Febuary 14th, 2008

After receiving one of Tulane's prestigious Selley Dissertation Fellowships, Kenneth B. McIntyre successfully defended his excellent dissertation on the political philosophy of Michael Oakeshott in the Fall of 2003. The dissertation (directed by Professor Martyn Thompson) was so well-researched, so well-argued and so well-written that it was immediately published without revision as The Limits of Political Theory by the highly esteemed Imprint Academic publishing house in England. As ABD, Kenny was appointed to a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in Political Science at Campbellsville University in Kentucky. In 2006, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Government at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. Beginning in Fall 2008, he will be Assistant Professor of Political Science at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where he join a large cohort of assistant professors in a rapidly growing department offering a full complement of degrees, from the bachelor's to the Ph.D. (The other assistant professors in the Political Science Department at Concordia received their Ph.D. training at Penn, Berkeley, Calgary, Toronto, Washington, Pittsburgh, Duke, Northern Illinois and Columbia Universities.) Kenny has published several articles in academic journals and edited books in England, Germany and the US during the four years since his dissertation. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Michael Oakeshott Association and is well-advanced on his second book, a study of the political thought of the famous and influential twentieth century English historian and public intellectual, Sir Herbert Butterfield.

 [Interview with Mr. McIntyre to come!]