Patrick Thaddeus Jackson is Associate Dean for Curriculum and Learning and Professor of International Relations in the School of International Service, the American University. His research interests include culture and agency, international relations theory (particularly the intersection of realism and constructivism), scientific methodology, the role of rhetoric in public life, civilizations in world politics, the sociology of academic knowledge, popular culture and IR, and the formation of subjectivity both in the classroom and in the broader social sphere. He is the author of The Conduct of Inquiry in International Relations.