Stephen Wolfe
240 Stubbs Hall • Baton Rouge, LA 70803 • (707) 337-2580 • [email protected]
Education
PhD (Political Science, Louisiana State University, Spring 2018)
First Field: Political Theory
Second Filed: Comparative Politics
Minor: Philosophy
MA (Philosophy, LSU, Summer 2017)
MA (Political Science, LSU, 2016)
BA (Philosophy, United States Military Academy at West Point, 2008)
Publications
Peer-Reviewed
Stephen Wolfe, ‖Reformed Theology and the American Founding: A Rediscovery of Calvinist
Sources,‖ History of Political Thought (forthcoming).
Stephen Wolfe, ―Bénédict Pictet: Small Steps Towards Rationalism?‖ Journal of Reformed
Theology (revision submitted).
Chapters in books
Stephen Wolfe, ―Reformed Natural Law and the American Founding,‖ in For Law and For
Liberty: The Trans-Atlantic Legacy of Protestant Political Thought. Edited by Bradford
Littlejohn (Moscow, ID: Davenant Trust, 2016).
Stephen Wolfe, ―Virtuous Pagans in the Theology of Francis Turretin,‖ Beyond Calvin: Essays
on the Diversity of the Reformed Tradition. Edited by Jonathan Tomes (Moscow, ID:
Davenant Trust, 2017).
Review Essays
Glenn Moots and Stephen Wolfe, Review of Calvin and the Foundations of Modern Politics by
Ralph C. Hancock (St. Augustine‘s Press, 2011) in Voegelin Review (forthcoming, 2017).
Book Reviews
Stephen Wolfe, Review of The Religious Beliefs of America’s Founders: Reason, Revelation
and Revolution by Gregg Frazer (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012),
Anamnesis, No. 5, 2016.
Stephen Wolfe, Review of The Rule of Law and the Rule of God, Edited by Simeon O. Ilesanmi,
Win-Chiat Lee and J. Wilson Parker (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014) in Journal
of Church and State, Vol. 58, No. 3, 2016.
Stephen Wolfe, Review of Christian Political Action in an Age of Revolution by Guillaume
Groen Van Prinsterer. Translated by Colin Wright (Aalten, the Netherlands: Wordbridge
Publishing, 2015) in Philosophia Reformata 81, 2016.
Stephen Wolfe, Review of Who Stole Conservatism?: Capitalism and the Disappearance of
Traditional Conservatism in Choice Reviews Vol. 54, No. 5, January 2017.
Stephen Wolfe, Review of The other rights revolution: conservative lawyers and the remaking of
American government in Choice Reviews Vol. 54, No. 5, January 2017.
Stephen Wolfe, Review of The Making of Grand Paris: Metropolitan Urbanism in the TwentyFirst century in Choice Reviews Vol. 54, No. 7, March 2017.
Working Papers
Stephen Wolfe, ―The Virtue of Small-Scale Production,‖ MA Thesis (philosophy)
Stephen Wolfe, ―Protestant Prudence and Principled Discontinuity in Early American Political
Thought‖
Professional Activity
Invited Lectures
Stephen Wolfe, ―Meaningful Work and the Virtue of Small-Scale Production,‖ at Northwood
University Freedom Seminar ―Freedom at Work,‖ 2017.
Academic Conferences
Stephen Wolfe, ―Edmund Burke‘s Eternal Society: A Philosophical Reflect,‖ Ciceronian
Society, 2017 (presenter and discussant).
Stephen Wolfe, ―‗For civil fellowship of human things‘: John Cotton and Continuity in Early
American Political Thought,‖ Southern Political Science Association Annual
Meeting, 2017 (chair and presenter).
Stephen Wolfe, ―Virtuous Pagans in the Theology of Francis Turretin,‖ 2016 Convivium
Irenicum, Landrum, South Carolina (presenter).
Stephen Wolfe, ―John Witherspoon‘s Enlightenment in Light of the Reformed Tradition,‖ 2015
Convivium Irenicum, Landrum, South Carolina (presenter).
Teaching/Job Experience
Louisiana State University
Adjunct Professor
Courses taught: Introduction to Political Theory (Fall 2015 and Fall 2017)
Graduate Assistant for Ogden Honors College, Fellowships division (Fall 2016–present)
Memoria Press Online Academy
Teacher (2016—present)
Classes: Traditional Logic I (Fall 2016)
Traditional Logic II (Spring 2017)
Informal Fallacies (Spring 2017)
United States Army / Louisiana National Guard
Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Officer (Active: 2008–2013; NG 2013–present)
Served as platoon leader, company executive office, operations officer, plans officer
Currently: Officer Candidate School (OCS) instructor
Louisiana National Guard – Officer Candidate School
Instructor of Military Science (2013—present)
Subjects taught: just war theory, ethics, law of war, political stability, and military history
Rank: Captain (O-3)
Recommendations
Cecil Eubanks (PhD) – Professor of Political Theory at LSU
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James Stoner (PhD) – Professor of Political Theory at LSU
[email protected]
William Clark (PhD) – Professor of Comparative Politics at LSU
[email protected]
Glenn Moots (PhD) – Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Northwood University
[email protected]