OFFICE HOURS
Monday, Wednesday, Friday 3:00-3:30
EDUCATION
PhD. Politics, Catholic University
BA., Political Science, Franciscan University of Steubenville
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Dean, Constantin College of Liberal Arts, University of Dallas, 2021-
Professor of Political Science, Robert Morris University, 2005-2021
Interim Dean, School of Education and Social Science, Robert Morris University 2018-2019
Co-Director, University Honors Program, Robert Morris University 2008-2018
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Against Values: How to Talk About the Good in a Postliberal Era, Rowman & Littlefield, 2023.
“Economics, Politics, and Natural Law,” Human Rights and Natural Law: An Intercultural Philosophical Perspective. Edited by Walter Schweidler. St. Augustin bei Bonn: Academia, 2012. 147-158.
“Valori o responsabilità nella politica e nella società” in L'amore principio di vita sociale. Edited by Juan José Pérez-Soba and Marija Magdic. Rome: Edizioni Cantagalli, 2011. 271-290.
“Three Reflections on Levinas,” Quaestiones Disputatae, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring 2011), 301-12.
“Tradition and its Disavowal: Levinas and Hermeneutics,” Levinas Studies, Vol. 6 (2011), 223-52.
Prophetic Politics: Emmanuel Levinas and the Sanctification of Suffering, Ohio University Press, 2010.
“The Desire for Social Unity: Levinas and Berdyaev,” Philosophy Today, Vol. 54, No. 3 (Fall 2010), 262-279.
“Robert Nisbet’s Visible and Invisible Communities,” Catholic Social Science Review, Vol. 15 (2010), 175-191.
“Givenness and Inspiration: Levinasian Responses to Marion,” Quaestiones Disputatae, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2010), 204-222.
PRESENTATIONS
Martin Luther and the Modern Style of Politics,” Society of Catholic Social Sciences
Annual Conference, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio, October
24, 2020.
“State-Sponsored Torture and the Sacred,” Society of Catholic Social Sciences Annual Conference, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio, October 26, 2019.
“The Concept of ‘Value’ in Phenomenology and Politics,” Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio, October 28, 2017.
“Personal Relationships: Towards a Hildebrandean Political Philosophy,” Hildebrand Legacy Project Schülerkreis, Franciscan University of Steubenville, July 12, 2017.
“Values and Personalism: Hildebrand and Heidegger,” Hildebrand Legacy Project Schülerkreis, Franciscan University of Steubenville, July 11, 2017.
“The Concept of ‘Value’ in Political Rhetoric,” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, April 7, 2017.
“’Values’ versus Loyalties: Origins and Implications of Value-Language in Politics,” Pennsylvania Political Science Association 77th Annual Meeting, Shippensburg University, April 1, 2016.
“Origin of Value-Language in Early Modern Political Thought,” Society of Catholic Social Scientists Annual Conference, Franciscan University of Steubenville, Steubenville, Ohio, October 24, 2015.
“The Origin of Value Language in the Search for Security,” poster presentation at The Value of [In-]Security, the 2015 International Tübingen Symposium on Ethics, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, July 29, 2015.
“Werte oder Solidarität in der gemeinwohlorientierten Bildung,” Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlesruhe, Germany, July 14, 2015.