Curriculum Vitae

Books

Republicanism and Liberty in American Political Thought.  Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2008 (with

        Carey M. Roberts and Sean R. Busick).

Calhoun, John C.  A Disquisition on Government.  South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, 2006 (Edited and

        supplied critical introduction).

Mallock, W. H. Democracy.  New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers/Rutgers University,

       2006 (Edited and supplied critical introduction).

Editor, Critical Assessments of Calhoun, 1811-2000.  Three volumes.  London: Thoemmes Press,

      2006-2007.

The Development of Modern Political Theory.  South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine’s Press, 2007 

      (with Richard Bishirjian).

Francis Graham Wilson and the American Political Mind.  Dover, Delaware:  Intercollegiate

      Studies Institute, 2007 [part of the “Modern Thinkers” series].

      (http://www.moxzi.com/folio/isibooks/books/lomt.html)

Calhoun and Popular Rule.  Paper edition.  Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press,

      July 2004.

Order and Legitimacy: The Spanish Political Mind.  New Brunswick, New Jersey:

      Transaction Publishers-Rutgers University, July 2004 (edited with M. Susan Power, Kathy B. Cheek, and

       Thomas Metallo).

Calhoun: Selected Writings and Speeches.  Washington, D.C.: Regnery Books, 2003.

Calhoun and Popular Rule: The Political Theory of the Disquisition and Discourse.  Columbia

      and London: University of Missouri Press, June 2001.

      (http://www.umsystem.edu/upress/fall2004/cheek.htm)

-Finalist for the Genovese Award, The Historical Society; nominated for the Merle Curti Award in Intellectual History, Organization of American Historians; the D. B. Hardeman Prize, Lyndon

Baines Johnson Foundation; the Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award, American Political

Science Association; and the V. O. Key Book Award of the Southern Political Science

Association.

-Selected by the Southern Political Science Association as the subject of a panel discussion, Savannah, Georgia, November 2002.

Political Philosophy and Cultural Renewal.  New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers/Rutgers University,

      2001 (edited with M. Susan Power and Kathy B. Cheek).

Book Chapters, Articles and Reviews (partial listing)

“Faith and Order: Psalm 73 as Political Theory.”  In the Journal of the Georgia Philological Association, Volume 2

      (2008).

“Recovering Moses: The Contribution of Eric Voegelin and Contemporary Political Science.”

        In Hebraic Political Studies, Volume 1, Number 4 (Summer 2006).

“William Richardson Davie.”  In The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War: A Political,

        Social, and Military History, eds. Gregory Fremont-Barnes and Richard A. Ryerson.  Santa

        Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2006.

“Franklin Pierce in the American Political Mind.”  Book chapter in Franklin Pierce Reconsidered,

         ed. Michael Connolly.  Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press, forthcoming.

 “Jonathan Boucher.”  In Dictionary of Literary Biography: Writers of the American Revolution, ed.

Sean Busick.  Detroit: Gale Publishers, 2006.

“Recovering Popular Rule: Calhoun, Sectional Conflict, and Modern America.”  In Journal of

      Libertarian Studies, Volume 16, Number 2 (Spring 2002).

“Agrarianism and Cultural Renewal.”  In The University Bookman, Volume 42, Number 1 (Spring

      2002.

“Articles of Confederation” and “Daniel Webster.” In the Encyclopedia of American Law, ed.

      David Schultz.  New York: Facts-on-File, Inc., 2002.

“Calhoun and His Critics.”  Telos, Number 118 (March 2001).

Five articles  in The Encyclopedia of the American Civil War.  Santa Barbara and Oxford:   

      ABC-CLIO, 2000.

"Friedrich Engels."  In Biographical Dictionary of Literary Influences: The Nineteenth Century,

      1800-1914, ed. John Powell.  Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2000.

"Aristotle."  In The Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences.  London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000.

"Articles of Confederation," "James Iredell," "Luther Martin," and the "Tenth Amendment."  In The

      Supreme Court.  Pasadena: Salem Press, 2000.

Twenty articles in The Encyclopedia of Religion in American Politics.  Oryx Press, 1999.

      [including anti-Semitism, Deism, natural law, canon law, Pietism, Malcolm X, John

      Adams, Roger Taney, Francis Asbury, Methodism, Richard Allen, Aaron Wildavsky,

      Michael Walzer, M. E. Bradford, Harry Jaffa, Russell Kirk, Robert Lewis Dabney,

      Ralph Reed, Divine Right of Kings, and the African Methodist Episcopal Church]

"Original Diversity: Bishops Allen, Asbury, and Black Methodism."  Methodist History, Volume

      XXXV, Number 3 (April 1997).

"Politicizing Religion."  Winston-Salem Journal, March 9, 1996.

A review of James H. Cone's Martin and Malcolm and America  (New York: Maryknoll Books,

       1991), in Religion and Public Life, Volume 29 (New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction

       Publishers, 1995).

"Patience Against Exuberance: A Meditation on Psalms 29 and 37."  Sacramental Life, Volume 8,

      Number 5 (January 1995).

"A Note on the Platonic and Aristotelian Critique of Democratic Man."  International Social

      Science Review, Volume 66, Number 2 (Spring 1991).

"The Range of Services Among Public and Private Hospitals in North Carolina," in Comparing The

      Performance of For-Profit and Not-For-Profit Hospitals in North Carolina.  Raleigh: North

      Carolina Center for Public Policy Research, 1989 (with Marianne Kersey).

"Reclaiming the Environmental High Ground." International Social Science Review, Volume 62,

      Number 4 (Winter 1989; with Joe Beck).

A Review of Article II: A Guide to the North Carolina Legislature (Raleigh: North Carolina Center

      For Public Policy Research, 1987), in The State, January 1988.

"The Problem of Ideology in Contemporary Thought." The Lincoln Review, Volume 8, Number 1

       (Fall 1987).

"Teaching Assistants: A Maligned Lot." Winston-Salem Journal, July 18, 1987.

Conference Papers and Participation (Partial Listing):
      Over sixty papers presented, panels chaired, et al., at the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association, the Southern Political Science Association, the Georgia Political Science Association, the Society of Early Americanists, the North Carolina Political Science Association, and other professional societies from 1986 until the present.  A complete list is available upon request.

Languages
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