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Dr. Christine J. Boor (neé Basil)

Vilma György Pallos Chair in Classical and Liberal Education & Associate Professor in the Honors College,

Honors College

christineboor@bac.edu

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Meet Dr. Christine J. Boor

OF NOTE:
I’m an alumna of Belmont Abbey’s Honors Institute.

KNOWN FOR:
My love of Aristotle and Nutella.

WHEN NOT IN THE CLASSROOM, CAN OFTEN BE FOUND:
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu & Playing the Guitar.

Classes

Examples of the classes taught by Dr. Christine J. Boor:

Undergraduate:

Plato & Aristophanes
Aristotle’s Ethics & De Anima
Love, Friendship, & Marriage
Early Modern Thought
Trivium II
Poetic Wisdom III
Greek Histories
American Political Thought
History & The Idea of Progress
Senior Thesis

Graduate:

Great Books in Liberal Education
Pedagogy
Rhetoric
The Quarrel Between Poetry & Philosophy

Education

B.A.: Belmont Abbey College, Department of Government and Political Philosophy, summa cum laude, May, 2011. Minor in Mathematics.
M.A.: Baylor University, Department of Political Science, May 2013.
Ph.D.: Baylor University, Department of Political Science, May 2017

Representative Publications and Presentations

Articles

“Mark Twain’s Joan of Arc: An American Woman?” coauthored with Rachel K. Alexander. Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy Spring 2018.
Justice Speaks: Nemesis, Rhetoric, and Nature in Aristotle’s Rhetoric. Under Review. Review of Politics.
Review of “Robert Bartlett, Aristotle’s Art of Rhetoric: Translated and with an Interpretive Essay. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019.” 2021. Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy.

Works In Progress

Shame’s Speech: Defending the Beautiful in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.

Academic Conferences

Participant, “America in the Republican Tradition,” Jack Miller Center Summer Institute, Philadelphia, PA, June 2019.
“Shame’s Speech: Defending the Beautiful in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Paper to be presented at the annual meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada, November 2018.
“Anger’s Poetry: Aristotle’s Homeric Treatment of Anger in the Rhetoric.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2018.
“Justice Speaks: Nemesis, Rhetoric, and Nature in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 2018.
Panelist, “Defending the Constitution: The Federalist,” Alexander Hamilton Institute, Clinton, NY, June 2017.
“Anger’s Deliberation: Anger, Deliberation, and the Problem of One’s Own in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, January 2017.
Participant, “The Scottish Enlightenment,” co-sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Liberty Fund, Inc., Mecosta, MI, April 2016.
Panelist, “Churchill and De Gaulle: Statesmanship in a Democratic Age,” Alexander Hamilton Institute, Clinton, NY, June 2015.
Participant, “Shakespeare and Plutarch: Liberty and Tyranny,” co-sponsored by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Liberty Fund, Inc., Mecosta, MI, April 2015.
“Passion’s Judgments in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2015.
“Shame and the Power of Beauty in Aristotle’s Rhetoric.” Paper presented at meeting sponsored by the Von Hildebrand Legacy Project, Steubenville, OH, October 2015.
Panelist, “Alexis de Tocqueville,” Alexander Hamilton Institute, Clinton, NY, June 2014.
“Aristotle and the Art of Living in the Nicomachean Ethics.” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, November 2013.
Participant, Hertog Political Studies Program, Washington, DC, Summer 2011.