Jeffrey Tyler Syck, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Social Science

  • Office: Armington 427
  • Telephone: (606) 218-4493
  • E-mail: tylersyck@upike.edu
  • 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 10th, 2024.
  • “Conservatism’s Third Path,” Persuasion, January 11th, 2024.
  • “Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the Liberal Center,” Engelsberg Ideas, January 8th 2024.
  • “Franklin Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition,” The American Conservative, October 12th 2023.
  • “The Methods of Moynihan,” Persuasion, May 31st, 2023.
  • “Rediscovering Pluralism,” Illiberalism Studies Program, March 30th, 2023.
  • “Recovering Virtue Means Recovering Self-Government,” Law and Liberty, April 25th, 2023.
  • “Resuscitating Old Fashioned Social Liberalism,” Providence Magazine, January 4th, 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 5th, 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 5th, 2023.

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