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==Academic career==

==Academic career==

Sandoz's teaching career began at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] under the president [[F. Jay Taylor]]. He soon left that institution for what is now Texas A&M University - Commerce in Commerce in northeast [[Texas]]. He settled at LSU, where he taught for thirty-five years and was the Hermann Moyse Distinguished Professor of Political Science. He was recognized for his scholarship in [[Canada]], [[Norway]], [[Italy]], and [[Guatemala]] as well as the United States. He was an advisor to the establishment of the [[Czech Republic]] and a separate [[Slovakia]]. Professor Rouven J. Steeves of the [[United States Air Force Academy]], in his review of Sandoz's book "Give Me Liberty", said: "Ellis Sandoz is a metaphysician of the soul, mystic of the [[Christian]] faith, and a scientist of politics."<ref name=obit/>  

Sandoz's teaching career began at [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|Ruston]] under the president [[F. Jay Taylor]]. He soon left that institution for what is now Texas A&M University - Commerce in Commerce in northeast [[Texas]]. He settled at LSU, where he taught for thirty-five years and was the Hermann Moyse Distinguished Professor of Political Science. He was recognized for his scholarship in [[Canada]], [[Norway]], [[Italy]], and [[Guatemala]] as well as the United States. He was an advisor to the establishment of the [[Czech Republic]] and a separate [[Slovakia]]. Professor Rouven J. Steeves of the [[United States Air Force]] Academy in [[Colorado Springs]], in his review of Sandoz's book ''Give Me Liberty'', said: "Ellis Sandoz is a metaphysician of the soul, mystic of the [[Christian]] faith, and a scientist of politics."<ref name=obit/>  

Sandoz joined the LSU political science department in 1978 and became its chairman the next year. He founded the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies. Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was a philosopher and former LSU professor who had barely evaded capture by the [[Gestapo]] in [[Nazi Germany]] before coming to teach at LSU. Sandoz studied with Voegelin as an undergraduate at LSU and went to the [[University of Munich]] to complete his doctorate under Voegelin, the only American to have done so. Sandoz studied also at [[Georgetown University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], and the [[University of  North Carolina]] in Chapel Hill. He took a teaching post in 1959 at Louisiana Tech in Ruston, at which he also started a chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity.<ref name=obit/>

Sandoz joined the LSU political science department in 1978 and became its chairman the next year. He founded the Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies. Eric Voegelin (1901-1985) was a philosopher and former LSU professor who had barely evaded capture by the [[Gestapo]] in [[Nazi Germany]] before coming to teach at LSU. Sandoz studied with Voegelin as an undergraduate at LSU and went to the [[University of Munich]] to complete his doctorate under Voegelin, the only American to have done so. Sandoz studied also at [[Georgetown University]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], and the [[University of  North Carolina]] in Chapel Hill. He took a teaching post in 1959 at Louisiana Tech in Ruston, at which he also started a chapter of Sigma Nu fraternity.<ref name=obit/>