Monicka Patterson-Tutschka

Assistant Professor of Government
E-mail: mbpatter@csus.edu
Phone number: 916-278-6330

Institution where doctorate degree was earned:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Brief Biography:
Monicka Patterson-Tutschka is the daughter of Polish and Czech parents and she grew up on Lake Champlain in upstate New York. She went to graduate school in political science at the University of Michigan where she studied political theory. While working on her Ph.D. Monicka taught at the University of Vermont for one year. She became a member of the faculty at Sacramento State in 2008.

Areas of research and interests:
The history of political thought; early modern English political thought; religion and politics; Thomas Hobbes; social contract theory

Undergraduate courses:
Current Political Thought
Modern Political Thought
Hobbes and his Interpreters
Ideas in Context: the English civil war
American Government

Graduate courses:

Faculty web page:

Tahoe Hall 3104; (916) 278-6202; Fax: (916) 278-6488
6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA 95819-6089

Webmaster: barbarag@csus.edu