Christopher Bissex

Ph.D Candidate in Political Science

Education:
B.A., Liberal Arts, Thomas Aquinas College, 2009
M.A., Political Science, Baylor University, 2011

Chris came to Baylor's Ph.D program in the Fall of 2009 after receiving a B.A. in Liberal Arts from Thomas Aquinas College in California. His primary field is political theory, with a secondary field in American Government. He is interested in the American Founding, especially the thought of Gouverneur Morris, constitutional law, and Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas.

Conference Presentations:

"The Tragedy of Lucretia and the Political Solution in Machiavelli's Mandragola" at the Midwestern Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2012

"The Possibility of Happiness: Tragedy and Redemption in the Nicomachean Ethics" at the Southwest Political Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2011

Teaching Apprenticeships:

PSC 1305 American National Government, Spring 2012

PSC 2302 American Constitutional Development, Spring 2011

PSC 3340 Campaigns and Elections, Fall 2010

PSC 3363 Western Political Thought: Plato, Fall 2011