VITA
DATE: December 26, 2007
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
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
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
Excellence in Undergraduate
Teaching Award, Northern
Division of
Award for Excellence in Graduate
Teaching, Northern
Distinguished Professor Award,
PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS:
A. ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND
REFERENCE WORKS
"Natural Rights and Social
Contract in Burke and Bellarmine" in Kenneth Grasso and Bruce
Frohnen eds., Rethinking
Rights: Historical, Philosophical and Theological Perspectives.
Forthcoming.
“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.
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).
"
"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).
“America, Modernity, and the
Culture of Death” a symposium with Carson Holloway, Robert 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 Lanham, MD: Rowman
and Littlefield, 1999 pp. 193-204. (Editor’s judgment).
“The Venerable Argument Against
Judicial Usurpation” in Mitchell Muncy ed., THE END OF DEMOCRACY II: A CRISIS
OF LEGITIMACY
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.,
"Forgotten Purposes of the
First Amendment Religion Clauses" (reprint) in Louisa S. Hulett ed.
CHRISTIANITY AND MODERN POLITICS.
"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., Kent
Moors, Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1989, pp. 60-77 (Refereed).
"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
Illinois Public Universities and Colleges," ILLINOIS ISSUES, May 1980, 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
ILLINOIS UNDER THE 1970 CONSTITUTION, 1978, pp. 8-15 (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
“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.
“Plato’s Critique of Xenophon’s
Socrates”, at the annual meeting of the Northeast Political Science
Association, Boston MA, November 9-11, 2006.
“Is Secularism the End of
Liberalism? Reflections on Europe’s Demographic Decline
Drawing on Pope Benedict, Habermas, Nietzsche
and Strauss” at the semi-annual
meeting of the Society of
Catholic Social Scientists, Dallas, TX, October, 27-29, 2006.
“Deliberating About the Relation
of Secularism and Religion”, American Political Science Association,
Philadelphia, August 30-September 3, 2006.
"In the History of Social
and Political Contract, Whatever Happened to the Sixteenth
Century"? American
Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., Sept. 1- 4, 2005.
"Natural Rights and Social
Contract in Burke and Bellarmine", at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September, 2004.
"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, Steubenville, OH, October, 2003.
"American Regime Principles
and the History of Political Philosophy: Is Pre-Hobbesian Catholic Political
Thought Relevant to The Declaration of Independence"? At the annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA,
September 2003.
"Leo Strauss" at the
New York regional meeting of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, New
York City, March 28-29, 2003.
"Locke's 'Natural Law' as
Hobbesian Natural Rights" at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Convention, Boston, MA, September 2002.
"Why the Electoral College
is More Democratic than Direct Election" at the annual meeting of the
Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, November 2001.
"Prudence in Xenophon's
Socrates and Cyrus" at the annual meeting of the Northeast Political
Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 2001
"Are There Catholic Roots
of the `Declaration's' Principles"? at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 2001.
"The Electoral College and
the Development of American Democracy" at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA September 2001.
"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 Institute of Human Values, Saint Mary’s
University, Halifax, Nova Scotia March 17-18, 2000.
"Testem Benevolentiae After
100 Years" at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Atlanta,
GA, September 1-5, 1999.
"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, Boston, MA, September 2-6, 1998.
"Roundtable on Leo Strauss,
the Straussians, and the American Founding" at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Boston, MA September 2-6, 1998.
"The Judicial Usurpation of
Democracy: Lessons from Past Progressives" at the annual meeting
of the Society of Catholic
Social Scientists, Steubenville, OH, October 24-25, 1997.
"Walter Berns: The
Constitution and American Liberal Democracy" at the annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August, 1997.
"Locke’s Prohibition
Against Suicide and its Implications for the Theory of Consent," at the
annual meeting of the New England Political Science Convention, New London, CN,
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 Francisco,
CA, September, 1996
"Is Democracy Safe for
Catholicism"? at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association, San Francisco, CA, September, 1996.
"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, Springfield, MA, 1996.
"Constitutional Originalism
in the Twenty First Century", at the annual meeting of the Southern
Political Science Association, Tampa, FL, 1995.
"Is `Religion' a Good
Idea"? at the annual meeting of the Illinois Political Science
Association, Rockford, IL, 1995.
"Xenophon's Cyrus,
Political Leadership and Political Change," with Robert J. Phillips, at
the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, San
Antonio, TX, 1994.
