Joseph Postell (PhD, University of Dallas, 2010) is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, where he teaches courses on American political institutions, American political thought, and administrative law. His research focuses primarily on regulation, administrative law, and the administrative state. He is the editor, with Bradley C.S. Watson, of Rediscovering Political Economy.  He is currently editing a volume on constitutional conservatism during the Progressive Era and writing a book on administrative law and the theory of the administrative state.  He also contributes frequently to the Liberty Fund's "Library of Law and Liberty" website on political and legal thought. 

Email: jpostell@uccs.edu

UCCS Political Science Department

Education

Ph.D., University of Dallas, 2010
M.A., University of Dallas, 2004
B.A., Ashland University, 2001

Recent Publications

"Progressive or Postmodern? The Use and Disadvantage of 'Founders Versus Progressives,'" Perspectives on Political Science (forthcoming June 2013).

"Of Experts and Angels," Claremont Review of Books, vol. 13, no. 1 (Winter 2012/13): 29-30.

"The Anti-New Deal Progressive: Roscoe Pound's Alternative Administrative State," Review of Politics 74, no. 1 (Feb. 2012): 53-85.

"The Incredible Shrinking Presidency," Claremont Review of Books, vol. 11, no. 4 (Fall 2011): 56-57.

Rediscovering Political Economy, ed. Joseph Postell and Bradley C.S. Watson (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011).

"The Right Kind of Regulation: How the Founders thought about Regulation," in Rediscovering Political Economy, ed. Joseph Postell and Bradley C.S. Watson (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2011): 209-230.

"A Czar is Born," Claremont Review of Books, vol. 10, no. 4 (Fall 2010): 26-31.

"Regulation, Administration, and the Rule of Law in the Early Republic," in Freedom and the Rule of Law, ed. Anthony A. Peacock (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010): 41-70.

Courses

PSC 2500 - Introduction to Political Inquiry
PSC 3030 - American Political Parties
PSC 4390 - The U.S. Presidency
PSC 4020 - The U.S. Congress
PSC 4460 - Administrative Law
PSC 4890 - Special Topics: Modern American Political Thought