E. Christian Kopff (born 22 November 1946, Brooklyn, New York) is Associate Professor of

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and Associate Director of the Honors Program at the

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, where he has taught since 1973. He is a Fellow of the

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and has been awarded grants from the

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and the CU Committee on Research. He has been a contributor to

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publications.

Academics

Kopff studied at St. Paul's School (Garden City, New York) before attending

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, from which he received his undergraduate diploma ''

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''. His doctoral degree in Classics was awarded by the

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC, UNC–Chapel Hill, or simply Carolina) is a public university, public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Chartered in 1789, the university first began enrolli ...

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Kopff was described by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in 2008 as one of the "notable academic racists" leading the H.L. Mencken Club, of which he was vice president. He has contributed to ''

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,'' described by the SPLC as a far-right race journal, and ''

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'', an anti-immigrant publication. He has been described as a

paleoconservative Paleoconservatism is a political philosophy and a strain of conservatism in the United States stressing American nationalism, Christian ethics, regionalism, traditionalist conservatism, and non-interventionism. Paleoconservatism's concerns over ...

, and as such he has cited religious and cultural grounds for supporting

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, and described modern American society as a "leftist hegemony" in a piece for a white nationalist publication encouraging "members of the American Alternative Right" to read the works of the Italian

philosopher

Julius Evola Giulio Cesare Andrea "Julius" Evola (; 19 May 1898 – 11 June 1974) was an Italian far-right philosopher and writer. Evola regarded his values as Traditionalist conservatism, traditionalist, Aristocracy, aristocratic, War, martial and Empire, im ...

prior to embarking on his own translation of two of Evola's works on

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and

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Selected publications

Author

* * * *"Julius Evola & Radical Traditionalism."

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. Later reprinted as ''Julius Evola, an Introduction''

Translator

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References

External links

Dr. Christian E. Kopff on "Classical Greek Philosophy and American Democratic Thought"
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kopff, E. Christian 1946 births Living people American translators Classical scholars of the University of Colorado University of Colorado Boulder faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni Writers from Brooklyn