Hello and welcome to my website. I am Assistant Professor of Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy and Director of the Political Economy minor at Michigan State University’s James Madison College. Trained in the history of political thought, My research and teaching reflect on questions about the interaction between economics and politics, liberalism, and moral judgment. Each theme relates to my central concern as a scholar: understanding the proper relationship between the individual and society.
I am broadly interested in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, especially the work of the Scottish and French Enlightenment thinkers.
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