Home | Department | Faculty | Undergraduate Program | Graduate Program | Courses | Research | Political Science
Ellis Sandoz

Ellis Sandoz 

Office: 212 Stubbs
Office Phone: 578-2552
Eric Voegelin Institute
e-mail: esandoz@lsu.edu

Research:

Professor G. Ellis Sandoz (Dr.oec.publ., University of Munich, 1965) is Hermann Moyse, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science and a specialist in constitutionalism and political philosophy (American, European, and Russian) and analyzes problems of public policy from that perspective. He has published thirteen books (authored, edited and co-authored), including most recently The Politics of Truth and Other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic Consciousness (1999), The Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law (edited, 1993), Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805 (edited, 1991), and A Government of Laws, Political Theory, Religion and the American Founding (paperback ed., 1991); also, Political Apocalypse: A Study of Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor, Conceived in Liberty: American Individual Rights Today, The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction; co-edited A Tide of Discontent: The 1980 Elections and Their Meaning; and edited, Eric Voegelin's Thought: A Critical Appraisal, and co-authored and edited The 1984 Elections: Landslide Without a Mandate? He is a past president of the Southwestern Social Science Association and a former member of the Council of the American Political Science Association, and the Executive Council of the Southern Political Science Association. President Reagan appointed him to the National Council on the Humanities for a six year term in 1982. In 1987 he was selected to represent the United States in Italy as a Distinguished American Fellow, observing the 40th anniversary of the Fulbright Program and the Bicentennial of the U.S. Constitution. He now is Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies at LSU. In l992, Sandoz became the first political scientist to win LSU's Distinguished Research Master Award for faculty research scholarship and to receive the University Medal. In l994 he was honored by Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic, with its University Medal and Certificate for educational individual liberty in Central Europe since the Velvet Revolution of l989.

Selected Publications:

Sandoz, Ellis. 1994. "Foundations of American Liberty and Rule of Law." Presidential Studies Quarterly 24(Summer): 605-617.

Sandoz, Ellis. 1995. "Philosophical and Relisious Dimensions of the American Founding." The Intercollegiate Review 30(Spring): 27-42. 

LSU icon
Political Science Department |