Faculty

Abbylin H. Sellers

AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Abbylin H. Sellers, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Political Science at Azusa Pacific University.  Her areas of teaching emphasis are American politics and public policy, specifically American government, U.S. political institutions (including the constitutional presidency and war powers; Congress and the legislative process), state and local politics, welfare policy, twentieth century communism and American democracy for the Honors College. She has also taught on the roots of American constitutionalism for Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Public Policy.

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Abbylin H. Sellers
Abigail Vegter

BERRY COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Abigail Vegter is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Berry College. She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Kansas, concentrating in the subfields of American politics and public policy with a minor in research methodology. She maintains an active research agenda focusing on religion and politics, gun politics, public opinion, political behavior and policy attitudes in the United States.

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Abigail Vegter
Adam M. Carrington

HILLSDALE COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Adam M. Carrington is Associate Professor of Politics in The Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship at Hillsdale College. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Baylor University and a B.A. in Politics and Religion from Ashland University, where he was an Ashbrook Scholar.

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Adam M. Carrington
Adam Seagrave

ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Adam Seagrave (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is Associate Director and Associate Professor in the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. His research focuses on the central ideas of the American political tradition, both in the American context itself as well as its antecedents in the history of political thought. In addition to his teaching and research, Seagrave serves as managing editor of the journal American Political Thought, as well as founder and co-editor of the journal Starting Points, and associate editor of the journal Compass.

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Adam Seagrave
Andrew E. Busch

CLAREMONT MCKENNA COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Andrew E. Busch is Crown Professor of Government and George R. Roberts Fellow at Claremont McKenna College, where he teaches courses on American politics and government. He is the author or co-author of more than two dozen scholarly chapters and articles as well as thirteen books.

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Andrew Busch
Andrew Lang

MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Andrew F. Lang specializes in the history of nineteenth-century America, using the era of the American Civil War as a lens through which to investigate the century’s dynamic setting. His most recent book is A Contest of Civilizations: Exposing the Crisis of American Exceptionalism in the Civil War Era.

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Andrew Lang
Brent J. Aucoin

THE COLLEGE AT SOUTHEASTERN
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Brent J. Aucoin is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of History at The College at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He is particularly interested in post-Civil War Southern history, race relations and American religious history.

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Brent Aucoin
Charissa Threat

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Charissa Threat is Associate Professor of History at Chapman University. She received her Ph.D. from University of Iowa and taught most recently at Spelman College.  Her research focuses on the intersections of civil-military relations and race, gender and conflict.

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Cara Rogers Stevens

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor of History

Cara Rogers Stevens is Assistant Professor of History at Ashland University, where she teaches courses on the Age of Enlightenment, American history from the colonial era until the Civil War and Thomas Jefferson. She has a master’s degree in history from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Ph.D. from Rice University. Her research has been published in several academic journals.

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Cara Rogers Stevens
Christopher C. Burkett

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
Associate Professor of Political Science

Christopher Burkett is Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the Ashbrook Scholar Program for undergraduate students at Ashland University. He teaches courses in the Master of Arts in American History and Government program on the American Founding, Western films and novels and American Foreign Policy. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Ashland University, received his M.A. in Politics from the University of Dallas and his Ph.D. from the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas.

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Christopher Burkett
Daniel K. Williams

TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY
Senior Fellow

Daniel Williams is a Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center and Director of Teacher Programs for Teaching American History. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Brown University and a B.A. from Case Western Reserve University. His research interests are focused on US religious history, particularly its intersection with politics in the twentieth century.

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Daniel Williams
Dan Monroe

MILLIKIN UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Dan Monroe is Associate Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science at Millikin University. Monroe earned his doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He specializes in American History and has taught seminars and given scholarly talks throughout the United States.  He is also the author of three books. He was a fellow at the Virginia Historical Society and Lincoln Legal Papers. Monroe is currently president of the Illinois State Historical Society and is a member of the board of the Abraham Lincoln Association. Monroe also serves as the Illinois Historian on the Board of Trustees of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

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David F. Krugler

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-PLATTEVILLE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

David F. Krugler has bachelor's degrees in English and history from Creighton University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently a Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin—Platteville. A historian of the modern United States, he has published books on several different topics: Cold War propaganda, nuclear warfare and racial conflict in the United States. Krugler has served as a faculty leader for teacher education programs at the Newberry Library in Chicago and has made dozens of presentations to academic and public audiences. He was a fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin—Madison. In 2010, he appeared in the National Geographic Channel documentary American Doomsday.

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David F. Krugler
David Foster

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
Professor of Political Science

David Foster is Professor of Political Science at Ashland University. He teaches undergraduate courses in political philosophy and international relations and graduate courses on Alexis de Tocqueville, the political thought of Mark Twain and the Federalist Papers. He has published on John Locke, liberal education and Mark Twain.

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David Foster
David Hadley

NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

David Hadley is Assistant Professor of History in the College of International Security Affairs at National Defense University. His research focuses on the intersection of national security and culture, especially focused on the ways in which media coverage and competing cultural and political narratives impact the security environment. His dissertation, later expanded into his first book, The Rising Clamor, examined the relationships that developed between the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. print media during the early decades of the CIA’s existence, and the impact of those relationships on the evolution of the CIA and the U.S. public’s understanding of intelligence activity. He is currently researching the evolution of Congressional oversight of intelligence and special operations.

David holds a Ph.D. in history from the Ohio State University and a B.A. in history from Gettysburg College.

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David Hadley
David Tucker

TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY
Senior Fellow

David Tucker is a Senior Fellow at the Ashbrook Center and General Editor of TAH’s Core Document volumes. He received his Ph.D. in history at the Claremont Graduate School. He has published five books, along with chapters and articles on Thomas Jefferson, John Quincy Adams and Benjamin Franklin.

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David Tucker
Dennis K. Boman

AMERICAN INTERCONTINENTAL UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Dennis K. Boman is the author of Lincoln’s Resolute Unionist: Hamilton Gamble, Dred Scott Dissenter and Missouri’s Civil War Governor and Lincoln and Citizens’ Rights in Civil War Missouri: Balancing Freedom and Security, for which he received the Missouri Humanity Council’s Distinguished Literary Achievement Award.

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Dennis Boman
Donna R. Devlin

STERLING COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Donna R. Devlin, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of History at Sterling College in Sterling, Kansas.  She received her Ph.D. in history at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and her M.A. in American History and Government at Ashland University. Prior to entering higher ed, Dr. Devlin was the 2010 James Madison Fellow for the state of Kansas.  

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Donna R. Devlin
Elizabeth Amato

GARDNER-WEBB UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Elizabeth Amato, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Science at Gardner-Webb University. Her teaching responsibilities include courses such as Constitutional Law, American Political Thought, African American Political Thought, Presidency & Congress, American Political Parties, Ancient and Medieval Political Philosophy and Modern Political Philosophy. She also offers special topics courses on the pursuit of happiness, statesmanship, first ladies, women and politics and the politics of coffee and tea.

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Elizabeth Amato
Elizabeth L'Arrivee

CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Elizabeth L'Arrivee, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in political science at Clemson University. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Notre Dame and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Winnipeg.

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Elizabeth L'Arrivee
Eric C. Sands

BERRY COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Eric Sands, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Government at Berry College in Mount Berry, Georgia. He published a book that examines the public philosophy of Abraham Lincoln and how the development of Lincoln’s ideas affected the politics of Reconstruction. He also published articles in multiple political science publications. Sands has served as an Annual Fellow for the Jack Miller Center and is currently an Academic Partner for the Bill of Rights Institute. He earned his Ph.D. in Government from the University of Virginia.

