Lee Ward is a Canadian academic currently teaching political science at
Baylor University
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in
Waco, Texas
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, and formerly
Alpha Sigma Nu
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Distinguished Professor of Campion College at the
University of Regina.
He is an Associate Professor of Political Studies. His key research interests are the history of political philosophy and American political thought.
Education
He first achieved a Bachelor of Arts from the
University of Toronto
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. He went on to achieve a master's degree from
Brock University and, finally, a PhD. from
Fordham University
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Personal life
He is married to Ann Ward, a professor of philosophy and political studies at the
University of Regina.
Publications
He has contributed to both the Canadian Journal of Political Science and the American Journal of Political Science.
Most recently, he published the political research work "John Locke and Modern Life". He has also recently coedited "The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism" with his wife Ann. Other works include "The Relation between Politics and Philosophy in Plato's Apology of Socrates", "Nobility and Necessity: The Problem of Courage in Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics",
and "Montesquieu on Federalism and Anglo-Gothic Constitutionalism".
Selected published works
*Natural Right and Political Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Catherine and Michael Zuckert. (Co-edited with Ann Ward). South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2013.
*John Locke and Modern Life. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
*The Ashgate Research Companion to Federalism. Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2009. (Co-edited with Ann Ward)
*The Politics of Liberty in England and Revolutionary America. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
References
https://www.baylor.edu/political_science/index.php?id=946588
Academic staff of the University of Regina
Canadian political scientists
Living people
University of Toronto alumni
Brock University alumni
Fordham University alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
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