Christopher M. Duncan received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Wayne State University in 1992. He taught political theory and American politics at Mississippi State University for nine years and in his last three he coordinated The Office of Distinguished External Scholarships. He joined the Department of Political Science at the University of Dayton in 2001 as Professor and Chair. He has published two books on American political thought: The Anti-Federalists in Early American Political Thought (1995) and Fugitive Theory: Political Theory, the Southern Agrarians and America (2000). His current research agenda includes work on the relationship between religious belief and political activism in American politics and thought in a tentatively titled book: Radical Conversions: Catholicism and the Left in American Political Thought. He has also done work on welfare reform and American political culture. While at Mississippi State, he won a number of university-wide teaching awards including the John Grisham Faculty Excellence Award, the Alumni Association's Upper Division Teaching Award, and the Honors Professor of the Year. His published work has also appeared in American Political Science Review, Polity, The Review of Politics, Public Administration Review and numerous other journals.