Constitution and a forthcoming Summer Institute Fellow: Santa Fe 2009 book titled The National University and the 106 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Constitution of the American Mind. During tion for National Prohibition Reform and his JMC Research Fellowship at the Hun- the 21st Amendment” in Kyklos. tington Library, George investigated the Dartmouth College v. Woodward U.S. Su- Robert S. Thomas preme Court case as part of a wider con- Ph.D. Columbia University stitutional debate about the relationship Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 between church and state in America at the time. Robert is a lecturer of the College Core Curriculum at Columbia University. His Michael D. Thomas research interests include American intel- Ph.D. George Mason University; M.A. lectual history and the histories of Amer- University of Missouri, St. Louis; B.S. Uni- ican higher education and the social sci- versity of Alabama ences. His dissertation, Enlightenment and Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Authority: The Committee on Social Thought 2012 and the Ideology of Postwar Conservatism, traces the origin of post-war conservative Michael is an assistant professor in the De- ideology to a “revolt” among John Dewey’s partment of Economics and Finance in the students at Columbia and Chicago in the Heider College of Business at Creighton 1930s. University. His research interests include transportation economics, regulatory poli- Kathleen Tipler cy, and welfare economics. He has authored Ph.D. University of Michigan; B.A. Pomo- several journal articles and policy papers, na College including “Sin Taxes and Sindustry: Rev- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville enue, Paternalism and Political Interest,” 2013 published in the Independent Review and “Rational Irrationality and the Political Kathleen is a visiting assistant professor of Process of Repeal: The Women’s Organiza- American politics at Wake Forest Universi-

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ty. She previously served as the Arthur Vin- assistant international relations professor at ing Davis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow the University of California, Santa Barba- at the Center for the Study of American ra; a lecturer at the University of Califor- Democracy at Kenyon College. Her areas nia, Los Angeles; and a pre-doctoral fellow of expertise include public law, American at the Center for Comparative Immigra- politics, and political theory. She has writ- tion Studies at the University of California, ten articles including “The Obama Admin- San Diego. His research has focused on istration’s Non-Defense of DOMA and U.S. immigration policy, and internation- Executive Duty to Represent” in the Mary- al relations and the American Founding. land Law Review. He teaches classes on American political development, international relations, film John Tomasi and politics, globalization, immigration, D.Phil., B.Phil. Oxford University; M.A. transnational security issues, U.S. foreign University of Arizona; B.A. Colby College policy, and war and peace. Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2007 Lee Trepanier John is a professor in the Department of Po- Ph.D., M.A. Louisiana State University; litical Science at Brown University. His pri- B.A. Marquette University mary area of research is American political Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 philosophy. He has received several awards during his career, including the 2004-2005 Lee is a professor of political science at Sag- Undergraduate Council of Students Teach- inaw Valley State University. His research ing Prize and the Henry Merrit Wrinston interests are politics, literature, and film; Prize. He is also a leading scholar on Amer- religion and politics; classical and post- ican political thought whose works include modern political thought; and the work of Liberalism Beyond Justice: Citizens, Society, Eric Voegelin. and the Boundaries of Political Theory and Free Market Fairness. He is currently work- Nicholas Troester ing on a book project titled A Brief History Ph.D. Duke University; B.A. University of of Libertarianism. Michigan Postdoctoral Fellow: Duke University 2011- Robbie Totten 2012 Ph.D., M.A. University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. Duke University Nicholas is a co-editor at the Human Rights Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Web Project at Duke University. Following his JMC Postdoctoral Fellowship, he was Robbie is an assistant professor of political an instructor at the University of Chica- science at American Jewish University. He go teaching Classics of Social and Politi- has previously held positions as a visiting cal Thought. Nicholas’ research interests 108 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

include modern political theory, human recent books he has edited are The Sub- rights, and the law of war. His dissertation, merged State, Why the Law is So Perverse, Rethinking International Law: Hugo Groti- The Great Movies III, and a new translation us, Human Rights and Human Intervention, of Aristotle’s Ethics. used the work of Grotius—one of the early theorists of natural rights—to demonstrate David Tubbs how far international law has drifted from Ph.D., M.A., Princeton University; B.A., its intellectual foundations. Pennsylvania State University Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 Bernhardt Trout Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley; David is Associate Professor of Politics and S.B., S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Tech- Co-Chair of Politics, Philosophy, and Eco- nology nomics at The King’s College in New York. His research interests include contemporary Bernhardt is Raymond F. Baddour, ScD, politics, constitutional law, current debates in Professor of Chemical Engineering at MIT public policy, and the politics of post-com- and Director of the Benjamin Franklin munist Europe. He has published a book, Project (BFP), a partner program in JMC’s entitled Freedom’s Orphans: Contemporary Commercial Republic Initiative. His re- Liberalism and the Fate of American Children, search interests include pharmaceutical as well as several essays and book reviews. manufacturing, stabilization and formula- tion of biopharmaceuticals, and the molec- Jeffrey Tulis ular-level design of products and processes. Ph.D. University of Chicago While his research is highly technical, Ber- Summer Institute Faculty: Philadelphia nhardt is also interested in the relationship 2014 between the sciences and the humanities, particularly as they relate to scientific inno- Jeffrey has been a member of the senior facul- vation, and aims to foster communication ty of the Department of Government at the between them through the BFP. University of Texas, Austin since 1988. He has also taught at Princeton, Harvard and John Tryneski the University of Notre Dame. He works on B.A. University of Chicago topics that bridge the fields of political the- Summer Institute Publishing Workshop ory and American politics. His book The Facilitator: Charlottesville 2009-2011, Rhetorical Presidency is described in Critical Chicago 2010 and 2012, Pasadena 2011 Review as “one of the two or three most important and perceptive works written by a John is Executive Editor at the University political scientist in the twentieth century.” of Chicago Press. His subjects of focus are Jeffrey’s other works include Democratic De- political science, and law and society. Some cay and the Politics of Deference; Legacies of 109 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Loss in American Politics (co-authored with Lynn has taught extensively on political Nicole Mellow); and an edited volume, with philosophy, rhetoric, the United States Stephen Macedo, titled The Limits of Con- Constitution, and American political stitutional Democracy. With Sotirios Barber thought at Baylor University, the Universi- he founded and co-edited the Johns Hopkins ty of Virginia, and the University of Rich- Series in Constitutional Thought. With San- mond. She specializes in the Constitution- ford Levinson, he is co-editor of Constitu- al Convention of 1787. She is currently tional Thinking, a new book series from the the Scholar in Residence at the Robert H. University Press of Kansas. Smith Center for the Constitution at James Madison’s Montpelier, and she is acting as Brandon Turner Project Coordinator for “James Madison: Ph.D. University of Wisconsin; B.A. Mi- Lessons in Leadership and Life,” a 3-year ami University collaborative project partnering the Cen- Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 ter for the Constitution, the Robert A. Fox Leadership Program at the University of Brandon is currently at Clemson University. Pennsylvania, and the James Madison Pro- His research interests include modern polit- gram in American Ideals and Institutions ical thought, particularly liberalism and its at Princeton University. She is also cur- critics; theories of political antagonism; ear- rently a faculty adjunct at James Madison ly theories of commercial society; republi- University and Distinguished Senior Fel- canism; and political economy. His publica- low at the Fox Program at the University tions include “Democratical Gentlemen and of Pennsylvania. the Lust for Mastery: Status, Ambition, and the Language of Liberty in Hobbes’s Polit- Michelle Vachris ical Thought,” with Daniel Kapust for Po- Ph.D., M.A. George Mason University; litical Theory, “Adam Ferguson on ‘Action’ B.A. College of William and Mary and the Possibility of Non-Political Partic- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2011 ipation,” for Polity, and “John Stuart Mill and the Antagonistic Foundation of Liberal Michelle is the BB&T Professor for the Politics,” for Review of Politics. Study of Capitalism and a professor of economics at Christopher Newport Universi- Lynn Uzzell ty. Her fields of interest are industrial orga- Ph.D. University of Dallas; nization and international economics, and B.A. Black Hills State University she pursues research concerning economic Summer Institute Fellow: freedom, public choice, teaching pedagogy, Charlottesville 2009 and economics in literature. Postdoctoral Fellow: Program on Constitutionalism and Democ- racy at the University of Virginia 2008-2009 110 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Lise van Boxel on the origins and development of Loyalist Ph.D. University of Toronto; M.A. Boston ideology in America and Britain. College; B.A. University of Toronto Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Tomas van Malssen 2009, Chicago 2010 Ph.D. Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich Lise is an associate professor at St. John’s Postdoctoral Fellow: University of Texas, College in Annapolis/Santa Fe. Her teach- Austin 2011-2013 ing and research interests include interdisciplinary studies in liberal arts and political Tomas is currently working for Bedrijfstak science, with a special interest in political Law Practice. During his JMC Postdoctor- philosophy and the works of Friedrich Ni- al Fellowship, van Malssen taught Foun- etzsche. She is currently completing a man- dations of Modern Politics, which looked uscript in which she offers a comprehensive at the work of John Locke, among others. interpretation of Nietzsche’s conception of He also wrote numerous articles on think- the good with an argument for the supe- ers such as John Toland, an early figure in riority of Nietzsche’s conception over ac- Enlightenment thought and advocate for counts offered by the philosophic and reli- political liberty. gious traditions to date. James Vaughn Chad Vanderford Ph.D. University of Chicago; B.A. Cornell Ph.D. Louisiana State University; M.A. University California State University, Northridge; Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville B.A. University of California, Berkeley 2011 Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville Postdoctoral Fellow: Yale Center for the 2008 Study of Representative Institutions 2010- 2012 Chad is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas of the Permian James is an assistant professor of history Basin. In addition to teaching both halves at the University of Texas, Austin. He has of the U.S. history survey course and the taught such courses as The British Empire, first half of the World Civilizations sur- Making of the Modern World, and En- vey course, Chad also teaches a variety of lightenment and Revolution. His research classes relating to colonial, revolutionary, interests include British history, especial- and antebellum America. He is the author ly British imperial history, from the 17th of the forthcoming book: The Legacy of St. through the 19th centuries. His current George Tucker: College Professors in Virgin- project studies the British East India Com- ia Confront Slavery and the Rights of States, pany’s trade empire in the broader context 1790-1897. His current research focuses of 18th century political evolution. 111 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Kyle Volk Scott Waller Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. Ph.D., M.A. Claremont Graduate Univer- Boston College sity; M.A. Biola University; B.S. Southwest Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2012 Missouri State University Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Kyle is an associate professor of history at the University of Montana. His research Scott is an assistant professor of political focuses on the political, legal, social, and science at Biola University. His research intellectual history of the United States. interests include religion and politics, First He recently published his first book, Mor- Amendment jurisprudence, and the role of al Minorities and the Making of American the judiciary in American political order. Democracy. He has also authored publications such as “Evangelical Strength and the Representa- Kevin Wagner tion of Women and Gays” in Evangelicals Ph.D., M.A., J.D. University of Florida; and Democracy in America: Religion and B.A. Florida State University Society. Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: Charlottesville 2012 Ann Ward Summer Institute Fellow: Chicago 2010 Ph.D. Fordham University; M.A. Brock University; B.A. University of Toronto Kevin is an associate professor of political Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 science and Director of Graduate Studies at Florida Atlantic University. His areas Ann is an associate professor of philosophy and of interest include American government political and international studies at Campion and American politics. He is the author College, University of Regina. Her research in- of Rebooting American Politics: The Inter- terests include ancient historians, ancient polit- net Revolution and Tweeting to Power: So- ical philosophy, late-modern and 19th century cial Media and Modern American Politics. political thought, feminist philosophy, Ameri- can political thought, and government.

“..the JMC faculty institute had a tremendous impact on my professional development for which I am profoundly grateful. My teaching – both in terms of approach and content – improved significantly thanks to the summer institute.” Jonathan Pidluzny

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Lee Ward “Bad Education: Pity, Moral Learning, and Ph.D. Fordham University; M.A. Brock the Limits of Rousseauan Friendship” and University; B.A. University of Toronto “Sin City: Augustine and Machiavelli on Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 Fratricide, Rape, and Rome.” He also has a book under review called Rousseau and the Lee is Alpha Sigma Nu Distinguished Problem of Human Relations. Associate Professor in Campion College at the University of Regina. His research Stuart Warner interests include the history of political Ph.D. Michigan State University; B.A. philosophy, early-modern and American Queens College political thought, and democratic theory. Summer Institute Faculty: Chicago 2010 He is the author of John Locke and Modern Life, The Politics of Liberty in England and Stuart is currently an associate professor of Revolutionary America, and Modern De- philosophy and Director of the Montesquieu mocracy and the Theological-Political Prob- Forum, a partner program in JMC’s Com- lem in Spinoza, Rousseau and Jefferson. He mercial Republic Initiative, at Roosevelt co-edited The Ashgate Research Companion University in Chicago. His areas of inter- to Federalism and Natural Right and Politi- est include the history of philosophy, polit- cal Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine ical philosophy, philosophy and literature, Zuckert and Michael Zuckert, both with his philosophy in film, Plato, Herodotus, Des- wife Ann Ward. cartes, Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and the American Founding. He just completed John Warner a translation of Montesquieu’s Persian Letters Ph.D. University of California, Davis; and is at work on a translation of Descartes’ M.A. University of Georgia; B.S. Belmont Discourse on the Method. He is also working University on monographs on those two works. Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2011 Postdoctoral Fellow: Henry Salvatori Cen- Micah Watson ter for the Study of Individual Freedom in Ph.D., M.A. Princeton University; M.A. the Modern World at Claremont McKenna Baylor University; B.A. University of Cal- College 2011-2012 ifornia, Davis Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2005 John is currently a lecturer in political science at University of California, Da- Micah is Director of the Center for Politics vis, where he teaches classes on the First and Religion and an associate professor of Amendment, philosophy of law, consti- political science at Union University. His tutional law, late modern political theory, research interests include political philoso- and American political thought. He has phy, politics and religion, politics and liter- published numerous articles including ature, and ethics and public policy. 113 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Derek Webb thought, constitutional law, civil liberties, Ph.D. University of Notre Dame; J.D. and capitalism. His research and teaching Georgetown University; B.A. Yale University are informed by the several years he spent Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville as a high-level aide and consultant in na- 2008 tional politics, including serving as Com- munications and Policy Director to U.S. Derek joined the Stanford Constitutional Senator Bob Kerrey and as founder of the Law Center as a fellow in 2012. He works Washington, D.C.-based speechwriting in the fields of constitutional law, statutory firm Content Communications, LLC. He interpretation, American political theory, is the author of Madison’s Metronome: The and legal history. His publications in- Constitution, Majority Rule and the Tempo clude articles in Law and History Review, of American Politics and the forthcoming the American Journal of Legal History, and book American Burke: The Uncommon Lib- the South Carolina Law Review, as well as eralism of Daniel Patrick Moynihan. a co-authored book about Anti-Federal- ists in New York. Derek has held research Christopher West and teaching fellowships at the University Ph.D., B.A. Rutgers University of Virginia and Princeton University and Postdoctoral Fellow: Tocqueville Forum summer clerkships in the U.S. Court of on the Roots of American Democracy at Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Georgetown University 2009-2010 Senate Judiciary Committee. In the fall of 2014, Derek began a Supreme Court Fel- Christopher’s primary interests include Amer- lowship in the Office of the Counselor to ican political thought, religion and politics, Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. American political culture, the American presidency, and political parties. As a postdoc- Gregory Weiner toral fellow at Georgetown, he taught Theory Ph.D., M.A. Georgetown of Executive Power, which combined an in- University; B.A. University of depth examination of the concept of the mod- Texas, Austin ern executive with an examination of how the Summer Institute Fellow: Founders adapted such an institution to con- Boulder 2008 stitutional republicanism. He is currently fin- Postdoctoral Fellow: Political ishing a book on the historical and theoretical Theory Project at Brown University 2010- origins and development of presidential popu- 2011 lar leadership. His dissertation at Rutgers, ad- vised by Daniel Tichenor, was titled Presidents, Gregory is an assistant professor of polit- Parties, and the Constitution of the People: Re- ical science at Assumption College. His considering the Origins and Development of the research interests include the American Rhetorical Executive. Founding, Congress, American political 114 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Daniel Wewers “The Siege of Castle Pox: Marblehead, Ph.D. Harvard University; A.B. Princeton Massachusetts’ Medical Revolution, 1764- University 1777” won the 2008 Walter Muir White- Postdoctoral Fellow: Brown University hill Award in Early American History and 2009- 2010 was the lead article in the September 2009 issue of the New England Quarterly. He has Daniel was a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow at also published in the Boston Globe and has Brown University’s JMC partner program, appeared on NPR’s Talk of the Nation. Political Theory Project, from 2009-2010. While at Brown, he taught The American Christopher Whidden Founding 1750-1800. The course was a Ph.D., M.A., Northern Illinois University; capstone seminar surveying original sourc- B.A. Wake Forest University es, classic interpretations, and new per- Summer Institute Fellow: Santa Fe 2009 spectives on the Founding. Its major topics included popular sovereignty, liberty and Christopher is a lecturer in the Honors republicanism, rebellion and revolution, Program at Loyola University, Chicago. independence, constitution-making and His research interests include American constitutional interpretation, and the leg- political thought, the history of political acy of the American Founding. philosophy, and politics and literature. He has written extensively on Xenophon’s Cy- Andrew Wehrman ropaedia and is currently researching the Ph.D., M.A. Northwestern University; Socratic turn to political philosophy in M.A., B.A. University of Arkansas the works of Aristophanes, Xenophon, and Summer Institute Fellow: Pasadena 2014 Plato.

