Susan Hanssen is associate professor of history at the University of Dallas where she teaches American history on the Texas campus during the school year and the history of Western Civilization on the Rome campus in Italy during the summer. She has a PhD in British and American history from Rice University. She has been a fellow of the James Madison Program at Princeton University, the James Madison Memorial Fellowship at Georgetown University, and the Teaching American History program at Ashland University. Her scholarly work on Henry Adams has been published in The New England Quarterly, and on G. K. Chesterton in The Chesterton Review, The Catholic Social Science Journal, Renascence Quarterly, and Faith and Reason. Her writing has also appeared in Public Discourse, The Federalist, National Review, and Crisis Magazine. She has appeared on various media outlets including Sky News, Fox News, and EWTN. She is interested in the overlap between religious and national identity, and the virtue of patriotism.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Rice University
B.A., Boston University
RECENT COURSES
HIS 1311 American Civilization I
HIS 1311 American Civilization II
HIS 2302 Western Civilization II
HIS 3320 The British Empire
HIS 3349 Women in American History
HIS 3350 The American South
HIS 4357 History of Liberal Arts
PUBLICATIONS
"Rome in the historical imagination of G. K. Chesterton’s Everlasting Man", Church, Communication and Culture, Vol. 5, Issue 1 (2020).
"Complementarity: Lessons from the Adams Family," The Witherspoon Institute (August 24, 2015)
"Complementarity: Lessons from Little House in the Big Woods," The Witherspoon Institute (January 23, 2015)
"Religion: A Public or a Private Right?," The Witherspoon Institute, (April 17, 2013)
"'Shall We Go to Rome?'The Last Days of Henry Adams," The New England Quarterly, March 2013, Vol. 86, No. 1: 528
"The University Stands in loco parentis," in Lee Trepanier ed., The Liberal Arts in America (Cedar City, UT: Southern Utah University Press and Grace A. Tanner Center Press, 2012).
"Eccentric Education: The American Way," in Bradley C. S. Watson ed., The Idea of the American University (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2011).
"Dumb Ox at the Crossroads of English Catholicism: G. K. Chesterton, Newman, and Pascendi," Renascence Quarterly, vol. LXII, no. 1, (Fall 2009).
"'English in Spirit': G. K. Chesterton and the Debate over Church and State in the 1906 Education Act," The Catholic Social Science Review (2007).
"Thinking Chesterton Thinking Newman: English Catholic Revival and the praeambula fidei," Faith and Reason 31:4 (2006).
"G. K. Chesterton and British National Identity in World War I," in Human Traditions in Modern Britain, edited by Caroline Litzenberger and Eileen Groth Lyon, (Plymouth, UK: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2006).
"The Wildness of Domesticity: G. K. Chesterton and the Way Home," in Il Ritorno a Casa, edited by Rafael Jimnez Catao (Roma: Editione Universit della Santa Croce, 2006).
"Robert Browning," "Cecil Chesterton," "Christopher Dawson," "Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, " "C.F.G. Masterman," and "John Henry Newman," in Encyclopedia of Modern Christian Politics, edited by Roy P. Domenic and Mark Y. Hanley (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2006).