PETER DENNIS BATHORY, Chair, received his B.A. from Oberlin College and his Ph.D. from Harvard, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He is a Director of the Institute for the Study of Civic Values, and a consultant to the New Jersey Center for the Humanities. He was a Fulbright Senior Lecturer in Yaounde, Cameroon in 1983 and an NEH Mellon lecturer at Princeton in 1987. His main interests are political theory, with special emphasis on classical and medieval thought, and the problems of political leadership and statecraft. He is currently revising his work on Augustine for a second edition and has finished a project on Shakespeare and Roman Republicanism. Finally, his work on the political thought of Alexis de Tocqueville continues with a book length manuscript on Tocqueville on the foundations of democratic politics in the planning stages. His publications include:

"Political Theory and the People's Right to Know," in Government Secrecy in Comparative Perspective (l975); Leadership in America: Consensus, Corruption and Charisma (l978); "The Nature of Leadership," with W. C. McWilliams (Council for Religion and International Affairs, l979); "Tocqueville on Faith and Politics," Political Theory, (1980); Political Theory as Public Confession: The Social and Political Thought of St. Augustine (1981); "Moral Ties and Political Freedom in Tocqueville's New Science of Politics," in Tocqueville's Political Science (1992); "With Himself at War: Shakespeare's Roman Hero and the Republican Tradition" (1996); Friends and Citizens: Essays in Honor of Wilson Carey McWilliams, (2002)