Martin DeNicolo

Graduate Student and Teaching Assistant
Department of Political Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
Martin.DeNicolo@colorado.edu

Martin DeNicolo began graduate work toward his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2007.  He graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from Valparaiso University in 2007.  His research interests include political theory with an emphasis on religion and politics, identity, communitarianism, and conservatism.  Currently, he is exploring the use of the Christian virtues (faith, hope, and love) to justify and describe politics in modernity.  He has also acted as a teaching assistant for courses in both American politics and political theory.           

Working Papers: 
- "The Limits of Reason and the Necessity of Revelation: Civil Religion and the Christian Commonwealth in Hobbes's Leviathan"  

- "Liberal Hegemony and the Promise of Consociational Democracy: An Institutional Analysis of Ethnoreligious Discrimination"   

- "The Limits of National Responsibility: A Defense of Difference"