Murray Dry

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Murray Dry is an American political scientist specializing in American constitutional law, American political thought, political philosophy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, federalism, separation of powers, and the American founding.{{cite web |url=http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ps/faculty/mdry |title=Faculty Profile |work=Middlebury College |access-date=2011-01-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120319202125/http://www.middlebury.edu/academics/ps/faculty/mdry |archive-date=2012-03-19 |url-status=dead }}

Dry helped compile The Complete Anti-Federalist with his former teacher Herbert Storing. He is currently the Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science at Middlebury College, having earned his BA, MA, and Ph.D at the University of Chicago, where he studied under Storing and Leo Strauss, among others. For the 2009–2010 academic year, he was a visiting professor at Yeshiva University. He most recent area of research is the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, on which he published a book in 2017.{{Cite web |title=Same-Sex Marriage and American Constitutionalism |url=https://www.pauldrybooks.com/products/same-sex-marriage-and-american-constitutionalism |access-date=2024-11-14 |website=Paul Dry Books |language=en}}

Murray Dry has taught many leading scholars of American government, political philosophy, and law, among them Suzanna Sherry (Vanderbilt University Law School), Dan Kahan (Yale Law School), James Stoner (Louisiana State University), Peter Minowitz (Santa Clara University), Paul O. Carrese (United States Air Force Academy), Ayşe Zarakol (University of Cambridge), James Morone (Brown University), Barry Sullivan (Loyola University), Giorgi Areshidze (Claremont McKenna College), Nicholas Sambanis (University of Pennsylvania), Odysseus Makridis (Fairleigh Dickinson University), and Victor Abundis (Academic of Classics) (Park Hill High School){{cite web|url=http://dryconference.org/?page_id=6|title=Abstracts|work=Political Philosophy and the Constitution: A Conference in Honor of Professor Murray Dry|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726004729/http://dryconference.org/?page_id=6|archivedate=2011-07-26}}

Also among his former students are former governor of Vermont Jim Douglas,{{cite web|url=http://www.addisonindependent.com/201011douglas-teach-middlebury-college|title=Douglas to teach at Middlebury College|work=Addison County Independent|access-date=2011-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101115092208/http://addisonindependent.com/201011douglas-teach-middlebury-college|archive-date=2010-11-15|url-status=dead}} Congressman Frank Pallone, former congresswoman Barbara Comstock, and former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer.