Dr. Justin Garrison
Associate Professor
Department: Public Affairs
Office: 121 Francis T. West Hall
540-375-5265
garrison@roanoke.edu
540-375-2405
CoursesDegrees
The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC
Ph.D. in Politics, 2010
Political Theory (Major Concentration), American Politics (Minor Concentration)
M.A. in Politics, 2003
Political Theory (Major Concentration)
Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA
B.A. in History R/IAP and in Russian Studies (Double Major), 2002
Summa Cum Laude
Moscow Institute for Advanced Studies/ Moscow International University
Moscow, Russia, 2000
Research & Teaching Interests
Political Theory
American Political Thought, Irving Babbitt, Politics and the Imagination, Rene Girard, Mimetic Theory, Classical Political Thought, Modern Political Thought, The Moral Problem of Politics, American Literature and Politics, Russian Political Thought, Russian Literature and Politics
American Politics
U.S. Presidency, Democracy, Ethics and Public Policy, U.S. Foreign Policy, American Political Ideologies
Books
The Historical Mind: Humanistic Renewal in a Post-Constitutional Age (co-edited book, SUNY Press, hbk, 2020; pbk, 2021)
“An Empire of Ideals”: The Chimeric Imagination of Ronald Reagan (Routledge, hbk. 2013; pbk. 2015)
Recent Publications
“Projections Upon the Void: Irving Babbitt’s Critique of Naturalism” (chapter in Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism, Vol. 2, Palgrave, 2022)
“The Pillars of Hercules: Babbitt, Warren, and the Dangers of Scientific Naturalism” (chapter in The Historical Mind)
“Resistance and Renewal: Irving Babbitt and China” (co-authored chapter in The Historical Mind)
“Friedrich Nietzsche: The Hammer Goes to Monticello” (chapter in Critics of Enlightenment Rationalism, Palgrave, 2020)
“‘The Agony of Will’: Political Morality in Robert Penn Warren’s All the Kings Men” American Political Thought, Vol. 5, No. 4 (Fall 2016): 604-627.
“A Covenant with All Mankind: Ronald Reagan’s Idyllic Vision of America in the World,” in American Humanism: Tradition and Renewal, ed. Zhang Yuan (Beijing Normal University Press, 2016) [Chinese translation of 2008 article].
“‘God’s Middle Children’: Metaphysical Rebellion in Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club,” Humanitas, Vol. XXV, Nos. 1 and 2 (2012): 79-106.
“‘The Land of Limitless Possibilities’: Ronald Reagan, Progress, Technology, and the Modest Republic,” in The Culture of Immodesty in American Life and Politics: The Modest Republic, eds. Michael P. Federici, Richard M. Gamble, and Mark T. Mitchell (Palgrave, 2013).
“A Covenant with All Mankind: Ronald Reagan’s Idyllic Vision of America in the World,” Humanitas, Vol. XXI, Nos. 1 and 2 (2008): 34-63.
Available as a Media resource for the following topics
American Presidency, Presidential Rhetoric, U.S. Constitution, Democracy, Presidential Elections, American Foreign Policy, Ethics and Public Policy, Russia
Willing to speak to professional, social or civic groups on
American Presidency, Presidential Rhetoric, U.S. Constitution, Democracy, Presidential Elections, American Foreign Policy, Ethics and Public Policy, Russia