Joseph Postell is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where he teaches courses on American political institutions, American political thought, and administrative law. His research focuses primarily on regulation, administrative law, and the administrative state. He is the editor, with Bradley C.S. Watson, of Rediscovering Political Economy. He is currently editing a volume on constitutional conservatism during the Progressive Era and writing a book on administrative law and the theory of the administrative state.
He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in politics at the University of Dallas and his B.A. in political science, history, and philosophy at Ashland University, where he was an Ashbrook Scholar.