Alumni

Please add description hereThe Voegelin Graduate Alumni Network includes former students of political theory at Louisiana State University–as their first or second examination field, or as regular participants in our programs–who have gone on to careers in education, law, government, and business.  Many are published authors, and some are editors of journals or book series in Political Science or related fields.  (Degrees are in Political Science unless otherwise indicated.)

 

 

 

 

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Adetoyese Adedipe is a Market Planning and Strategy Specialist at Cummins Inc. in Minnesota.   He wrote his masters thesis with Ellis Sandoz on John Adams and Thomas Jefferson.

M.A., 2011 – Louisiana State University

toyese.adedipe@gmail.com

 

 

 

Gargi Aleaz

Gargi Aleaz is Lecturer in political science at Prairie View A&M University.  In May 2021 she defended her dissertation, "An Organic Approach to Justice: The Complementarity of Hannah Arendt and Amartya Sen's Political Thought."
 
Ph.D., 2021 - Louisiana State University
 
gargi.aleaz1@gmail.com

 

 

Photo of Phillip ArdoinPhillip J. Ardoin is Professor and former Chair of the Department of Government and Justice Studies at Appalachian State University.  From 2014-2022 he was co-editor with Paul Gronke of P.S.: Political Science and Politics, published by the American Political Science Association.

M.A., 1994; Ph.D., 1999 – Louisiana State University

ardoinpj@appstate.edu

 
 

 

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Alan Baily is Associate Professor of Political Science at Stephen F. Austin State University.  He has published on Thomas Carlyle and has written on Plato, Hegel, and Voegelin.

M.A., 2003; Ph.D, 2006 – Louisiana State University

bailyai@sfasu.edu

 

 

 

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Clint Barron teaches social studies at Parkview Baptist High School in Baton Rouge.

M.A., 2004 – Louisiana State University

clint.barron@parkviewbaptist.com

 

 

 

 

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John Boersma is associate professor of Political Science at Christendom College, having spent several years as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.  His dissertation, "Aristotle's Quarrel with Socrates: Friendship in Political Thought,"  was published by SUNY Press in 2024.  Boersma taught courses at LSU in political theory, American government, and American constitutional law, and in 2019-20 was Lecturer at Texas State University.
 
J.D., M.A., 2015 - St. John's University (New York)
Ph.D., 2019 - Louisiana State University
 
john.boersma@christendom.edu
 

 

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Daniel Bollich works as a Health, Safety, and Environmental rep in Houston, Texas.  His thesis, defended in the summer of 2017 is titled “Unlikely Allies: A Case Study on Cross-Class Protest in Guatemala.”

M.A., 2017 – Louisiana State University

dbbollich@gmail.com

 

 

 

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Fr. Basil Burns, O.S.B., is a monk at St. Jospeh Abbey in Covington, Louisiana.  He served for several years as spiritual director of the Domano Renewal Centre in Prince George, British Columbia, and taught Philosophy at St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania.  "St. Thomas Aquinas's Philosophy of Love" is the title of his Philosophy dissertation.
 
M.A., 1995 - Louisiana State University
M. Div., 2001 - Notre Dame Seminary (New Orleans)
Ph.D., 2013 (Philosophy) - University of Dallas
 
frbazburns@gmail.com
 
 

Simeon Burns

Simeon Burns defended his dissertation, "Plato’s Republics: A dramatic interpretation of the early cities in Plato’s Republic," in May 2023.  He has taught at Northwood University and is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute of American Civics in the Baker School at the University of Tennessee.
 
M.A., 2018; Ph.D., 2023 - Louisiana State University
 
sburns23@utk.edu

 

 

Charles Cacciatore

Charles Cacciatore wrote his Masters thesis on "Natural Lights & Natural Rights: The Problem of the New Classical Natural Law Theory."  After a year at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, he begins teaching in fall 2024 at the Chesterton Academy of Orlando in Winter Park, Florida.
 
