Dr. Mary Sullivan
Associate Professor
Irby Hall, Suite #217
(501) 450-3412
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:
Ph.D., Political Science, Texas A&M University, 2010
B.A., Political Science, Georgetown University, 2005
COURSES:
U.S. Government & Politics
Political Theory I
Political Theory II
The American Congress
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
1. Sullivan, Mary Elizabeth. 2013. “Verbal Swordplay: The Two Swords as a Linguistic Tool in Medieval Political Writing.” Storia del Pensiero Politico, vol. 2 (3), pp. 385-406.
2. Sullivan, Mary Elizabeth. 2013. “Political Science and Paradigms in Medieval Europe.” The Midsouth Political Science Review, vol. 14, pp. 1-18.
3. Nederman, Cary J. and Mary Elizabeth Sullivan. 2012.“The Polybian Moment: The Transformation of Republican Thought from Ptolemy of Lucca to Machiavelli.” The European Legacy, vol. 17 (7), pp. 867-81.
4. Sullivan, Mary Elizabeth. 2011. “The Bond of Aristotelian Language Among Medieval Political Thinkers,” In Communities of Learning: Networks and the Shaping of Intellectual Identity 1100-1500. (Turnhout: Brepols).
5. Sullivan, Mary Elizabeth. 2010. “Democracy and the Defensor Pacis Revisited: Marsiglio of Padua’s Democratic Arguments.” Viator, vol. 41 (2) pp. 257-69.
6. Nederman, Cary J. and Mary Elizabeth Sullivan. 2008. “Reading Aristotle through Rome: History and Republicanism in Ptolemy of Lucca’s De Regimine Principum.” European Journal of Political Theory, vol. 7 (2), pp. 223-40.
7. Sullivan, Mary Elizabeth. 2007. “Justice, Temptation, and the Limits of Princely Virtue in Dante’s Conception of the Monarch,” In Princely Virtue in the Middle Ages, 1200-1500. István P. Bejczy and Cary J. Nederman, eds. (Turnhout: Breppols), pp. 123-38.