Christian Dean, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Political Science
Chair, Department of Political Science &
International Studies

Bertrand Hall, Room 24F
50 Acacia Avenue
San Rafael, CA  94901-2298
Voice: (415) 485-3298
Fax:  (415) 459-3206
dean@dominican.edu

Background

Dr. Dean started teaching at Dominican University of California (then Dominican College of San Rafael) as an adjunct instructor in the Fall of 1996, after having spent a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola Marymount University.  He joined the full-time faculty in the Fall of 1998, at which time he also assumed the role of Chair of the Department of Politics & International Studies.  He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2004.  He teaches courses in Political Philosophy, Public Law, and American Politics, and his research concerns the phenomenology of the development of moral character and ethical expertise.