M.A., 2023 - Louisiana State University
 
ccacci@lsu.edu

 

 

Alex Cole

Alex Donovan Cole is assistant professor of political science at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.  Recipient of LSU's dissertation fellowship award, he did archival work in Germany for his dissertation, "Günter Grass: Class, Politics, and Memory," a revised version of which will soon be published by Routledge.
 
M.A., 2015; Ph.D., 2020 - Louisiana State University
 
cole94@nsuok.edu

 

 

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Matthew Connell is proprietor of Todd’s General Store in Todd, North Carolina.  He has taught Political Science at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC, and at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

M.A., 2009; Ph.D., 2015 – Louisiana State University

mcmattconnell@gmail.com

 

 

 

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Andrea Conque is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Louisiana Lafayette.  She taught previously at Our Lady of the Lake College in Baton Rouge.

M.A., 2002 (Philosophy); Ph.D., 2016 – Louisiana State University

adc3433@louisiana.edu

 

 

 

 

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David D. Corey is Professor of Political Philosophy in the Honors College at Baylor University and Director of their Baylor in Washington program.  An award-winning teacher both at Baylor and at LSU, he is author of The Sophists in Plato's Dialogues (SUNY, 2015) and, with J. Darryl Charles, of The Just War Tradition (ISI, 2012).
 
Ph.D., 2002 - Louisiana State University
 
David_D_Corey@baylor.edu

 

 

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Elizabeth Campbell Corey is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Honors Program at Baylor University.  She is the author of Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics (Missouri, 2006) and a frequent contributor to First Things and other prominent publications; she sits on the board of the Institute for Religion and Public Life.  During 2018-19 she served as the American Enterprise Institute Values and Capitalism Visiting Professor.

Ph.D., 2004 – Louisiana State University

Elizabeth_Corey@baylor.edu

 

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Emily (Guynan) Corwin  serves as first Director of Events and Program Outreach for the Russell Kirk Center in Mecosta, Michigan.  She was for 18 years the Seminar Program Manager at the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, where she organized the colloquia program co-sponsored by Liberty Fund, a program that brings undergraduate or graduate students together to discuss central themes of Western Civilization and how they relate to liberty.
 
M.A., 2004 - Louisiana State University
 
ecorwin@kirkcenter.org
 
 

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Richard N. Engstrom is Associate Director of the Institute for Governmental Service and Research at the University of Maryland.  He has taught at Wyoming, Georgia State, Kennesaw State, and Nazarbayev Universities, and is Deputy Director of the Southern Political Science Association.

M.A., 1994 – Louisiana State University

Ph.D., 2001 – Rice University

rengstro@umd.edu

 

 

Montgomery Erfourth

Montgomery C. Erfourth is a Colonel in the United States Army, having transferred after sixteen years as a U.S. Marine.  A strategic planner, he served in Iraq, across the Middle East and Asia, and with several Special Operations Commands, earning his degree on sabbatical from the Army.  A revised version of his thesis was published in 2019 as A Guide to Understanding Eric Voegelin’s Political Reality (St. Augustine Press).

M.A., 2013 – Louisiana State University

erfourth1@verizon.net

 

 

Ndifreke "Freke" Ette

Ndifreke ("Freke") Ette is Assistant Director of Engineering Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the University of Massachusetts.  He earned his PhD in 2018 from the University of Houston for a dissertation on "Responsible Populism: Carl Schmitt's Constitutional Doctrine," and he has taught at Amherst College and at SUNY Potsdam.
 
M.A., 2012 - Louisiana State University
Ph.D., 2018 - University of Houston
 
nette@umass.edu

 

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Ed Findlay is a diplomat with the U.S. Department of State, specializing in public diplomacy​, educational exchange​, and democratic development​. He has served at U.S. embassies in Brunei Darussalam, Nicaragua, and Bulgaria, and in Washington DC.  He has lectured at American University and is the author of Caring for the Soul in a Postmodern Age: Politics and Phenomenology in the Thought of Jan Patocka (SUNY ’02) and other publications.

Ph.D., 2000 – Louisiana State University

FindlayEF@state.gov

 

 

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Neal Fuller is the founder of Voter Voice, a provider of online advocacy technology, which he sold to the international firm, FiscalNote.
 
