VITA
DATE: September 2008
NAME: Gary D. Glenn
PRESENT RANK: Professor Emeritus
TITLE: Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus
DEPARTMENT: Political Science
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D. 1969
M. A. 1963
B. A. 1962
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
National Council for the Humanities (2008- )
Distinguished Teaching Professor, Northern
Presidential Teaching Professor, Northern
Professor (1996- present),
Associate Professor (1978-1996), Northern
Assistant Chair (1979-1986), Northern
Assistant Professor (1966-1977), Northern
AWARDS
The Bill of Rights Institute,
Sponsor, H.B. Earhart Fellowship Program
(2005-present).
Great Professor Award, University Honors Program,
Northern
Michael C. Maibach, Outstanding Political Theory
Faculty Award (2001, 2002).
Outstanding Teaching in Political Science Award
presented by The American Political
Science
Association and Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor
Society
(2000).
Honorary Inductee Golden Key National Honor Society
(1999).
Honorary Inductee Phi Kappa Phi, National Scholastic
Honorary (1996).
Outstanding Faculty Member Award by
(1995).
Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Northern
Division of
to the
Political Science\Pre-Law\Public Affairs Residence Hall Program (1986).
Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, Northern
Alpha
Chapter (1983).
Distinguished Professor Award,
scholastic
honorary fraternity (1973).
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS:
A. ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND REFERENCE WORKS
“Defending Strauss’s Ancients/Moderns reading of the
History of Political Philosophy Against the Criticism that it Unjustly
Depreciates Christianity’s Contribution to that History”, THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL
SCIENCE REVIEW (forthcoming).
"Natural Rights and Social Contract in Burke and
Bellarmine" in Kenneth Grasso and Bruce
Frohnen
eds., Rethinking Rights: Historical, Philosophical and Theological
Perspectives.
(
“Is Secularism the End of Liberalism? Reflections on
“Edmund Burke” in Kenneth Deutsch and Joseph Fornieri
eds., An Invitation to Political
Thought,
(
Entries on "Social Contract", "John
Locke" and "Leo Strauss" in Joseph A. Varacalli, Stephen
M. Krason and Richard S. Myers., Catholic Social
Thought, Social Science, and Social Policy (
“Experiences from Forty Years in the Wilderness:
Teaching about Family and Politics in an
Increasingly
12,
2007, pp. 465-478. Refereed.
"Separation of Powers" in Bruce Frohnen,
Jeffrey Nelson and Jeremy Beer eds., AMERICAN CONSERVATISM: AN ENCYCLOPEDIA (
"Are There Catholic Antecedents of the
Declaration of
Archbishop John Ireland, Orestes Brownson, and the
Twentieth Century" in THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW, Vol. XI, 2006,
pp. 115-132. (Refereed).
"
4, No. 1 April, 2004, pp. 1-9. Center for Governmental
Studies, Northern
"Words That Sound-Alike But Have Different Meanings:
Christian ‘Natural Rights’ and
Kantian
inspired ‘Human Rights’ ", THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE
REVIEW,
Vol.
IX, 2004, pp. 21-28. (Refereed.)
"The Electoral College and the Development of
American Democracy" in PERSPECTIVES ON
POLITICAL
SCIENCE, Vol. 32, No. 1, Winter 2003, pp. 4- 8. (Refereed.)
"Prudence in Xenophon's Memorabilia and Cyropaedia"
in Ethan Fishman ed., TEMPERED
STRENGTH:
STUDIES IN THE NATURE AND SCOPE OF PRUDENTIAL
LEADERSHIP.
(
"Catholic Social Thought and the American Regime:
An Introduction." THE CATHOLIC
SOCIAL
SCIENCE REVIEW Vol. VI, 2001, pp. 95-109. (Editor's judgment).
“
Phillips,
Kim Shankman, and John Stack, THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE
REVIEW,
Vol. V, 2000, pp. 55-130. (Editor's judgment).
“Is American Democracy Safe for Catholicism”? with John Stack, THE REVIEW OF
POLITICS, Vol. 62, No. 1, Winter, 2000, pp. 5-29. Comments by Michael
Novak, Glenn
Tinder, Clarke E. Cochran pp. 31-42. We respond pp. 43-48. (Refereed).
