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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE

Faculty

Quentin Taylor

 

Dr. Quentin Taylor
Professor

Baird Hall, Room 219H
918-343-7667
qtaylor@rsu.edu

 

Education

Ph.D., Political Science
University of Missouri-Columbia
1992

M.Ed., History
University of Missouri-Columbia
1987

B.S.Ed., History
University of Missouri-Columbia
1986

Academic Appointments

2011-present, Professor
2001-2011, Associate Professor
Department of History and Political Science, Rogers State University, Claremore, OK

2000-2001, Teaching Assistant, Philosophy
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX

1992-1996, Instructor, History, Government, Philosophy
Midland College, Midland TX

1992, Instructor, Political Theory
University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, MO

1991, Visiting Lecturer, American Politics
Southwest Missouri State University, Springfield, MO

Courses Taught

  • POLS-1113 American Federal Government
  • POLS-3053 International Relations
  • HIST-2483 U. S. History to 1877
  • HIST-2493 U. S. History since 1877
  • POLS-2023 Introduction to Political Theory
  • POLS-3043 Introduction to Political Ideas
  • POLS-3063 Constitutional Law
  • HIST-3013 Modern Europe

Publications

Books

The Republic of Genius: A Reconstruction of Nietzsche’s Early Thought (University of Rochester Press, 1997)

ed. The Other Machiavelli: Republican Writings by the Author of The Prince (Univ. Press of America, 1998)

ed. The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers (Madison House Publishers, 1998)

Articles

“St. Augustine and Political Thought: A Revisionist View,” Augustiniana, 48 (1998), 287-303.

“Machiavelli and the American Founding,” in The Other Machiavelli, 1-42.

“The Science of Publius: Method and Prescription in The Federalist,” in The Essential Federalist, 21-48.

“Political Science or Political Sophistry?: A Critique of Plato’s Statesman,” Polis, 17 (2000), 91-109.

“The Last Days of Socrates: An Invitation to Philosophy,” Midwest Quarterly, 42 (2000), 20-32.

“On Edmund Burke’s A Vindication of Natural Society,” Modern Age, 43 (2001), 222-236.

“Descartes’s Paradoxical Politics,” Humanitas, 14 (2001), 76-103.

“Public Deliberation and Popular Government in Aristotle’s Politics,” Interpretation, 29 (2002), 241-260.

“Rhetorical Readings of The Federalist Papers,” Political Science Reviewer, 31 (2002), 236-282.

“President Hayes and the Poncas,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 81 (2003), 104-111.

“The Sophistical Socrates: Paradox and Obfuscation in Republic I,” Midwest Quarterly, 45 (2003), 31-48.

“An Original Omission?: Property in Rawls’s Political Thought,” Independent Review, 8 (2004), 387-400.

“‘To Order Well the State’: The Politics of Titus Andronicus,” Interpretation, 32 (2005), 125-150.

“Money and Politics in the Land of Oz,” Independent Review, 9 (2005), 413-426.

“Ernest Barker and Greek Political Thought: Plato,” Polis, 23 (2006), 222-242.

“Ernest Barker and Greek Political Thought: Aristotle,” Polis, 23 (2006), 243-262.

“Schopenhauer’s Metaphysics of Music,” Schopenhauer Jahrbuch, 87 (2006), 119-136.

“John of Salisbury, the Policraticus, and Political Thought,” Humanitas, 19 (2006), 133-157.

“JamesMadison and the Extended Republic,” in Defending the Republic: Constitutional Morality in a Time of Crisis (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008), 99-119.

“The Federalism of The Federalist Papers,” in Ashgate Companion to Federalism (Ashgate, 2009), 175-192.

“Leviathan Bound, or the Re-education of Thomas Hobbes,” Hobbes Studies, 22 (2009), 123-143.

“Thomas Hobbes, Political Economist,” Independent Review, 14 (2010), 415-433.

“William Henry Harrison and the Whig Counter-Revolution,” Political Science Reviewer, 40 (2011), 37-62.

