EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Davis
B.A., Political Science, California State University, San Bernadino
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, Politics Department, University of Dallas, 2007-present
Assistant Professor, Politics Department, University of Dallas, 2003-2007
Instructor, Politics Department, University of Dallas, 2001-2003
Teaching Assistant, Political Science Department, University of California, Davis
RECENT COURSES
POL 1311 Principles of American Politics
POL 3328 Congress
POL 3329 Politics & Parties
POL 3331/5304 Plato's Republic
POL 3335 Modernity and Post Modernity
POL 3338 Marxism and Russia
POL 3342/5308 Political Philosophy & the Family
POL 3362 20th Century Political Thought and Policy
POL 5300 New Deal
POL 5300 Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
"Freedom, History and Race in Progressive Thought," Social Philosophy & Policy, 29:2.
"Eugenics, American Progressivism, and the 'German Idea of the State'," Library of Law and Liberty (Jan. 31, 2013)
"Progressivism, Race, and the Training Wheels of Freedom", National Review Online (Nov. 14, 2011)
"The Progressives’ Legacy of Bankruptcy," National Review Online (Jul. 8, 2010)
"John Dewey and the Philosophical Refounding of America" National Review Online (Dec. 31, 2009)
"James Madison's Republic of Mean Extent: Avoiding the Scylla and Charybdis of Republican Government,"Polity: The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association (2007, Volume 39, 545-569)
"Transforming Formal Freedom into Effective Freedom: John Dewey, the New Deal and the Great Society,"Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding, ed. R.J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West (Lexington Books, 2006)
PRESENTATIONS
"A New Birth of Freedom: The Progressive Transformation of American Political Theory."
American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, 2007.
"Transforming Formal Freedom into Effective Freedom: John Dewey, the New Deal and the Great Society." Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2005.
"The Liberal Redirection of Public Policy: John Dewey, the New Deal and the Great Society." McKenna Conference, University of Dallas, 2005.F