“Walter Berns: The Constitution and American Liberal
Democracy” in Kenneth Deutsch and
John Murley eds., THE INFLUENCE OF LEO STRAUSS ON
THE STUDY OF THE
AMERICAN
REGIME
(Editor’s
judgment).
“The Venerable Argument Against Judicial Usurpation”
in Mitchell Muncy ed., THE END OF
DEMOCRACY
II: A CRISIS OF LEGITIMACY
pp.
107-133. (Editor’s judgment).
Guest Editor and Contributor to Symposium
“Intersections of Catholic and American Political
Thought”
THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW, Vol. II, 1997, pp. 55-56,62-
64,69-71,76-78.
(Editor’s judgment).
"Speculations on Strauss' Political Intentions
Suggested By On Tyranny" HISTORY OF
EUROPEAN
IDEAS, Vol. 19, Nos.1-3, pp. 171-77.
(Refereed).
"Religion and Family Values in the 1992
Presidential Campaign," in Roger Barrus and John
Eastby
eds.,
Consequences
of the 1992 Election.
187-204.
(Editor's judgment).
"Forgotten Purposes of the First Amendment
Religion Clauses" (reprint) in Louisa S. Hulett ed.
CHRISTIANITY
AND MODERN POLITICS.
(Editor's
judgment).
"Strauss' Hiero and Machiavelli's
Cyrus," in POLITIKOS II EDUCATING THE AMBITIOUS:
Leadership
and Political Rule in Greek Political Thought, ed. Leslie G. Rubin,
"Cyrus' Corruption of Aristocracy," in LAW
AND PHILOSOPHY: The Practice of Theory, 2
Vols.
ed., William T. Braithwaite, John A. Murley and Robert L. Stone,
"Political Philosophy in the Political Education
of Undergraduates," PERSPECTIVES IN
POLITICAL
SCIENCE (formerly PERSPECTIVES IN TEACHING POLITICAL
SCIENCE),
Summer 1990, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 156-57. (Editor's judgment).
"Xenophon's HIERO and `Limited Government,'
"POLITIKOS: Selected Papers of the North
American
Chapter of the Society for Greek Political Thought, Vol. 1, ed.,
"Rhetoric and Religion in the 1984
Campaign," POLITICAL COMMUNICATION AND
PERSUASION,
Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 1988, pp. 1-13 (Refereed).
"Forgotten Purposes of the First Amendment
Religion Clauses," THE REVIEW OF POLITICS,
Vol.
49, No.3, Summer 1987, pp. 340-367 (Refereed).
"Inalienable Rights and Locke's Argument for
Limited Government: Political Implications of a
Right
to Suicide," THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS, Vol. 46, May 1984, pp. 80- 105.
(Refereed).
"Citizen Education in
p. 35
(Editor's judgment).
"Inalienable Rights and Positive Government in
the Modern World," THE JOURNAL OF
POLITICS,
Vol. 41, November 1979, pp. 1057-1080 (Refereed).
"Partisanship and Neutrality in Teaching American
Government: The Case of the Post-
Behavioral
Era," TEACHING POLITICAL SCIENCE, Vol. 6, No. 3, April 1979, pp.
311-329
(Refereed).
"The American Theory of Democratic
Representation" in P. Allan Dionisopoulos, ed.,
GOVERNING
(Editor's
judgment).
"Abortion and Inalienable Rights in Classical
Liberalism," AMERICAN JOURNAL OF
JURISPRUDENCE,
Vol. 20, Fall 1975, pp. 62-80 (Refereed).
B. PAPERS READ AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
“Does Modern Political Philosophy Require a Secular
Political Order? And, if so, What Kind”?
at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association,
“Is ‘Religion’ a Good Idea”? at a conference on Religion
and Politics, the F. A. Henry Institute, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI,
April 24-26, 2008.
“Defending Strauss Against the Criticism that his
Ancients/Moderns reading of the History of
Political Philosophy Unjustly Depreciates
Christianity’s Contribution to that History” at
the semi-annual meeting of the Society of Catholic
Social Scientists, St. John’s University College of Law, Queens,
NY, October 26-27, 2007.
