Montclair State University

Brian A Smith

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B.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002

M.A., Security Studies, Georgetown University, 2005

Ph.D., Government, Georgetown University, 2008

Dr. Brian Smith completed his doctorate in Government at Georgetown in July 2008, and his research and teaching interests focus on the history of political thought and international affairs. In the 2008-9 year, he served as the Jack Miller Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Georgetown University. Dr. Smith?s 2006 Interpretation article on Adam Smith won the 2007 Templeton Enterprise Award for the best article published on the culture of enterprise by a scholar under the age of 40 in the previous year. He attended Moorpark College from 1998-2000, earned his B.A. in History with honors from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2002, and in 2005 was awarded the M.A. in Security Studies from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown.

Specialization

History of Political Thought

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Research Projects

Adam Smith, the Concept of Leisure, and the Division of Labor

Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Fall/Winter 2006), pp. 23-46

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The Rift in the Modern Mind: Tocqueville and Percy on the Rise of the Cartesian Self

Co-authored with Matthew Sitman, Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Winter 2007), pp. 15-22. Republished in Democracy Reconsidered, ed. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler (Lexington Books, 2009), pp. 101-117