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Portrait of Dr. Kenneth L Grasso

Dr. Kenneth L Grasso

  • Chair - Professor at Political Science, College of Liberal Arts

Service Activities

Ongoing

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, 2024 Meeting of the American Political Science Association. 2024 - Present.
  • Chair, Department of Political Science. August 2014 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, The Political Science Reviewer. 2007 - Present.
  • Vice President, Society of Catholic Social Scientists. 1999 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, The Catholic Social Science Review. 1997 - Present.
  • Research Associate, Veritas Center for Ethics in Public Life. 2016 - Present.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Meeting of the American Political Science Association. 2014 - Present.
  • Chair. August 2014 - Present.
  • Member, M.A. Thesis Proposal Committee. 2013 - Present.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Journal of Markets & Morality. 2011 - Present.

2018

  • Program Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program. 2018.

2016

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, 2016 Meeting of the American Political Science Association. 2016.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Catholic Social Science Review. June 30, 2016.

2015

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, 2015 Meeting of the American Political Science Association. 2015.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, The Political Science Reviewer. 2007 - 2015.

2014

  • Associate Chair. September 2013 - July 2014.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed Article, Journal of Church and State. 2014.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, 2014 Meeting of the American Political Science Association. 2014.
  • Chair, Lecturer’s Committee. 2012 - 2014.
  • Member, College Review Group. 2011 - 2014.
  • Member, Departmental Travel Policy Committee. 2011 - 2014.
  • Member, Political Science Core Curriculum Committee. 2005 - 2014.
  • Chair, M.A. Course Rotation Committee. 2001 - 2014.
  • Associate Chair, Texas State University Department of Political Science. September 2013 - July 2014.

2013

  • Chair, American Politics Search Committee. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed article for Journal of Markets and Morality. 2013.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Texas Lutheran University, Political Science Program. 2013.
  • Director, Liberty and Responsibility in the Political Economy of Bertrand de Jouvenel. 2013.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2013.

2012

  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book proposal for University of Kentucky Press. 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed article for The Catholic Social Science Review. 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book proposal for Cambridge University Press. 2012.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed article for Journal of Markets and Morality. 2012.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2012.
  • Director, The Idea of Liberty in the Burke-Paine Debate. 2012.
  • Member, International Relations Search Committee. 2011 - 2012.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Catholic Social Thought Book Series, Scarecrow Press. 2008 - 2012.

2011

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2011.
  • Director, Liberty and Responsibility in Jouvenel’s On Power. 2011.
  • Assistant Team Leader, Pew Study Group on Politics and Human Nature. 2001 - 2011.

2010

  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book for Lexington Books. 2010.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2010.
  • Director, Liberty and Responsibility in Jouvenel’s The Pure Theory of Politics. 2010.

2009

  • Director, Wilhem Roepke of Liberty, Responsibility, and the Crisis of our Time. 2009.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2009.
  • Member, American Political Theory Search Committee. 2008 - 2009.

2008

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2008.
  • Director, The Modern State, Civil Society and the Future of Freedom in the Thought of Robert Nisbet. 2008.
  • Member, Latin American Search Committee. 2007 - 2008.
  • Member, Public Administration/Ph.D. Program Search Committee. 2007 - 2008.

2007

  • Reviewer / Referee, Earhart Foundation. 2007.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2007.
  • Member, International Security Search Committee. 2006 - 2007.

2006

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2006.

2005

  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed article for Armed Forces & Society. 2005.
  • Director, Liberty and Responsibility in Bertrand de Jouvenel’s Sovereignty. 2005.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2005.
  • Director, Robert Nisbet on Liberty and Responsibility in Contemporary America. 2005.

2004

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2004.
  • Director, John Courtney Murray and the Problem of Religious Liberty. 2004.
  • Director, Project on American Constitutionalism. 1992 - 2004.

2003

  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book for McGill University Press. 2003.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Theology, Morality, and Public Life. 2003.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Society of Catholic Social Scientists Program, American Political Science Association. 2003.
  • Director, Nature, Reason and the Crisis of Philospphical Liberalism. 2003.

2002

  • Reviewer / Referee, Earhart Foundation. 2002.
  • Member, Best Paper Selection Committee, Southwestern Political Science Association. 2002.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism, American Political Science Association. 2002.

2001

  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book for University of Missouri Press. 2001.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism, American Political Science Association. 2001.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Annual Meeting, Pew Christian Scholars Program’s Study Group on Politics and the Problem of Human Nature. 2001.
  • Director, Jacques Maritain and the Intellectual Foundations of Democratic Government. 2001.
  • Co-Director, Christian Social Thought and Civil Society. 2001.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Annual Meeting, Pew Christian Scholars Program's Study group on Politics and the Problem of Human Nature. 2001.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Religion and the Culture of Life. 2001.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Regeneration. April 1994 - 2001.

2000

  • Chair, 2310/2320 Review Committee. 2000.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, “Catholicism and the Social Sciences.” Society of Catholic Social Scientists, and the Ave Maria School of Law. 2000.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism Program, American Political Science Association. 2000.
  • Director, The Modern State, Civil Society and the Future of Freedom in the Thought of Robert Nisbet. 2000.
  • Member, College Review Group. 1998 - 2000.

1999

  • Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee. 1999.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed article for The Review of Politics. 1999.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism Program, American Political Science Association. 1999.

1998

  • Member, Constitutional Law Search Committee. 1998.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book for Catholic University of America Press. 1998.
  • Co-Director, Christian Social Theory and the Plural Structure of Society. 1998.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism Program, American Political Science Association. 1998.
  • Editorial Review Board Member, Of the People. 1993 - 1998.

1997

  • Member, Faculty Handbook Committee. 1997.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism Program, American Political Science Association. 1997.

1996

  • Member, Department Planning Committee. 1996.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book for Allyn & Bacon. 1996.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book for Rowman & Littlefield. 1996.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed article for The Journal of Religion. 1996.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book for McGraw-Hill. 1996.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book for Rowman & Littlefield. 1996.
  • Reviewer / Referee, External Evaluator, tenure decision, Wheaton College. 1996.
  • Chair, Nominations Committee, Southwestern Political Science Association. 1996.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism Program, American Political Science Association. 1996.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism Program, American Political Science Association. 1996.

1995

  • Section Chair for Political Theory, Southwestern Political Science Association. 1995.
  • Section Chair for Political Theory, Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association. 1995.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism Program, American Political Science Association. 1995.

1994

  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book for Rowman & Littlefield. 1994.
  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism Program, American Political Science Association. 1994.

1993

  • Coordinator / Organizer, Project on American Constitutionalism Program, American Political Science Association. 1993.

1992

  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed article for Polity. 1992.

1991

  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed book prospectus for HarperCollins. 1991.
  • Reviewer / Referee, Refereed article for Polity. 1991.