October 22, 2007
Lyon College News Bureau

Dr. Scott Roulier was installed as the John Dyer Trimble Sr. Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the Founders’ Day Convocation Saturday.

The endowed professorship was created in memory of Mr. Trimble, who attended Lyon College. Roulier teaches courses ranging from U.S. Government and Politics to Citizenship, Civility, and Civil Society; and his students give him glowing reviews.

Roulier joined the Lyon faculty in 2000 and currently serves as faculty adviser for the Lyon Moot Court Team and has led Lyon’s campuswide Service Day in which students, faculty, and staff annually contribute hundreds of hours of service to the community. Roulier has been an adviser for Alpha Chi Honor Society and the Interfraternity Council. He also serves as a freshmen adviser.

In 2005, the Carnegie Foundation and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) named Roulier the Arkansas Professor of the Year.

Roulier was awarded Lyon’s top teaching honor, the Lamar Williamson Prize for Excellence in Teaching for 2005-06. He also was chosen Lyon College Alpha Chi Professor the Year in 2002-2003 and the Lyon College Lambda-Iota Chapter of Kappa Sigma Professor of the Year in 2001-2002.

He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A., both from the University of Virginia, and a B.A. from the University of Denver. Before coming to Lyon, Dr. Roulier taught at Dowling College in New York, where he won the Pride Award for Distinguished Teaching. His areas of scholarship are political philosophy and constitutional law.

He has authored a book, “Kantian Virtue at the Intersection of Politics and Nature: the Vale of Soul-Making,” published in 2004 by the University of Rochester Press. He has published several articles in scholarly journals and presented papers and lectures at numerous professional conferences.

Roulier’s recent Sabbatical to New Zealand gave him the chance to study urban design and sustainability issues in a setting he had long wanted to visit, and to share the “once in a lifetime opportunity” with his family. While there, he served as visiting scholar at Massey University in the city of Palmerston North, on the North Island of New Zealand, and also completed a draft of an academic article while at Massey.

A recipient of the prestigious German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship, Roulier has spent considerable time researching, working, and traveling in Europe. In 2003 he led a Nichols International Studies course to Germany and is scheduled to lead another trip to Vienna, Austria and Budapest, Hungary, during the winter break of 2008-09.

Dr. Roulier is a worship leader at Fellowship Bible Church of Batesville. A native of Loveland, Colorado, he is married to Julie Roulier, M.D., and they have two sons, Sean and Peter.

Dr. Scott Roulier with President Roettger and Dr. John Peek, dean of the faculty.