Peter W. Schramm
Peter W. Schramm | |
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Born | |
Died | August 16, 2015 Ashland, Ohio, U.S. | (aged 68)
Alma mater | California State University, Northridge B.A. in History 1971 Claremont Graduate School M.A. in Government 1975 The London School of Economics M.A. in International History 1975 Claremont Graduate School Ph.D. in Government 1980 |
Institutions | Ashbrook Center at Ashland University |
Main interests | U.S. history, political philosophy |
Peter W. Schramm (December 23, 1946 – August 16, 2015) was an American academic and political scientist.[2] He was a professor of political science at Ashland University and the former executive director of the in Ashland, Ohio.
Early life and education[]
Schramm was born in Soviet-occupied Hungary in 1946. His father fled with their family to the U.S. during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956, explaining to his 10-year-old son, "We were born Americans, but in the wrong place."[3] Schramm has recalled his early years and relations with his father in several articles, deriving therefrom a philosophy of the U.S. and the U.S. idea which has defined much of his academic pursuits.[4]
Schramm attended Hollywood High School in Hollywood, California upon arriving in the U.S. (although he spoke no English at the time). He went on to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from California State University Northridge, and two Master of Arts degrees, the first in Government from the Claremont Graduate School and the second in International History from the London School of Economics. He received a Ph.D. in government from the Claremont Graduate School in 1981.
Career[]
Early in his career, Schramm served as president of the Claremont Institute for the Study of Statesmanship and Political Philosophy in Claremont, California, until the institute encountered financial problems. He later served in the Reagan Administration as the director of the Center for International Education in the United States Department of Education. Turning back to academics, Schramm then became a professor of political science at Ashland University and director of special programs of the in 1987. He became executive director of the in 1995 following the resignation and subsequent death of Charles Parton. In 2006, he also took on the role of chairman of the Master of American History and Government Program at Ashland University, a program that he helped to create. He has taught courses on U.S. political thought, great U.S. texts, Abraham Lincoln, Shakespeare and the "Human Being and Citizen."
Schramm provided daily commentary on current events at the weblog, No Left Turns. He edited, co-edited, and contributed to a number of books, including, Natural Right and Political Right, The 1984 Election and the Future of American Politics, Lessons of the Bush Defeat, American Political Parties and Constitutional Politics, Consequences of the Clinton Victory, Separation of Powers and Good Government, Statecraft and Power, History of American Political Thought, The Heritage Guide to the Constitution, Why Coolidge Matters, Booker T. Washington: A Re-Examination and wrote the Introduction to Lord Charnwood's Abraham Lincoln: A Biography (Madison Books, 1996). He has lectured at the Heritage Foundation, Stanford University and the International Conservative Congress in Washington, D.C.
He was a senior fellow of the Claremont Institute and a former president of the Philadelphia Society.[5]
Recognition[]
Schramm was honored by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in 2007 as an "Outstanding American by Choice."[6][7] He was a seven time recipient of the Mentor Teaching Award at Ashland University.[8]
See also[]
References[]
- ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20150817052456/http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/peter-william-schramm-1946-2015_1012810.html
- ^ Hayward, Steven F. (August 17, 2015). "Peter W. Schramm, 1946-2015, RIP". Power Line. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
- ^ Peter Schramm, "Born American, but in the Wrong Place," 'On Principle' (2006).
- ^ The Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs.
- ^ The Claremont Institute Archived 2010-11-20 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Peter Schramm, "American by Choice," 'The Weekly Standard', (2007).
- ^ USCIS Outstanding American by Choice recognition.
- ^ Ashland University Faculty Biography Archived 2011-05-01 at the Wayback Machine.
External links[]
Quotations related to Peter W. Schramm at Wikiquote
- John M. Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs
- The Ashbrook Center's Blog, No Left Turns
- 1946 births
- 2015 deaths
- Hungarian emigrants to the United States
- California State University, Northridge alumni
- Claremont Graduate University alumni
- Alumni of the London School of Economics
- Ashland University faculty
- American political scientists