Gordon Dakota Arnold

As a student at Regent University, I gained a deep passion for political philosophy and the American political tradition. My graduation in 2017 left me with the desire to pursue a career in academia and to build a life as a professor and educator. Upon the completion of Hillsdale College’s Ph.D. program, I hope to gain a job at a Christian college and to instill students with the same love of American politics and political philosophy that have so enriched my own life.

As a scholar, I am most interested in the American political tradition, the Founding Constitutional Conservatism, the Progressive Movement, Presidential Politics, and Christian political philosophy. A key theme of my research and writing involves the frequent intersection between Christianity and politics in the American political tradition. Because America is a land blessed with a great Christian heritage, it is a subject of which I believe I will never fully exhaust or grow weary.