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ANDREW S. BIBBY, 2011-12 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate, is a political theorist whose research and teaching interests include modern political theory, politics and literature, American political thought, and political economy. His dissertation, Commerce and Liberty in Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws, examines Montesquieu's political thought in light of his writings on commerce and political economy. Andrew is preparing an article for publication on the political economy of classical republicanism. A graduate of Concordia University, he received his Ph.D. from Michigan State University in August, 2011.
Office: Whelan Hall, 16 Stockton Street Tel: (609) 258-7121
abibby@princeton.edu
KATHLEEN A. BRADY, 2011-12 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow in Religion and Public Life, is Professor of Law at Villanova University. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and religion, including the First Amendment religion clauses, religion in public life, law and theology, and Catholic social thought. Her publications have appeared in numerous law reviews. She is currently working on a book on The Distinctiveness of Religion in American Law: Rethinking Religion Clause Jurisprudence in connection with the Christian Jurisprudence Project at Emory Law School’s Center for the Study of Law and Religion. After law school, she clerked for the Honorable John T. Noonan, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She also served as Assistant to the General Counsel of Yale University and Project Associate for the National Academy of Social Insurance, and she was a Fellow in Law and Religion and Lecturer in Law at Emory Law School. She received her B.A. from Yale College, her M.A.R. from Yale Divinity School, and her J.D. from Yale Law School.
Office: Bobst Hall 205, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-7101
kbrady@princeton.edu
BARRY CUSHMAN, 2011-12 Forbes Visiting Fellow (Spring 2012), is the James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law, David H. Ibbeken Research Professor, and Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He writes about the relations among constitutional law, political economy, and social reform movements in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His book, Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution (Oxford University Press), was awarded the American Historical Association's 1998 Littleton-Griswold Prize in American Law and Society. He is the former director of Virginia’s Program on Legal and Constitutional History and of its dual-degree program in legal history. He has served on the Board of Directors of the University of Virginia Press, and on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the American Society for Legal History. He received his B.A. from Amherst College, and his J.D., M.A., and Ph.D. from University of Virginia.
Office: Bobst Hall 005, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-1648
cushman@princeton.edu
BENJAMIN A. KLEINERMAN, 2011-12 Garwood Visiting Fellow, is Assistant Professor of Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy in the James Madison College at Michigan State University, where he has taught since 2007. A former Visiting Scholar in the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University, Professor Kleinerman has also taught at Oberlin College and the Virginia Military Institute. His book, The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power, has been reviewed in The New Republic and Political Science Quarterly. He has also written articles on the subject of executive power in the American Constitution appearing in Perspectives on Politics, American Political Science Review, and Nomos. He is currently working on a new book on the separation of powers and the political structure of the Constitution. He received his B.A. in Political Science from Kenyon College and his Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University.
Office: Bobst Hall 208, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-7431
bkleiner@princeton.edu
ANDREW R. LEWIS, 2011-12 Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate, researches constitutional law and politics, religion and politics, political organizations, and political behavior. His dissertation, The Southern Baptist Church-State ‘Culture War:’ The Internal Politics of Denominational Advocacy, analyzes how internal conflict within the Southern Baptist Convention prompted an advocacy shift away from church-state separation. It examines the relationship between clergy and congregants and the Convention’s advocacy organizations, drawing implications for the political representation of denominations. His research has been published in Politics & Policy, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Journal of Criminal Justice. He holds an M.A. in Ethics from Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, a B.S. in History from Truman State University, and he received his Ph.D. in Political Science from American University in May 2011.
Office: Whelan Hall, 16 Stockton Street Tel: (609) 258-7117
arl@princeton.edu
THOMAS W. MERRILL, 2011-12 Forbes Visiting Fellow, is Assistant Professor of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He was a senior research analyst at the President’s Council on Bioethics and has held fellowships from Harvard University and the American Enterprise Institute. He is a co-editor of Human Dignity and Bioethics (Notre Dame, 2009) and Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass (Lexington, 2010), and has published articles on early modern political philosophy and bioethics. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Hume’s Socratism: Science and Philosophy in the Modern Age, which provides an interpretation of David Hume’s claim to have made a Socratic turn from natural science to moral and political philosophy. He received his B.A. from the University of Chicago, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University.
Office: Bobst Hall 204, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-8721
tmerrill@princeton.edu
KENNETH P. MILLER, 2011-12 Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow, is Associate Professor of Government and Associate Director of the Rose Institute of State and Local Government at Claremont McKenna College. He is author of Direct Democracy and the Courts (Cambridge University Press 2009) and co-editor or The New Political Geography of California (Berkeley Public Policy Press2008). His other publications include “The Democratic Party’s Religious Divide” and “The Davis Recall and the Courts.” He is currently working on a book on state supreme courts. Before pursuing an academic career, He practiced law with the firm of Morrison & Foerster in Los Angeles and Sacramento. He holds a B.A. from Pomona College, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California at Berkeley.
