Dr. Daniel Skidmore-Hess
Professor and Interim Associate Dean
Office: Solms Hall – Room 201B
Campus: Armstrong
Phone: 912-344-2532
Email: danielskidmorehess@georgiasouthern.edu
Additional Link(s): CV
Biography
Daniel Skidmore-Hess received his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He completed his B.A. in History at Oberlin College and obtained a graduate certificate in Jewish Studies from Gratz College. He joined the faculty of Armstrong State College in 1993 and served as Head of the Department of Criminal Justice, Social, and Political Science from 2012 until the consolidation of Armstrong with Georgia Southern University in 2018. In that role, Dr. Skidmore-Hess helped to implement online courses and programs and supported the adoption of policies that provide innovative pathways to degree completion by nontraditional and military-affiliated students.
Dr. Skidmore-Hess currently serves as Associate Dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences for Students Services and Curriculum. In this role he continues to champion inclusive and accessible scheduling practices and program development. Dr. Skidmore-Hess’s scholarship focuses on the political and ideological bases of globalization, trade policy, and the emergence of neofascism in advanced democracies. He is also interested in the history of political thought and has published on Marx and Locke. His scholarly interests extend to comparative politics, and he has taught as a guest lecturer at both Syddansk Universitet in Sønderborg, Denmark and Linnaeus Universitet in Vȁxjö, Sweden. He has led study abroad trips to Denmark as well as Israel/Palestine.
Selected Publications
- Cox, Ronald W. and Daniel Skidmore-Hess. (1999) US politics and the Global Economy: Corporate Power, conservative shift. Boulder (etc.), CO: Lynne Ryenner.
- Cox, Ronald W., and Daniel Skidmore-Hess. 2022. “How Neofascism Emerges from Neoliberal Capitalism.” New Political Science 44(4): 590–606. https://doi.org/10.1080/07393148.2022.2121135
- Skidmore-Hess, Daniel. (2020). How the Academy looks at Marx is all wrong, the point however is to change it. Class, Race, Corporate Power 8(1). https://doi.org/10.25148/crcp.7.2.008923
- Skidmore-Hess, Daniel, & Cathy Skidmore-Hess. (2016). “Have we not an equal interest with the men of this nation?”: Gender, Equality, and Genesis in John Locke’s Political Thought. International Social Science Review 92(1): 1–27. https://www.jstor.org/stable/intesociscierevi.92.1.02
- Skidmore-Hess, Daniel, & Cathy Skidmore-Hess. (2012). Dousing the fiery woman: The diminishing of the prophetess Deborah. Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies 31(1): 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1353/sho.2012.0110
Last updated: 8/14/2024
