Peter Petrakis

Peter A. Petrakis (Ph.D., Louisiana State University, 1999) is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of History and Political Science, where he has been a faculty member since 1997. His publications include “Contemporary Populism and Southern Republicanism” (with Wayne Parent), American Review of Politics (1998); "Populism Left and Right: Politics of the Rural South" (with Wayne Parent), in The Rural South Since World War II, edited by R. Douglas Hurt (1999); “Reconstructing the World: Albert Camus and the Symbolization of Experience” (with Cecil Eubanks, The Journal of Politics (1999); “Legal Services in the United States: A Model for Evaluating Legal System Performance” (with Bonnie Lewis), Journal of Applied Sociology (2000); Searching for Foundations: Eric Voegelin’s Dialogue with the Postmoderns, co-editor with Cecil L. Eubanks and author of the chapter, “Voegelin and Ricoeur: Recovering Science and Subjectivity Through Representation” (2004); Searching for Foundations: Eric Voegelin’s Dialogue with the Postmoderns, co-editor with Cecil L. Eubanks and author of the chapter, “Voegelin and Ricoeur: Recovering Science and Subjectivity Through Representation” (2004); “When White Goes Right: The Old South in the 2008 Presidential Election” (with Wayne Parent and Matt Fowler, American Review of Politics (2011); and “The Poets and the Professor,” in Welcoming the Other: Student, Stranger and Divine, ed. N. Susan Laehn and Thomas R. Laehn (2021).

Area of Expertise

Dr. Petrakis teaches courses on the United States Constitution, law, and the courts; political thought from the ancient world to the present; revolutions and terrorism, and Southern politics.