James Wiser received his B.A. in Government from the University
of Notre Dame and his MA and Ph.D. in Political Science from Duke
University. He studied one year at the University of Innsbruck
(Austria) and was a Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson Dissertation
Fellow at the Free University of Berlin (Germany). Prior to joining
USF as Provost in 1998 he taught Political Science at Loyola
University-Chicago. He has published Political Philosophy: a
History of the Search for Order and Political Theory: A Thematic
Inquiry.
He is the editor of Religion and the Rise of Modernity which is
volume 5 of Eric Voegelin's History of Political Ideas.
His articles have appeared in such professional publications as The
Journal of Politics, Polity, The Review of Politics, and Political
Theory.
His teaching and research interests focus on the history of
Western political thought with a special concern for ancient Greek
and contemporary German political theory. In 2010 the University of
Kentucky Press will publish his most recent study, "Eric Voegelin
and American Conservatism," in its volume Virtue, Freedom, and the
Rule of Law: Dilemmas of American Conservatism.
