• Harvard University, Ph.D. in Government, 1989
• Harvard University, A.M. in Government, 1985
• York University, M.A. in Political Science, 1982
• York University, B.A. in Political Science, 1981

Monographs

• Plato Through Homer: Poetry and Philosophy in the Cosmological Dialogues (University of Missouri Press, 2003) 

• Plato’s Political Philosophy: Prudence in the Republic and the Laws (University of Missouri Press, 1991)
  • Selected as an Outstanding Academic Book by Choice (1993)

Edited Volumes

• Politics, Philosophy, Writing: Plato’s Art of Caring for Souls (University of Missouri Press, 2001)

Journal Articles

• "Politics, religion, and love’s transgression: The political philosophy of Romeo and Juliet," Philosophy and Literature, 43/1 (2019), 11-37.
• “‘Expel the barbarian from your heart:’ Intimations of the Cyclops in Euripides’ Hecuba,” Philosophy and Literature, 42/2 (2018), 403-415.
• "Aristophanic Themes in Plato's Republic: A Post-Voegelinian Reading," Political Science Reviewer 41 (2017): 1-32.
• "The Gad; or, Prolegomena to a double bill," Brock Review 13 (2016/17): 1-23.
• "Drowning Ulysses: Saving Levi from Agamben's Remnant," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 33/2 (2014): 53-86. 
• "Plato Reconsidered: Planinc – Rhodes Correspondence," Voegelinview (May 2014)
• "Plato's Critique of 'Platonism' in the Sophist and Statesman," Voegelinview (October 2013).
• "La forma literària i dialògica de les imatges del sol, la línia i la caverna de La república de Plató," trans B. Torres, Anuari de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia 24 (2013): 157-180.
• "The Uses of Plato in Voegelin's Philosophy," Voegelinview (April 2013).
• "Shakespeare's Critique of Machiavellian Force, Fraud, and Spectacle in Measure for Measure,” Humanitas 23 (2010): 144-168.
• "Experiències equivalents de simbolització en Plató i Homer," trans B. Torres, Anuari de la Societat Catalana de Filosofia 19 (2008): 133-39.
• "Reading The Merchant of Venice with Adorno," Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory 8 (2007): 20-41.
• “Ascending with Socrates: Plato’s Use of Homeric Imagery in the Symposium,” Interpretation 31 (2004): 325-50.
• “‘... this scattered kingdom’: A Study of King Lear,” Interpretation 29 (2001): 171-185.
• “‘It begins with Pyrrhus’: The Political Philosophy of Hamlet,” Hamlet Studies 20 (1998): 35-49.
• “Fearful Symmetry: Pierre Trudeau and George Grant on Justice, Technology and Quebec,” Brock Review 5 (1996): 3-34.
• "Eric Voegelin's 'Structures of Consciousness' Lecture: A Critical Edition," Voegelin Research News 2/3 (1996).
• "Explanation in Political Science: The Uses of Thomas Kuhn's Paradigm Theory." Brock Review 1 (1992): 6-28.
• “Family and Civil Society in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right,” History of Political Thought 12 (1991): 305-16.
• "Should Imprisoned Criminals have a Constitutional Right to Vote?" Canadian Journal of Law and Society 2 (1987): 153-164.
• "Marx on Epicurus: Much Ado About Nothing," Dionysius 9 (1987): 111-145. 
• "Ideology and Virtue: A Critical Discussion of MacIntyre's Moral Philosophy," Political Science Reviewer 14 (1984): 91-132.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

• “Socrates and the Cyclops: Plato’s Critique of ‘Platonism’ in the Sophist and Statesman,” Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy Vol. XXXI, eds. Gary M. Gurtler, S.J. & William Wians (Leiden: Brill, 2015), 159-217.
• "Tracking the Good in Plato's Republic," in Hunting and Weaving: Empiricism and Political Philosophy, editors, J. von Heyking and T.W. Heilke (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2013), 154-178.
• Editor: Eric Voegelin, “Structures of Consciousness,” in The Drama of Humanity and other miscellaneous papers, 1939-1985, Vol. 33 of Voegelin’s Collected Works, editors, W. Petropulos and G. Weiss (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2004), 351-383.
• “The Significance of Plato’s Timaeus and Critias in Eric Voegein’s Philosophy,” in Politics, Order and History: Essays on the Work of Eric Voegelin, editors, G. Hughes, S.A. McKnight and G. Price (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2000), 327-375.
• “Paradox and Polyphony in Grant’s Critique of Modernity,” in George Grant and the Future of Canada, editor, Y.K. Umar, (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 1992), 17-45.
• "Technology and Justice: A Round Table Discussion," with E. Andrew, in By Loving Our Own: George Grant and the Legacy of “Lament for a Nation, editor, P. Emberley, (Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1990), 175-187.