M.A., 1996 - Louisiana State University
 
patrick.neal.fuller@gmail.com

 

 

 

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David Gauthier is a Program Consultant in Social Services with the State of Louisiana's Office of Juvenile Justice, after working for over a decade as a Legislative Analyst in the Governmental Affairs Division of the staff of the Louisiana House of Representatives.  He is the author of Martin Heidegger, Emmanuel Levinas, and the Politics of Dwelling (Lexington, 2011) and taught political science at the University of Tennessee.
 
Ph.D., 2004 - Louisiana State University
David.Gauthier@la.gov

 

 

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Kimberly Hurd Hale is Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Cincinnatus Center at Coastal Carolina University.  She is the author of Francis Bacon's New Atlantis in the Foundation of Modern Political Thought (Lexington, 2013) and The Politics of Perfection: Technology and Creation in Literature and Film (Lexington, 2016).  Listen to a Cato Institute podcast of Dr. Hale discussing her latest book here.
 
M.A., 2007 - Boston College
Ph.D., 2012 - Louisiana State University
 
khale1@coastal.edu

 

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Rodolfo Hernandez is Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Political Science and in the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy of the University of Missouri, after spending two years as a postdoctoral fellow there.  He was previously Senior Lecturer in Political Science at Texas State University.  His dissertation was "The Bread She Earns With Her Own Hands: An Examination of Lincoln's Political Economy."
 
M.A., Ph.D, 2017 - Louisiana State University
 
hernandezrk@missouri.edu

 

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Jeffrey Herndon is Associate Professor of Political Science at Texas A&M University, Commerce.  He is the author of Eric Voegelin and the Problem of Christian Political Order (Missouri, 2007).

Ph.D., 2003 – Louisiana State University

Jeffrey.Herndon@tamuc.edu

 

 

 

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Sean Illing lives in Washington, D.C., and covers politics,  science and literature for vox.com.  His dissertation was a study of Albert Camus’ political morality.

Ph.D., 2014 – Louisiana State University

sean.illing@vox.com

 

 

 

 

Logan Istre

Logan Istre returned to LSU to earn a PhD in History after teaching history at Brother Martin High School in New Orleans.  Recipient of a James Madison Memorial Fellowship for his masters work, he has published his research in American Affairs and the Journal of the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era.
 
M.A., 2020 (History) - Louisiana State University
 
loganistre2@gmail.com

 

 

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Mark Johnson is Instructor of Political Science and History at Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Moorhead.  He has been program chair of the American Political Science Association’s Conference on Teaching & Learning and is now co-editor of the APSA’s Journal of Political Science Education.

M.A., 1994 – Louisiana State University

MarkL.Johnson@minnesota.edu

 

 

 

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Branwell DuBose Kapeluck is Professor and Chair of Political Science at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina.  He is co-editor of three books on Southern politics and presidential elections, and he has also written on public finance.

M.A., 1997 – North Carolina State University

Ph.D., 2001 – Louisiana State University

kapeluckb1@citadel.edu

 

 

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John Kitch is a lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Texas State University  He has taught at Beloit College in Wisconsin, Northern Illinois University, Rutgers University, and Strake Jesuit High School in Houston, Texas  His dissertation was "American Crusade: The Political Thought of Dwight Eisenhower."  See, too, his article, "Football as American Civil Religion."
 
M.A., 2012 - University of Oklahoma
Ph.D., 2017 - Louisiana State University
 
jkitch1845@gmail.com

 

 

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Sarah Beth Vosburg Kitch is Associate Director of the Civitas Institute at the University of Texas.  She has taught at the University of Houston, in the Truman School at the University of Missouri, at Ashland University, at Northern Illinois University, and at LSU, as well as St. Agnes Academy in Houston, Texas..  In 2016-17 she held a postdoctoral fellowship in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.  Her research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science and the Journal of Church and State.  Here's her website.
 
