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Professor Elizabeth Busch: Christopher Newport University

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2010
Statue of Sir Christopher Newport

Christopher Newport

Protecting liberty is the perpetual task of an engaged citizenry.

“Students need to think about the meaning of liberty so they can appreciate the sacrifices that have been made in the past and those that will be needed to protect that liberty in perpetuity,” says Professor Elizabeth Busch, who along with her husband, Professor Nathan Busch, are the founders and directors of the Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University in Newport News, Va.

“The study of America’s foundations inspires the healthy intellectual exchange of ideas

that, as Tocqueville observed, is necessary for the protection of individual liberty,” says Busch. “The defense of America—what it is and what it should be—depends upon the ability of citizens to form a coherent vision and understanding of America. Such a vision can only be achieved after one has thought critically about America’s experiment in democracy, self-governance, and individual liberties.”

The Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University is one of the 34

Elizabeth Kaufer-Busch

Elizabeth Kaufer-Busch

Partner Programs supported by the Jack Miller Center across the United States. Many of the programs were launched with help from the Jack Miller Center. The Miller Center provides seed money for the establishment of these academic centers. Once established, JMC faculty partners take the initiative to raise additional funds to grow their program, with the Miller Center providing ongoing support for development of academic programs.

“These academic centers have institutionalized the study of America’s founding and have often become major players in the development of the core curricula, academic programs and in the hiring of university faculty. The Jack Miller Center’s annual center-building conferences provide invaluable insight into what it takes to get an academic center up and running and how to identify fundraising opportunities,” explains Professor Elizabeth Busch.

After garnering seed money from the Miller Center, Elizabeth and Nathan Busch applied for and received a $500,000 “We the People” Challenge Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. “The drafting of our successful proposal was inspired by the lessons learned during the Miller Center Summer Institute and the center-building conferences,” Elizabeth Busch says.

Professor Busch has recently published an edited volume exploring contemporary American life entitled Democracy Reconsidered as well as an article on the recent history of Feminism and popular culture: Ally McBeal to Desperate Housewives: a brief history of the postfeminist heroine.(Report)


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Miller Center Network Publications

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

The Jack Miller Center wants to congratulate the members of our JMC network who have published a book length manuscript in the last calendar year. Few accomplishments are as meaningful and lasting for authors, and those who read them.

The list also is a demonstration of the broad intellectual interests of our network. Although many directly address America’s Founding and History, the list includes subjects and authors that compose the intellectual, historical, and political resources the American Founders drew upon as well as current events that are of interest to all of us.

Nathan Busch, Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction: The Future of Non-Proliferation Policy, co-edited with Daniel H. Joyner (University of George Press, 2009)

Ross Corbett, The Lockean Commonwealth (SUNY, 2009)

Donald Critchlow, ed., Debating Conservatism (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009),  Politics and Hollywood (Routledge, 2009)

John Dinan, paperback edition of The American State Constitutional Tradition

Jonathan Dunn, From Schoolhouse to Courthouse: The Judiciary’s Role in American Education, co-edited with Martin West (Brookings Institution Press, 2009)

Robert Faulkner and Susan Shell, co-editors of American at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty (University of Michigan Press, 2009)

Michael Gillespie, paperback edition of The Theological Origins of Modernity

Allen Guelzo, Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2009), Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Ideas (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009)

William Hay, Lives of Victorian Political Figures, Part IV (William Bagehot) (Pickering and Chatto Publishers, 2009)

Louie Herbert, More than Kings and Less than Men: Tocqueville on the Promise and Perils of Democratic Individualism (Lexington Books, 2009)

Steve Kautz, The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism, co-edited with Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, Richard Zinman (Penn Press, 2009)

Christopher Kelly, Rousseau on Women, Love, and Family, co-edited with Eve Grace (University Press of New England, 2009)

Harvey Klehr, co-author of Spies: The Rise and Fall of the KGB in America (Yale University Press, 2009), The Communist Experience in America (Transaction Publishers, 2009)

Benjamin Kleinerman, The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power (2009)

Robert Koons, The Waning of Materialism: new Essays on the Mind/Body Problem, co-edited with George Bealer (Oxford University Press, 2009)

Ralph Lerner, Playing the Fool: Subversive Laughter in Troubled Times (University of Chicago Press, 2009)

Paul Rahe, Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic (Yale University Press, 2009), Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, and the Modern Prospect (Yale University Press, 2009)

Eric Sands, American Public Philosophy and the Mystery of Lincolnism (University of Missouri Press, 2009)

Brian Schoen, Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War (Johns Hopkins Press, 2009)

Colleen Sheehan, James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Susan Shell, Kant and the Limits of Autonomy (Harvard University Press, 2009)

Steven Smith, The Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss (2009)

Barry Strauss, The Spartacus War (Simon & Schuster, 2009)

Jeffrey K. Tulis, The Constitutional Presidency, co-edited with Joseph M. Bessette (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)

Gordon Wood, Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 (Oxford, 2009)

Michael Zuckert, The Anti-Federalist Writings of the Melancton Smith Circle, co-edited with Derek Webb (Liberty Fund, 2009).

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Associate Professor, Nathan Busch

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Congratulations to Nathan Busch for his successful tenure application at Christopher Newport University.

Nathan’s published work is a unique combination of political science and public policy supplemented by a deep understanding of political philosophy.

Books:
No End in Sight: The Continuing
Menace of Nuclear Proliferation
University Press of Kentucky, 2004.

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Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction:
The Future of International Nonproliferation Policy

University of Georgia Press, 2009.
(Edited, with Daniel H. Joyner)


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