Ezekiel Loseke

Ph.D. Candidate

Cascade, Idaho

Assistant Professor of Instruction, Texas State University

Education

B.A. Eastern Washington University, Government, 2015

M.A. Texas State University, Political Science, 2019

M.A. Hillsdale College, Politics, 2021

“Hillsdale College was the only institution that allowed me to pursue a specialization in the American Founding... Once accepted, there were no serious alternatives.”

About

Ezekiel Loseke was born and raised in the rural town of Cascade, Idaho. Upon graduating from high school, he served four years in the United States Navy and was honorably discharged upon the completion of his enlistment. He married his wife, Jessica, in 2012. Ezekiel attended Eastern Washington University and graduated summa cum laude, and then went on to earn his Masters of Arts in Political Science from Texas State University prior to coming to Hillsdale.

Languages

Ancient Greek

German

Selected Publications

"Hume’s Watertight Door: Justice Samuel Alito’s Understanding of Religious Liberty.” In The Catholic Supreme Court Justices, Catholic University of America Press, forthcoming 2025.

“Martin Van Buren, National Parties, and the Return of the Working Man’s Guilds.” Catholic Social Science Review 28, 2023: 81-94.

“America, Biblical Religion, and Covenantalism (Review of Steven D. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City).” Catholic Social Science Review 25, 2020: 31-41.

"Atomization and 'One Man, One Vote' (MA thesis). Texas State University, 2019.

Dissertation (in progress)

The Antifederalist Party Machine (Dissertation Chair: Joseph Postell)

Conference Presentations

"The Humian Statesmanship of Samuel Alito on Religious Freedom," presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Catholic Social Scientists, Latrobe, PA, October 2024.

"Subsidiarity and the Antifederalists of New York’s Understanding of Representation," presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Catholic Social Scientists, Steubenville, OH, October 2023.

"Martin Van Buren and National Parties: The Republican Function of Meaningful Exchanges at a National Level," presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, Dallas, TX, March 2023.

"Martin Van Buren's Theory of Political Parties and Subsidiarity," presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Catholic Social Scientists, Latrobe, PA, October 2022.

"Plato's Family," presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Catholic Social Scientists, Stuebenville, OH, October 2021.

Roundtable on "Steven D. Smith’s Pagans and Christians in the City: Culture Wars from the Tiber to the Potomac," at the annual meeting of the Society for Catholic Social Scientists, Stuebenville, OH, October 2019.