“Xenophon’s Critique of Plato’s Socrates”, at the
annual meeting of the Northeast Political
Science
Association,
“Is Secularism the
End of Liberalism? Reflections on
Drawing on Pope Benedict, Habermas, Nietzsche and Strauss” at the
semi-annual
meeting of the Society of Catholic Social
Scientists,
“Deliberating About the Relation of Secularism and
Religion”, American Political Science
Association,
"In the History of Social and Political Contract,
Whatever Happened to the Sixteenth
Century"?
American Political Science Association,
"Natural Rights and Social Contract in Burke and
Bellarmine", at the annual meeting
of the
American
Political Science Association,
"Words that Sound Alike But Have Different
Meanings: Christian ‘Natural Rights' and Kantian
inspired
‘Human Rights' " at the annual meeting of the
Society of Catholic Social
Scientists,
"American Regime Principles and the History of
Political Philosophy: Is Pre-Hobbesian Catholic
Political
Thought Relevant to The Declaration of
of
the American Political Science Association,
"Leo Strauss" at the
"Locke's 'Natural Law' as Hobbesian Natural
Rights" at the annual meeting of the American
Political
Science Convention,
"Why the Electoral College is More Democratic
than Direct Election" at the annual meeting of
the
Southern Political Science Association,
"Prudence in Xenophon's Socrates and Cyrus"
at the annual meeting of the Northeast Political
Science
Association,
"Are There Catholic Roots of the `Declaration's'
Principles"? at the annual meeting of the
American
Political Science Association,
"The Electoral College and the Development of
American Democracy" at the annual meeting of
the
American Political Science Association,
"Catholics in the American Political Order:
Prudence, Party Allegiance and Pro-Life Ethics" at
the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C., August 30-Sept. 3, 2000.
"Protecting Reason and Revelation Against
Modernity: The Latest Round" at a
conference on Fides et Ratio at the
"Testem Benevolentiae After 100
Years" at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science
Association,
"Did the Founders Intend the Bill of Rights to
‘withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of
political
controversy’"? at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science
Association,
"Roundtable on Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and
the American Founding" at the annual meeting
of
the American Political Science Association,
"The Judicial Usurpation of Democracy: Lessons
from Past Progressives" at the annual meeting
of
the Society of Catholic Social Scientists,
"Walter Berns: The Constitution and American
Liberal Democracy" at the annual meeting of the
American
Political Science Association,
"Locke’s Prohibition Against Suicide and its
Implications for the Theory of Consent," at the
annual
meeting of the New England Political Science Convention,
May,
1997.
"In What Sense Did James Madison Think the
Supreme Court is Part of the Federal
Government"?
at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, San
"Is Democracy Safe for Catholicism"? at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association,
"Commerce is Not Enough: Thoughts on the Present
Need to Encourage Self-Restraint in
Citizens
and Representatives" at the annual meeting of the New England
Political
Science
Association,
"Constitutional Originalism in the Twenty First
Century", at the annual meeting of the Southern
Political
Science Association,
"Is `Religion' a Good Idea"? at the annual
meeting of the Illinois Political Science Association,
"Xenophon's Cyrus, Political Leadership and
Political Change," with Robert J. Phillips, at the
annual
meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association,
1994.
"Religion and Family Values in the 1992
Presidential Campaign," American Political Science
Association,
"The Federalist Papers as Liberal
Education," at a conference on The Founders and Liberal Education,
Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, VA, 1993.
"Speculations on Strauss' Political Intentions
Suggested by On Tyranny", at the annual meeting
of
the International Society for the Study of European Ideas,
"Transformation of `Articles in Addition to and
Amendment of the Constitution' into 'The Bill of
Rights':
Consequences for the Scope of Judicial Power," presented at the joint
annual
meeting
of the Georgetown Institute for the Study of Politics and the American
Political
Science
Association,
"Transformation of the Bill of Rights from
Community Defining Declarations into Judicially
Enforceable
Law up to Dred Scott," presented at the joint meeting
of the Center for the
Study
of the Constitution and the American Political Science Association, San
"American Political Thought as the Study of
Statesmanship," presented at the annual meeting of
the
Southwestern Political Science Association,
"The Bill of Rights: Community Defining
Declarations or Judicially Enforceable Law"?
