Assistant Professor of Political Science. Ph.D., Yale University, 2009.
Steve Engel joined the Marquette faculty in the fall of 2009 after completing his Ph.D. in political science at Yale University. He holds an interdisciplinary Master of Arts in Social Thought from New York University and a Bachelor of Arts in multidisciplinary social studies from Wesleyan University.
Steve’s research interests include American political development, constitutional development, inter-branch relations, and social movements, particularly issues around gay and lesbian mobilization for social change.
He is currently working on a book manuscript and various shorter pieces assessing how and why inter-branch hostilities, particularly elected branch manipulations of the federal judiciary, have changed over time since the founding of the United States.
A copy of his CV can be downloaded here.
Steve is an avid skier and is an amateur chef. He hopes to go to culinary school one day.
In the Fall of 2009, Steve is teaching Introduction to American Politics (POSC 2201) and Constitutional Law and Constitutional Development (POSC 4241)
In the Spring of 2010, Steve is teaching Introduction to American Politics (POSC 2201) and Constructing Rights and Liberties in/as American Politics (POSC 4251)
The Unfinished Revolution: Social Movement Theory and the Gay and Lesbian Movement. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Synopsis: The Unfinished Revolution compares the post-Second World War histories of the American and British gay and lesbian movements with an eye toward understanding how distinct political institutional environments affect the development, strategies, goals, and outcomes of a social movement. Stephen M. Engel utilizes an eclectic mix of source materials ranging from the theories of Mancur Olson and Michel Foucault to Supreme Court rulings and film and television dialogue. The two case study chapters function as brief historical sketches to elucidate further the conclusions on theory and whilst being politically-oriented, they also examine gay influence and expansion into mainstream popular culture. The book also includes an appendix that surveys and assesses the analytical potential of five critical understandings of social movements: the classical approach, rational choice, resource mobilization, new social movement theories, and political opportunity structures. It will be of value to academics and students of sociology, political science, and history.
“Before the Countermajoritarian Difficulty: Regime Unity, Loyal Opposition, and Hostilities toward Judicial Authority in Early America,” Studies in American Political Development (forthcoming Fall 2009)
“Political Education in/as the Practice of Freedom: A Paradoxical Defense from the Perspective of Michael Oakeshott.” Journal of the Philosophy of Education 41 (September 2007).
“Organizational Identity as a Constraint on Strategic Action.” Studies in American Political Development 21 (Spring 2007).
“Marketing Everyday Life: The Postmodern Commodity Aesthetic of Abercrombie & Fitch.” Advertising & Society Review 5 (October 2004).
“Microcosms of Modernism: Understanding Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Urban Planning within the Dissolution of the Cartesian Project.” Journal of Graduate Liberal Studies 6 (Fall 2000).
“Attacking the ‘Secular Godless Humanists’: How the Politics of Opposition Explains Variation in Presidential Relations with Judicial Authority” in Judiciary Under Siege: Courts, Politics, and the Public. Bruce Peabody, ed. (Johns Hopkins University Press, forthcoming 2010).
“History of Racial Politics in the US” in Racism, Xenophobia, and Redistribution: A Study of Multi-Issue Politics in Advanced Democracies. 2007. John Roemer et. al. Cambridge: Harvard University Press and Russell Sage.
“Making a Minority: Understanding the Formation of the Gay and Lesbian Movement in the US.” 2002. Handbook of Gay and Lesbian Studies. Diane Richardson and Steven Seidman, eds. London: Sage.
Sappers, Oligarchs, Activists, and Godless Humanists: The Long Tradition of Politicians’ Hostilities toward Courts and Judges (book manuscript currently under review with Cambridge University Press)
The Schizophrenic Citizen: An APD-Perspective on Sexuality Politics in the United States
The Court’s Democratic Deference: Democratic Constitutionalism, Judicial Majoritarianism, and Moral Politics in an Era of High Partisanship
Platforms and Ideological Change in Republican Politics (with Julia Azari, Marquette University)
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