Josh Vandiver

Dr Josh Vandiver is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at The University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. He primarily teaches American and European constitutional law and political theory. His research centers on classical Greece and Rome, classical reception in modernity, and contemporary extremist movements.

A fifth-generation Coloradan, he was born in La Junta and raised in the town of Swink. He began his undergraduate education at The Colorado College, where he fell in love with the classics, medieval and Renaissance history, and the discipline of political theory. After transferring, he completed his AB in Government at Harvard College, then went on to New College, Oxford University, as the Lord Harlech Fellow before completing his MA and PhD in Politics at Princeton University.

Dr Vandiver is the departmental pre-law advisor and a member of the advisory boards of the Center for Legal Studies and the Heller Center for Arts and Humanities. He is an affiliate scholar at the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual (CSGI).