Title
Associate Professor of Political Science (1989)
Degree
BA San Jose State University 1973; BA San Francisco State University 1981; MA, PhD Yale University 1985, 1990
Specialties
American political thought (especially that of the Founding periods), modern Western political philosophy, Enlightenment political thought, problems of modernity, and the theory of classical republicanism and contemporary communalism
Interests
The history and meanings of the most significant Western political concepts in the early-modern period, such as: liberty, individual rights, slavery, and the self; and contending conceptions of the good as they developed in this period. I critique secular macro models of categorization (most particularly, liberalism and republicanism) and offer in their place an analysis that emphasizes mid-level range theorizing and the continuing religious character of much of early-modern thought.
Selected Publications
The Myth of American Individualism: The Protestant Origins of American Political Thought (Princeton University Press, 1994); "Looking Backward and Forward from the 1960s: A Course Syllabus with Introductory Notes" in American History, Vol. III: Selected Topics in Twentieth Century History, ed. Warren Susman and John Chambers (2nd ed., New York: Wiener Publishing, Inc., 1987); "American Popular Conservatism: An Anomaly" (Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture, 1987); reviews in The Journal of Politics (1993) and The Asbury Theological Journal (1991)
Distinctions
John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellow in History 1993; National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow 1992; Executive Board of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 1991-93; Earhart Foundation Summer Research Fellow 1990; Lynde and Harry Bradley Fellow 1987-89; Richard M. Weaver Fellow 1987-88; Yale University Prize Teaching Fellow 1986-87; Earhart Foundation and Institute for Humane Studies Dissertation Fellow 1986-87
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