Office: Bobst Hall 209, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-0071
kpmiller@princeton.edu
DONATELLA P. RINALDI, 2011-12 Postdoctoral Research Associate, is a jurist whose main fields of expertise are Constitutional Law, International Criminal Law, Bioethics, liberal interventionism in foreign policy, religion and politics and contemporary British politics. She was a research student at the London School of Economics where she focused on the place of religious beliefs in contemporary liberal societies. She has published articles in various journals, including Law and Philosophy and Ircocervo. She is a former member of the Tony Blair Faith Foundation where she has done research on the role of faith in foreign relations. She earned her Ph.D. in Public Law from the Sant’ Anna School of Advanced Studies, University of Pisa, with a dissertation on human dignity and the freedom of contract.
Office: Office: Whelan Hall, 16 Stockton Street Tel: (609) 258-7114
drinaldi@princeton.edu
ALAN J. RYAN, 2011-12 Lecturer with Rank of Professor, James Madison Program, Department of Politics, Princeton University, retire as Warden of New College, Oxford in 2009 after thirteen years as head of the college; prior to that he was Professor of Politics at Princeton from 1988 to 1996, after a career mostly spent in Oxford. He has written extensively on the history of political thought, contemporary political theory, the philosophy of social science, and the philosophy of education. Among his books are John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism, Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education, Bertrand Russell: A Political Life, The Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, and Property and Political Theory. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, and Emeritus Professor of Political Theory in the University of Oxford.
Office: 249 Corwin Hall Tel: (609) 258-2874
ajryan@Princeton.edu
DIANA J. SCHAUB, 2011-12 Garwood Teaching Fellow, Department of Politics, Princeton University, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Maryland. In 1994-95 she was the postdoctoral fellow of the Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard University. In 2001, she was the recipient of the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters. In 2004, she was appointed to the President’s Council on Bioethics. She is the author of Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s “Persian Letters” (Rowman & Littlefield, 1995), and coauthor (with Amy A. Kass and Leon R. Kass) of What So Proudly We Hail: The American Soul in Story, Speech, and Song (ISI, 2011), along with a number of book chapters and articles in the fields of political philosophy and American political thought. She is also a frequent contributor to opinion journals such as The Public Interest, The Claremont Review of Books, The Weekly Standard, and The New Atlantis. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Kenyon College, with a Ph.D. from The University of Chicago.
Office: 244 Corwin Hall (Fall ’11) / 242 Corwin Hall (Spring ’12)
dschaub@princeton.edu
NATHAN W. SCHLUETER, 2011-12 Visiting Fellow, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Hillsdale College, where he teaches courses in literature, politics and philosophy. He is the author of One Dream or Two? Justice in America and in the Thought of Martin Luther King, Jr. (Lexington Books, 2002) and The Humane Vision of Wendell Berry, edited with Mark Mitchell (ISI Books, 2011). He is currently completing a manuscript Playing with Fire: The Promise and Peril of the Utopian Imagination. His articles have appeared in First Things, Touchstone, Logos, and Communio. He has a B.A. in History from Miami University of Ohio and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Dallas.
Office: Whelan Hall, 16 Stockton Street Tel: (609) 258-7149
nschluet@princeton.edu
CHRISTOPHER O. TOLLEFSEN, 2011-12 Visiting Fellow, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina. He has authored numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews on bioethics, meta-ethics, and natural law ethics, and he is the author of two recent books, Biomedical Research and Beyond: Expanding the Ethics of Inquiry and Embryo: A Defense of Human Life, co-authored with Robert P. George. He is the editor of Bioethics With Liberty and Justice: Themes in the Work of Joseph M. Boyle, and Artificial Nutrition and Hydration: The New Catholic Debate, and he edits the Springer book series Catholic Studies in Bioethics. He is both James Madison Fellow, and a Senior Fellow of Witherspoon Institute. He earned a B.A. from Saint Anselm College and a Ph.D. from Emory University.
Office: Bobst Hall 206, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-8342
ctollefs@princeton.edu
DANIEL K. WILLIAMS, 2011-12 William E. Simon Visiting Fellow is Religion and Public Life, is Assistant Professor of History at the University of West Georgia. He is the author of God's Own Party: The Making of the Christian Right (Oxford University Press, 2010). His research focuses on the intersection between religion and politics in modern America, and his current book project is a history of the American pro-life movement and the public debate over abortion from the 1950s to the present. His publications include articles in the Journal of Policy History, Reviews in American History, Historically Speaking, Politico, PBS Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, and Sacred History Magazine. He holds a B.A. in history and classics from Case Western Reserve University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in history from Brown University.
Office: Bobst Hall 208, 83 Prospect Avenue Tel: (609) 258-7102
dkwillia@princeton.edu
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