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May 2017<\/strong>
Bottom: <\/strong> (from left to right): Jeong-Hawan Bae, Matthew Mendham, Rob L\u2019Arrivee, Abby Staysa, Kate Bermingham, Veronica Roberts, Karrie Cross, Mark Hoipkemier
Center:<\/strong>  Michell Kundmueller, Andrew Hertzoff, Jodi Cockerill Bruhn, Garrett Fitzgerald, Sid Simpson, Mary Shiraef, Theresa Sharp, Catherine Zuckert, Jill Budny, Adam Seagrave, Rebecca McCumbers Flavin, Colleen Mitchell, Faisal Baluch, Catherine Sims Kuiper
Top: <\/strong> Alex Duff, Rob Wyllie, Justin Brophy, Tyler Thomas, Caleb Hamman, Raul Rodriguez, Joe Brutto, Jonathan Gondelman, Jordan Dorney, Jakub Voboril, Matt van Hook, Derek Webb, David Strom, Kevin Cherry, Tyler Moore, Matthew Hartman, Kevin Vance, Zack German<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dissertations \u2013 Supervisor<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Hertzoff, Ph.D.<\/a> (2002): \u201cCity, Soul, and Speech in Plato\u2019s Cratylus.\u201d received tenure at California State University in Sacramento in the spring of 2008.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xavier Marquez, Ph.D.<\/a> (2006): \u201cPolitical Knowledge in Plato\u2019s Statesman.\u201d Awarded the Leo Strauss Prize for the Best Dissertation Written in Political Philosophy in 2004-06, by the American Political Science Association, and now holds the equivalent of a tenured position at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kevin Cherry, Ph.D<\/a>.<\/a> (2007): \u201cAristotle\u2019s First Critique: The Eleatic Stranger and the Politics.\u201d Assistant Professor, St. Anselm\u2019s College (2008-10); tenured Associate Professor at the University of Richmond, 2010\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jill Budny, Ph.D.<\/a> (2008): \u201cThe Education of the Irrational in Plato\u2019s Laws.\u201d Jill is a non-tenure track assistant professor of political science at Beloit College in Wisconsin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Borck, Ph.D. (2009): \u201cBecoming Friends in Speech and Deed: Socratic Friendship in the Platonic Dialogues.\u201d Tenure-track assistant professor of political theory, University of Hartford, 2011\u201418; Lecturer in political science, North Texas University 2018\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexander Duff, Ph.D. (2010): \u201cHeidegger\u2019s Paradoxical Politics.\u201d Alex has held postdoctoral fellowships at UND, Boston College, and the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester MA. He was a visiting professor at Skidmore College, has been a visiting professor at Holy Cross, and accepted a tenure-track position at North Texas University at Denton, beginning fall 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joshua Bandoch, Ph.D.<\/a> (2012): \u201cOn Political Particularism: De L\u2019\u00c9sprit des lois and the Politics of Statecraft.\u201d Bandoch had a postdoctoral fellowship in the Political Theory Workshop at Brown University from 2012-14, and another at the Jack Miller Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison WI, 2014-16, before moving to the Institute for Humane Studies to do fundraising in 2016-18. He recently accepted an appointment as a speech-writer for the Secretary of the Air Force, Heather
Wilson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Faisal Baluch, Ph.D.<\/a> (2013): \u201cMachiavelli on Liberty, Empire, and Necessity.\u201d Tenure-track, assistant professor, at the College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rebecca McCumbers, Ph.D<\/a>.<\/a> (2014): \u201cThe Battle between the Unarmed Prophets: Savonarola and Machiavelli.\u201d Senior Lecturer in public law at Baylor University 2010\u2014; won the university prize ($10,000) for the professor elected best teacher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle Kundmueller, Ph.D<\/a>.<\/a> (2014): \u201cFollowing Odysseus Home: An Exploration of the Politics of Honor & Family in the Iliad, Odyssey, and Plato\u2019s Republic.\u201d Tenure track assistant professor of American studies at Christopher Newport University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert L\u2019Arriv\u00e9e, Ph.D.<\/a> (2015): \u201cThe Roots of Islamic Political Philosophy: A Comparative Study of Al-Farabi\u2019s Virtuous City and Political Regime.\u201d Visiting assistant professor of political science at Colgate University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nathan Sawatzky, Ph.D.<\/a> (2016): \u201cBuilding Cities, Turning Souls: Necessity in the \u2018City in Speech\u2019 of Plato\u2019s Republic.\u201d 2016-17 Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley in Classics & Philosophy. Now seeking work in an NGO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tae Hyun Ahn, Ph.D. (2017): \u201cHappiness in Aristotle: Individual, Friends, and the City.\u201d Returned to Korea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vince Bagnulo, Ph.D.<\/a> (2017): \u201cLiberal Virtue and Liberal Vice: Mill, Nietzsche, and Tocqueville on the Problem of Democratic Character.\u201d Instructor, Texas State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jakub Voboril, Ph.D.<\/a> (2017): \u201cDemocratic Political Leadership and Education in Thucydides and Plato.\u201d UND Postdoctoral Fellow 2017; ASU Postdoctoral Fellow 2018-2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Dorney, ABD, \u201cSage Against the Machine: The Politics of the Deus ex Machina.\u201d Katherine Bermingham, ABD: \u201cCreative Politics: Hannah Arendt and Niccol\u00f2 Machiavelli on Time, Memory, and the Possibility of (Re-)Birth\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colleen Mitchell, ABD,<\/a> \u201cEternity and the Eternal City: St. Augustine and Machiavelli on Rome\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dissertation \u2013 Committees<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jody Cockerill Bruhn, Ph.D. (2001), \u201cPolity and Cosmogony: A Study of Three Creation Myths,\u201d research analyst with the Library of Parliament, Parliamentary Information and Research Service, Ottawa, Canada<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traci Levy, Ph.D<\/a>.