Career

His most recent and notable work is Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology which was published in 2004. The book explores the political and philosophical ideas of the conservative intellectual Russell Kirk

Russell Kirk

Russell Kirk was an American political theorist, moralist, historian, social critic, literary critic, and fiction author known for his influence on 20th century American conservatism. His 1953 book, The Conservative Mind, gave shape to the amorphous post–World War II conservative movement...

 and his impact on conservatism

Conservatism

Conservatism is a political and social philosophy that promotes the maintenance of traditional institutions and supports, at the most, minimal and gradual change in society. Some conservatives seek to preserve things as they are, emphasizing stability and continuity, while others oppose modernism...

 in the 1940s and 50s. He has also written several articles on Kirk and 20th-century conservatism.

At Elizabethtown College he works with many notable colleagues including: Paul Gottfried

Paul Gottfried

Paul Edward Gottfried is Horace Raffensperger Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College in Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, and a Guggenheim recipient...

, David S. Brown

David S. Brown

- Career :In 2006 he published Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography which was the University of Chicago Press's nominee for the Pulitzer Prize in History...

, Robert Craig Nation, and Gabriel R. Ricci.

Degrees

• 1982 Ph.D, Catholic University of America
• 1969 M.A., Bowling Green State University
  Bowling Green State University
  Bowling Green State University, often referred to as Bowling Green or BGSU, is a public, coeducational research university located in Bowling Green, Ohio, United States. The institution was granted a charter in 1910 by the State of Ohio as part of the Lowry Bill, which also established Kent State...
  
  
• 1968 B.A., Towson State University

Selected works

• Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology, University of Missouri Press 2004 ISBN 0-8262-1512-2

External links

• Elizabethtown College Homepage