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The first duty imposed on those who now direct society is to educate democracy; to put, if possible, new life into its beliefs; to purify its mores; to control its actions; gradually to substitute understanding of statecraft for present inexperience and knowledge of its true interests for blind instincts; to adapt government to the needs of time and place; and to modify it as men and circumstances require. A new political science is needed for a world itself quite new.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America

 

CAS in the News

Center for American Awarded Major Grant by National Endowment for the Humanities.
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CAS to Co-Host First Annual Workshop on Intelligence and National Security
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The People of CAS

Leadership >>

Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch, Co-Director of CAS and
Assistant Professor of American Studies
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Dr. Nathan E. Busch, Co-Director of CAS and
Associate Professor of Government
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Dr. Michelle Vachris, BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism and
Director of CAS’s Program in the Foundations of Capitalism
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Executive Committee >>

Dr. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch, Center Director, Assistant Professor of American Studies
Dr. Nathan E. Busch, Co-Director, Associate Professor of Government
Dr. Bob Colvin, Chair of the Department of Leadership and American Studies
Dr. Phillip Hamilton, Chair and Associate Professor of History
Dr. Quentin Kidd, Chair of the Department of Government
Dr. David Polio, Assistant Professor of Classical Studies
Dr. Marsha Sprague, Professor of English and Director of the Master’s in Teaching Program
Dr. Michelle Vachris, BB&T Professor for the Study of Capitalism

The CAS Post-Doctoral Fellow >>

Jonathan White
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Junior Fellows 2009-2010 >>

Katie Davis, Political Science and American Studies double major,
U.S. National Security minor.

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