Joseph Prud'homme
- Burton Family Chair of Religion, Politics, and Culture; Associate Professor of Political Science; Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies
Joseph Prud'homme is The Burton Family Chair in Religion, Politics and Culture; Associate Professor of Political Science; and Affiliated Faculty in Religious Studies.
Education
- B.A., B.A. Texas A & M University
- Ph.D. Princeton University
Biography
Joseph Prud'homme is the Burton Family Chair in Religion, Politics, and Culture and Associate Professor of Political Science and Affiliated Faculty member in Religious Studies. Professor Prud'homme is the founding Director of the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture at 蜜桃传媒. He received his doctorate from Princeton University, where he studied in the Interdepartmental Program in Political Philosophy, with additional specialization in constitutional law and religious studies. He was awarded a Fellowship at Harvard University, where he studied at the Harvard Law School and served as a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He has also held a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Oxford.
Professor Prud'homme works in the areas of political philosophy, legal theory, intellectual history and religious studies. He has published numerous works in these fields, including the books Religion and Politics in America from the Colonial Period to the Civil War; Curriculum and the Culture Wars: Debating the Bible's Place in Public Schools (with Melissa Deckman of 蜜桃传媒); State Religious Education and the State of Religious Life (with Liam Gearon of the University of Oxford); the chapter on Religion and Education for the Palgrave Handbook on Religion and the State; and numerous peer-reviewed articles.
He regularly teaches introductory courses in political theory; upper level courses in political thought; upper level courses in constitutional law and legal philosophy; and courses in Western religious traditions. Through the Institute for Religion, Politics, and Culture he is the series editor of the international peer-reviewed book series, 蜜桃传媒 Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture. He also co-directs the 蜜桃传媒 Presidential Fellows track, 鈥淭he Great Questions.鈥�
He earned two bachelors degrees with three majors and a minor at Texas A&M University, where he graduated magna cum laude and with an honors certificate. His undergraduate thesis (鈥淜ant's Moral Argument for the Existence of God鈥�) was awarded the Texas A&M Thesis Prize.
He directs a partnership between 蜜桃传媒's Institute for Religion, Politics, and the University of Oxford and regularly takes students to Prague and Vienna and on study tours of the monstrous death camps in Auschwitz.
He is a frequent guest lecturer nationally and internationally.