Thomas Powers
- Associate Professor of Great Ideas and Political Science
Tom Powers teaches Constitutional Law and Religion and Politics at Carthage. He is a member of both the Political Science Department and the Great Ideas Program. His work related to the legal field explores the interrelationships between political theory and constitutional law in particular. He has published scholarly works on anti-discrimination politics, civil liberties and the war on terror, and the religion clauses of the First Amendment. He is finishing a book on American civil rights politics, titled "American Multiculturalism and the Anti-Discrimination Regime: The Transformation of Liberal Pluralism."
In 2010 an article he wrote on the religion clauses of the First Amendment was published in a scholarly edited volume (Catholic University of America Press) and another article he wrote (on John Locke) was selected for publication in the refereed proceedings of the Association for Core Texts and Courses. He came to Carthage in 2008 from the University of Minnesota-Duluth. Read more.
Education
- Ph.D. — Political Science, University of Toronto
- M.A. — Political Science, University of Toronto
- B.A. — Political Science, University of Chicago
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