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PAUL O. CARRESE, 2012-13 Forbes Visiting Fellow, is Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy, where he co-founded and formerly was director of its great books honors program. He held a postdoctoral fellowship in the Government Department at Harvard and a Fulbright teaching fellowship at the University of Delhi in India. Professor Carrese has taught on western and comparative political philosophy, constitutionalism and constitutional law, American political thought, the American presidency, religion and politics, and grand strategy. He has produced two books – as co-editor of John Marshall's The Life of George Washington: Special Edition (2001), and author of The Cloaking of Power: Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism (2003). He has published articles and book chapters on Montesquieu, Tocqueville, the common law tradition, the American founding, George Washington, American grand strategy, republicanism, and civic virtue. He is completing a manuscript on the political philosophy of moderation. Professor Carrese has a Masters Degree in Politics and Philosophy and in Theology from Oxford University, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Boston College.
Office: 209 Bobst Hall, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-0071
pcarrese@princeton.edu
JONATHAN DEN HARTOG, 2012-13 Garwood Visiting Fellow, is Associate Professor of History at Northwestern College in St. Paul, Minnesota, where he teaches courses in early American history and American religious history. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of American History, the University of Notre Dame, and Northwestern College. He has published several essays in edited volumes regarding the political outlooks of the founding generation, as well as publishing journal articles, book reviews, and short essays. Professor Den Hartog is married and lives with his family in the northern suburbs of Minneapolis. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Notre Dame in 2006.
Office: 208 Bobst Hall, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-7431
jdhartog@princeton.edu
RICHARD ALEXANDER IZQUIERDO, 2012-13 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate, is a scholar of law and politics with research interests in constitutional law, contracts, executive power, jurisprudence, and American constitutional development. His dissertation, Rethinking Presidential Constructions of Constitutional Regimes: The Inverse Dynamics of Leadership and Historical Context, provides a new understanding of executive authority in order to assess how presidents have constructed distinct constitutional regimes during national crises without overturning the original 1787 Constitution. He has lectured in constitutional law, American politics, and political philosophy at Santa Clara University. Before pursuing an academic career, he practiced law at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in New York City. He earned his B.A., summa cum laude, at Rutgers University (New Brunswick), his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.
Office: Whelan Hall, 16 Stockton Street Tel: (609) 258-7117
richardi@princeton.edu
ADAM J. MACLEOD, 2012-13 Visiting Fellow, is Associate Professor at Faulkner University, Jones School of Law. His articles concerning jurisprudence and property law have appeared in law reviews and peer-edited journals, and he contributes to Public Discourse and The Journal of Jurisprudence. Professor MacLeod served as law clerk to Chief Justice Christopher Armstrong and Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Appeals Court and to Chief Judge Lewis Babcock of the United States District Court for the District of Colorado. He practiced law in the Boston area. He is a graduate of Gordon College and holds a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
Office: 208 Bobst Hall, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-7102
adamjm@princeton.edu
TED V. MCALLISTER, 2012-13 Visiting Fellow, holds the Edward L. Gaylord Chair of Public Policy at Pepperdine University. He previously taught history at Hillsdale College and Vanderbilt University. He focuses his research on the history of American Conservatism, on the development of modernity and it critics, and on the importance of historical consciousness for social, political, and moral order. He authored Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin and the Search for a Post-Liberal Order and has published numerous essays on the history and philosophy of American Conservatism. Currently, he is working on a book that examines the intellectual journey of Walter Lippmann as he moved from Socialist to Progressive, and eventually to an advocate of Natural Law. Lippmann's career was oriented around the problem of modern liberation from tradition and inherited forms of authority. Because people cannot live well without some established form of authority, Lippmann's constant engagement with modernity in its many forms offers a running commentary on the problem of moral authority in the modern world. Professor McAllister earned his Ph.D. in American Intellectual and Cultural History from Vanderbilt University.
