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Chris Paskewich

Associate Professor of Politics

Offices & Programs

Education

BS: Mathematics and Philosophy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

MS: Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

MA and PhD: Political Science, University of Connecticut.

BIOGRAPHY

Christopher Paskewich joined Centre’s faculty in 2009. He is an associate professor of politics, and was named a Centre Scholar in 2012

AWARDS

  • Centre Scholar
  • Stodghill Fellowship
  • Mellon Travel Grant to China & Tibet
  • Mellon Travel Grant to Myanmar & Thailand

COURSES TAUGHT  

  • Politics of Mass Incarceration
  • The American Presidency
  • The American Founding
  • Urban Politics
  • Political Ideologies
  • Ancient & Medieval Political Thought
  • Modern Conservative Political Thought
  • European Politics

PUBLICATIONS

  • “Never One of Us: The Battle for Conservative Purity in Trump’s America” in Republican Resistance: #NeverTrump Conservatives and the Future of the GOP, edited
    by Andrew Pieper and Jeff DeWitt (Lexington Books).
  • “Rethinking Organisational Hierarchy”, published in Ephemera
  • The Roots of Political Community: Thumos and Tradition in Ancient Greek Thought, published in Anamnesis.
  • “Reconsidering the Status of Federalist 10”, published in Journal of Political Science.
  • “Leo Strauss, Political Philosophy, and Modern Judaism”, published in Studies in Social and Political Thought.
  • “Leo Strauss’s Modern Regime Cycle”, published in Theoria.
  • “Liberalism Ex Nihilo: Joseph Ratzinger on Modern Secular Politics”, in published in POLITICS.
  • “Faction” and “Opposition Party”, entries in Encyclopedia of American Political Parties and Elections (edited by Larry J. Sabato and Howard R. Ernst).

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