Curriculum Vitae
Education
2018 - Present (Ph.D. Expected June 2023)
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”
“Victims and Cruelty: Shklar and Rousseau on Pity,” 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 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
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 Graduate Sabbatical Grant, Fall 2022
Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship, Fall 2021
Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship, Summer 2020
Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship, Summer 2019
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