Biography

Ph.D. Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 2001, Political Theory
M.A. Rutgers University, 1997
B.A. University of Oregon, Eugene, 1991

Research Interests

Moral and political thought of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Liberalism. Democratic theory, political participation, and citizenship. Virtue ethics. Religion and Politics.

Recent Publications

• "'A Monkish Kind of Virtue'? For and Against Humility," Political Theory 33, no. 6 (December 2005): 840-868.
• "Arendt, Rawls, and Public Reason," Social Theory and Practice 31, no. 2 (April 2005): 257-280.
• "Religion on Main Street: Toward a New Politics of the Sacred and Secular," in Religion, Politics, and American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies, eds. David Gutterman and Andrew Murphy (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006).
• "What Can We Learn from the Practice of Deliberative Democracy?" with David Ryfe, in The Deliberative Democracy Handbook, eds. John Gastil and Peter Levine (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2005).

Forthcoming

• Contract, Culture, and Citizenship: Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls (forthcoming from Penn State University Press, summer 2008)

Teaching Interests

• History of Political Thought -Ancient and Modern
• American Political Thought
• Democratic Theory
• Liberalism
• Philosophy of Social Science