Director and Cooperating Faculty
John Alvis, Professor of English (Director)
Ph.D., University of Dallas
"Crisis in the Understanding of Equality"; "Constitutional Principles and Natural Right"; Shakespeare's Understanding of Honor; The Political Plan of Zeus: Divine Purpose and Heroic Response in Homer and Virgil, "Melville's Quarrel With America," "The Political Thought of James Fenimore Cooper"
Thomas G. West, Professor of Politics
Ph.D., Claremont
Vindicating the Founders; Plato's Apology of Socrates
Ph.D., University of Arkansas
Ph.D., University of Dallas
"Thomas Jefferson and the Rule of Law: Executive Power and American Constitutionalism"
Ph.D., Rice University
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
"James Madison's Republic of Mean Extent: Avoiding the Scylla and Charybdis of Republican Government"
"Transforming Formal Freedom into Effective Freedom: John Dewey, the New Deal, and the Great Society"
Ph.D., Columbia University
Ph.D., Boston College
Ph.D., University of Dallas
"Protecting the Privileges of Citizenship: Founding, Civil War, and Reconstruction"
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