"Religion and Family Values
in the 1992 Presidential Campaign," American Political Science
Association, Washington, D.C., 1993.
"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, Aalborg,
Denmark, 1992.
"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, Washington, D.C., 1991.
"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 Francisco, CA, 1990.
"American Political Thought
as the Study of Statesmanship," presented at the annual meeting of the
Southwestern Political Science Association, Fort Worth, TX, 1990.
"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, Atlanta, GA, 1989.
"The Blaine Amendment's
Application of the Religion Clauses to the States: Differences 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, Washington, D.C., 1988.
"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,
Chicago, IL, 1987.
"Changing Political Values:
Implications for Educators," presented at the annual meeting of the
Illinois Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, Matteson, IL
1987.
"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, Washington, D.C., 1986.
"Cyrus' Corruption of
Aristocracy," presented at the joint meeting of the Society for Greek
Political Thought and the American Political Science Association, New Orleans,
LA, 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, New Orleans, LA, 1985.
"Political Philosophy in
the Political Education of Undergraduates," presented at the annual
meeting of the Illinois Political Science Association, Normal, IL, 1985.
"Plato and Misology,"
presented at the joint meeting of the Society for Greek Political Thought and
the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., 1984.
"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, Chicago, IL, 1984.
"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 Chicago, IL 1983.
"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 Chicago, IL, 1983.
"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, Denver, Colorado, 1982.
"Xenophon's Hiero
and the Problem of Limited Government," Alpha: Friends of Antiquity,
Northern Illinois University, 1981.
"Citizen Education in
Illinois Public Universities and Colleges," Illinois Social Science
Association, Waubonsee Community College, 1979.
"Citizen Education in
Illinois Public Universities and Colleges," Illinois Political Science
Association, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1978.
"Hobbes on Inalienable
Rights: The Problem of Positive Government in the Modern World," Hobbes
Tercentenary Congress, Boulder, Colorado, 1979.
"Burke on the State and the
Constitution," Midwest Political Science Convention, Chicago, IL 1979.
"Inalienable Rights and
Positive Government in the Modern World," presented at the annual meeting
of the International Studies Association, Midwest Conference, DeKalb, IL, 1978.
"A Residence Hall Academic
Support Program in Political Science and Pre-Law," at the annual Illinois
meeting of the Association of College and University Housing Officers,
Monticello, IL, 1978.
"The Political
Science/Pre-Law Residence Hall Program at Northern Illinois University,"
at the annual meeting of the National Association of Student Personnel
Administrators, Kansas City, Missouri, 1978.
"Teaching American
Government in the Post-Behavioral Era: The Enduring Problem of Partisanship and
Neutrality in Higher Education," Illinois Political Science Association,
Peoria, IL, 1977.
"America and Liberty: The
Case of Burke's Observations," at the annual meeting of the Mid-
Continent American Studies Association, Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri, 1976.
"Why Philosophers Need
Politics," at the annual meeting of the Northern Illinois Philosophy
Society, Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL, 1974.
"Abortion and Inalienable
Rights in Classical Liberalism," at the annual meeting of the Canadian
Political Science Association, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
1974.
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 AMERICA, ed., by Albert
Fried, AMERICAN POLITICAL SCIENCE REVIEW, 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, Boston, MA November 9-11, 2006.
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, Washington, D.C September 1-4, 2005.
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 Illinois
University, April 30, 2004.
Panel Organizer "Politics
and Early Conceptions of Friendship" at the American Political
Science Convention, Chicago, IL,
September 3, 2004.
Panel Organizer
"Pre-Hobbesian Roots of Natural Rights, Consent of the Governed and Right
of Revolution" at the American Political Science Convention,
Philadelphia, August, 2003.
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, Boston, MA, August 2002. Discussant.
Panel organizer and Chair
"Tocqueville and Catholicism" at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association,
Boston, August, 2002.
Panel Chair and Discussant
"Xenophon" at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science
Association, Chicago, IL, April
28, 2002.
"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, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH, October 2000.
"America, Modernity and the
Culture of Death" at the annual meeting of the Society of Catholic Social
Scientists, Franciscan University, Steubenville, OH October 22-23, 1999. Chair
and discussant.
"The Culture of Death"
at the annual meeting of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Franciscan
University, Steubenville, OH, October 22-23, 1998. Chair and discussant.
