Paul Franco

Paul N. Franco is a professor of government at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine and a leading authority on the British political philosopher Michael Oakeshott.

Franco holds a B.A. from Colorado College, where he studied under Oakeshott scholar Timothy Fuller, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, where he studied under Oakeshott himself, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, where his advisor was Joseph Cropsey, a friend and disciple of the controversial political philosopher Leo Strauss. Before Bowdoin, he taught at the University of Chicago as a William Rainey Harper Fellow.

Franco's articles and reviews have appeared in "The American Political Science Review", "Political Theory", "The Journal of Politics", "The Review of Politics", "Political Studies", "Ethics", and "The Political Science Reviewer".

Professor Franco delivered the Karofsky Lecture at Bowdoin College on September 6, 2007. His lecture was entitled "Friedrich Nietzsche and Liberal Education."

Books

* "The Political Philosophy of Michael Oakeshott" (Yale, 1990)
* "Hegel's Philosophy of Freedom" (Yale, 1999)
* "Michael Oakeshott: An Introduction" (Yale, 2004)