Professor of Government
Denton, Texas
Voice: 940-898-2137
Fax: 940-898-2130
E-mail: THoye@twu.edu
Office: CFO #609

Timothy Hoye is Professor of Government with specializations in political theory, American politics, and comparative politics with an emphasis on Japan.  Among the courses he teaches are American government, modern political thought, politics and literature, an introductory course in political science, Japanese culture and politics, and the senior seminar in government.  His research focuses on the problems and prospects of modern democratic theory and on the literary artist as political analyst.  Grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have supported research seminars on early democratic theory at Johns Hopkins and Cornell Universities and on Japanese culture and politics at Harvard University.  He has taught in the American Studies Program at Hiroshima University in Japan as a Fulbright exchange scholar.  He is the author of a textbook on modern Japan entitled Japanese Politics: Fixed and Floating Worlds.

Recently, he has presented papers at national and regional conventions in Washington D.C., Ft. Worth, New Orleans, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, and Albuquerque on political themes in selected works by Japanese novelists Dazai Osamu, Murakami Haruki, and Natsume Soseki, on the work of Japanese political theorist Maruyama Masao, and on “constituting” modern Japan.  He has also organized and chaired panels at recent annual meetings of the American Political Science Association (Boston 2008/2002; Philadelphia 2006) and the Southwest Political Science Association (Albuquerque 2007; New Orleans 2002).  He has submitted both panel and paper proposals for the APSA convention in Toronto for 2009.  He is the author of articles on Plato, Aristotle, checks and balances, the Medicis, and the American Political Science Association for the recently published International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (2007).

Professor Hoye was born in Providence, Rhode Island.  He received BA and MA degrees in political science from Texas A&M University – Commerce and the PhD in political science from Duke University.  His wife Masako is from Fukuoka, Japan, and recently completed a PhD in linguistics at the University of Colorado, Boulder.  They have two children, Nathaniel and Christopher.  Nathan is a freshman at Bard College in New York and Christopher is a proud freshman member of the Ryan High School marching band in Denton, Texas.