Bradley C.S. Watson
Adjunct Fellowbwatson@ashbrook.org
Bradley C.S. Watson is Fellow in Politics and Culture at the Center for Economic and Policy Education and an Associate Professor of Political Science at Saint Vincent College. His teaching areas include political philosophy and American political thought and institutions. He directs the Center’s Government and Political Education Lecture Series, its annual Civitas Forum on Principles and Policies for Public Life, and its biennial Culture and Policy Conference.
He also edits the Center’s political science publications, including Citizens and Statesmen: An Annual Review of Political Theory and Public Life. His books include Civil Rights and the Paradox of Liberal Democracy (Lexington, 1999) and Courts and the Culture Wars (2002). He has written in a wide variety of professional and general interest forums, including Armed Forces and Society, Encarta ncyclopedia, Modern Age, and Perspectives on Political Science.
He is a contributor to Rethinking the Constitution (Oxford, 1996). His current research interests are both theoretical and practical, including liberalism and communitarianism, Western political thought and the American regime, Progressive jurisprudence, and immigration law and policy. He has recently written, spoken, or given media interviews on each of these topics.
He is an Adjunct Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, and the John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the Military Graduate Program of Norwich University in Vermont. He has been Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Claremont McKenna College in California and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Norwich, and has practiced as a civil litigation lawyer in Vancouver, Canada.
In addition to institutional awards, Watson has received fellowships from numerous national and international organizations, including the Heritage Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the John Templeton Foundation, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. He was educated in Canada at the University of British Columbia, where he received a B.A. in economics and political science, and at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law, where he received an LL.B. (J.D.); in Belgium at the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Louvain, where he received an M.Phil.; and in the United States at the Claremont Graduate University, where he received an M.A. and a Ph.D. with concentrations in political philosophy and American government.
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