presented
at the joint meeting of the Center for the Study of the Constitution and
the
American
Political Science Association,
"The
Between
a Congressional and a Judicial Theory of Church/State Separation,"
presented at
the
joint meeting of the Center for the Study of the Constitution and the
American
Political
Science Association,
"Did the First Amendment Originally Limit or
Expand Congress's Power Respecting Religion"?,
presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, Religion
and
Politics Section,
"Changing Political Values: Implications for
Educators," presented at the annual meeting of the
"Forgotten Purposes of the First Amendment
Religion Clauses," presented at the joint meeting of
the
Center for the Study of the Constitution and the American Political Science
Association,
"Cyrus' Corruption of Aristocracy,"
presented at the joint meeting of the Society for Greek
Political
Thought and the American Political Science Association,
1985.
"Rhetoric and Religion in the 1984 Presidential
Campaign," presented at the joint meeting of the
Center
for the Study of the Constitution and the American Political Science
Association,
"Political Philosophy in the Political Education
of Undergraduates," presented at the annual
meeting
of the Illinois Political Science Association,
"Plato and Misology," presented at the joint
meeting of the Society for Greek Political Thought
and
the American Political Science Association,
"Defending Burke Against Strauss' Charge of
Misology," presented at the joint meeting of the
Midwest Conference for the Study of Political Thought
and the Midwest Political Science Association,
"Strauss' Hiero," presented at the
joint meeting of the Claremont Institute for the Study of
Statesmanship
and Political Philosophy and the American Political Science Association
"Suicide, Inalienable Rights, and Locke's
Argument for Limited Government," presented at the
joint
meeting of the Midwest Conference for the Study of Political Thought and
the
Midwest
Political Science Association
"Xenophon on 'Limited Government': Reflections on
Hiero," presented at the joint meeting of
the
Society for Greek Political Thought and the American Political Science
Association,
"Xenophon's Hiero and the Problem of
Limited Government," Alpha: Friends of Antiquity,
Northern
"Citizen Education in
Association,
"Citizen Education in
Association,
"Hobbes on Inalienable Rights: The Problem of
Positive Government in the Modern World,"
Hobbes
Tercentenary Congress,
"Burke on the State and the Constitution,"
Midwest Political Science Convention,
1979.
"Inalienable Rights and Positive Government in
the Modern World," presented at the annual
meeting
of the International Studies Association, Midwest Conference,
1978.
"A Residence Hall Academic Support Program in
Political Science and Pre-Law," at the annual
"The Political Science/Pre-Law Residence Hall
Program at Northern
annual
meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators,
"Teaching American Government in the
Post-Behavioral Era: The Enduring Problem of
Partisanship
and Neutrality in Higher Education,"
"
Continent
American Studies Association,
"Why Philosophers Need Politics," at the
annual meeting of the Northern Illinois Philosophy
Society,
"Abortion and Inalienable Rights in Classical
Liberalism," at the annual meeting of the Canadian
Political
Science Association,
C. BOOK REVIEWS
PUBLIC MORALITY AND LIBERAL SOCIETY: Essays on
Decency, Law, and Pornography Harry M. Clor, THE REVIEW OF POLITICS, Vol.
61, No. 2, Spring 1999, pp. 342-344.
CALVIN AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF MODERN POLITICS, by
Ralph C. Hancock, AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, Vol. 85, No. 2, June,
1991, pp. 612-613.
A GOVERNMENT OF LAWS: Political Theory, Religion,
and the American Founding , by Ellis
Sandoz, REVIEW OF POLITICS, Vol. 53, No. 2, Spring 1991, pp. 423-427.
THE ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE: Religion and the First Amendment, by
Leonard Levy, REVIEW OF POLITICS, Vol.
50, No. 4, Fall 1988, pp. 765-768.
THE POLITICS OF LOCKE'S PHILOSOPHY, by Neal Wood,
REVIEW OF POLITICS, Vol. 49, No. 1,
Winter 1987, pp. 138-140.
BURKE, by C. B. MacPherson, THE JOURNAL OF POLITICS,
May, 1982, pp. 618-19.
THE REVIVAL OF AMERICAN SOCIALISM, ed., by George
Fischer and SOCIALISM IN
December,
1974, pp.1764-65.
THE ORIGINS OF SOCIALISM, by George Lichteim, AMERICAN
POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, December,
1970, pp. 1290-91.
D. ROUNDTABLES\PANEL CHAIR\COMMENTATOR\DISCUSSANT
Chair and Discussant “Rhetoric in Action” at the
annual meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association,
Panel Organizer and Chair, “The Development of the
Idea of “Secularism” at the American Political Science Convention Philadelphia,
PA August 3l-September 3, 2006.
Panel Organizer “‘Social’ Contract Ancient and Modern”
at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Participant
"What Really Happened in the 2000 Election: Coup d'etat or politics
as usual"?
"New
Ideas in History" a conference for school teachers sponsored by CLAS
Outreach,
Northern
Panel Organizer
"Politics and Early Conceptions of Friendship" at the American
Political
Science Convention,
Panel Organizer "Pre-Hobbesian Roots of Natural
Rights, Consent of the Governed and Right of Revolution" at the American
Political Science Convention,
Chair and Discussant for a panel "Philosophy and
Rule" at the Midwest Political Science Convention, Chicago, IL
April 5, 2003.
Panel organizer and Chair" Tocqueville and
Catholicism" at the annual meeting of the Society of Catholic Social
Scientists, Ann Arbor, MI , October 2002.
Roundtable on Robert Kraynak, Christian Faith and
Modern Democracy at the annual meeting of
the
American Political Science Association,
Panel organizer and Chair "Tocqueville and
Catholicism" at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association,
Panel Chair and Discussant "Xenophon" at the
annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association,
"Aristotle on Courtship and Marriage," at
the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association,
April 21, 2001.
"Catholic Social Thought And the American
Regime" at the annual meeting of the Society of
Catholic
Social Scientists,
"
Social
Scientists,
and
discussant.
"The Culture of Death" at the annual meeting
of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists,
"Pluralism, Politics, and Philosophy: Revisiting
Maritain’s Man and the State at the 1998
International
Meeting of the American Maritain Association, Colorado Springs, Co,
October
1-3, 1998. Chair.
"Principles for Judicial Appointment: The Guide
of the Perturbed" at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
"Theological Roots of Liberalism" at the
annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Washington, DC,
August, 1997. Chair/Discussant.
"Modern Political Theory and Religious Liberalism,"
at the annual meeting of the Southwestern
Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, March, 1997.
Chair/Discussant.
"The Liberal Incorporation of Romans 13" at
the
"Religion and Politics" at the annual
meeting of the Illinois Political Science Association,
"The Intersection of Catholic and American
Political Thought" at the annual meeting of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists,
"Locke,
"Roundtable on The Bill of Rights," at the
annual meeting of the Illinois Political Science Association,
"Liberal Education and Politics," at the
annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association,
"Roundtable on Book Reviewing: Professional
Responsibility and Professional Esteem," at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political
Science Association,
Participant "Revealed Religion and the
Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy," at the
annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association,
"A
Report of the Panel on Social and Behavioral Sciences, Project 2061: Education
for a Changing Future," at the annual meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of
Science, Chicago, IL, 1987.
"The Greek Historians," at the annual
meeting of the Society for the Study of Greek Political
Thought and the American Political Science
Association,
"The Political Science/Pre-Law Residence Hall
Program at Northern
"The Political Science Residence Hall Program at
Northern
"What Do I Do with a Bachelor's Degree in
Political Science?" Mid-West Political Science Association annual meeting,
E. INVITED PARTICIPANT: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES
“Rights and Responsibilities: From Madison to MTV:
Your Right to Say it” workshop for middle and high school teachers sponsored by
the Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington, VA and the Cortopassi Institute,
Stockton, CA, at the DePaul Downtown Center, Chicago, IL, March 25, 2008.
“Reading, Writing and Repression?” workshop for middle
and high school teachers sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute, Arlington,
VA at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, Kansas City, MO October 3, 2007.
“Origins and Arguments: Shaping the Constitution and
Bill of Rights” workshop for teachers
sponsored by the Bill of Rights Institute”,
"Scope, Ethics & Principles of American
Democracy" NIU Professional Development Program
Grassroots
Organizing by Women, Grow II-Local leadership Development, September
27,
2004. State Department funded program
sponsored by NIU Office of International
Programs.
