James R. Harrigan

Aurelius Hall, Room 213
Office Hours Available Upon Request
724-805-2862
james.harrigan@email.stvincent.edu

 Dr. James R. Harrigan, Ph.D. is the Center's Fellow of Civic and Constitutional Affairs, and is an assistant professor of political science at Saint Vincent College.  Dr. Harrigan serves as editor for the Center's journal Citizens and Statesmen: An Annual Review of Political Theory and Public Life, and as director for the annual Civitas Forum on Principles and Policies for Public Life.  Additionally, he is the director of the Aurelius Scholars program at Saint Vincent College.  Dr. Harrigan has authored numerous articles in the popular press, and his academic article, "Strained Bedfellows:The Relationship between Politics and Philosophy in Platonic Thought," will be published in the Review Journal of Political Philosophy in 2006.  He is currently writing a book on varying conceptions of law in pre-Revolutionary America.

Dr. Harrigan received his M.A. from the University of Connecticut, and his Ph.D. from Claremont Graduate University.