Dissertation Defense: Brian Wolfel

The oral doctoral examination of Brian Wolfel, candidate for the PhD degree  will be held on Friday, November 12, 2021 at 12:00 p.m. in Zoom.

Wolfel’s advisor is Professor Margaret Thompson. The dissertation examining committee will be composed of Professors Dennis Rasmussen, Glyn Morgan, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn and Hossein Bashiriyeh. Professor Alan Allport will serve as chair of the defense. The title of the candidate’s dissertation is: “American Transcendentalism Contra Contemporary Political Philosophy: Applications of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson to Liberal Democratic Capitalism, Platonism, Islamism, Technology, and the “End of History”.”