Matthew Reising
Assistant Professor
Area of Expertise
Political Philosophy
Matthew K. Reising is an assistant professor in the School of Civic Leadership. His research focuses on freedom and constitutionalism in the history of political thought, from the classical and medieval world to the American colonies. His first book, Herodotus and the Birth of Freedom, is forthcoming through Edinburgh University Press. His articles have won various awards and appeared in multiple academic journals, including The Thomist, The Journal of Politics, Polity, American Political Thought, and Polis. He was previously a John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow with the James Madison Program at Princeton University and the assistant director of the Zavala Program for Constitutional Studies at Baylor University, where he also received his Ph.D. in political science.