Edward Bryan Portis is currently professor emeritus at Texas A&M University. He has previously taught at the University of Georgia, Vanderbilt University, and Fisk University, as well as Salford University in Great Britain. In addition to Reconstructing the Classics, he is the author of Max Weber and Political Commitment, and the editor of Political Theory and Partisan Politics and Handbook of Political Theory and Policy Science. He has participated in many professional activities, including serving as both an editor and book review editor of The Journal of Politics.