Dallas Terry

Biography

Dallas Terry is a postdoctoral fellow at the Kinder Institute at the University of Missouri, where he teaches courses on political theory and American political thought. His research/writing is interdisciplinary, straddling the fields of philosophy, politics, and educational history, especially in the American context. He is currently thinking and writing about the philosophical and political presuppositions of both the proponents and critics of systematized public schooling. His recent dissertation on this subject is called Education of the People: The Political Philosophy of the Debates Surrounding the Birth of the Public Schools.

Dallas received a Ph.D. in Political Theory and an M.A. in Political Science from Boston College. Before attending graduate school, he taught English for four years at a public high school in Oklahoma City. He received his undergraduate degree in Education from Missouri State University. Dallas grew up in the great state of Missouri, and he is grateful to be back home teaching at Mizzou.