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Christopher Utter Professorial Lecturer SPA | Government

Degrees
B.A. St. John's College, 2006

M.A. Georgetown University, 2015

Ph.D. Georgetown University, 2015

Bio
Christopher Utter is Associate Director of the Lincoln Scholars program and term professorial lecturer in the Department of Government in the School of Public Affairs at American University. He regularly teaches courses in the Lincoln Scholars program as well as upper level political theory courses. His research focuses mainly on classical political philosophy with a particular interest in the problem of theory and practice in Plato and Aristotle.
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • GOVT-105 Indiv Freedom vs Auth

  • GOVT-205 Political Theory: Issues/Texts

  • GOVT-405 Modern Political Thought

  • GOVT-406 American Political Thought

Summer 2025

  • GOVT-105 Indiv Freedom vs Auth

  • GOVT-109 Summer Scholars Topics: Political Action & Public Pol

Fall 2025

  • CORE-105 Complex Problems Seminar: Imagining the Good Life

  • CORE-106 Complex Problems Seminar: The Examined Life

  • GOVT-205 Political Theory: Issues/Texts

  • GOVT-211 Roots of Political Economy