Contributor Bios

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.

Tyler Chamberlain Tyler Chamberlain lectures in political science at numerous universities including Simon Fraser University and the University of the Fraser Valley, teaching courses in political theory, international relations and Canadian politics. His primary research interests are early modern political theory and Canadian political thought. He earned his Ph.D in Political Science from Carleton University in 2018.

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.

Nathan Cockram is finishing a PhD in philosophy at UBC in Vancouver, Canada. While his dissertation is in epistemology, he has a strong interest in political philosophy, and in particular, Oakeshott, Hobbes and modus vivendi liberalism.

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.

Emily B. Finley holds a PhD in Politics from The Catholic University of America and is currently a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University. She is the managing editor of Humanitas, an academic journal of politics and culture published by The Center for the Study of Statesmanship.

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.

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, National University of Public Service. 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 be published in 2020.

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.

Lucie Miryekta is completing her Ph.D. at the Catholic University of America.

Aylin Özman is a Professor of Political Science and International Relations at TED University in Ankara. Her areas of research include political theory, history of political and social thought, Turkish politics and gender. She is the author of various articles in Journal of Language and Politics, Social and Legal Studies, Journal of Third World Studies, Turkish Studies, and Contemporary Politics.

Kaveh Pourvand is a political theorist. He received his PhD in Political Science from the London School of Economics. He also holds an MSc in Political Theory from the LSE, an MA in International Relations from City University London and a BA in Business Finance from Durham University. His doctoral research focused on the topics of liberalism, democratic theory and collective agency with special focus on the social theory of F.A. Hayek. He is currently researching the role of the state within normative political theory and working on a reinterpretation of Hayek's critique of social justice.

Gülsen Seven is an Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Relations at TED University, where she teaches history of political thought and contemporary political theory. She holds a PhD in Political Science and Public Administration from Bilkent University. Her research interests include realism and moralism in political theory, the concept of political judgement and the relationship between political theory and political practice.

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.

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. In addition to publishing several papers and book reviews, he contributed a chapter on Eric Voegelin to Tradition v. Rationalism, and one on Ludwig Wittgenstein to Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism. In his research, he's especially interested in the ways that ethics intersects with other subfields of philosophy.

Sarah Wilford researches and teaches political philosophy and history of political thought at the Universidad de los Andes, and is a researcher at SIGNOS, Universidad de los Andes in Santiago, Chile. She has taught in the Political Economy and Philosophy departments of King’s College London. She has also taught at Sciences Po: Menton, Le Campus Moyen-Orient Méditerranée. Her doctoral research (PhD, King's College London) was on the political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville regarding family, women, and democratic conditions. Her other research interests include the relationship between religion and liberty in the history of political thought, womanhood during the nineteenth century, and the use of historical thinkers in modern political theory and political science.
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.