John Peterson is Assistant Director of Curriculum for K-12 Education at Hillsdale College, where he also teaches in the Education and Politics departments. He previously served as Director of the Classical Education Graduate Program and Assistant Dean of the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts at the University of Dallas. There he taught in the Politics, Philosophy, and History departments, and for the Classical Education program offered courses on the history of liberal arts education, philosophy of education, classical pedagogy, the American rhetorical tradition, and Roman history. Dr. Peterson has a B.A. from St. John’s College, where his senior thesis was on Plato’s Laws, and a Ph.D. in Politics from UD, where his dissertation was on Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws. He taught high school at Founders Classical Academy in Leander, TX, including courses on ancient history, classical literature, rhetoric, and philosophy. Dr. Peterson’s scholarly publications include work on Aristotle and Machiavelli. He has written on education for Classical Ed Review, The American Mind, American Reformer, and Principia. His current work for Hillsdale involves production of a curriculum for The Golden Thread, a two-volume history of the Western tradition by Allen Guelzo and James Hankins.