Dr. Joseph S. Devaney is an Assistant Professor of Political Science in the Department of History and Political Science at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College. He graduated magna cum laude from The University of Scranton, Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he earned a B.S. in political science with minors in history and philosophy. He earned a J.D. from The Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. Following law school, Dr. Devaney earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in political theory from The Catholic University of America.

He is a recipient of the H.B. Earhart Fellowship from the H.B. Earhart Foundation (2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04), the Marguerite Eyer Wilbur Fellowship from the Russell Kirk Center for Cultural Renewal (2005-06), and the Richard M. Weaver and Salvatori (declined) Fellowships from the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (2003-04).

Dr. Devaney serves on the editorial advisory board of Anamnesis, A Journal for the Study of Tradition, Place, and ‘Things Divine’ and is former Associate Editor of The Political Science Reviewer. He is a member of the Academy of Philosophy and Letters, The Ciceronian Society, The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies, and The Philadelphia Society.

Howard Schweber joined the department in Fall 1999. He received his PhD in Government from Cornell University and an MA in History from the University of Chicago after spending five years practicing law in Seattle and San Francisco. Schweber teaches courses focusing on constitutional law and legal and political theory. He is the author of “Democracy and Authenticity” (Cambridge, 2012), “The Language of Liberal Constitutionalism” (Cambridge, 2007), “The Creation of American Common Law”(Cambridge, 2004), and “Speech, Conduct, and the First Amendment” (Peter Lang, 2003) and co-editor of “The Conservative Legacy of Antonin Scalia” (Lexington 2020) and “James Madison’s Constitution” (Kansa 2021), as well as articles, essays and book chapters on a variety of related topics. His current areas of research include comparative constitutionalism and democratic theories of representation. In addition to his position in the Political Science Department Schweber is an affiliate faculty member of the Law School the Legal Studies program, and Integrated Liberal Studies. From 2011 to 2013 he was Visiting Professor and the first Vice Provost for Academic Affairs at Nazarbayev University in Kazakhstan, and from 2013 until 2018 he served as Special Avisor to the President of NU. In 2012 he was the Australian Fulbright Distinguished Chair in American Politics; he has been a guest instructor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences (Pakistan) and delivered invited lectures in Austria, Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Jordan, and Israel.

Schweber is a regular guest on Wisconsin television and radio programs and gives frequent interviews in the local, national, and international press. He has been a contributing blogger at Huffingtonpost.com and an occasional guest blogger on other sites, operates a blog at thesecondtimeasfarce@blogspot.com and is a frequent public speaker both on and off campus. Schweber serves as the faculty advisor and coach for the UW College Mock Trial Team, the UW College Moot Court Team, and the “Sifting and Winnowing,” Wisconsin’s undergraduate politics and law journal. In 2004 he was the recipient of the William H. Kiekhoffer Award for Distinguished Teaching. He has also twice been selected as the Pi Sigma Alpha Professor of the year, has been named a Distinguished Honors Faculty member, and has received numerous other teaching awards while at Wisconsin. Earlier, while a PhD student at Cornell University, Schweber received the Stephen and Marjorie Russell Award for Outstanding Teaching, the highest award for teaching at any level awarded by the College of Arts and Sciences. He is a Leon Epstein Faculty Research Fellow and the founding editor of Constitutional Studies.

Dr. Alexander-Davey grew up in Narragansett, Rhode Island. He received a BA in Russian and ancient Greek from Amherst College, after which he spent a year as a Fulbright Fellow in St. Petersburg, Russia. He has an M.Phil. in Russian Studies from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held postdoctoral fellowships in the Political Science department at Washington University in St. Louis, in the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at University of Virginia, and in the John Marshall International Center at University of Richmond. At Campbell he teaches the History of Political Thought from the ancient to the modern period, Constitutional Law, and American National Government. He has published peer-reviewed articles on early modern English, Dutch, and French constitutionalism in journals such as History of Political Thought and Constitutional Studies. He is a co-editor with Richard Avramenko of Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times (Lexington Books, 2018). He has several other research projects on such topics as nationalism, federalism, political economy, and leadership. Dr. Alexander-Davey is a member of the Ciceronian Society, and the Simone Weil Center.