Mary P. Nichols
Retired Professor of Political Science
Mary P. Nichols is Professor Emerita of Political Science at Baylor University, where she taught from 2004-2018. As Department Chair, she facilitated the establishment of the Department’s first PhD in political science in the Spring of 2005. Before coming to Baylor, she taught at Fordham University (1988-2004), as Visiting Scholar for Honors Education at the University of Delaware (1986-88), at the Catholic University of America (1978-86), at St. John’s College in Annapolis (1977-78), and at Northern Illinois University (1974-77). She held appointments as Visiting Professor of Government at Harvard University in 2000, 2002, and 2003. She is a Senior Fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, in Clinton, New York.
Professor Nichols received her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1975, writing “A Commentary on Plato's Phaedrus", under the mentorship of Joseph Cropsey, which received the Leo Strauss Dissertation Award, “for the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted in 1975 or 1976 in the field of political philosophy,” awarded by the American Political Science Association in 1977. She received her MA in American Studies from the University of Kansas and her BA from Newcomb College of Tulane University, magna cum laude, with honors in political science.
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