Dr. Ethan Alexander-Davey

Biography

Dr. Alexander-Davey grew up in Narragansett, Rhode Island. He received a BA in Russian and ancient Greek from Amherst College, after which he spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has an M.Phil. in Russian Studies from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held postdoctoral fellowships in the Political Science department at Washington University in St. Louis, in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at University of Virginia, and in the John Marshall International Center at University of Richmond. At Campbell he teaches the History of Political Thought from the ancient to the modern period, Constitutional Law, and American National Government. He has published peer-reviewed articles on early modern English, Dutch, and French constitutionalism in journals such as History of Political Thought and Constitutional Studies. He is a co-editor with Richard Avramenko of Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times (Lexington Books, 2018). He has several other research projects on such topics as nationalism, federalism, political economy, and leadership. Dr. Alexander-Davey is a member of the Ciceronian Society, and the Simone Weil Center.