Ph.D., The University of Chicago
The Committee on Social Thought, December 2001
Dissertation: “Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: the Problem of Authority and Values since World War Two.”

M.A., The University of Chicago
The Committee on Social Thought, with distinction, June 1992
M.A. Thesis: “Commercial Society and its Critics”

M.Sc., Edinburgh University
History (Scottish Enlightenment), September 1990
M.Sc. Thesis: “Authority and Moral Philosophy: From the ‘Divine Corporation’ to a Scottish Science of Man”

B.A., Princeton University
Religion, cum laude, June 1989
B.A Thesis: “Historicism, Social Criticism, and Religiosity”

Publications

Liberalism in the Shadow of Totalitarianism: The Problem of Authority and Values since World War Two (under contract, Harvard University Press).

“Why the State was Dropped in the First Place: A Prequel to Skocpol’s ‘Bringing the State Back In.’” 14 Critical Review 2-3 (2000 [2001]).

“Democracy Despite Public Ignorance: A Weberian Reply to Somin and Friedman.” 13 Critical Review 1-2: 191-227 (1999 [2000]).

“Authority and the Economic Firm.” 15 Critical Review 1 (2004).

“Face-to-face with New Urbanism: Planning and community in twentieth-century America” (co-authored) (forthcoming).

“Poverty, Identity, and Black Progressivism: a review article of the recent writings of Cornel West.” CrossStreets 2: 52-61 (1995).

“Of Bedroom Cities and Corporate Suburbs: Geographic mobility as an anti-poverty strategy for the 21st Century.” CrossStreets 1: 12-20 (1994).

Two short stories published in Sharon Sorenson, How to Write Short Stories (Prentice Hall, 1990).

Current Position

Lecturer, Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law, The Univeristy of Virginia, Charlottesville