Elizabeth Corey, Ph.D.
Honors Program, Director Associate Professor of Political Science in the Honors Program
Honors Program
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
Dr. Elizabeth Corey 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. She has taught courses at Baylor on political science, great texts, and in the Baylor Interdisciplinary Core. She has earned several awards for research and teaching and was a 2016-2017 Robert Novak Journalism Fellow. Her book, Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics, and Politics, was published by the University of Missouri Press in 2006. 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. During the 2018-19 academic year she was the American Enterprise Institute’s Values and Capitalism Visiting Professor.
Selected Writings
- “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.
- “Leisure and Liberality,” Review of Why Boredom Matters, by Kevin Hood Gary, in First Things, October 2023.
- “Sexual Reform, Not Sexual Revolution,” Review of The Rights of Women: Reclaiming a Lost Vision, by Erika Bachiochi, in Modern Age, Fall 2022/Winter 2023.
- “Adventures in Reading,” Review of Before Austen Comes Aesop, in First Things, February 2023.
- “Michael Oakeshott’s Conservative Disposition” in Public Discourse, July 11, 2022.
- “The Value of Uselessness,” in Fare Forward, vol. 20, June, 2022.
- “Speaking with Generosity,” in Law and Liberty, April 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.
- “Learning in Love: Authentic Friendships and Liberal Learning,” with Margarita Mooney, in Public Discourse, May 10, 2021
- “Breakfast at Kim’s,” in First Things, May 2021.
- “Learning, Justice, and Gift,” in Public Discourse, January 10, 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.
- “Defending Disinterest,” in National Affairs, Spring 2018.
- “First Church of Intersectionality,” in First Things, August-September 2017, pp. 27-31.
- “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.
- “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 Two Great Lights: Regnum and Sacerdotium in the Salerno Ivories,” in History of Political Thought, Spring 2013, 34:1, pp. 1-18.
- “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.
- “The Purposeful Patron: Political Covenant in the Salerno Ivories,” in Viator, The Journal of UCLA’s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 40 no. 2 (Autumn 2009) pp. 55-92.
- Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Aesthetics and Politics, University of Missouri Press, 2006