GREG WEINER, PhD
Political Scientist
Weiner's research and teaching interests include the political theory of the Constitution, the political thought of James Madison, civil liberties and the role of the Supreme Court.
Winner of the nationally awarded Jack Miller Center's Chairman's Prize for the best dissertation in American Political Thought, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Political Theory Project at Brown University and has taught at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities.
Weiner's research and teaching are informed by the several years he spent as a high-level aide and consultant in national politics, including serving as Communications and Policy Director to U.S. Senator Bob Kerrey, D-Nebraska, and as founder of the Washington, D.C.-based speechwriting firm Content Communications, LLC.
In addition to papers on the political thought of James Madison, he is also working on a book—under contract to the University Press of Kansas—on the political thought of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the late political scientist and U.S. Senator from New York.
"Greg Weiner’s meticulous and felicitously written scholarship illuminates a great constant in Madison’s long career—an interest in institutional architecture to increase the likelihood that majority rule, which is inevitable, will be reasonable." George F. Will