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Eric Pullin

CARTHAGE COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Eric Pullin is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He earned a B.A. in history from Rockford College, an M.A. in history from Northern Illinois University, an A.M. in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Professor Pullin’s primary teaching and research interests address the international relations between India and the United States during the 20th century. He also teaches courses on the History of India, the History of the United States, Western Heritage, Global Heritage and the History of Dictionaries.

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Gregory A. McBrayer

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
Associate Professor of Political Science

Gregory A. McBrayer, Associate Professor of Political Science and director of the core curriculum at Ashland University. He teaches courses in political philosophy and international relations. McBrayer has published articles in several academic journals, is the co-author of Plato’s Euthydemus and the editor of Xenophon: The Shorter Writings.

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J. David Alvis

WOFFORD COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

David Alvis is Associate Professor of Political Science at Wofford College. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Fordham University in New York and his master’s in American Studies from the University of Dallas. He teaches courses on American Politics, including The American Presidency, Constitutional Law and Political Parties. His publications include articles on the Electoral College, the Presidency, Progressivism and early twentieth century politics, the Obama Presidency and the films of John Ford. Alvis also co-authored the book The Contested Removal Power, 1789-2010 and Statesmanship and Progressive Reform.

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Jace Weaver

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Jace Weaver is the Franklin Professor of Native American Studies and Religion, former Director of the Institute of Native American Studies and Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Georgia.

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James R. Stoner

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

James R. Stoner, Jr. is the Hermann Moyse, Jr. Professor and Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute in the Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He is the author of three books, as well as a number of articles and essays. He was a Senior Fellow of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey and co-edited three books published by Witherspoon.

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James Stoner
Jason Jividen

SAINT VINCENT COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Jason Jividen. Ph.D. is Associate Professor of Politics and Chair of the Politics Department in the McKenna School of Business, Economics and Government at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Hi is also the Fellow in Civic and Constitutional Affairs for the Center for Political and Economic Thought and Director of the Aurelius Scholars Program in Western Civilization. Jividen has taught courses in the history of political philosophy, American political thought and institutions and constitutional law.

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Jason W. Stevens

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
Assistant Professor of Political Science

Jason Stevens, is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Ashland University. He teaches political thought and history courses with fields of expertise in the American Founding, Abraham Lincoln and political philosophy. He received his B.A. from Ashland University, where he was an Ashbrook Scholar, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Dallas Institute of Philosophic Studies.

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Jay D. Green

COVENANT COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Jay D. Green is Professor of History at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, where he has been on the faculty since 1998. He holds a Ph.D. in history from Kent State University and a B.A. from Taylor College. 

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Jeffrey Sikkenga

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
Professor of Political Science and Executive Director

Jeffrey Sikkenga is Executive Director of the Ashbrook Center and Professor of Political Science at Ashland University. He has been at Ashland and connected to the Ashbrook Center since 1997, serving as an adjunct fellow of the Center, a faculty member in Ashbrook’s Teaching American History program, co-director of the Ashbrook Scholar Program and Interim Executive Director.

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Jennifer D. Keene

CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Jennifer D. Keene is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Chapman University. She received her Ph.D. in History from Carnegie-Mellon University and is a specialist in American military experience during World War I. Keene has published three books on the American involvement in the First World War and is the lead author for an America history textbook. She is currently working on a book detailing the African American experience during the First World War. Keene is also on the advisory board of the International Society for First World War Studies and serves as the book review editor for the Journal of First World War Studies.

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Jeremy D. Bailey

UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Jeremy D. Bailey is a professor in the Department of Classic and Letters at the University of Oklahoma, where he holds the Sanders Chair in Law and Liberty and is the Director of the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage. His research interests include the political thought of the early republic as well as constitutional controversies concerning executive power. He has authored four books and his articles have appeared in many academic journals.

