GLADDEN J. PAPPIN
Gladden J. Pappin is a research assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and the political theory fellow of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture. He is also the deputy editor of American Affairs, a forthcoming quarterly journal of public policy and political thought. In fall 2017, he is joining the politics department of the University of Dallas as an assistant professor. At Notre Dame he is writing a book on the roots of modern politics in the drive for novelty and innovation, and in the extension of technology. He is also writing on the relationship between political and ecclesiastical thought in late medieval and early modern writers. He has presented his work at Notre Dame, Yale, Harvard, the University of Virginia and other universities, and regularly presents at political science conferences. His articles and reviews appear in History of Political Thought, the Review of Metaphysics, Perspectives on Political Science, Comunicazioni sociali, Modern Age, the Intercollegiate Review, the Claremont Review of Books, First Things, the Journal of Markets and Morality, and elsewhere. He has been a visiting scholar at the Centre d'études du Saulchoir (summer 2016) and has received fellowships from the Charles Koch Foundation (2016–2017), the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture (2014–2017), the Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (2013), Harvard's Program on Constitutional Government (2012–2013) and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (2005–2012), the Earhart Foundation (2010–2011), the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (2009–2010), and the Osage Tribal Nation (2000–2004). His interests range broadly in political philosophy, modern social thought and technology studies, and in theology. He has been a lecturer in political science at the College of the Holy Cross and at the University of Notre Dame, and has been a concurrent assistant professor at the University of Notre Dame Law School. He received his Ph.D. in government (2012) and A.B. magna cum laude in history (2004), both from Harvard, where his undergraduate thesis on the prehistory of modern rights theories won the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. After college he worked at the Citigroup Private Bank, and also as an instructor at a private school in Ohio. He was born in St. Louis.
