Dr. Mhire earned his Ph.D. from Louisiana State University in 2006. Before coming to Louisiana Tech University, Dr. Mhire was a post-doctoral fellow (2006-2008) in the Program on Constitutional Government at the University of Virginia. He was also a visiting fellow (2009-2010) in the Department of Government at Harvard University. His research interests include political philosophy (ancient, modern and contemporary), classical and modern republicanism, and politics, philosophy, and literature. He has published on the intersections of classical and modern political philosophy, and on constitutionalism broadly construed.