Background

Daniel M. Savage was born on June 4, 1956, in Bangor, Maine, United States. He is the son of Joseph and Jeannette (Dupuis) Savage.

Education

Daniel Savage began his studies at East Central University where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in government in 1990. Then he obtained a Master of Arts degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1992 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in political science in 1997 at the same university.

Career

Daniel Savage, after obtaining his doctor's degree, began his teaching career. He joined Fort Hays State University as a visiting professor in 1997 and worked there till 1998, the year he became an assistant professor at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. He held this position till 2002. Then he went to Concord College (now Concord University) where he was an assistant professor.

Currently Savage is a professor of political science and chair of the department of geography and political science at Northeastern State University. Before coming to Northeastern State University in 2005, Savage also taught at Portland State University.

Savage's teaching and research interests are in political theory, constitutional law, voting behavior, and political attitudes. His research focuses on American Political Thought, particularly on the political thought of American pragmatists and transcendentalists. His research resulted in the book, John Dewey's Liberalism: Individual, Community, and Self-Development, published in 2001.

Savage's reason to write this book was to use Dewey's philosophy as a whole to justify a conception of liberalism based on self-development. In this book, he offers a purely Dewey's perspective on the relationship between liberal freedoms and the traditional concept of the good life. His immediate concern was to determine whether Dewey's perspective was considered and, with good reason, rejected by contemporary political theorists, or whether Dewey offered a neglected but genuine third perspective.

Achievements

• Daniel Savage is a renowned specialist in political science and an outstanding educator particularly known as a professor of political science and chair of the department of geography and political science at Northeastern State University. His teaching and research were recognized with some rewards. His article with colleague Jeonghun Min, "Why Do American Indians Vote Democratic?", won the Western Social Science Association's Best Article Award in 2014.

Works

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  • John Dewey's Liberalism: Individual, Community, and Self-Development

    (John Dewey's classical pragmatism, Daniel M. Savage asser...)

    2001

Views

Daniel Savage believes that for writing to be publishable it has to have, among other things, a certain coherence and consistency. Thus, writing helps him to develop his own ideas. It forces him to impose a rationally coherent and consistent order on them, even if what he is writing about is the insufficiency of rationality.

He is influenced by Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche, and Socrates. He has learned from them that all the value he has to offer the world derives from his uniqueness. He writes to create and share his unique perspective.

Quotations: "My writing process can be described as creative synthesis. I start by collecting and sorting ideas. Then I try to create a coherent synthesis. I go through several drafts."

"I write on subjects I am drawn toward - a form of eros."

Interests

• hiking, religious studies

Connections

Daniel Savage married Joyce Bateman on November 9, 1985. The marriage produced one child, Hannah.

Father:

Joseph Savage

Mother:

Jeannette (Dupuis) Savage

Wife:

Joyce Bateman