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Douglas Casson
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Professor Casson teaches ancient and modern political philosophy, religion and politics, and constitutional law. He pursued undergraduate studies in classics, history, and politics at a small liberal arts college, Colorado College, and did his graduate work at Duke University. He has also studied at the University of Regensburg and the University of Leipzig (formerly Karl Marx University) and taught at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Wake Forest University in North Carolina. His research revolves around questions of religious and ideological commitment in the public sphere. Specifically, he is interested in the various institutional and psychological ways in which radicalism has been restrained in political communities, especially those communities that define themselves by their commitment to religious liberty and pluralism. He has recently presented a paper on Carl Schmitt, John Locke, and emergency powers and is completing a book on skepticism, fanaticism and probable judgment. He is married to Kathleen Casson and has three small children, Grace, Max, and Claire. |
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