Courses

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Political Theory (PS 123)
  • Contemporary Political Ideologies (PS 94)
  • Power and Influence: the Ethics of Incentives (PS 200)
  • Modern Political Theory (PS 224)
  • Ancient Political Theory (PS 223)
  • Individual and Society: the Classical View (PS 150 and CL 123)
  • Political Hypocrisy and Idealism (PS 242, PS 200)
  • Politics and Tragedy (PS 49s)
  • Principles and Politics (PS 49s)
  • Ancient and Modern Liberty (PS 101g)
  • American Political Thought: the Founding of the Civil War (PS 218)
  • The Debate Over the Constitution (PS 152)
  • American Political Thought and Practice [co-taught with John Aldrich] (PS 199)
  • American Political Thought and its Relevance for American Politics [co-taught with John Aldrich] (PS 299)
  • Economics, Society and Morality in 18th Century Thought [co-taught with Neil DeMarchi, Department of Economics] (PS 214)
  • Rousseau, Nietzsche and the Modern Self [co-taught with Michael Gillespie] (PS 299)
  • Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Character of Modernity (PS 322)
  • Locke and Liberalism (PS 299)
  • Rousseau’s Emile, Rousseau’s Confessions (PS 299, PS 322, PS 266)
  • Epistemology, Politics and Education: Locke and Rousseau (PS 398)
  • Reflections on Revolution (PS 266)