Elizabeth Corey, Ph.D.

Education

• Ph.D., Political Science, Louisiana State University, 2004
• M.A., Political Science, Louisiana State University, 2001          
• University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2000-2001
• M.A., Art History, Louisiana State University, 1999
• B.A., Classics, Oberlin College, 1994
• Junior Year Abroad, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, 1993

Biography

Elizabeth Campbell Corey, Ph.D., joined the Honors Program’s faculty in 2007 and has served as Director since 2015. She earned a B.A. in Classics from Oberlin College, an M.A. in art history from Louisiana State University (LSU), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from LSU. In 2006, she published Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics at the University of Missouri Press. She writes for First Things and serves on the board of the Institute on Religion and Public Life. She has also published in The Atlantic, The Chronicle of Higher Education, National Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and in a variety of scholarly journals. Her book about liberal education and the affections, The Heart of Learning will be published by Basic Liberty in early 2027.

Selected Writings

• “A Quiet Refusal to Compromise” in Law and Liberty, February 9, 2026.
• “Refuting John Dewey,” in Law and Liberty, January 14, 2026.
• “On the Pleasure of Admiring,” in First Things, February 2026.
• “Writing on the Range,” in World Magazine, August 14, 2025.
• “Oakeshott, Liberal Education, and Civil Association,” in the Online Library of Liberty, Liberty Fund, October 8, 2024.
• “The Professoriate’s Politics Problem: Conservatives are rare in academe. Does it matter?” in The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 4, 2024.
• “Timeless testimony from the Middle Ages,” in World, September 1, 2024.
• “Michael Oakeshott’s Life of Reflection,” in Law and Liberty, June 25, 2024.
• “Ordinary Time,” in Public Discourse, March 25, 2024.
• “Consolations of Middle Age,” in First Things, January 2024.
• “Michael Oakeshott’s Conservative Disposition” in Public Discourse, July 11, 2022.
• “The Perils of Public Writing,” in National Affairs, Spring 2022.
• “Oakeshott’s Countercultural Education,” in Law and Liberty, November 16, 2021.
• “T is for Timeless,” in First Things, November 2021.
• “Indoctrination Sessions Have No Place in the Academy,” with Jeff Polet, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, October 5, 2021.
• “Breakfast at Kim’s,” in First Things, May, 2021.
• “Questioning Cultural Humility,” in National Affairs, Winter 2021.
• “Everyone Loses the Culture Wars,” in Law and Liberty, October 30, 2020.
• “Civility in War-Time,” in Law and Liberty, October 1, 2020.
• “Work-Life Conflict Can’t Be Solved—and That’s a Good Thing,” with Yael Chatav Schonbrun, in The Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2020.
• “My Recipe Binder,” in First Things, June-July 2020.
• “Notes on Summer Camp,” in First Things, December 2019.
• “Achievement and the Christian Life,” published by the American Enterprise Institute, November 2019. 
•  “Against Campus Activism,” in Real Clear Policy, August 1, 2019. 
• “The University Has No Purpose,” in The Chronicle of Higher Education Review, May 25, 2018. (modification of National Affairs piece, below)
•  “Defending Disinterest,” in National Affairs, Spring 2018. 
• “The Conservative Disposition in a Revolutionary Age,” in Modern Age, April 2017, pp. 43-52. 
• “A More Moderate Diversity,” in National Affairs, Spring 2017, pp. 115-128. 
• “Learning to Play,” in First Things, October 2016, pp. 19-21. 
• “Learning in Love,” in First Things, April 2014, no. 242, pp. 41-46. 
• “No Happy Harmony,” in First Things, October 2013, no. 236, pp. 47-52. 
• “A Skeptical View of Integralism,” in Nova et Vetera (The English Edition of the International Theological Journal), vol. 21, no. 3, Summer 2023, pp. 919-941.
• “Law and Contingency: Michael Oakeshott and The German Historical School,” in Collingwood and British Idealism Studies, vol. 2, no. 2, 2016, pp. 299-318.
• “Rationalism and the Rule of Law: Michael Oakeshott and the American Constitutional Order,” in American Political Thought, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 2015, pp. 633-52.
• “The Aesthetic and Moral Character of Oakeshott’s Educational Writings,” in Journal of Philosophy of Education, vol. 46, no. 4, November 2012, pp. 86-98.
• “Worlds of Experience: Aesthetics,” in The Cambridge Companion to Oakeshott, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 86-106. 
• “The Religious Sensibility of Michael Oakeshott,” in A Companion to Oakeshott, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012, pp. 134-50.