David Beer

Education

• Ph.D., Political Theory, Catholic University of America, 2012
• M.A., Political Theory, Catholic University of America, 2009
• A.B., Government, Georgetown University, 2007

Experience

• 2019-Present, Director, Center for Christian Faith and Culture, Malone University
• 2017-Present, Associate Professor of Political Science, Malone University
• 2017-2019, Associate Director, Center for Christian Faith and Culture, Malone University
• 2012-2017, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Malone University

Recent Scholarly Work

• Charles Norris Cochrane, Augustine and the Problem of Power: The Essays and Lectures of Charles Norris Cochrane.  Edited by David Beer (Eugene, OR: Cascade, 2017)
• “Voegelin’s Debt to Augustine: The Mortgage of the City of God.” Forthcoming in 2017 in Anamnesis: A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place and Things Divine.”
• Clyde Wilcox, Linda M. Merolla, and David Beer, “Saving Marriage by Banning Marriage: The Christian Right Finds a New Issue in 2004.” In The Values Campaign?: The Christian Right and the 2004 Elections. Edited by John C. Green, Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Washington DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. Pp. 56-78.

Teaching Assignments

• Introduction to American Politics
• Political Philosophy
• American Constitutional Law
• American Political Thought
• The President and Congress
• War, Peace, and Revolution in the Christian Tradition
• Political Theology
• Internship
• Political Science Senior Seminar
• Central Questions in Philosophy
• Criminal Procedure and Human Dignity