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Joseph Wysocki

Ph.D Candidate in Political Science

Education:
B.A., Political Science and Economics, Belmont Abbey, 2004
M.A., Political Science, Baylor University, 2007

Joseph Wysocki's primary fields are American politics and constitutional law, especially presidential studies and separation of powers jurisprudence. His minor field of study is political theory, especially the thought of Alasdair MacIntyre. Before coming to Baylor, he taught high school in Connecticut in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps. In 2008-09, Wysocki held the R.W. Morrison fellowship, an award to an outstanding student who works in the area of constitutional studies, and has served as a Graduate Fellow of Baylor's Honor College. Wysocki begins a teaching position in the fall of 2010 at Belmont Abbey College.

Dissertation: Congressional Rhetoric: Going Public and Its Effects on the Institution

Conference Presentations:

"Moral Transformation in the Alaskan Wilderness: Virtue and Friendship at The Edge," Faith, Film, and Philosophy Conference, Gonzaga University, 2009

"Abstraction or Community: The Common Good and Teleology in M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water," Faith, Film, and Philosophy Conference, Gonzaga University, 2008

"Hobbes Sole Sovereign: The Use of Moses in Books III and IV of the Leviathan," Southwest Political Science Association Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2007

"The Vitality of Religious Comprehensive Doctrines in Justificatory Liberal Democracies," Southwest Political Science Association Conference, San Antonio, Texas, 2005

Courses Taught:

PSC 2302 American Constitutional Development

PSC 3330 The American Presidency

BIC 2344 World Cultures IV (Baylor's Interdisciplinary Core)

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