Robert Adcock
Title — Assistant Professor of Political Science
Office — Monroe 416
Office Hours — R 10:00am-12:00pm
Phone — (202) 994-6286
E-mail — adcockr@gwu.edu
Areas of Expertise —
19th and 20th century Anglo-American political and social thought; history of liberalism; history and philosophy of social science; qualitative and interpretive methodologies
Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2007
Background
Professor Adcock's teaching interests as a political theorist span western thought from the ancient Greeks to contemporary debates, while his research centers on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Anglo-American thought, specifically the history, philosophy, and methods of the social sciences, and their relationship to the evolution of liberalism.
Publications
He is an editor of Modern Political Science: Anglo-American Exchanges since 1880 (Princeton University Press, 2007), and has published in the American Political Science Review, History of Political Thought, the Journal of Theoretical Politics, and elsewhere.