"The Alien and Sedition Act Controversy: First
Amendment or Federalism"? , Teacher Advisory
Committee
of the
of
Rights Institute,
"The
Outreach
Professional Development Program for Teachers, September 26, 2003.
“The Bill of Rights and Religion” workshop for
teachers sponsored by The Bill of Rights
Institute,
"Seminar on the “Annual
Messages to Congress of Abraham Lincoln”,
"We The People" sponsored by the Center for
Civic Education,
2,
2002.
“
“Religious Dissent and
"
"Religious Liberty in Early Nineteenth-Century
"Francis Lieber and the Pursuit of
"
"War and Empire in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian
War",
"
"Criticisms of Modern
"Rights and
"
"
"Freedom and Responsibility in Rhetoric",
1992.
"The Bible in the Political Thought of Thomas
Hobbes", 1991.
"Envy",
"
"John Courtney Murray and Religious
Liberty",
"Locke and the Problem of Religious
Liberty",
F: NON-SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
“In Memoriam” Morton J. Frisch in PS: Political
Science and Politics, January 2008, p. 225.
"The Teaching Most Worth Doing", Northern
"Disappearing Hyphens and Other Reflections on
the Functions of Athletics at NIU",
"Should the Senate Consider the Political Views
of a Supreme Court Nominee?", Northern Illinois University FACULTY BULLETIN, Vol. 54, No. 1, September 1990, pp.
10, 17-23.
"Abolish Presidential Primaries," Northern
"Rhetoric and Religion in the Presidential
Campaign," Northern
News,
November/December, 1984, pp. 3-5.
"Citizen Education in
"The 1980 Election," in Newman Now,
published by the Newman Foundation, Northern Illinois University, Vol. 1, No.
8, Winter, 1980, pp. 1 & 3.
G: PROFESSIONALLY ORIENTED PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES:
PUBLIC LECTURES: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
"Liberal Education in a Time of
Dissolution", Provosts Distinguished Lecture Series, Seton Hall
University,
"Are There Catholic Antecedents of the Principles
of the Declaration of Independence"?, The Eighteenth Annual Orestes
Brownson Lecture, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH March 8, 2004.
"One Nation Under God: The Constitution, the
Supreme Court and Religious Liberty" at
"The Transition from `Civil Liberty’ to `Civil
Liberties’", The United States Military Academy,
“Athenian Political Philosophy and Anglo-American
Freedom: The Classical Foundations of
Limited
Government” at
Conference
on "
Ancient
World", November 1999.
"Liberal
Education and Law-abidingness" at The
March,
1999.
"Self-government and the Right to Suicide in
Locke’s Teaching and in Our Time", at
University,
"The Federalist Papers and Liberal
Education", at The
"Aristotle on Democracy and Tyranny (With
Reference To Our Present Discontents)" presented at
"Ripon and the Separation of Church and
State" at
"Clarence Thomas, Natural Law and the Religion
and Politics Controversy,"
"Citizen Virtue and the
"Religion and the Constitution: The View from the
Founding," a lecture in honor of the Bicentennial of the Constitution,
"Religion and the Constitution: Original
Intentions and Historical Departures," presented at Saint Mary's College,
Notre Dame, IN, 1987; Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, 1987; Chicago City College Bicentennial
Conference, Chicago, IL, 1987.
"Rhetoric and Religion in the Presidential
Campaign," presented at
"Religion in the 1984 Presidential
Campaign," presented at
"Human Rights and Government," presented at
the annual meeting of Professional Secretaries International,
"Equality and the American Constitution,"
"Watergate: What's All The Fuss"? (with R.W.
Apple Jr. televised throughout
"Reflections on the American Elections,
1972," at the
PUBLIC LECTURES: LOCAL
“Mostly Bad Ideas You Will Meet in College: Moral
Relativism” to the Hallstrom Coop,
“Courting, Marrying, and Politics” 5 Lectures to the
Hallstrom Coop, Rockford, IL January 10 & 24, February 21, March 6 &
27, 2008.
“Religion in the History of Presidential Elections” to
the Life Long Learning Institute, NIU April 22, 2008.
“Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol” view and discuss
at the Hallstrom Coop,
December
13, 2007.
“Spiritual Risks of Secular Universities” presented to
the Hallstrom Coop,
August
20, 2007.
“What is the Constitution and What Should Christians
Think About It?” presented to the
Hallstrom
Coop,
“Does the Constitution Still Matter? And If So How?”
September
18, 2007.
Keynote Address, National Society of Collegiate
Scholars, Northern
September
20, 2007.
“Locke’s Subversion of Christianity” presented to the
Hallstrom Coop,
September
27, 2007.
“Socratic Philosophy: Plato, Xenophon, and Aristotle”
presented to ALPHA: Friends of
Antiquity, Northern
“How is the Constitution relevant to Political
Disagreement? Three Cases: Immigration, the
"The 2004 Presidential and Congressional
Elections" at the Northern
Learning
Institute "NIU Notables Lectures Series",
"Why the Electoral College is More Democratic
than Direct National Election" at a Northern
2004.
"American Regime Principles and the History of
Political Philosophy: Is Pre-Hobbesian Catholic Political Thought Relevant to
The Declaration of
"The U.S. Constitution and Religion",
"On the Future Possibility of Liberal Education
at
"The Founding Brothers" at an Elderhostel on
"The Founding and the Constitution",
"How Religion in the Workplace Got to be a
Constitutional Issue", the Illinois Association of Municipal Management
Assistants, (IAMMA),
"The Art of Lecturing" to the Teaching
Assistant and Teaching Development Workshop, NIU,
November
8, 2002.
"Con Law III (what they didn't teach you in Con
Law I and II): The Constitution vs. Constitutional Law", NIU College of
Law, sponsored by the Federalist Society, November 13, 2002.
"The Constitution and Slavery: Abraham Lincoln
and Frederick Douglass vs. Justice Roger B.
Taney
and Stephen A Douglas" at a teachers conference "Exposing Old Lies
with New
Truths",
NIU, October 4, 2002.
"The
Reagan Presidency" at The Reagan Elderhostel,
2002.
"The Electoral College" to the DuKane Valley
Council, a public officials group,
January
17, 2001.
"Why the Electoral College Helps Strengthen and
Preserve American Democracy" to "The
Monday
Class," a North side civic organization,
"The Electoral College", NIU College of Law,
sponsored by the Federalist Society February 15,
2001.
"The Decline of Marriage" to "The
Monday Class," a North side
March 12, 2001.
"Why the Electoral College is More Democratic
than Direct Popular Election" to the NIU
Institute
for Learning in Retirement,
"The Reagan Presidency" at the
"Why the Electoral College is More Democratic
than Direct National Election" presented to The
Federalist
Society, at the Northern
"Teachers, Students, Selecting Classes and
Unbought Gifts", Keynote address at the Golden Key
National
Honor Society Sophomore Recognition Ceremony,
University, April 24, 1999.
"Why Blacks and Women are not mentioned in the
Constitution", Hinsdale Central High School,
"The Bill of Rights", at the Northern
"Why Blacks and Women are not mentioned in the
Constitution", Lyons Township High School,
"Political Science and the Legacy of the Greeks,
presented to ALPHA: Friends of Antiquity,
Northern
"Reflections on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas
Carol", St. Mary Church,
December
7, 1997.
"The Judicial Usurpation of Democracy: Lessons
from Past Progressives" presented to, The
Federalist
Society,
"Apples of Gold" presented at the Circle of
Gold reunion of the 1945 graduating class of
Northern
"Aristotle on Democracy and Tyranny"
presented to the Northern Illinois University Humanities
Seminar, October, 1992.
"Systemic Problems with Choosing the
President," presented to the DeKalb County Medical
Society,
September, 1992.
"The Culture War, the Political Parties and the
1992 Election," presented to the Adult Study
Group,
Center,
"Wondering About the Class of 1990,"
Commencement Address, Political Science Department Commencement, May 1990.
"On Deciding How to Vote for President,"
presented to the adult studies group,
"Allan Bloom and Higher Education," a
four-evening discussion of The Closing of the American Mind, St. Peter's Catholic Church,
Geneva, IL, 1988.
"Peacemakers in Dialogue," discussion of the
Catholic and Methodist Bishops’ letters’ on
nuclear war, the
"Plato on Tyranny," presented to Alpha:
Friends of Antiquity, Northern Illinois University, October 1984.
"Religion in the Presidential Campaign,"
presented to the adult studies group, First Methodist Church,
"The Death of Liberal Education," presented
at the Douglas Hall Honors Banquet, Northern Illinois University,
"The Electoral College," presented at the
"Deciding How to Vote for President,"
presented at the
"Whether Today's College Students are
Apathetic," presented at the
"The Problem of Liberal Education,"
presented at Grant Towers Honors Recognition Banquet, 1978.
"Problems in Aristotle's Theory of Justice,"
presented to the NIU Hellenic Student Association, 1977.
"The New Testament and Politics," presented
to the NIU Judson Graduate Fellowship, 1977.
DIRECTION OF PH. D. THESES
Christopher Whidden, “Xenophon’s Cyropaedia and
the Problem of Political Rule”
Matthew Brunner, “Friendship Among Nations:
International Political Thought in Xenophon’s
Hellenica”
David Dolence, "Tocquevillian Political
Associations, Social Capital, and the Centralizing
Tendency
of Democracy in the U. S."
Jonathan Conrad, "Locke’s Use of the Bible in the
Two Treatises, the Reasonableness
of
Christianity and A Letter Concerning Toleration"
Robert Phillips, "Xenophon's Cyrus and the
Problem of Political Leadership".
John Stack, "Commerce and the
Warner Winborne, "Modernity and Modernization:
Hobbes, Smith and Political Development"
OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
PROFESSIONAL OFFICES AND SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Editorial Advisory Board, THE CATHOLIC SOCIAL SCIENCE
REVIEW (1998-present).
Board of Directors, Society of Catholic Social
Scientists (2002-present)
President,
Manuscript Reviewer for REVIEW OF POLITICS, AMERICAN
POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE, CATHOLIC
SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW, WESTERN POLITICAL QUARTERLY, JOURNAL OF POLITICS.
Program Organizer, meeting of the Society for Greek
Political Thought at the Midwest Political Science Association,
Past President, member Executive Board, Illinois
Political Science Association, 1988-89.
President, 1987-88. Vice
President, 1986-87. Program Organizer
for the annual convention at
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND LEAVES OF ABSENCE
Sabbatical Leave, Spring 2005. "Pre-Hobbesian
Antecedents of Limited Government."
Sabbatical Leave, Spring 1993. "The
Judicialization of the Bill of Rights."
Earhart Foundation Grant, Summer 1993, $7280,
"The Judicialization of the Bill of Rights".
Earhart Foundation Grant, Summer 1991, $5300 to study
"Transformation of the Bill of Rights from Community Defining Declarations
into Judicially Enforceable Law:
Justiciability and Due Process."
Graduate School/CLAS Grant, $700 for the same project.
Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant, Summer
1990, $4786 to study "Transformation of the Bill of Rights from Community
Defining Declarations into Judicially Enforceable Law." Graduate School Grant, $500 for the same
project.
Graduate School Summer Grant, 1989, $900 to study
"The Bill of Rights: Community Defining Symbols or Judicially Enforceable
Norms?"
NEH Summer Institute, "Religion in Western
Political and Ethical Thought,"
Sabbatical Leave, Fall 1985, to study "Religion
and the Constitution".
Graduate School Summer Grant, 1981, $2595 to study
"The Case for Limited Government in Hobbes and Locke."
Graduate School Summer Grant, 1980 (declined).
Sabbatical leave, Fall 1978, to study
"Inalienable Rights in Classical Liberalism".
University Research Grant, $1500 to study "Ethics
and the Public Servant" (1976).
University Research Grant, $1500 to study
"Privacy and Inalienable Rights in Liberal Democratic Theory" (1975).
University Research Grant, $1500 to study Edmund
Burke's analysis of the American Revolution
(1973).
TESTS:
Developed NIU Constitution Examination, 1977. Revised
1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1985. New
forms
developed 1988.
Board,
1971.
Developed the Political Science Proficiency Test
(PSPT), for the NIU, Office of Testing Services