Ph.D., 2014 - Louisiana State University
 
sarahbethvkitch@gmail.com

 

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Morgan Knull is an associate real estate broker with RE/MAX Gateway in Washington, D.C., and the surrounding states.  While studying political theory at LSU, he was the founding editor of the Civil War Book Review.

morgan@knull.com

 

 

 

 

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Michal Kuz is the Director of the Center for Government Studies at Lazarski University in Warsaw, where he teaches and works with the students’ Foreign Affairs Club; in addition, he is research coordinator at the Institute De Republica in Warsaw.  He formerly served as First Secretary of the Polish Embassy in Berlin, where he was also a project leader at the European think-tank Stiftung Genshagen.  A frequent commentator on political affairs in the Polish media, he has published a version of his dissertation as Alexis de Tocqueville’s Theory of Democracy and Revolutions (Lazarski, 2016).
 
Ph.D., 2014 - Louisiana State University
 
michalmkuz@gmail.com

 

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N. Susan Laehn (née Gaines) is Assistant Teaching Professor of Political Science at Iowa State University and a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the McConnell Center at the University of Louisville.  From 2013 until 2017, Susan held a position as an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) in Politics at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, where she taught political theory and research methods.  She also taught at University College London from 2009-2013.  Susan's current research interests include modern political thought, applied ethical theory, and politics and literature.  She has published in Political Research Quarterly and Social Science Quarterly.
 
M.A., 2005; Ph.D., 2011 - Louisiana State University
   nslaehn@iastate.edu

 

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Thomas Laehn was elected County Attorney in Greene County, Iowa, in 2018, and he teaches on an adjunct basis in the Department of Political Science at Drake University.  Author of Pliny’s Defense of Empire (Routledge, 2013), he taught for several years at McNeese State University.

M.A., 2008; Ph.D., 2010 – Louisiana State University

J.D., 2017 – University of Iowa

tlaehn@co.greene.ia.us

 

 

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John Randolph LeBlanc is Professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at Tyler, where he also serves as Graduate Advisor.  He is the author of several books, most recently Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics [with Carolyn Jones Medine] (Palgrave 2012) and  Edward Said on the Prospects of Peace in Palestine and Israel (Palgrave, 2013).

Ph.D., 1997 – Louisiana State University

rleblanc@uttyler.edu

 

 

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Benjamin Mabry is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Lincoln Memorial University in Harrogate, Tennessee.  He taught previously at Georgia Gwinnett College and Louisiana College.  His dissertation was titled "Liberty, Community, and the Free Man in Magna Carta," and his essays have appeared in First Things and American Mind.
 
Ph.D., 2015 - Louisiana State University
 
mabryb1@gmail.com
Benjamin.mabry@lmunet.edu

 

 

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Jeremy Mhire is Joe D. Waggonner Professor of Political Science at Louisiana Tech, where he directs the Waggonner Center for Civic Engagement and Public Policy at Tech and helps organize the university’s Cyber-Discovery Initiative.  In 2018-19 he was Visiting Professor in the Columbia College Core Curriculum at Columbia University in New York City; he has held postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Virginia and at Harvard University.  Together with Bryan-Paul Frost, he is editor of The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic Wisdom (SUNY, 2015).

M.A., 2002; Ph.D., 2006 – Louisiana State University

jmhire@latech.edu

 

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Glenn Moots is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Political Science at Northwood University. He is the author of Politics Reformed: The Anglo-American Legacy of Covenant Theology (Missouri, 2010), and his work has appeared in the journal American Political Thought.  His co-edited volume, Justifying Revolution: Law, Virtue, and Violence in the American War of Independence, was published in 2018 by the University of Oklahoma Press.  In 2013-14 he was a Visiting Fellow in the James Madison Program at Princeton.

M.A., 1993; M.A., 2008 (Philosophy); Ph.D., 2007 – Louisiana State University

moots@northwood.edu

 

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W. King Mott is Associate Professor of Political Science and Women and Gender Studies at Seton Hall University and has published in what is called queer theory.

M.A., 1989; Ph.D., 1997 – Louisiana State University

W.Mott@shu.edu

 

 

 

 

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Todd Myers is Professor of Political Economy at Grossmont College and Lecturer for the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and Department of Economics at San Diego State University. He has published a wide range of articles in academic encyclopedias including topics such as Asian political thought, the political thought of E.F. Schumacher, Chinese and Japanese political history, and political economy.

