Eric Boyer
Assistant Professor, Social Sciences and Education
(603) 526-3432 | eboyer@colby-sawyer.edu
Joined faculty in 2008. Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota. Formerly served as a lecturer at the University of Minnesota and as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Saint Thomas University. | faculty profile
Areas of Expertise
- American Studies
- Government
- History
- Philosophy
- Violence
Research Interests
Political Theory: History of Political Thought, Political Ideologies, American Political Thought, Marx and Marx-ism, Democratic Theory
Comparative Politics: Comparative Sociopolitical Change, Democratic Transitions, African Politics
Recent Presentations / Publications
Boyer, Eric. “John Dewey and Growth as End-In-Itself.” Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal 93 (2010): 21-47.
Boyer, Eric M. “The Revolutionary Reformism of Karl Marx and John Dewey” – Paper presented to the 2011 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, January 6-8.
Boyer, Eric M. “John Dewey and Growth as End-in-Itself” – Paper presented to the 2010 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA, January 7-9.
Boyer, Eric M. “Marx's Tenth 'Despotic Demand': Education as Emancipation” - Paper presented to the 2009 New Marxian Times conference in Amherst, MA, Nov. 5-8.
Boyer, Eric M. “Making Sense of Sidney Hook” – Paper presented to the 2008 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA, January 10-12.
Boyer, Eric M. “Beyond Deweyism: Dewey on Growth” – Paper presented to the University of Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium in Minneapolis, MN, September 28, 2007.
Boyer, Eric M. “Marx on Human Emancipation" – Paper presented at the Marquette University and University of Wisconsin Political Science Conference in Milwaukee, WI, April 1, 2007.
Boyer, Eric M. “Martin Heidegger and the Conflict Between Thought and Common Sense” – Paper presented to the University of Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium in Minneapolis, MN, February 13, 2004.
Education
- PhD, Political Science, University of Minnesota - 2008
- BA, Political Science and Philosophy, Indiana University of Pennsylvania - 2001
