In addition to teaching core courses in the PTCD major, Dr. Craig is Director of MSU’s ‘Science, Technology, Environment, and Public Policy’ minor. His scholarship focuses on the origins of modern science and technology and the relationship between science, technology, and democracy. He is the winner of an NEH ‘Enduring Questions’ course development grant and is a past Seminar Instructor for both the Hudson and Hertog Political Studies Programs.
Dr. Petrie has taught courses in the Theory and Practice of American Liberal Democracy, Classical Political Philosophy and the first-year writing program. He received a 1994 Olin Research Fellowship in Political Theory and an MSU Teacher - Scholar Award in 1997. Dr. Petrie’s dissertation, Aristotle's Liberalism: Political Virtue and Its Restraints, won the Toppan prize at Harvard University. He has published on Aristotle, constitutional democracy and Vladimir Nabokov.
Dr. Wolf specializes in the history of political thought with a focus on the Scottish and French Enlightenments, liberalism, moral judgment, and the interaction between economics and politics. In addition to teaching in the first year program, the PTCD field, and the Political Economy (PE) minor, she serves as Director of the PE minor. She has published on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Friedrich Hayek and this work can be found in History of Political Thought, Review of Politics, Polity, The Political Science Reviewer and edited volumes. Dr. Wolf is currently at work on a book length study of the role of taste in solving problems in the liberal tradition in the thought of David Hume, Rousseau, Smith, and Tocqueville titled “Beyond Rights and Price: Liberalism with Taste.” She is also working on other projects analyzing the connections between the history of political and economic thought. Dr. Wolf was awarded a grant for, founded, and directs the Fife Fellowship Program in Political Economy and Constitutional Democracy for undergraduate students at JMC. Dr. Wolf has also taught in high-school teacher and student programming both at Ashland University and at Michigan State.
Dr. Cash’s teaching and scholarship focuses on American constitutionalism, institutions, and political thought. He is the author of The Isolated Presidency (Oxford University Press, 2024) and Adding the Lone Star: John Tyler, Sam Houston, and the Annexation of Texas (University Press of Kansas, 2024), as well as the co-editor of Congressional Deliberation: Major Debates, Speeches, and Writings, 1774-2023 (Hackett Publishing, 2024) and Constitutionalism and Liberty: Essays in Honor of David K. Nichols (Lexington Books, 2025). He is currently working on a book concerning the constitutional logic of Congress and editing a two-volume series of The Political Writings of Thomas Jefferson (under contract with Cambridge University Press). Apart from his research and undergraduate teaching, Dr. Cash organized and directed summer seminars for high school and middle school teachers at both Baylor University and MSU, receiving grants to fund both programs, and has been an instructor in other teacher programs held in Virginia, Texas, Illinois, and Wisconsin. He has also worked with high school students by serving as a judge for the We the People civic education competition, teaching in the PRIME program JMC conducts for high school students, and in the MSU Warrior-Scholars program for college-bound veterans.
Dr. Lorch specializes in classical political philosophy. In addition to contributing to the PTCD field and MSU Jewish Studies program, he regularly teaches courses on statesmanship, including Political Leadership in the Twentieth Century, War and Political Philosophy, and seminars on the statesmanship and political thought of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. He has led the curricular revision of the college’s first year experience and chaired the college’s team-taught Introduction to Public Affairs course for first semester freshmen, and he regularly serves as the faculty instructor for the college’s Early Start Program for first-generation college students, and teaches in the MSU Warrior-Scholar program for college-bound veterans.