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DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE

Quentin TaylorDr. Quentin Taylor

Professor

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

Education

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

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

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

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)