Morrissey, Will 1951–

PERSONAL: Born July 1, 1951, in Long Branch, NJ. Education: Kenyon College, A.B. (summa cum laude), 1973; New School University, M.A., 1998, Ph.D., 2002.

ADDRESSES: Home—1 Cedar Ct., Hillsdale, MI 49242. Office—405 Delp Hall, Box 9, Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI 49242. E-mail—will.morrissey@hillsdale.edu.

CAREER: Office of New Jersey State Senator S. Thomas Gagliano, legislative aide, 1981–89; New Jersey Transit Corp., assistant for communications in office of the executive director, 1989–90; Monmouth County Historical Commission, Freehold, NJ, executive director, 1996–2000; Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, MI, assistant professor of political science, 2000–. Guest speaker at George Mason University, University of Dallas, and Rutgers University. Rumson Planning Board, Rumson, NJ, secretary; consultant to Jersey Shore Partnership.

AWARDS, HONORS: Grant from U.S. Institute of Peace, 1990–93; citation for outstanding academic book, Choice, 1996, for A Political Approach to Pacifism; grant from Robert H. Horwitz Foundation.

WRITINGS:

Reflections on De Gaulle: Political Founding in Modernity, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1983, corrected edition, 2002.

Reflections on Malraux: Cultural Founding in Modernity, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1984.

(With Paul Eidelberg) Our Culture "Left" or "Right," Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, NY), 1992.

A Political Approach to Pacifism, two volumes, Edwin Mellen Press (Lewiston, NY), 1996.

Culture in the Commercial Republic, University Press of America (Lanham, MD), 1996.

Contributor to books, including The Moral Foundations of the American Republic, edited by Robert H. Horwitz, University Press of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA), 1986; Essays on the Closing of the American Mind, edited by Robert L. Stone, Chicago Review Press (Chicago, IL), 1989; Leo Strauss, the Straussians, and the American Republic, edited by Kenneth L. Deutsch and John A. Murley, Rowman & Littlefield (Lanham, MD), 1999; and The Moral of the Story: Literature and Public Ethics, edited by Henry T. Ed-mondson III, Lexington Books (Lanham, MD), 2000. Contributor of articles and reviews to periodicals, including Political Science Reviewer, St. John's Review, This World, Imprimis, and Social Science and Modern Society. Assistant editor, Interpretation: Journal of Political Philosophy.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Self-Government and the American Founding: Presidents of Founding and Civil War.