<\/a> (2002), \u201cWomen and Welfare,\u201d tenured associate professor of Political Science at Adelphi University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heike Cheryl Schotten, Ph.D.<\/a> (2005), \u201cNietzsche\u2019s Psychology of the Body,\u201d Tenured associate professor at the University of Massachusetts in Boston<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jarrett Carty, Ph.D.<\/a> (2006): \u201cMachiavelli, Luther, and the Reformation of Politics.\u201d Tenured associate professor in the Honors Program at Concordia University, Montreal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Timothy Dale, Ph.D.<\/a> (2006): \u201cDemocracy beyond Universalism: Identity, Accountability, and Agency in \u2018Post-Subjective\u2019 Political Thinking,\u201d moved from a tenure-track position at the University of South Carolina, Spartansburg to become a tenured associate professor at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls in 2007<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emma Cohen de Lara, Ph.D.<\/a> (2007), \u201cThe Lawgiver and the Physician: A Model for Reading Plato\u2019s Laws,\u201d tenured professor at Amsterdam University College in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jeffrey Church, Ph.D. (2008): \u201cThe Problem of the Individual in Hegel and Nietzsche,\u201d tenured associate professor at the University of Houston. APSA Foundations of Political Theory First Book Prize 2012.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ana Quesada Samuel, Ph.D.<\/a>\u00a0(2010), \u201cMontesquieu on Morality and Law. Research scholar at the Witherspoon Foundation, Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Houser, Ph.D.<\/a> (2010), \u201cLoving Pimlico: Patriotism in the Age of the Cosmopolis,\u201d lecturer, Department of Political Science, American University, Washington, D. C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Holbreich, Ph.D. (2011), \u201cBetween Sovereignty and Freedom: Tocqueville and the Project of French Liberalism,\u201d postdoctoral fellow at American University 2011-12, has taught political theory part-time at Yeshiva and is a Tech Group Associate at Lowenstein Sandler, having graduated from NYU Law School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Fetter, Ph.D.<\/a> (2012), \u201cThe Great Man in Politics: Magnanimity in the History of Western Political Thought.\u201d Postdoctoral fellow, Tocqueville Center, UND 2012-14. Attended law school at Ohio State University, and now working as a lawyer for people with disabilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ashleen Menchaca Bagnulo<\/a>, Ph.D. (2013): \u201cMy City before My Soul\u201d Reading the Discourses on Livy as a Retelling of Augustine\u2019s City of God.\u201d Postdoctoral fellow at the Madison Center, Princeton University, 2013-14; postdoctoral fellow in ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, 2014-15; teaching postdoctoral fellowship at Furman University, 2015-16, tenure-track assistant professor at Texas State University in El Paso from 2016-17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Spengeman, Ph.D.<\/a> (2014), \u201cArendt and Augustine: The Politics of Love,\u201d tenure-track assistant professor of political science at the California community college in San Luis Obispo 2012, resigned 2013, working for an NGO in Washington, D. C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaojin Chai, Ph.D. (2014), \u201cWang Yang-ming\u2019s Cosmopolitan Vision.\u201d Adjunct instructor of political science in Dubai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lori Molinari, Ph.D. (2014), \u201cThe Ancient Republics and the Mixed Regime in Montesquieu\u2019s Political Thought,\u201d Tocqueville Postdoctoral Fellow 2014- 16; Heritage Foundation, research assistant 2016-7; postdoctoral fellowship at Clemson University 2017-18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joseph Brutto, Ph.D.<\/a> (2015), \u201cTowards a Politics of Virtue: A Study of the Relationship of Virtue to Political Life.\u201d Postdoctoral Fellow at the Madison Center, Princeton University 2015-16; Lecturer at Christendom College from 2016-17.
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Madeline Cronin, Ph.D. <\/a>(2016), \u201cThe Politics of Taste: Mary Wollstonecraft and Jane Austen on the Cultivation of Democratic Judgement.\u201d Predoctoral Teaching Fellow, Loyola University, Baltimore, 2015-16; visiting assistant professor, Santa Clara University 2017-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zachary German, Ph.D<\/a>.<\/a> (2017), \u201cSpirit, Statesmanship, and the New Sciences of Politics in Montesquieu, the Federalists and Anti-Federalists,\u201d tenure-track assistant professor in The New School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shinkyu Lee, Ph.D.<\/a> (2017), \u201cNation-State, Polis, and Republic: Hannah Arendt on Political Associations and Their Inter-Political Relations,\u201d now teaching part-time at Butler University, Indianapolis, IN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catherine Sims Kuiper, Ph.D.<\/a> (2017), \u201cThe Nature and Purpose of Political Communities in Su\u00e1rez and Locke.\u201d Tocqueville Postdoctoral Fellowship, UND, 2017-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Hartman, Ph.D. (2018), \u201cHistory and Historicism: Strauss, Gadamer, and the Politics of Interpretation\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Caleb Hamman, Ph.D.<\/a> \u201cOn the Place of the Military in Modern Liberal Democracies\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cameron O\u2019Bannon, <\/a>P<\/a>h<\/a>.<\/a>D,<\/a> \u201cThe Liberal Political Philosophy of Isaiah Berlin.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Gondelman, Ph.D<\/a>. (2020), \u201cThucydides and the Passions of City Life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tyler Thomas,Ph.D.<\/a> (2021), \u201cDescartes\u2019s Intention\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Raul Rodriguez, Ph.D.<\/a> (2021), \u201cTocqueville\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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