Dr. Dustin Gish teaches The Human Situation and advanced seminars in Political Theory for The Honors College at UH. He received his doctorate from the Institute of Philosophic Studies at the University of Dallas (2003), an interdisciplinary Great Books graduate program, with a concentration in the history of political philosophy and American government. From 1997-2006, Dr. Gish lived in Rome, Italy, and taught courses in Classical Studies, Philosophy, and Political Theory at The American University of Rome and John Cabot University. In addition to teaching, he organized and led co-curricular and extra-curricular study abroad trips for his students throughout, Italy, Greece, and Europe. He has taught at College of the Holy Cross (2007-12) and served as a visiting faculty member in the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage at the University of Oklahoma (2012-13), and in the Center for American Studies at Christopher Newport University in Virginia (2013-14). In the summer of 2013, he had the honor and pleasure to live and work at Jefferson’s Monticello, having been awarded a residential fellowship at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, where he completed his co-authored book manuscript on republican thought in Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia.