Contributor Bios

Corey Abel studied the history of political thought at The London School of Economics and Political Science, where he earned an MSc., and The University of Chicago, where his Ph.D. was on the thought of Michael Oakeshott. He has taught in both political science and interdisciplinary humanities at The United States Air Force Academy, The University of Denver, Metropolitan State University, The University of Colorado, and The Colorado College. He is the editor of Intellectual Legacy of Michael Oakeshott and The Meanings of Michael Oakeshott's Conservatism.
Nathanael Blake earned a PhD in political theory from the Catholic University of America, and has written for a variety of scholarly and popular publications. He resides in Missouri.
Gene Callahan has a PhD in political theory from Cardiff University and a Master's in the philosophy of the social sciences from the LSE. He is the author of Economics for Real People, Oakeshott on Rome and America, and co-editor of Tradition v. Rationalism. He teaches at New York University.
W. J. Coats is Professor of Government at Connecticut College where he teaches courses in the history of Western political theory, ancient, medieval and modern. He is published widely in the field of political theory, especially with regard to the work of the 20th century, English philosophic essayist, Michael Oakeshott.
Nick Cowen has a PhD from the Department of Political Economy, King’s College London, and degrees from the University of Oxford and University College London. He has written for the American Journal of Political Science, Critical Review and the Review of Austrian Economics.
Michael Federici is professor and chair of the Political Science and International Relations Department at Middle Tennessee State University. He received his B.S. in economics from Elizabethtown College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in politics from The Catholic University of America. He is the former president of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters and the author of three books and three edited volumes: The Political Philosophy of Alexander Hamilton, The Challenge of Populism, Eric Voegelin: The Search for Order, The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic, Rethinking the Teaching of American History, and The Catholic Writings of Orestes Brownson.
Jason Ferrell currently teaches political theory at Concordia University, having also taught McGill University and Mount Allison University. His research interests include the thought of Isaiah Berlin, value pluralism, and distributive justice. His articles have appeared in Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, and the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy. He has also authored a “Glossary of Names” for the second edition of Isaiah Berlin’s Russian Thinkers.
Justin D. Garrison is an associate professor of political science at Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia. He is a political theorist who researches the relationship between politics and the imagination. He is the author of journal articles, book chapters, and the book An Empire of Ideals: The Chimeric Imagination of Ronald Reagan. He is also co-editor of the book The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age.
Ryan R. Holston is Professor and holder of the Jonathan Myric Daniels '61 Chair for Academic Excellence at Virginia Military Institute. He is also an Associate Editor at the journal Humanitas. His published work has appeared in History of Political Thought, Telos, and Harvard Theological Review, among other places. He is currently writing a monograph, whose working title is Tradition and the Deliberative Turn, and is co-editor of a forthcoming book entitled The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2020).
Ferenc Hörcher is a political philosopher and historian of political thought. His PhD was on the Scottish Enlightenment. He is research professor and director of the Research Institute of Politics and Government at the National University of Public Service in Budapest. He is senior fellow and earlier director of the Institute of Philosophy of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His publications include Prudentia Iuris: Towards a Pragmatic Theory of Natural Law (2000) and the coedited volume: Aspects of the Enlightenment: Aesthetics, Politics, and Religion (2004). Most recently he co-edited an co-authored the volume: A History of the Hungarian Constitution. Law, Government and Political Culture in Central Europe (2019). A Political Philosophy of Conservatism, Prudence, Moderation and Tradition is in print with Bloomsbury, scheduled to get published in 2020.
Sanford Ikeda is Professor of Economics at SUNY Purchase. He is an internationally recognized scholar of Jane Jacobs' work, and the author of Dynamics of the Mixed Economy: Toward a Theory of Interventionism.
Jin Jin Jin Jin is a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received his B.A. with honors in Political Science from Concordia University in Canada, winning the Renée Vautelet Prize as the most outstanding student in his program. His honors thesis, entitled “The Seas to Rove and the Sea of Roving Men: Self-Awareness in Tocqueville’s Recollections and Fortnight in the Wilderness,” discusses Tocqueville’s self-awareness as a pathway to his thought on human nature.
Steven Knepper is an assistant professor in the Department of English, Rhetoric, and Humanistic Studies at Virginia Military Institute. His research interests include American literature, tragedy, and aesthetics. His writings have appeared in Telos, The Robert Frost Review, The Cormac McCarthy Journal, Religion & Literature, and other journals. He is currently writing about the philosopher William Desmond's approach to literature.
Charles W. Lowney II is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Hollins University, Roanoke, Virginia, USA. He received his masters in philosophy at Boston College, where he studied Continental Philosophy, and his doctorate at Boston University, where he studied Analytic Philosophy. He is interested in applying the concepts of emergentism and tacit knowing to ethics, society, and religion, and has done so in articles such as "Authenticity and the Reconciliation of Modernity" (2009), "From Science to Morality" (2009), "Morality: Emergentist Ethics" (2010), "From Morality to Spirituality" (2010), and in a chapter, "Four Ways of Understanding Mysticism" in Mysticism and Silence (forthcoming, Palgrave Macmillan, Laura Weed, ed.). Lowney is also the editor of Charles Taylor, Michael Polanyi and the Critique of Modernity: Pluralist and Emergentist Directions (2017).
Kenneth B. McIntyre is an Professor of Political Science at Sam Houston State University. He is the author of The Limits of Political Theory: Michael Oakeshott on Civil Association, Herbert Butterfield: History, Providence, and Skeptical Politics, and has also written essays on the philosophy of history, ordinary language philosophy, American constitutionalism, and practical reason. He is currently working on a book on value pluralism, liberty, and the rule of law.
Luke Sheahan Luke C. Sheahan is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duquesne University and a Non-Resident Scholar at the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches the intersection of First Amendment rights and political theory. Sheahan’s scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in The Political Science Reviewer, Humanitas, Anamnesis, and The Journal of Value Inquiry He has lectured widely on religious liberty, freedom of speech, and freedom of association. His book Why Associations Matter: The Case for First Amendment Pluralism is forthcoming from the University Press of Kansas. From 2018-2019, Sheahan was Associate Director and Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Freedom Project at Wellesley College and from 2016-2018, he was a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Political Science at Duke University. He received a PhD and MA in political theory from the Catholic University of America and a B.S. in political science from the Honors College at Oregon State University. Sheahan is a five-time recipient of the Humane Studies Fellowship, a 2014 recipient of the Richard M. Weaver Fellowship, and a 2018 recipient of the Leonard P. Liggio Memorial Fellowship.
Jack Simmons is a Professor of Philosophy at Georgia Southern University, in Savannah, Georgia. His research focuses on discourse ethics and hermeneutics, leading to publications in bio-ethics, film, television, technology and science.
Travis D. Smith is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal. he has published on Thomas Hobbes and Francis Bacon, and is the author of Superhero Ethics (Templeton, 2018) and co-editor (with Marlene K. Sokolon) of Flattering the Demos (Lexington, 2018).
Daniel John Sportiello is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Mary in North Dakota. He has published several book reviews with the Notre Dame Evolution Working Group; he also contributed a chapter on Eric Voegelin to Tradition v. Rationalism: Voegelin, Oakeshott, Hayek, and Others.
Robert Wyllie is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses upon Spinoza's moral psychology as a pivot in the modern understanding of envy. His work, which includes several articles on the political theory of Kierkegaard, has appeared in Perspectives on Political Science, Res Philosophica, Telos, and other journals.