UPIKE

• PLS 101: Introduction to American Politics
• PLS 201: How To Rule The World
• PLS 325: Political Communication
• PLS 425: American Presidency
• PLS 448: Constitutional Law
• HIS 463: American Foreign Policy
• PLS 323: Comparative Politics
• PLS 360: Freedom in America

Education:
Ph.D. in Political Science, University of Virginia, 2023
M.A. in Political Science, University of Virginia, 2020
B.A. in Political Science and History, Morehead State University, 2018

Book Manuscripts

• A Republic of Virtue: The Essays of John Quincy Adams [Under Contract, Political Animals Press]
• The Untold Origins of American Democracy [Partially Completed]

Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Towards A Conservative Liberalism: John Quincy Adams and the Abolitionist Cause, Pietas, Fall 2023 Edition.  

Selected Essays  

• “Against Caesar,” Persuasion, April 10^th, 2024.
• “Conservatism’s Third Path,” Persuasion, January 11^th, 2024.
• “Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Liberal Center,” Engelsberg Ideas, January 8^th 2024.
• “Franklin Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition,” The American Conservative, October 12^th 2023.
• “The Methods of Moynihan,” Persuasion, May 31^st, 2023.
• “Rediscovering Pluralism,” Illiberalism Studies Program, March 30^th, 2023.
• “Recovering Virtue Means Recovering Self-Government,” Law and Liberty, April 25^th, 2023.
• “Resuscitating Old Fashioned Social Liberalism,” Providence Magazine, January 4^th, 2023.
• “Franklin Roosevelt and the Heart of Liberalism,” Providence Magazine, August 18^, 2022.

Book Reviews

• Review of McKay Poppins, Romney: A Reckoning, The Vital Center, Winter 2024.
• Review of Samuel Moyn’s Liberalism Against Itself, Providence, October 5^th, 2023.
• Review of Emily Hauptmann’s Foundations and American Political Science: The Transformation of a Discipline, 1945-1970, American Political Thought, Fall 2023.
• Review of Danielle Allen’s Justice by Means of Democracy, American Purpose, July 5^th, 2023.

Research Interests:
American Political Development, American Political Thought, Political Ideologies, Local Democracy, Social Institutions, Roman Political History