Dr. Philip Vogt
Associate Professor

Office: S209C
Phone: (248)-204-3536
E-mail: vogt@ltu.edu

Office hours by appointment

After earning his bachelor's and master's degrees in history at Michigan State, Dr. Vogt earned his Ph.D. in intellectual history from the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University in 1998.  His specializations are early-modern European history, the history of political thought, the history of science and the rhetorical tradition. 

He has published articles in the Journal of the History of Ideas and the Journal of the History of Philosophy.  He recently completed his first book, John Locke and the Rhetoric of Modernity.  At Lawrence Technological University, he teaches the first of two social-science courses in the core curriculum, "Foundations of the American Experience."  In addition, he teaches a yearlong sequence in European History, along with senior seminars on the Reformation and the Enlightenment. 

In 2000, he became the first person in the College of Arts and Sciences to offer a course overseas when he took his Enlightenment class to Paris.  He initiated and for five years have coordinated a series of faculty colloquia in the humanities, the "humanities Symposium."  He serves as faculty advisor to Lawrence Technological University's student philosophical society, the Atheneum, and was active in the design and implementation of the university's honors program.  He is a member of the American Historical Association (AHA), the International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH) and the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR)