Education
- PhD, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania (2020)
- MA, Political Science, University of Pennsylvania (2017)
- BA, Political Science and Economics, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2013)
Courses Taught
- U.S. Federal Government and Politics
- Intro to Political Thinking
- U.S. Political Thought
- Environmental Political Thought
- Property, Law, Environment
- Classical Justice
- Conservatism
Research Interests
- Environmental Political Theory
- U.S. Political Thought
- Agrarianism and Populism
- Property Rights and Law
- Theories of Place and Scale
- Aldo Leopold
- Wendell Berry
Publications
- Koutnik, Gregory. 2021. “Ecological Populism: Politics in Defense of Home.” New Political Science, 43.1 (Spring 2021), 46-66.
- Koutnik, Gregory. 2020. “This Land Is Our Land: The Struggle for a New Commonwealth, by Jedediah Purdy.” American Political Thought, 9.3 (Summer 2020), 489-493.
- Koutnik, Gregory. 2020. “Aldo Leopold and the Stewardship Vocation: A Civic Education in Ecological Perception.” American Political Thought, 9.2 (Spring 2020), 235-263.
Gregory Koutnik
Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science
Pronouns: he/him/his Email: koutnikgv@beloit.edu Phone: 608-363-2813 Office: Room 111, Morse-Ingersoll Hall
Greg Koutnik enjoys cultivating open, engaged, and critical discussions in his seminars to help students come to a better understanding of their own political perspectives as well as those of others.
In the fall, Greg will offer an introductory course in political theory, an intermediate course in modern political thought, and an upper-level seminar on liberal and leftist political thought.
Professor Koutnik’s research focuses on environmental political theory and U.S. political thought with an eye to questions of environmental stewardship and ecological belonging. His research focuses especially on conservationist and agrarian environmentalists like Aldo Leopold and Wendell Berry, questions of scale and place in environmentalism, and the possibilities of an ecological populism.