Andrew currently teaches courses in early Jonathan White American history at Marietta College in- Ph.D., M.A. University of Maryland, Col- cluding Colonial America, Atlantic His- lege Park; B.A. Pennsylvania State Univer- tory, and the American Revolution as well sity as the history of medicine and disease. His Summer Institute Fellow: Princeton 2007 current book project The Contagion of Lib- Postdoctoral Fellow: Center for American erty: Medicine, Class, and Popular Politics in Studies at Christopher Newport University the American Revolution argues that con- 2009-2011 stant fears of smallpox epidemics and con- trasting ideas about medicine and public Jonathan is an assistant professor in the health helped shape the political thoughts Department of Leadership and American and actions of ordinary Americans during Studies at Christopher Newport Universi- the American Revolution. An article tak- ty. Prior to this, he was a JMC Postdoctoral en from one chapter of the project entitled Fellow at Christopher Newport. During 115 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

his fellowship, he taught such courses as Religion, Identity, and Urban Community The American Experiment: Formation and she currently has a book titled Trav- of Democratic Life, Encounters with the eling Without a Passport: Immigration and Constitution, and a capstone seminar in the Socio-History of Citizenship in the City American studies. His research interests of Brotherly Love under contract with the include the Constitution, the Civil War, NYU Press. and treason in American history. He is the author of Abraham Lincoln and Treason in Elspeth Wilson the Civil War: The Trials of John Merryman Ph.D. candidate, University of Pennsylva- and Emancipation, the Union Army, and the nia; M.A. University of Wisconsin-Madi- Reelection of Abraham Lincoln, as well as an son; B.A. Columbia University article in the Journal of the Civil War Era Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia entitled “The Strangely Insignificant Role 2014 of the U.S. Supreme Court during the Civ- il War.” He is currently working on a his- Elspeth Wilson is a Ph.D. candidate in tory of sleep and dreams during the Civil political science at the University of Penn- War called Midnight in America. sylvania, where she is writing a dissertation titled, “The Reproduction of Citizenship: Paul Wilford An analysis of how the U.S. Government Ph.D. candidate, Tulane University shaped American Citizenship during the Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia 20th century, by regulating fertility, inti- 2014 macy, procreation, and birth across gen- erations.” The aim of her dissertation is to Paul is pursuing a Ph.D. in philosophy at highlight the ways in which the United Tulane Universit y. States government reproduces its citizenry (i.e. “the American People”) through the Catherine E. Wilson political regulation of the actual birth of Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania; M.A. citizens, from one generation to the next. Georgetown University; B.A. Villanova In addition to being awarded Benjamin University Franklin and Presidential Prize Fellow- Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 ships to fund her graduate studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Elspeth served Catherine is Associate Professor and Inter- as the Administrator for the “Penn-Mel- im Chair of the Department of Public Ad- lon Foundation Program on Democracy, ministration at Villanova University. She is Citizenship, and Constitutionalism” from the author of The Politics of Latino Faith: 2007-2011.

