Staff Members

Dr Colm McKeogh

Role: Senior Lecturer and Undergraduate Adviser Email: cmckeogh@waikato.ac.nz Location: J2.23A Contact: +64 7 838 4466 ext 6239

Research Interests:

Colm McKeogh has a BA (Mod) and PhD in Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin and an MSc (Econ) in Strategic Studies from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of The Political Realism of Reinhold Niebuhr (Macmillan, 1997), Innocent Civilians (Palgrave, 2002), and Tolstoy’s Pacifism (Cambria, 2009).

His research centres on Christian attitudes to political violence. Dr McKeogh teaches POLS108 Political Life in the Ancient World: Citizens, Slaves and Emperors, POLS201 Major Political Thinkers, and POLS300 War and Religion. He is also the Department's Undergraduate Adviser.

Research Publications:

You may like to view publications from 1997 onwards for Dr Colm McKeogh

Expertise:

Colm McKeogh is available to supervise research in these areas:
• Moral, religious and philosophic attitudes to political violence
• Christian pacifism and non-pacifism
• Quaker peace testimony