"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, Washington, DC, August, 1997.
Discussant.
"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 Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL
April, 1997. Chair/Discussant.
"Religion and
Politics" at the annual meeting of the Illinois Political Science
Association, Bloomington, IL, 1996. Chair\Discussant.
"The Intersection of
Catholic and American Political Thought" at the annual meeting of the
Society of Catholic Social Scientists, Steubenville, OH, 1996.
Chair\Discussant.
"Locke, Sydney, and the
American Republic," at the annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, San Francisco, CA, 1990. Discussant.
"Roundtable on The Bill of
Rights," at the annual meeting of the Illinois Political Science
Association, Charleston, IL, 1990. Participant.
"Liberal Education and
Politics," at the annual meeting of the Southwestern Political Science
Association, Fort Worth, TX, 1990. Discussant.
"Roundtable on Book Reviewing:
Professional Responsibility and Professional Esteem," at the annual
meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 1989.
Participant "Revealed
Religion and the Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy," at the
annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C.,
1988.
"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, Washington, D.C., 1986. Discussant.
"The Political
Science/Pre-Law Residence Hall Program at Northern Illinois University,"
Great Lakes Association of College and University Housing Officers, DeKalb, IL,
1983. Commentator.
"The Political Science
Residence Hall Program at Northern Illinois University," Great Lakes
Association of College and University Housing Officers, DeKalb, IL, 1979.
Commentator.
"What Do I Do with a
Bachelor's Degree in Political Science?" Mid-West Political Science
Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL, 1978. Discussant.
E. INVITED PARTICIPANT: PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCES
“Freedom of Speech and Press”
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”, Arlington, VA at Dominican University,
Chicago, IL April 13, 2007.
"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 McCormick Museum at Cantigny, Wheaton, IL sponsored by The Bill
of Rights Institute, Arlington ,
VA , December 4, 2004.
"The U. S. Constitution and
Religion", Northern Illinois University, Liberal Arts and Sciences 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, Arlington, VA at
Valley Forge, PA September 27, 2002.
"Seminar on the “Annual
Messages to Congress of Abraham Lincoln”, University of Chicago, August 10-12,
2001.
"We The People"
sponsored by the Center for Civic Education, Washington D.C., May 31-June 2,
2002.
Liberty Fund Conferences
“Liberty, Secularization and
Religious Intolerance”, York Harbor, ME 2007
“Religious Dissent and Liberty”,
Charleston, SC 2007
"Liberty and Moral
Development", Indianapolis, IN 1999
"Religious Liberty in Early
Nineteenth-Century America," Richmond, VA 1999
"Francis Lieber and the
Pursuit of Liberty", Phoenix, AZ 1998.
"Liberty and Empire in
Shakespeare’s Historical Plays", Tucson, AZ, 1998.
"War and Empire in
Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War",
Colorado Springs, CO, 1997.
"Liberty and Christianity
in the Thought of Josiah Tucker", Champaign, IL, 1996.
"Criticisms of Modern
Liberty", Richmond, VA, 1994.
"Rights and Liberty",
Jackson Hole, WY, 1993.
"Liberty and Responsibility
in the Plays of Sophocles" Big Sky, MT, 1993.
"Liberty, Ideology, and
Revolution in Hume and Burke", Charleston, SC, 1992.
"Freedom and Responsibility
in Rhetoric", 1992.
"The Bible in the Political
Thought of Thomas Hobbes", 1991.
"Envy", Indianapolis,
IN 1990.
"Liberty and Moral
Development" Indianapolis, IN, 1990.
"John Courtney Murray and
Religious Liberty", Houston, TX, 1990.
"Locke and the Problem of
Religious Liberty", Jackson, Hole, WY, 1989.
F: CAMPUS & NEWSPAPER PUBLICATIONS
"The Teaching Most Worth
Doing", Northern Illinois University FACULTY BULLETIN, Vol. 60, No. 3,
January 1996, pp. 22-28.
"Disappearing Hyphens and
Other Reflections on the Functions of Athletics at NIU", Northern Illinois
University FACULTY BULLETIN. Vol. 55, No. 2, November/December 1991, pp. 12-17.
"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 Illinois University Alumni News Northern Now,
Fall 1988, p 10.
"Rhetoric and Religion in
the Presidential Campaign," Northern Illinois University Alumni News,
November/December, 1984, pp. 3-5.
