Tim is the Lloyd E. Worner Distinguished Service Professor, has taught at Colorado College since 1965.  He served as Acting President from August 2001 to January 2002.  Before that he was Dean of the Faculty and College from 1992 to 1999.  He chaired the Political Science Department from 1985 to 1991.  He received a Ph.D. (with distinction) from Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore) in 1971, an M.A. in 1965 and a B.A. from Kenyon College (with Honors) in 1961.

He has published many essays and has edited numerous books, including Reassessing the Liberal State (2001) Leading and Leadership (2000), The Voice of Liberal Learning: Michael Oakeshott on Education (Yale, 1989, 2001), Michael Oakeshott on Religion, Politics, and the Moral Life (Yale, 1993), and Something of Great Constancy: Essays in Honor of the Memory of J. Glenn Gray (1979). He was co-editor, with Shirley Letwin, of a multi-volume series, Selected Works of Michael Oakeshott, for Yale University Press. He was the editor of the International Hobbes Association Newsletter, serves on numerous editorial boards, including Hobbes Studies, Public Affairs Quarterly, and Political Science Reviewer. He served for ten years on the board of the American Academy for Liberal Education and serves on the board of the Association for Core Texts and Curriculum. March 2002 he was appointed by President Bush to the President's Advisory Council on the Arts on which he served through 2003.  He is also on the board of Opera Theater of the Rockies.  He teaches political philosophy.  He is married to Kalah Fuller. They have two daughters, both of whom graduated from CC (classes of '93 and '96).

Courses:
PS 100 What is Politics?
PS 242 Conservatism and Liberalism
PS 292 American Political Thought
PS 372 Contemporary Political Theory
PS 392 Interpretations of Modern History
PS 408 Tutorial in Political Theory