EDUCATION
Ph. D. in Political Philosophy, 吃瓜网
M.A. in Political Philosophy and Literature, 吃瓜网
B.A. in Political Science, Belmont Abbey College
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dean, Braniff Graduate School, 吃瓜网, 2024
Professor of Politics, 吃瓜网, 2020
Chairman, Department of Politics, 吃瓜网, 2011-2019
Associate Professor of Politics, 吃瓜网, 2000-2020
Visiting Professor of Political Science, Department of Comparative Political Science,
Katholische Universit盲t Eichst盲tt-Inglostadt, Eichst盲tt, Germany, 2016
Director, Center for Christianity and the Common Good, 吃瓜网, 1993-present
Faculty Representative, Lilly Foundation's Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and
the Arts, 1997-present
RECENT COURSES
POL 1311 Principles of American Politics
POL 3312/5301 Political Regimes: Plutarch, Augustine, Machiavelli
POL 3326/5302 The Presidency
POL 3332/5305 Aristotle's Politics
POL 3368/5307 Catholic Political Thought
POL 4353 The Federalist/Anti-Federalist
POL 5357 Tocqueville
POL 6377 Cicero
POL 6377 Politics and the Bible
POL 4351 Senior Seminar
POL 4353 Catholic Political Thought
POL 7380 Medieval Political Philosophy
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
鈥淪t. Augustine's Specula Principum: The Qualities of Virtuous Rulership.鈥� Essay contributed
to a conference on 鈥淢an, Nature and Society in the Church Fathers (2nd-5th Centuries)鈥�:
International Colloquium in Thessaloniki on the Occasion of the 80th Anniversary of
Sources Chr茅tienne. Forthcoming in Studia Patristica (2025): Peer reviewed.
鈥�.鈥� Vetera Novis Augere: The Resources of the Thomistic Tradition in the Current Context: II. Philosophical Themes and Historical Research. Eds. Serge-Thomas Bonino, Luca F. Tuninetti. Pontifical University of St. Thomas and Urbaniana University Press, Rome, Italy, (2025). Pp. 525-543. Peer Reviewed.
鈥淲hat is an American? The Identity of Catholics in the American Polity.鈥� Essay in Vielfalt, Gleichstellung und Inklusion鈥� im Licht der katholischen Soziallehre/ Identity and the Tradition of Catholic Social Thought: Understanding 鈥楧iversity, Equity, and Inclusion鈥�.鈥� Ed. Stefan M眉ckl. Berlin, Germany: Duncker & Humblot (2023): pp. 11-24. Peer reviewed.
鈥溾�� Essay in Studia Patristica: Augustine of Hippo's 鈥淒e ciuitate Dei:鈥� Content, Transmission, and Interpretations. Vol. CXVII. Eds. Markus Vinzent, Gert Partoens, Anthony Dupont. Leuven, Belgium: Peeters Publishers, (2021): 165-176. Peer reviewed.
鈥淪olidarity and the American Political Order: Migration and America.鈥� Essay in Migration und Solidarit盲t. ed. Stefan M眉ckl. Berlin, Germany: Duncker & Humblot (2020): pp. 161-174. Peer reviewed.
鈥淔ederalism and the American Experiment: The Intention of the Constitution.鈥� Essay in Making Government Work: A Conservative Agenda, ed. Nathaniel Parker, Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2020. Available at: .
鈥�, eds. Jonathan Crowe and Constance Youngwon Lee, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019: pp. 57-75.
鈥淪t. Augustine and the Problem of Political Ethics,鈥� in Augustine鈥檚 Political Thought, ed. Richard J. Dougherty. Rochester, New York: University of Rochester Press, 2019: 13-35. Peer reviewed.
鈥淪t. Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Man in the 鈥楾reatise on Law鈥�,鈥� Divus Thomas 121 (Fall, 2018): 167-177. Peer reviewed.
PRESENTATIONS
鈥淪t. Augustine鈥檚 Roman Heroes: A Reconsideration of Roman Virtue.鈥� Paper presented
at XVIII International Conference on Patristic Studies at Oxford University, Oxford,
United Kingdom, August 19-24, 2019.
Keynote Lecturer, week-long program, 鈥淧residents and the Constitution: Historic Turning Points,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Summer Institute for Teachers, Bill of Rights Institute (Alexandria, VA), Washington, D.C., July 22-26, 2019.
鈥淎voiding 鈥楾he Absurdity of Wicked Meanings鈥�: St. Augustine, Scripture, and the Liberal Arts,鈥� Plenary Lecture for Conference on 鈥淪cripture and the Disciplines,鈥� Braniff Graduate Student Association Fifth Annual Conference on the Liberal Arts, University of Dallas, February 15-16, 2019.
鈥淐hallenges to Executive Discretion: The War Powers Resolution and the Courts,鈥� Paper presented at a panel on 鈥淭he Presidency, the Courts, and Separation of Power Politics,鈥� Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, August 30-September 2, 2018.
鈥淪olidarity and the American Political Order: Migration and America,鈥� Paper delivered at the German-American Colloquium on 鈥淢igration and Solidarity,鈥� Hosted by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, Kloster Banz, Bad Staffelstein, Bavaria, Germany, July 23-28, 2018.
鈥淐颈肠别谤辞鈥檚&苍产蝉辫;de re Publica on Statesmanship and Political Philosophy,鈥� Paper presented at a panel on 鈥渄e Tocqueville: Old World, New World,鈥� Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference, Association for Core Texts and Courses, Framingham, MA, April 19-22, 2018.
Participant, Rumsfeld Foundation Graduate Fellowship Program, 鈥淎merican Leadership: Advancing the Interests of the American People at Home and Abroad,鈥�&苍产蝉辫;Rumsfeld Foundation, Washington, D.C., September 14-15, 2017.
鈥淪t. Thomas Aquinas on the Nature of Man in the Treatise on Law.鈥� Paper presented at the Sixth Thomas Aquinas International Society Conference (Societ脿 Internazionale Tommaso d鈥橝quino, SITA), 鈥淭he Human Person: La persona umana: Id quod est perfectissimum in tota natura.鈥� Bologna, Italy, April 20-22, 2017.