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Curriculum Vitae

Education

2018 - Present (Ph.D. Expected May 2024)

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Political Science Ph.D. Candidate

2014-2017

Carthage College​

Political Science, BA (Summa Cum Laude)

2013-2014

University of Wisconsin-Parkside

Political Science

Dissertation

Fostering Freedom: Judgment in Early-Modern Liberal Educational and Political Thought 

 

This project seeks to locate an alternative to autonomy—as a guiding standard of liberal education theory—that accommodates the limits of human cognition and the demands of liberal citizenship. To do so, it addresses a neglected Pre-Kantian discourse on individual freedom that privileges judgment as a civic-educational outcome. I examine three thinkers—Locke, Rousseau, and Smith—who each develop a framework for the cultivation of judgment that focuses on the individual’s ability to make informed judgments and engage in self-directed behavior. The concept of judgment that emerges from this study can serve as an alternative benchmark for self-government in liberal education theory.

 

Committee: Daniel J. Kapust, Michelle Schwarze, Richard Avramenko, Adam Nelson 

Peer-Reviewed Publications 

Tennyson, Timothy T. 2022. “Cicero’s Romulus and the Crafting of Historical Exempla.”     History of Political Thought, Vol. 43, No. 1: 1-30.

Tennyson, Timothy T. and Michelle Schwarze. 2023. “An Honest Man? Rousseau’s             Critique of Locke’s Character Education.” European Journal of Political Theory, https://doi.org/10.1177/14748851231153567

Working Papers 

“Adam Smith on Education.”
“Critique of Autonomy as a Civic-Educational Ideal in Liberal Theory”

“Playing the Victim: Pity and Equality in Judith Shklar's Moral Psychology,” with Michelle     Schwarze.
“Rethinking Machiavelli’s Civic Religion,” with Daniel Kapust.

“Freedom’s Apprenticeship: Tocqueville’s Education for the Democratic Individual.”

Conference Presentations 

APSA Panel Presenster "Critique of Autonomy as an EducationalIdealin Liberal Theory,"      Fall 2023 (Virtual)
APSA Panel Presenter “Victims and Cruelty: Shklar and Rousseau on Pity,” Fall 2022

IASS (International Adam Smith Society) Panel Presenter “Adam Smith on Education,”           Fall 2021
APSA Panel Presenter “The Limits of a Liberal Education for Autonomy: Rousseau’s               Critique of the Lockean Model,” Fall 2021 (Virtual)
MPSA Panel Presenter “Adam Smith on Education,” Spring 2020
Carthage Celebration of Scholars Conference Presenter “On Hobbes’s Treatment of             Punishment in Leviathan,” Spring 2017
Carthage Celebration of Scholars Conference Presenter “Assessing the Effects of                 Laissez-Faire Political Economy on Irish Famine Relief: A Case Study Approach,”                 Spring 2016

Fellowships and Awards 

Institute for Humane Studies Junior Fellowship, Summer 2023

Institute for Humane Studies Graduate Sabbatical Grant, Fall 2022

Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Fall 2021

Political Science Summer Initiative Scholarship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2019-22 

Guy Black Political Science Graduate Fellowship, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2018-19 

Distinguished Senior Award (Commencement Speaker), Carthage College, 2017 

Political Science Department Senior Excellence Award, Carthage College, 2017 

Eric H. Olson and Anna Olson-Thom Scholarship, Carthage College, 2016 

Full Tuition Transfer Scholarship, Carthage College, 2014

Teaching Experience 

University of Wisconsin-Madison
    Head Teaching Assistant, "Deception and Politics" (PS 463), Fall 2023
    Independent Instructor, “Education, Inequality, and Citizenship in the History of                   Political Thought” (PS 461) [Interdisciplinary Seminar in Political Economy,                         Philosophy and Economics], Spring 2022, Spring 2023

    Head Teaching Assistant, “History of American Political Thought,” (PS 360), Fall 2021
    Head Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Political Theory,” (PS 160), Spring 2021
    Teaching Assistant, “Introduction to Political Theory,” (PS 160), Spring 2020
Additional Teaching Experience 
    Independent Instructor, Oral English and Western Culture at the Foreign Business           and Trade College of Chongqing Normal University, China, 2017-18
    Fellow, Writing Center, Carthage College, 2015-17 

Research and Service Experience 

Assistant Organizer for International Adam Smith Society (IASS) Meeting, Fall 2021
Project Assistant for Dr. Michelle Schwarze (Researcher), Fall 2020 
Project Assistant for Dr. Michelle Schwarze (Indexer and Copyeditor), Fall 2019 

References 

Daniel J. Kapust, Professor of Political Science, UW-Madison 
     Tel. 608.263.9429, Email: djkapust@wisc.edu
Michelle Schwarze, Associate Professor of Political Science, UW-Madison
     Tel. 608.358.7228, Email: mschwarze@wisc.edu
Richard Avramenko, Professor of Political Science, UW-Madison
     Tel. 608.263.2292, Email: avramenko@wisc.edu
Adam Nelson, Professor of Education Policy Studies and History, UW-Madison
     Tel. 608.236.2629, Email: adam.nelson@wisc.edu

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