EDUCATION
PhD Political Science, Boston College, 2012
B.A. Political Science, Williams College, 2006
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, 吃瓜网 2018-present
Interim Associate Dean, Constantin College of Liberal Arts, Dallas, 2020-2021
Senior Policy Analyst (contractor), Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services, 2020
Deputy Director, U.S. Congressional Joint Economic Committee, 2019
Research Associate, Catholic University of America, 2018-2019
Assistant Professor, 吃瓜网 2012-2018
Postdoctoral Fellow, Thomas Jefferson Center for Core Texts and Ideas, University
of Texas, 2014鈥�15
RECENT COURSES
POL 1311 Principles of American Politics
POL 3325 American Foreign Policy
POL 3332/5304 Aristotle鈥檚 Politics
POL 3334/5306 Enlightenment and Liberal Democracy
POL 3342 Politics and the Family
POL 4353 Resistance & Revolution
POL 6377 Cicero
POL 6378 The American Founding
POL 6387 Locke
POL 6388 Rousseau
POL 7371 Xenophon
POL 7374 Plato's Laws
POL 7374 Dialogues of Plato
POL 7375 Early Modern Political Theology
IPS 8326 Augustine & Aquinas
IPS 8342 Hobbes and Rousseau
ARTICLES
In Natural Rights, the Common Good, and the American Revolution, edited by Yuval
Levin, Adam J. White, and John Yoo (Washington: AEI Press, 2025), pp. 63鈥�92.
In Augustine and Frontiers of Pluralism, edited by Boleslaw Z. Kabala, Thomas P. Harmon, and Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo (New York: Routledge, 2025), pp. 39鈥�51.
British Journal for the History of Philosophy 32, no. 5 (2024), pp. 999鈥�1029.
鈥淧hilosophy and Religion in Farabi鈥檚 Interpretation of Plato鈥檚 Laws.鈥� In Farabi and His Thoughts: Proceedings of the first world congress on Farabi and Islamic culture and civilization, edited by Reza Mahoozi (Tehran: Institute for Cultural, Social and Civilization Studies, 2024), pp. 233鈥�52.
鈥淎 New Approach to Augustine鈥檚 Dialogues.鈥� Review of Politics 86, no. 1 (Winter 2024), pp. 115鈥�27.
鈥淲ollstonecraft, Mill, and Rousseau on the Subjection of Men.鈥� [Co-author with Kimberley J. Burns.] Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 49, no. 2 (Winter 2023), pp. 155鈥�76.
鈥�.鈥� In Democracy and the History of Political Thought, edited by Patrick N. Cain, Stephen Patrick Sims, and Stephen A. Block (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021), pp. 201鈥�217.
鈥�.鈥� Public Discourse, 20 Feb. 2021.
鈥�: Book 1 of Utopia and its Augustinian Source.鈥� Moreana 57, no. 1 (2020), pp. 89鈥�102.
鈥� The Contribution of Joseph Ratzinger." In Augustine鈥檚 Political Thought, edited by Richard Dougherty (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester, 2019), pp. 245鈥�72.
鈥�.鈥� National Affairs 41 (Fall 2019), pp. 127鈥�41.
鈥渁uf die Reisen Benedikt XVI. nach Deutschland.鈥� In Ut Unum Sint. Theologie der 脰kumene bei Joseph Ratzinger / Benedikt XVI,, edited by Michaela C. Hastetter and Stefanos Athanasiou (Regensburg: Friedrich Pustet, 2018), pp. 148鈥�64.
鈥�.鈥� In Religion und Politik in der freiheitlichen Demokratie / Religion and Politics in Liberal Democracy, edited by Klaus St眉we (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2018), pp. 95鈥�111.
鈥�.鈥� Communio: International Catholic Review 44, no. 2 (2017), pp. 296鈥�322.
鈥�.鈥� Review of Politics 77, no. 3 (2016), pp. 365鈥�89.
鈥�.鈥� In Philosophy, History, and Tyranny: Re-examining the Debate Between Leo Strauss and Alexandre Koj猫ve, edited by Timothy Burns and Bryan-Paul Frost (Albany: SUNY, 2016), pp. 83鈥�117.
鈥�.鈥� Revue d鈥櫭﹖udes augustiniennes et patristiques 61, no. 2 (2015), pp. 273鈥�98.
PRESENTATIONS
鈥淎ugustine on Pagan and Christian Social Hierarchies,鈥� at Augustine: Frontiers of Pluralism, held by Augustinian Institute at Villanova University, 15鈥�16 June 2022.
鈥淭he Platonism of Augustine鈥檚 Political Thought,鈥� at Southern Political Science Association Meeting, 13鈥�15 Jan. 2022.
鈥淎ugustine on the Meaning of Human Dignity,鈥� at Human Dignity in a Secular World, held by diNicola Center for Ethics and Culture, Notre Dame University, 11鈥�13 Nov. 2021.
鈥淧atriotism and Honesty,鈥� at America, Liberalism, and Catholicism, held at 吃瓜网, 16 April 2021.
鈥淎 Political Theorist Goes to Washington: My Year in the Federal Government.鈥� Public lecture at Lee University, 19 March 2021.
鈥淟iberal Theory v. Liberal Practice.鈥� Public lecture at Hillsdale College, 25 Feb. 2020.
鈥淲hat is 鈥楻eligious Freedom鈥�? Competing Definitions in the American Tradition.鈥� Lecture at University of Louisiana at Lafayette, 30 April 2019.
鈥淎ugustine on the Foundations of Christian Political Thought.鈥� Public lecture at St. John鈥檚 College Annapolis, 25 Jan. 2019.
What Makes Freedom of Religion Different from Freedom of Speech? Public lecture at Catholic University of America, 17 Sept. 2018.After Nationalism: Being American in an Age of Division, by Samuel Goldman. .
The Decadent Society: America Before and After the Pandemic, by Ross Douthat. .
Redefining the Muslim Community: Ethnicity, Religion, and Politics in the Thought of Alfarabi, by Alexander Orwin. .