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Michael A. Gillespie

Michael A. Gillespie CV

Professor of Political Science
Political Science
mgillesp@gmail.com
Box 90204, Durham, NC 27708-0204
204G Gross Hall, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708
Office hours By appointment.  
CV

Research Interests

Finishing a sequel to The Theological Origins of Modernity
An essay on Rhetoric and Poetry in Plato's Republic

Selected Grants

Constitution Day Grant

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Jack Miller Center · 2025 - 2026

Constitution Day 2023

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Jack Miller Center · 2023 - 2024

The John Locke Project for the Visions of Freedom Living Learning Community

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Jack Miller Center · 2020 - 2023

Constitution Day 2022

ConferencePrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Jack Miller Center · 2022 - 2022

A Constitution Day Celebration at Duke University

Inst. Training Prgm or CMEPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Jack Miller Center · 2015 - 2016

The Duke Program in American Values and Institutions

Institutional SupportPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 2004 - 2010

NEH Summer Institute (1994): Plato and the Polis

ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 1993 - 1994

Ratifying the Constitution: Ideas and Interests in the Several American States

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities · 1986 - 1988