M.P.A., 1992; Ph.D., 1997 – Louisiana State University

todd.myers@gcccd.edu

 

 

Sal Pace

Sal Pace owns Sal Pace & Associates, a consulting firm, and is Vice-Chair of the Colorado Rail Commission.  He served two terms in the Colorado House of Representatives, becoming minority leader in his second term, and served two terms as Pueblo County Commissioner.  His masters thesis was a study of Alexander Hamilton's critique of the Louisiana Purchase.
 
M.A., 2001 - Louisiana State University
 
sal@smpace.net

 

 

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Pete Petrakis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond.  He is the editor, with Cecil Eubanks, of Eric Voegelin’s Dialogue with the Postmoderns: Searching for Foundations (Missouri, 2004).

M.A. – University of Southern Mississippi

Ph.D., 1998 – Louisiana State University

ppetrakis@selu.edu

 

 

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Michael "Scott" Robinson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas.  He taught previously at Houston Baptist University.  An associate editor of VoegelinView, he has been writing on the theory of rebellion in John Locke.
 
M.A., 2006 - Louisiana State University
Ph.D., 2011 - University of Houston
 
SRobinson@schreiner.edu

 

 

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Jeremiah Russell is Headmaster at St. John Paul II Catholic High School in Huntsville, Alabama, after serving as principal of Sacred Heart Catholic School in Anniston.  Previously Assistant Professor of Political Science at Jacksonville State University and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Virginia 2010-2012, his research on political thought in late antiquity has appeared in History of Political Thoughtand the Review of Politics.

M.A., 2006 (Religion and Politics) – Baylor University

Ph.D., 2010 – Louisiana State University

jrussell@jp2falcons.org

 

Stephen Savage

Stephen Savage recently defended his dissertation, "Lucidity and Moral Action in the Theater of Albert Camus."
 
M.P.A., 2008 - Auburn University
 
M.A., 2016; Ph.D., 2021 - Louisiana State University
 
ssavag5@lsu.edu

 

 

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Eric Schmidt is Associate Professor at Kentucky Wesleyan College in Owensboro, KY, and in 2023-24 is president of the Kentucky Political Science Association.  He wrote his dissertation on "Walter Lippmann's Search for a Sustainable Liberalism."
 
M.A., 2013; Ph.D., 2016 - Louisiana State University
 
eric.schmidt@kwc.edu

 

 

 

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William Schulz is Assistant Professor of Political Science at  Lone Star College in the Houston, Texas, area, where he is Lead Faculty for Dual Credit Instruction.  His dissertation was titled “Dorothy Day’s Distributism and her Vision for Catholic Politics.”

M.A., 2008 (History) – Southeastern Louisiana University

M.A., 2009 (Philosophy); J.D., 2016; Ph.D., 2017 – Louisiana State University

william.schulz@lonestar.edu

 

 

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Scott Segrest is Associate Professor of Political Science at The Citadel, where he has taught since 2013; he has also taught at Baylor University, the University of Alaska, Anchorage, and the United States Military Academy (West Point).  He is the author of America and the Political Philosophy of Common Sense (Missouri, 2009).

M.A., 1996 – University of Dallas

Ph.D., 2005 – Louisiana State University

scott.segrest@citadel.edu

 

 

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Ph.D., 2014 - Louisiana State University

 

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William Paul Simmons is Professor of Gender & Women’s Studies and Honors Interdisciplinary Faculty at the University of Arizona. He taught Political Science for a decade at Arizona State University and before that at Bethany College in West Virginia.  He is the author of Human Rights and the Marginalized Other (Cambridge, 2011) and editor of two other books on human rights.

M.A., 1992; Ph. D., 1996 – Louisiana State University

williamsimmons@email.arizona.edu

 

 

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Angela C. Miceli Stout is an independent scholar and was recently a postdoctoral fellow at the Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona Spain with the Instituto de Cultura y Sociedad.  Her dissertation on the political importance of Thomas Aquinas’s interpretation of conscience is under revision for publication, and she has published articles on liberal arts education and on conscience in Aquinas and Arendt.

