Khalil Habib
Politics, Van Andel Graduate School of Statesmanship

Khalil Habib

Associate Professor of Politics, Allison and Dorothy Rouse Professor in Politics

Faculty Information

Additional Faculty Information for Khalil Habib

Education

Ph.D., Boston University, 2005
M.A., University of Toronto, 1997
B.A., University of Maine, 1996

Awards, Memberships, & Fellowships

Summer Institute on Medieval Political Philosophy
National Endowment for the Humanities, 2014
Earhart Fellowship, 2001–2003

Courses Taught

POL 101: U.S. Constitution
POL 211: Classical Political Philosophy
POL 416 / 504: Modern Political Philosophy and Literature
POL 604: Early Modern Political Philosophy
POL 724: Tocqueville

Select Publications

“Plague and Empire in Thucydides’s The Peloponnesian War,” in Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters: Reflections of Political Theory from Antiquity to the Age of COVID, ed. Lee Trapanier. Routledge, 2022.

“Persecution and the Art of Freedom: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Importance of Free Press and Free Speech in Democratic Society,” Social Philosophy & Policy 37, no. 2 (Winter 2020)

Symposium on Montesquieu: “The Oracle Explained,” Perspectives on Political Science, Volume 49. no. 3, 137-141, (Winter, 2020)

“Petrarch’s Humanistic Revolution” in New Criterion (October 2020)
The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom. Edited with L. Joseph Hebert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018.

Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization: Citizens Without States. Edited with Lee Trepanier. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2011.

“The Bastard: Honor, Integrity, and the need for Nations in King John.” In The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom. 117-40. Ed. Khalil Habib and L. Joseph Hebert. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018).

“Christianity and Western Civilization: An Introduction to Christopher Dawson’s Religion and the Rise of Western Culture.” The Political Science Reviewer 41, no. 2 (2017): 164-89.

Biography

Dr. Khalil M Habib is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College, where he teaches political philosophy and American political thought. Dr. Habib has co-edited two books, The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom, and Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization: Citizens Without States.