Interest and areas of expertise
American Politics - the American Presidency, American Political Thought, American Constitutional Law (Governmental Powers and Civil Liberties/Civil Rights);
Comparative Politics - Post-Communist Russia.
Education
- B.A. Millersville University
- M.A., Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Classes I teach
- POLI 113 American Government
- POLI 240 The American Presidency
- POLI 310 American Political Thought
- POLI 314 Constitutional Law: Governmental Powers and Constraints
- POLI 316 Constitutional Law: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
- POLI 346 Russia after Communism
- POLI 360 Political Development in Film
Selected works
Selected Works
- Lyman Trumbull and the Second Founding of the United States (University Press of Kansas, Forthcoming 2022)
- “William Howard Taft: The Constitutionalist as Critic of Progressivism.” In Defense of the Founders’ Republic: Critics of Direct Democracy in the Progressive Era, edited by Lonce Sandy-Bailey and Jerome Mileur. New York: Bloomsbury Academic Press (2015).
- Rego, Paul. 2008. American Ideal: Theodore Roosevelt’s Search for American Individualism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (2008).