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Gordon Wood are American government and public poli- Ph.D., A.M. Harvard Univer- cy, presidential studies, American political sity; A.B. Tufts University thought, urban politics, and Kansas and Summer Institute Faculty: regional studies. Boulder 2008, Charlottesville 2008-2013, Santa Fe 2009, Matthew D. Wright Pasadena 2014 Ph.D. University of Texas; B.A. Biola Uni- versity Gordon is the Alva O. Way University Pro- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville fessor and Professor of History Emeritus at 2012 Brown University. His research has primarily centered on early American history and Matthew is an assistant professor of gov- the foundations of the American Republic. ernment in the Torrey Honors Institute at He has received numerous awards during Biola University. His research interests in- his esteemed career, including the 1993 clude the Great Books, statesmanship, the Pulitzer Prize for History for his book, The rule of law and the common good, civil so- Radicalism of the American Revolution; the ciety and political order, political thought, 1970 Bancroft Prize for his The Creation of American Constitutional law, and civil the American Republic, 1776-1787 and his liberties. He has written a number of pa- 2009 third volume of the Oxford History pers and articles, including “Natural Law, of the United States – Empire of Liberty: A Civic Friendship, and Stanley Hauerwas’s History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, Counter-Polis Thesis,” published inNatu - which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. ral Law and Evangelical Political Thought. He has also received the Jack Miller Cen- ter Chairman’s Award. Among Wood’s Stephen Wrinn other notable works include his “Rhetoric M.A. University of Vermont; B.A. Kenyon and Reality in the American Revolution,” College “Conspiracy and the Paranoid Style: Cau- Summer Institute Publishing Workshop sality and Deceit in the Eighteenth Centu- Facilitator: Boulder 2007 and 2008, Char- ry,” and “Interests and Disinterestedness in lottesville 2008-2010, Santa Fe 2009, Pas- the Making of the Constitution.” adena 2011, Chicago 2012, Philadelphia 2014 Fred Woodward Summer Institute Publishing Workshop Stephen is Director of the University Press Facilitator: Charlottesville 2008, Santa Fe of Kentucky. He is a historian and the au- 2009, Chicago 2010, Philadelphia 2013 thor of Civil Rights in the Whitest State: Vermont’s Perceptions of Civil Rights, 1945- Fred is former Senior Editor of the Univer- 1968. sity of Kansas Press. His areas of specialty 117 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Jean Yarbrough journal Fides et Historia. He has authored or Ph.D., M.A. New School for Social Re- co-authored several books, including Admi- search; B.A. Cedar Crest College rals and Empire: The United States Navy and Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville the Caribbean, 1898-1945, The Burning of 2009-2011, Chicago 2010 and 2012, Pas- Falmouth: A Case Study in British Imperial adena 2011 Pacification, and Species of Origins: America’s Search for a Creation Story. Jean is a professor of government and the Gary M. Pendy Sr. Professor of Social Sci- Craig Yirush ences at Bowdoin College. Her areas of Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University; M.Phil. expertise are American political thought Cambridge University; M.A., B.A. Univer- and political theory. She is the author of sity of British Columbia Theodore Roosevelt and the American Politi- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2011 cal Tradition and American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People. Craig is an associate professor of history at University of California, Los Angeles. His Scott Yenor research interests include the development Ph.D., M.A. Loyola University Chicago; of political ideas in early-modern Britain, B.A. University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire colonial America, the question of Amerin- Summer Institute Fellow and Faculty: dian rights in the first British Empire, and Princeton 2006, Boulder 2008, Santa Fe the connection between law and political 2009, Pasadena 2011, Philadelphia 2013 theory in early-modern Europe. He is the author of Settlers, Liberty, and Empire: The Scott is a professor of political science at Roots of Early American Political Theory, Boise State University. His research inter- 1675-1775. ests include the Scottish Enlightenment, the philosophic status of revealed religion, John York American literature, and the family in Ph.D. candidate, M.A. University of Vir- modern political thought. In 2011, he pub- ginia; B.A. Kenyon College lished his book Family Politics: The Idea of Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia 2014 Marriage in Modern Political Thought. John is pursuing his Ph.D. in political sci- Donald Yerxa ence at the University of Virginia. His re- Ph.D., M.A. University of Maine, B.A. search is on American political parties and Eastern Nazarene College interest groups during the 20th and 21st cen- Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2010 turies. His dissertation title is “From Van- guard to Old Guard: The Changing Role Donald is a professor of history emeritus at of Interest Groups in the American Party Eastern Nazarene College and editor of the System.” 118 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