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John Dinan

WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

John Dinan, Ph.D. is Professor of Politics at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. His research focuses on state constitutionalism, federalism and American political development. He is the author of several books, and he writes an annual entry on state constitutional developments for The Book of the States. He is the editor of Publius: The Journal of Federalism and is a past chair of the Federalism and Intergovernmental Relations Section of the American Political Science Association. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

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John E. Moser

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
Professor of History; Chair, Master of Arts in American History and Government

John Moser is Professor of History and Chair of the Department of History and Political Science and the Master of Arts in American History and Government at Ashland University. He has an M.A. and Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Moser has published numerous works on subjects ranging from comic books to Japanese foreign policy. He has also published several role-playing games in the Reacting to the Past series.

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Jonathan W. White

CHRISTOPHER NEWPORT UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Jonathan W. White is Professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University.  He is the author or editor of 13 books. White also serves as Vice Chair of The Lincoln Forum and on the boards of the Abraham Lincoln Association, the Abraham Lincoln Institute and the Ford’s Theatre Advisory Council. In 2023, he will publish a biography of convicted slave trader Appleton Oaksmith, as well as a collection of essays on Civil War graves.

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Joseph Postell

HILLSDALE COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Joseph Postell is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, where he teaches courses on American politics, Congress, Political Parties and administrative law.  His research focuses on American political institutions and their relationship to the modern administrative state.  He is the author or editor of four books and his articles have appeared in a variety of journals and law reviews. He is also a frequent contributor to the Liberty Fund’s Law and Liberty website.

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Joseph R. Fornieri

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Joseph R. Fornieri is Professor of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author or editor of four books. In addition, Fornieri has co-edited An Invitation to Political Thought, an introductory text to the classic political thinkers of the Western tradition from Plato to Nietzsche. At RIT he teaches courses on American politics, political philosophy and constitutional rights and liberties.

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Joshua Dunn

UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Joshua Dunn is the Executive Director of the Institute of American Civics at the Howard H. Baker School for Public Policy and Public Affairs. His research and teaching interests are in constitutional law and history, education policy, federalism, and freedom of speech and religion, and his research and commentary have been featured in outlets such as the New York TimesWall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.  

Previously he was the executive director of the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Dunn was also a professor and chair of their department of political science. He was also a fellow in contemporary history, public policy, and American politics at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia and a visiting professor in the Department of Government at the College of William & Mary where he began his teaching career. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Virginia.

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Kathleen Pfeiffer

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Kathleen Pfeiffer is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan. She teaches courses in American literature, African American literature, the Harlem Renaissance, biography, memoir and creative nonfiction. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from Brandeis University, and her B.A. cum laude with Departmental Distinction from Emmanuel College.

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Ken Masugi

JOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Ken Masugi is a Lecturer of Political Science for the Advanced Academic Programs Department at the Johns Hopkins University Washington Center for Advanced Governmental Studies. Masugi wrote speeches for two Cabinet members and for Justice Clarence Thomas when he was Chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. He is co-author, editor or co-editor of eight books on American politics. While directing programs at the Claremont Institute, he also served as editor of its quarterly Claremont Review of Books. He is on the editorial board of two political science journals. He is currently writing a book on the Declaration of Independence and multiculturalism.

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Lauren K. Hall

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Lauren Hall is professor and associate dean of Academic Affairs at the Rochester Institute of Technology College of Liberal Arts. She is the author of The Medicalization of Birth and Death (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019) and Family and the Politics of Moderation (Baylor University Press, 2014) and the co-editor of a volume on the political philosophy of French political thinker Chantal Delsol. She has written extensively on the classical liberal tradition, including articles on Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and Montesquieu. She serves on the editorial board of the interdisciplinary journal Cosmos+Taxis, which publishes on spontaneous orders in the social and political worlds. Her current research is on the moral and political implications of healthcare regulations as well as issues relating to gender and the family. 

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Lucas E. Morel

WASHINGTON AND LEE UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Lucas Morel, Ph.D. is the John K. Boardman, Jr. Professor of Politics and Head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University. He also teaches in the Master’s Program in American History and Government at Ashland University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Claremont Graduate University. He is the author, editor or co-editor of five books. Morel is a former president of the Abraham Lincoln Institute; a founding member of the Academic Freedom Alliance; a consultant on the Library of Congress exhibits on Lincoln and the Civil War; a trustee of the Supreme Court Historical Society; and currently serves on the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, which will plan activities to commemorate the founding of the United States of America.

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Mack Mariani

XAVIER UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Mack Mariani is Professor of Political Science and former Chair of the Department of Political Science at Xavier University. He earned his B.A. at Canisius College and his M.A. and Ph.D. at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. Mariani’s teaching and research interests include campaigns and elections, congress and the legislative process, women and politics and political internships/experiential learning. He is co-author or co-editor of two books and his research has appeared in many academic journals.

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Marc K. Landy

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
Edward & Louise Peterson Professor of American History & Government Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Marc Landy is the Edward and Louise Peterson Professor of American History and Government at Ashland University and Professor of Political Science at Boston College. He is the author, co-author or editor of six books and five articles.

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Matthew S. Brogdon

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Dr. Matthew Brogdon is the Larry H. & Gail Miller Family Foundation senior director of the Center for Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University. Most recently, Dr. Brogdon was an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he taught broadly in the fields of American politics, constitutionalism and political philosophy.

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Matthew D. Norman

UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI-BLUE ASH COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Matthew D. Norman is Associate Professor of History at University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. He holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a B.A. from Knox College. His research interests include Abraham Lincoln and the United States Civil War. 

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Melissa M. Matthes

UNITED STATES COAST GUARD ACADEMY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Melissa M. Matthes is Professor of Humanities at the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. She holds a Ph.D. in the history of consciousness from the University of California at Santa Cruz, an M.Div. in Religion and Politics from Yale Divinity School, and a B.A. from Williams College. 

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Natalie Fuehrer Taylor

SKIDMORE COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Natalie Taylor is Associate Professor of Government at Skidmore College. She earned her M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Theory from Fordham University. She has published The Rights of Woman as Chimera: the Political Philosophy of Mary Wollstonecraft and edited a volume titled A Political Companion to Henry Adams. At Skidmore College, Taylor teaches courses on U.S. Government Institutions, Feminist Political Thought and American Political Thought.

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Paul Otto

GEORGE FOX UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Paul Otto, Ph.D., is Professor of History at George Fox University.  An expert in the history of early America and Native Americans, his main teaching load includes the modern and postmodern world, South African history, the African-American experience, and the American Revolution. Otto has published The Dutch-Munsee Encounter in America: The Struggle for Sovereignty in the Hudson Valley, which won the Hendricks Award, and with Susanne Berthier-Foglar, he coedited Migrations and Borders in the United States: Discourses, Representations, Imaginary Contexts and Permeable Borders: History, Theory, Policy, and Practice in the United States

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Peter C. Myers

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Peter C. Myers, Ph.D. is Professor of Political Science, specializing in political philosophy and U.S. constitutional law, at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Northwestern University and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Loyola University Chicago. His Ph.D. dissertation, “John Locke on the Naturalness of Rights,” received the American Political Science Association’s Leo Strauss Award for the Best Doctoral Dissertation in the Field of Political Philosophy in 1992.

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Robert M.S. McDonald

UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Robert M. S. McDonald is Professor of History at the United States Military Academy, where he has taught since 1998. He is the author, editor or co-editor of six books. He also edited Ashbrook’s Core Documents volume on the American Revolution.

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Sarah M. Burns

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Sarah Burns is a Fellow at the Quincy Institute and an Associate Professor of Political Science at Rochester Institute of Technology. In her book, The Politics of War Powersshe demonstrates how the Constitution creates an invitation to struggle between the branches. Since World War II, Congress has failed to engage in the struggle, allowing presidents to create and execute poorly developed policy in the realm of war.

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Sarah M. Burns
Sean Sutton

ROCHESTER INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Sean Sutton is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Politics from the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the Univeristy of Dallas, where his research culminated in a dissertation critiquing rational choice theory. He is also the co-author of The Supreme Court against the Criminal Jury: Social Science and the Palladium of Liberty.

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Stephanie R. Davis

UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS, LITTLE ROCK
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Stephanie R. Davis, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock.  She holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of South Carolina, and M.P.A. from Morehead State University, and a B.A. from Campbellsville University. Her research focus is on American institution, particularly legislative politics. 

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Stephen F. Knott

ASHLAND UNIVERSITY
Thomas & Mabel Guy Professor of American History and Government Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Stephen F. Knott is the Thomas & Mabel Guy Professor of American History and Government at Ashland University and Professor of National Security Affairs at the United States Naval War College. Previously, Knott was Co-Chair of the Presidential Oral History Program at the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. He is the author of seven books.

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Stephen K. Tootle

COLLEGE OF THE SEQUOIAS
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Stephen Tootle is Professor of History at the College of the Sequoias in Visalia, California. He taught American Political History, American Intellectual History and U.S. foreign policy at the University of Northern Colorado and Georgia State. His reviews, articles and essays have appeared in a variety of publications. He also co-hosts a weekly podcast “The Paper Trail,” and a weekly webcast, “Tootle Talk.”

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Stephen K. Tootle
Suzanne Hunter Brown

Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Suzanne Brown is a Resident Scholar after teaching at Dartmouth College for more than thirty-five years. She is a writer of short stories as well as a literary critic; her articles have appeared in Modern Fiction Studies and other journals, while her stories have been published in Southern ReviewYale ReviewVirginia Quarterly ReviewCarolina Quarterly and Southwest Review.

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Thomas Bruscino

UNITED STATES ARMY WAR COLLEGE
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Thomas Bruscino, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of History in the Department of Military Strategy, Planning and Operations at the United States Army War College. He holds a Ph.D. in military history from Ohio University. Bruscino has been a historian at the U.S. Army Center of Military History in Washington, D.C. and the U.S. Army Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth, and a professor at the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies. He is the author of two books and numerous book chapters and his writings have also appeared in many academic publications.

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Todd Estes

OAKLAND UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Todd Estes is Professor of History at Oakland University. His teaching specialty is early American history from the American Revolution through the Jacksonian era and his research concentrates on early U.S. political history and political culture. Estes is the author of the book The Jay Treaty Debate, Public Opinion, and the Evolution of Early American Political Culture, plus many articles and essays. Currently, he is working on a book about the debate over ratification of the U.S. Constitution in 1787-1788. Estes has won several teaching prizes and was named a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians.

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Verlan Lewis

UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Verlan Lewis is the Stirling Professor of Constitutional Studies at Utah Valley University, where he researches, teaches and writes about the interaction of ideas and institutions in American politics. Lewis has authored two books. His writing has also appeared in a variety of publications, including The Wall Street JournalThe Washington Post and Political Science Quarterly.

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Verlan Lewis
Vincent J. Cannato

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS-BOSTON
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

Vincent J. Cannato is Associate Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, where he teaches courses on New York City history, Boston history, immigration history and twentieth-century American history. He is the author or co-editor of three books and has written for numerous publications, including The New York TimesThe Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He has also received a Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support his research.

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William Atto

UNIVERSITY OF DALLAS
Honored Visiting Graduate Faculty

William Atto, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of History at the University of Dallas. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.  His specialties include United States history with an emphasis on nineteenth century America, as well as American political, military, and intellectual history.

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John Moser
John Moser, Ph.D.

Chair, History and Political Science Department
Professor of History
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Christian A. Pascarella
Christian A. Pascarella

Director of Graduate Programs
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David Foster
David Foster, Ph.D.

Chair of the Department of History and Political Science, Professor of Political Science, Academic Advisor for the MAHG and MASTAHG programs, Thesis and Capstone Project Coordinator
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Charles Martindell
Charles Martindell

Graduate Programs Resource Manager
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Monica Moser
Monica Moser

TEACHING AMERICAN HISTORY
Graduate Programs Administrator
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