"Citizen Education in
Illinois Public Universities and Colleges," in St. Louis Globe Democrat,
May 19, 1980, p. 1 (Reprinted from ILLINOIS ISSUES, May, 1980.)
"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, South Orange, NJ,
April 22, 2006.
"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 Benedictine
College, Atchison, KS September 5, 2002.
"The Transition from `Civil
Liberty’ to `Civil Liberties’", The
United States Military Academy, West Point, NY, March 8, 2000.
“Athenian Political Philosophy
and Anglo-American Freedom: The Classical Foundations of
Limited Government” at Hillsdale College Center for
Constructive Alternatives Conference on "Athens, Rome and Jerusalem:
The Western Legacy From the Ancient World", November 1999.
"Liberal Education and
Law-abidingness" at The University
of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA March, 1999.
"Self-government and the
Right to Suicide in Locke’s Teaching and in Our Time", at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI, October,
1997.
"The Federalist Papers
and Liberal Education", at The
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA, April, 1997.
"Aristotle on Democracy and
Tyranny (With Reference To Our Present Discontents)" presented at Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney,
VA, October 24, 1994.
"Ripon and the Separation
of Church and State" at Ripon College,
Ripon, WI, April 30, 1993.
"Clarence Thomas, Natural
Law and the Religion and Politics Controversy," St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, September 23, 1991.
"Citizen Virtue and the
Liberal Arts College," Seminar with the faculty at St. John Fisher College, Rochester, NY, September 23, 1991.
"Religion and the
Constitution: The View from the Founding," a lecture in honor of the
Bicentennial of the Constitution, Loras
College, Dubuque, IA, 1987.
"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 Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa, October 1984. Also presented in the
Phi Beta Kappa/Honors Program Distinguished Lecture Series, Northern Illinois
University, October, 1984.
"Religion in the 1984
Presidential Campaign," presented at Mount
Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, IA, 1985.
"Human Rights and
Government," presented at the annual meeting of Professional Secretaries International, Indianapolis, Indiana,
August, 1982.
"Equality and the American
Constitution," Augustana College,
Rock Island, Il, April, 1980.
"Watergate: What's All The
Fuss"? (with R.W. Apple Jr. televised throughout Canada by the CBC) at the
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, April, 1974.
"Reflections on the
American Elections, 1972," at the University
of Guelph , Guelph, Ontario, Canada, 1973.
PUBLIC LECTURES: LOCAL
“Greek Philosophy and Western
Civilization” presented to ALPHA: Friends of Antiquity
Northern Illinois University, January 31, 2008.
“Charles Dickens: A Christmas
Carol” view and discuss at the Hallstrom Coop, Rockford, IL
December 13, 2007.
“Spiritual Risks of Secular
Universities” presented to the Hallstrom Coop, Rockford, IL
August 20, 2007.
“What is the Constitution and
What Should Christians Think About It?” presented to the
Hallstrom Coop, Rockford, IL
September 13, 2007.
“Does the Constitution Still
Matter? And If So How?” St. Francis University, Fort Wayne, IN
September 18, 2007.
Keynote Address, National
Society of Collegiate Scholars, Northern Illinois University,
September 20, 2007.
“Locke’s Subversion of
Christianity” presented to the Hallstrom Coop, Rockford, IL
September 27, 2007.
“Socratic Philosophy: Plato,
Xenophon, and Aristotle” presented to ALPHA: Friends of
Antiquity, Northern Illinois
University, November 15, 2007.
“How is the Constitution
relevant to Political Disagreement? Three Cases: Immigration, the Iraq War and
the Marriage Amendment” at the Northern Illinois University Lifelong Learning
Institute, DeKalb, IL October 2006.
"The 2004 Presidential and
Congressional Elections" at the Northern Illinois University Lifelong
Learning Institute "NIU Notables Lectures Series", DeKalb, IL,
November 10, 2004.
"Why the Electoral College
is More Democratic than Direct National Election" at a Northern Illinois
University CLAS Outreach Program "New Ideas in History", DeKalb,
April 30, 2004.
"American Regime Principles
and the History of Political Philosophy: Is Pre-Hobbesian Catholic Political
Thought Relevant to The Declaration of Independence"? Presented to
the John Courtney Murray Seminar at the American Enterprise Institute,
Washington, D.C., November 18, 2003.
