INGRID CREPPELL
George Washington University Department of Political Science 2115 G Street, NW, Monroe Hall 420 Washington, DC 20052 (202) 994-4106 [email protected]
ACADEMIC POSITIONS Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University, 2002- Interim Director, University Honors Program, George Washington University, 2019- Deputy Director, University Honors Program, George Washington University, 2011-2018 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, George Washington University, 1996-2002 Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1992, 1993 Lecturer, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 1992
EDUCATION Ph.D. University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, 1994 M.A. University of Chicago, Department of Political Science, 1984 B.A. (cum laude) Princeton University, Department of Politics, 1980
RESEARCH INTERESTS Contemporary political theory: conflict; identity; norms; culture, discourse, ideology, and narrative; toleration. Early modern thought: origins of liberalism; origins of the state. American political thought: identity-formation in historical perspective.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Morality, Governance and Social Institutions: Reflections on Russell Hardin, edited with Thomas Christiano, Ingrid Creppell and Jack Knight. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Toleration on Trial, edited by Ingrid Creppell, Russell Hardin and Stephen Macedo. Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), 2008.
Toleration and Identity, Foundations in Early Modern Thought, Routledge, 2003.
Articles
“Anti-governmentism in Conservative Thought: A Note on Garnett’s Conception of Religious Freedom” NOMOS: American Conservatism, New York: New York University Press. 2016.
“Searching for Identity” – Introduction to Museum Catalogue for: “Unraveling Identity” –Opening Exhibit at The GW & Textile Museum. 2015.
“Moral Logics of Enmity: Indians and English in Early America” in Religious Tolerance in the Atlantic World, edited by Eliane Glaser, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. 2013.
“The Concept of Normative Threat” International Theory, 3:3, pp. 450-487. 2011.
“Secularization: religion and the roots of innovation in the political sphere” in Secularisation Revisited: Religion and Politics 1500-2006, edited by Gareth Stedman Jones and Ira Katznelson, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
“The Democratic Element in Hobbes’s Behemoth” in Hobbes’s Behemoth, Religion and Democracy, edited by Tomaz Mastnak, Charlottesville, VA: Imprint Academic, 2009.
“Toleration, Politics, and the Role of Mutuality” NOMOS, New York: New York University Press. 2008.
“Montaigne: The Embodiment of Identity as Grounds for Toleration” Res Publica, Volume 7, No. 3. 2001.
“White’s Weak Ontology: The Bearable Lightness of Being,” Theory & Event - symposium on Stephen White’s book Sustaining Affirmation. Spring, 2000.
“Locke on Toleration: The Transformation of Constraint” Political Theory, May. 1996.
“Democracy and Literacy: The Role of Culture in Political Life” Archives Européennes de Sociologie, Volume XXX. 1989.
Book Reviews
The Pretenses of Loyalty: Locke, Liberal Theory, and American Political Theology, by John Perry, Oxford University Press, 2011, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, February 17, 2012.
Locke on Toleration, Richard Vernon (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, 2010, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 24, 2011.
On Justification: Economies of Worth, by Luc Boltanski & Laurent Thévenot, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 5, No. I, March 2007.
Locke and the Legislative Point of View, by Alex Tuckness, Perspectives on Politics, 1, 4, December 2003.
The Blue Guitar, Political Representation and Community, by Nancy Schwartz, Ethics, July 1990.
Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism, by Susan Mendus, Ethics, October 1990.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book: Political Enmity: Writings in Extraordinary Times
Articles: “Political Struggle and Toleration's Limits: Aristotle and Hobbes on Enmity” “Making the World Safe for Democracy: Woodrow Wilson’s Turn to War”
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS AND PRIZES
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Institute for Global and International Studies (IGIS, Elliott School of International Affairs, GW), conference grant, 2008 and 2009
University Facilitating Fund Award, George Washington University, Summer 2008
Russell Sage Foundation, conference grant, March 2001
National Endowment for the Humanities, Fellowship for University Teachers, 2000: funded completion of book published as Toleration and Identity, 2003
University Facilitating Fund Award, George Washington University, Summer 1999
Honorary Fellow, Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar, University of Chicago, 1995-96
Grodzins Prize Lecturer, University of Chicago, 1992
Charlotte Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1990-91
Charles Merriam Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1982-1983
University Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1982-85
Philo Sherman Bennett Senior Thesis Prize, Princeton University, 1980 (Senior Thesis: Jefferson’s Scientific Lexicon)
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