Encyclopedia Entries

“William Henry Harrison,” “George Clinton,” and “John Randolph,” in Encyclopedia of the Early Republic and Antebellum America (M. E. Sharpe, 2010).

“XI Amendment,” and “The Federalist Papers,” in Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2010).

“Benjamin Franklin,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Military and Diplomatic History (Oxford University Press), forthcoming.

“Charles Brockton Brown,” “Washington Irving,” “James Madison,” “Abraham Lincoln,” “C. Wright Mills,” “Josiah Royce,” in Oxford Encyclopedia of American Cultural and Intellectual History (Oxford University Press), forthcoming.

Electronic Articles

“John Jay,” Liberty Fund Online Library of Liberty (2009)

“The Federalist Papers: America’s Political Classic,” Liberty Fund Online Library of Liberty (2009)

Conference Papers

  • Association for Political Theory, Colorado Springs, CO (2004)
  • Association for Political Theory, St. Louis, MO (2005)
  • Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, NM (2006)
  • Southwestern Political Science Association, San Antonio, TX (2006)
  • James Madison Symposium, Shreveport, LA (2006)
  • Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA (2006)
  • Southwestern Political Science Association, Albuquerque, NM (2007)
  • Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA (2007)
  • Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA (2008)
  • Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC (2009)
  • Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL (2009)

Liberty Fund Conferences

  • Conferee, Wilhelm Röpke’s The Humane Economy, Indianapolis, IN (2001)
  • Conferee, Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, Indianapolis, IN (2002)
  • Conferee, Bertrand de Jouvenel’s On Power, Crawfordsville, IN (2004)
  • Conferee, Seventeenth Century English Republicanism, New Orleans, LA (2005)
  • Conferee, Federalists and Anti-Federalists, San Diego, CA (2007)
  • Conferee, Commerce, Culture, and Liberty, Tampa, FL (2007)
  • Conferee, Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories, Cleveland, OH (2007)
  • Conferee, Federalism and Separation of Powers, Crawfordsville, IN (2008)
  • Conferee, Machiavelli and Shakespeare, San Diego, CA (2008)
  • Conferee, Socratic Leadership, Indianapolis, IN (2008)
  • Conferee, New Theories of Democratic Failure, Indianapolis, IN (2008)
  • Conferee, John Rawls and Differing Responses, San Francisco, CA (2008)
  • Conferee, Shakespeare’s English History Plays, Indianapolis, IN (2008)
  • Observer, Law and Liberty in China and Japan, Indianapolis, IN (2009)
  • Observer, Liberty and Property Rights, Indianapolis, IN (2009)
  • Conferee, James Madison and the Extended Republic, Indianapolis, IN (2009)
  • Conferee, Political Philosophy Roundtable, Indianapolis, IN (2009)
  • Director, Federalism and Separation of Powers, Indianapolis, IN (2009)
  • Conferee, Walter Lippmann’s The Public Philosophy, Indianapolis (2009)

Awards and Honors

  • Participant, NEH Summer Seminar on Periklean Athens, Tucson, AZ (1990)
  • RSU Organized Research Grant, Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C. (2003)
  • RSU Organized Research Grant, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN (2004)
  • Participant, NEH Summer Seminar on the Early American Republic, Philadelphia, PA (2005)
  • RSU Organized Research Grant, Conference Papers, Albuquerque, NM; San Antonio, TX (2005)
  • RSU Organized Research Grant, Conference Papers, Shreveport, LA; Boston, MA (2006)
  • Recipient, Excellence in Scholarship Award, RSU School of Liberal Arts (2006)
  • RSU Organized Research Grant, Conference Paper, Albuquerque, NM (2007)
  • Recipient, Excellence in Scholarship Award, RSU School of Liberal Arts (2007)
  • Participant, Outstanding Professors’ Academy, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmund, OK (2007-08)
  • Resident Scholar, Liberty Fund Inc., Indianapolis, IN (2008-09)
  • Adjunct Scholar, Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs, Oklahoma City, OK (2009 – )

  • Participant, Seminar on Medieval Thought, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (2011)