"The U.S. Constitution and
Religion", College of Liberal Arts and Sciences New Ideas in History
professional development workshop for elementary and secondary teachers,
Northern Illinois University, September 26, 2003.
"On the Future Possibility
of Liberal Education at Northern Illinois University", Presidential
Teaching Professorship Seminar (public lecture), Northern Illinois University,
September 24, 2003.
"The Founding
Brothers" at an Elderhostel on "The Founding and the
Constitution", Dixon, IL May 21, 2003.
"How Religion in the
Workplace Got to be a Constitutional Issue", the Illinois Association of
Municipal Management Assistants, (IAMMA), Naperville, IL, April 11, 2003.
"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, Dixon, IL October 9, 2002 and May 22, 2002.
"The Electoral
College" to the DuKane Valley Council, a public officials group, Batavia,
IL January 17, 2001.
"Why the Electoral College
Helps Strengthen and Preserve American Democracy" to "The Monday
Class," a North side civic organization, Chicago, IL February 5, 2001.
"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 Chicago civic
organization,
March 12, 2001.
"Why the Electoral College
is More Democratic than Direct Popular Election" to the NIU Institute for
Learning in Retirement, DeKalb, IL April 11, 2001.
"The Reagan
Presidency" at the Ronald Reagan Rock River Valley Historical Association,
Dixon, IL September 19, 2001 and October 10, 2001.
"Why the Electoral College
is More Democratic than Direct National Election" presented to The
Federalist Society, at the Northern
Illinois University College of Law, February 15, 2001.
"Teachers, Students,
Selecting Classes and Unbought Gifts", Keynote address at the Golden Key
National Honor Society Sophomore Recognition Ceremony, Northern Illinois University, April 24, 1999.
"Why Blacks and Women are
not mentioned in the Constitution", Hinsdale
Central High School, Hinsdale, IL, September 17, 1999.
"The Bill of Rights",
at the Northern Illinois University
College of Law, October 1998.
"Why Blacks and Women are not
mentioned in the Constitution", Lyons
Township High School, LaGrange, IL November 16, 1998.
"Political Science and the
Legacy of the Greeks, presented to ALPHA: Friends of Antiquity, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
IL, April, 1998
"Reflections on Charles
Dickens’ A Christmas Carol", St.
Mary Church, DeKalb, IL, December 7, 1997.
"The Judicial Usurpation of
Democracy: Lessons from Past Progressives" presented to, The
Federalist Society, College of Law, Northern
Illinois University, October 1997.
"Apples of Gold"
presented at the Circle of Gold reunion of the 1945 graduating class of Northern Illinois University, June 1995.
"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, First Methodist Church, and to the Adult Interest Group, Oakcrest Retirement Center, DeKalb,
Illinois, October/November, 1992.
"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, First Methodist
Church, the First Lutheran Church, and the Peace and Justice Committee, the
Newman Center, Northern Illinois
University, DeKalb, IL 1988.
"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 Newman Center, Northern Illinois University, 1987.
"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, DeKalb, IL,
October 1984.
"The Death of Liberal
Education," presented at the Douglas Hall Honors Banquet, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb,
IL, April, 1981.
"The Electoral
College," presented at the H. D. Jacobs High School, Algonquin, IL,
October, 1980.
"Deciding How to Vote for
President," presented at the First Methodist Church, DeKalb, IL, August,
1980.
"Whether Today's College
Students are Apathetic," presented at the Hinsdale Unitarian Church,
Hinsdale, IL, 1979.
"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"
Carson Holloway, "Music in
the History of Political Philosophy".
Robert Phillips,
"Xenophon's Cyrus and the Problem of Political Leadership".
John Stack, "Commerce and
the American Commercial Republic".
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, Chicago Regional
Chapter, Society of Catholic Social Scientists (1999-2003)
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, Chicago, IL, 1989.
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
Northern Illinois University, 1986.
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," Princeton
University, Summer 1987 ($3000).
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.
Illinois State Constitution
Examination for Teacher
Certification, the State Teacher
Certification Board, 1971.
Illinois State Constitutional
Examination, for the High School Equivalency Degree (GED), Office of
Superintendent of Public Instruction, Adult Education Unit, 1971.
Developed the Political Science
Proficiency Test (PSPT), for the NIU, Office of Testing Services