Office: 005 Bobst Hall, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-1648
tedvm@princeton.edu
BRADLEY W. MILLER, 2012-13 Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow, is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Western Ontario. His research falls primarily in the intersections between constitutional law and moral and political philosophy. His articles have addressed the constitutionality of legal prohibitions of practices such as euthanasia, polygamous and same-sex marriage, and obscenity. He also publishes in the area of constitutional theory, co-editing The Challenge of Originalism: Theories of Constitutional Interpretation (Cambridge University Press). He is currently co-editing a volume of essays on proportionality in human rights adjudication. Professor Miller is Associate Counsel to Miller Thomson LLP in Toronto, practicing constitutional litigation. He has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario, as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. He was admitted to the bars of British Columbia (1993) and Ontario (2002) and is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada. He holds a D.Phil. in law from Oxford University, an LL.M. from the University of Edinburgh, and an LL.B. and B.Com. from the University of British Columbia.
Office: Whelan Hall, 16 Stockton Street Tel: (609) 258-7149
bwm2@princeton.edu
MELISSA MOSCHELLA, 2012-13 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate, is a political theorist whose research and teaching interests include moral issues in contemporary politics, history of political thought, philosophy of law, and constitutional interpretation. Her dissertation, Parental Rights in Education, aims to provide a robust, principled defense of parental rights to direct the education of their children free from undue state interference, especially in moral and religious matters. Currently, she is revising her dissertation for publication as a book and working on an article about the ethics of artificial reproductive technologies. She completed her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in June 2012 and received a Master's in Philosophy from the University of the Holy Cross in Rome and her Bachelor's Degree in Social Studies from Harvard University.
Office: Whelan Hall, 16 Stockton Street Tel: (609) 258-7114
mmoschel@princeton.edu
CHAIM N. SAIMAN, 2012-13 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, is Professor of Law at Villanova Law School. His work in the areas of comparative private law and Jewish law has appeared in the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, American Journal of Comparative Law, The Journal of Law and Religion, and the Washington and Lee Law Review, among others. Prior to teaching at Villanova, he served as an Olin Fellow at Harvard Law School, a Golieb Fellow in legal history at NYU Law School, and a law clerk to Judge Michael McConnell on the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Currently, he is at work on a book titled Halakha: The Rabbinic Idea of Law, which will be published by Princeton University Press. He earned his B.B.S. in Finance from Georgia State University and his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.
Office: 204 Bobst Hall, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-8721
csaiman@princeton.edu
MICHAEL SUGRUE, 2012-13 Garwood Teaching Fellow and Visiting Fellow, is Professor of History and the Chair of the History Department at Ave Maria University. Before coming to Ave Maria, he taught history, philosophy, religion, literature, and politics at Princeton University. In his ten years at Princeton, he was a member of the Council for the Humanities and the Department of Politics. Earlier he taught at Johns Hopkins University and Columbia University. Professor Sugrue has taped more than one hundred fifty lectures for the Teaching Company, which produces the “Superstar Teachers” series of tapes. He teaches world history, American history, the history of Western philosophy, and the history of literature. He holds a B.A. from The University of Chicago and an M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Office: 244 Corwin Hall Tel: (609) 258-0796
sugrue@princeton.edu
GIORGIO VOLPE, 2012-13 Postdoctoral Research Associate, is a historian whose main fields of expertise are the history of political thought, elite theories, history of modern Italy, and the Second International. He was fellow at the Italian Institute of Historical Studies "Benedetto Croce", where he studied Robert Michels’ sociological theory and political thought. He has published articles in several journals, and on the correspondence between R. Michels and B. Croce. He is a member of the editorial board of Storia del pensiero politico. He is currently writing a book titled History of Revolutionary Trade Unionism in Italy and is publishing an essay on the Michels’ political biography. He earned his Ph.D. in the History of European Society from the University of Naples "Federico II”.
Office: Whelan Hall, 16 Stockton Street Tel: (609) 258-7121
gvolpe@princeton.edu
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