Samuel Zeitlin James Zink Ph.D. candidate, University of California, Ph.D. University of Califor- Berkeley; M.Phil. Cambridge University; nia, Davis; J.D. DePaul Uni- M.A., B.A. Oxford University versity College of Law; B.A. Summer Institute Fellow: Philadelphia University of Notre Dame 2014 Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2010 Samuel is pursuing his Ph.D. in political Postdoctoral Fellow: Department of Politi- science at the University of California, cal Science at Emory University 2010-2011 Berkeley. His research interests are political philosophy, classical political philosophy, James is an assistant professor in the Col- history of political thought, early-modern lege of Humanities and Social Sciences at British and American political thought North Carolina State University, where he 1550-1800, international relations theo- teaches such courses as Law and Justice and ry, German political thought 1870-pres- American Political Thought. He was pre- ent, and Jewish thought. His dissertation viously a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow at the is about war and peace in the political Program in Democracy and Citizenship, thought of Francis Bacon. JMC’s partner program at Emory Univer- sity. His research interests include political Joshua Zingher theory, American political thought, con- Ph.D., M.A. Binghampton University stitutionalism, and judicial politics. He is Postdoctoral Fellow: Institute for the particularly interested in the problems and American Constitutional Heritage at the possibilities of liberalism. He has authored University of Oklahoma 2014-2015 several articles, most recently, “James Wil- son vs. the Bill of Rights: Progress, Popular Joshua is a JMC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Sovereignty, and the Idea of the U.S. Con- Institute for the American Constitutional stitution,” published in Political Research Heritage at the University of Oklahoma. Quarterly. He is also the author of “Recon- His work focuses on how social groups sidering the Role of Self-Respect in Rawls’s structure the political process, from influ- A Theory of Justice,” “The Language of Lib- encing individual voting behavior to deter- erty and Law: James Wilson on America’s mining the enactment and nature of public Written Constitution,” and “Courting the policies on the macro-level. His articles Public: Judicial Behavior and Individuals’ have appeared in Social Science Quarterly, Views of Court Decisions.” Before working State Politics and Policy Quarterly, and Par- in academia, Zink practiced law for four ty Politics. Joshua has taught classes on vot- years. ing rights, Congress and the Constitution, and the politics of U.S. immigration.

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Catherine Zuckert and the Liberal Tradition and Natural Rights Ph.D., M.A. University of Chicago; B.A. and the New Republicanism. His forthcom- Cornell University ing book is Completing the Constitution: The Summer Institute Publishing Workshop Post-Civil War Amendments. Facilitator: Chicago 2010, Charlottesville 2011 John Zumbrunnen Catherine is the Nancy R. Dreux Profes- Ph.D. University of Minnesota; B.S. sor of Political Science and Editor-in-Chief Southwest Missouri State University of the Review of Politics at the University Summer Institute Workshop Facilitator: of Notre Dame. Her areas of interest in- Chicago 2012, Pasadena 2014 clude political philosophy and the relation between politics and literature. Her most John is a professor of political science and recent book is Plato’s Philosophers: The Co- Director of the American Democracy Fo- herence of Dialogues. rum, a JMC partner program, at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin, Madison. His research Michael Zuckert interests include the history of political Ph.D. University of Chicago; thought, democratic theory, American po- B.A. Cornell University litical thought, and the philosophy of social Summer Institute Faculty: science. Much of his scholarly research has Charlottesville 2008, 2009, focused on the intersection of Greek polit- 2011, and 2012; Chicago ical thought and modern democratic theo- 2010 and 2012; Philadelphia ry. He has written two books: Silence and 2013, Pasadena 2014 Democracy: Athenian Politics in Thucydides’ Summer Institute Publishing Workshop History, and his more recent, Aristophan- Facilitator: Charlottesville 2012 ic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship. John is currently working on Michael is the Nancy R. Dreux Profes- a project addressing education, self-educa- sor of Political Science at the University of tion, and democracy in American political Notre Dame. His primary interests include thought. Under his direction, the American political philosophy and theory, American Democracy Forum at Madison fosters con- political thought, American constitutional versation about America’s founding princi- law, American constitutional history, and ples and their ongoing importance through the philosophy of law. He has received fel- an undergraduate fellows program, a high lowships and grants from the National En- school educator’s program, a postdoctoral dowment for the Humanities, the Woodrow fellowship, and other activities including Wilson Center, and the Earhart Founda- the Benjamin Franklin Initiative, which tion, as well as a Jack Miller Center Chair- explores links between science, enterprise, man’s Award. He has written many books, and law in the American Founding and the including Launching Liberalism: John Locke broader Atlantic Enlightenment. 120 2015/2016 JMC FELLOWS DIRECTORY

IN MEMORIAM:

Larry Nee Summer Institute Fellow: Charlottesville 2009 and 2010, Pasadena 2011 Deceased (2013)

Alan Petigny Summer Institute Fellow: Boulder 2006 and 2008 Deceased (2013)

Herman Sinaiko Summer Institute Faculty: Boulder 2007 Deceased (2011)

John Strassburger Summer Institute Faculty: Charlottesville 2009 Deceased (2010)

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