David Weeks, PhD

Endowed Chair and Fletcher Jones Professor for Citizenship and Civic Virtue, Honors College

Phone: (626) 815-5302

Email: [email protected]

Office Location: West Campus, Mary Hill Center, Room 122

David L. Weeks is the inaugural Fletcher Jones Professor for Citizenship and Civic Virtue. He previously served as an academic dean at APU for twenty-nine years, first as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and then as the founding dean of the Honors College. His primary responsibility in his new professorial role is teaching about civic virtue, the responsibilities and blessings of citizenship, and the leadership skills essential to a free people.

An Azusa Pacific University Teaching Excellence Award recipient, he continues to teach in the Honors College’s Great Books program. He co-edited The Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Possibilities (University Press of America, 1998). He has published articles and chapters in the Journal of Church and State, Christian Scholar's Review, The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Public Diplomacy Magazine, Evangelicals in the Public Square, The Handbook of Virtue Ethics, Journal of Christianity and Foreign Languages, Religion and Liberty, and The Christian College Phenomenon, as well as entries in The Milton Encyclopedia, Affirmative Action, An Encyclopedia, and The Encyclopedia of American Religion and Politics.

Weeks has served as a scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, England, and as a Heritage Foundation Salvatori fellow. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, the Louisville Institute, the Earhart Foundation, and the Jack Miller Center.

His current scholarly interests include Frederick Douglass, Augustine's Cassiciacum dialogues, and Aristotelian Prudence.

Education

• PhD, Loyola University, Chicago
• MA, Indiana State University
• BS, Indiana Wesleyan University

Academic Area

• Honors College

Expertise

• Christian Liberal Education
• Religion and Politics
• Political Philosophy
• Citizenship and Civic Virtue

Courses Taught

• HON 101 – Leadership
• HON 240 – Core I
• HON 360 – Democracy
• HON 440 – Oxbridge Tutorial I
• HON 460 – Oxbridge Tutorial II
• POLI 360 – Classical Political Thought
• POLI 363 – Modern Political Thought
• POLI 496 – Senior Seminar: Religion and Politics