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Curriculum Vitae Highlights

Education:

Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, 1990.
Dissertation: Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism

Professional Experience:

Director, Certificate in the Study of Arts and Sciences Through Primary Texts, a college-wide program, 2001-

Associate Professor, Kansas State University, 1996- (Political Philosophy)

Assistant Professor, Kansas State University, 1991-1996

Assistant Professor, Radford University, 1990-1991

Selected Publications:

Hobbes's Leviathan, London: Continuum International Publishing, 2007.

"The American Founding, American Government Textbooks, and Civic Education,” with Jim Franke, Journal of Political Science Education, forthcoming, 2005.

Political Thought: A Guide to the Classics, Wadsworth/International Thompson Publishing Company, 2002.

“Mathematici v Dogmatici: Understanding the Realist Project Through Hobbes,” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Fall 2002.

“Thucydidean Realism: Between Athens and Melos,” Security Studies, 1995-96.

“The Use and Abuse of Thucydides in International Relations,” International Organization, 1994.

Thucydides, Hobbes and the Interpretation of Realism, Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.

“Rethinking the Diodotean Argument,” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, 1990.

 

 

 

Dep't of Political Science
Kansas State University
Primary Texts Certificate