Ph.D., 2013 – Louisiana State University

angelamiceli@gmail.com

 

 

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Jennifer Richard Straus is employed by Pie Insurance in Colordao; she previously worked for Trimble, a technology firm, and Alteryx.  She taught at Tulane University as she completed her dissertation, "Revealing the Jewishness of Hannah Arendt."
 
M.A., 2007 - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
M.A., 2008; Ph.D., 2014 - Louisiana State University
 

 

 

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Cory Sukala is Assistant Professor of Political Science at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces.  He was previously Director of Elections and Voter Registration for Beaver County, Pennsylvania.  In March 2019 he defended his dissertation, "A State of Impermanence: Buddhism, Liberalism, and the Problem of Politics."
 
M.A., 2011 - University of Toronto
Ph.D., 2019 - Louisiana State University

 

 

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Drew Kennedy Thompson teaches AP Government at Murray High School in Kentucky, where he previously taught Humanities at Murray State University.  He wrote his dissertation on “The Political Imagination of Cormac McCarthy.”  He is also an award-winning singer-songwriter.

M.A., 2009; Ph.D., 2017 – Louisiana State University

drewkthompson@gmail.com

 

 

 

Michael Toje

Michael Toje is an instructor in the International Studies Program at LSU and faculty advisor to Tigers Against Trafficking.  His dissertation was titled "Political Parties for Protection and Profit: Explaining Opposition Party Competition under Electoral Authoritarianism."
M.A., 2014;
 
Ph.D., 2019 - Louisiana State University
 

 

 

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Lee Trepanier is Dean of D'Amour College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Assumption University in Worcester, Massachusetts.  He previously taught at Samford University, Saginaw Valley University, and Utah Valley University.  His research is on Eric Voegelin; Politics and Literature; Religion and Politics; Democracy and Education; and Teaching and Learning Political Science.  Author or editor of two dozen books, he is also editor of the Lexington Books series Politics, Literature, and Film; for several years he edited the academic website VoegelinView.
 
M.A., 2000; Ph.D., 2001 - Louisiana State University
 

 

 

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Riley Valentine teaches at the McDonough School outside Baltimore, Maryland.  Her dissertation has been published as Progressive Liberalism and Neoliberalism in American Politics: The Heterodoxical Imperative (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024).

 
Ph.D., 2022 - Louisiana State University
 
 

 

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Thomas Varacalli is Assistant Professor of Great Books at the Honors College of Belmont Abbey.  Previously Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Graduate Assistant Coordinator at Texas State University in San Marcos, Varacalli has published articles in History of Political Thought (on Thomas Aquinas), in Logos (on Jean Bodin),  and in the Naval War College Review (on Admiral Alfred Mahan).
 
Ph.D., 2016 - Louisiana State University
 

 

 

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Bryan Vincent is Director of the Governmental Affairs Division in the staff office of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

M.A. 1990; Ph.D., 1993 – Louisiana State University

vincentb@legis.la.gov

 

 

 

 

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Gabriela Vitela was for several years Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisiana Lafayette; she now lives in New Mexico and works as a data analyst.  Her dissertation is “Money In and Money Out: The Effects of Race and Gender on Campaign Finance.”

M.A., 2014; Ph.D., 2019 – Louisiana State University

gabi.vitela@gmail.com

 

 

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David Whitney is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Social Sciences at Nicholls State University.  His book, Maladies of Modernity: Scientism and the Deformations of Political Order, was published in 2019 by St. Augustine’s Press.

Ph.D., 2010 – Louisiana State University

david.whitney@nicholls.edu

 

 

 

Stephen Wolfe

Stephen Wolfe defended his dissertation, "Protestant Experience and Continuity of Political Thought in America, 1630-1789," in June 2020.  He is the author of The Case for Christian Nationalism (Canon Press, 2022) and has been a disaster response officer for the Army National Guard.  In 2021-22 he was a postdoctoral fellow in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University.
 
M.A., 2016; M.A. (Philosophy), 2019;
Ph.D., 2020 - Louisiana State University