Andrew Valls
Professor of Political Science School of Public Policy 300 Bexell Hall Oregon State University Corvallis, OR 97331 phone: 541-737-9577 email: [email protected] websites: http://liberalarts.oregonstate.edu/spp/polisci/andrew-valls http://oregonstate.academia.edu/AndrewValls
Positions:
Professor of Political Science. Oregon State University, 2019-
Interim Director, School of Public Policy, Feb. 2019-
Political Science Program Coordinator, 2014-18.
Associate Professor of Political Science. Oregon State University, 2008-19.
Assistant Professor of Political Science. Oregon State University, 2003-08.
Associate Professor of Political Science. Morehouse College, 2002-03.
Fulbright Senior Lecturer. Department of Political Science. Tartu University, Estonia, 1999- 2000.
Assistant Professor of Political Science. Morehouse College, 1996-2002.
Instructor. Department of Political Science. Morehouse College, 1994-96.
Education:
Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh. Political Science, 1995. Dissertation: Hume and the Foundations of Liberalism. Committee: Frederick G. Whelan (Chair), Annette C. Baier, William E. Scheuerman, Irwin J. Schulman, and Iris Marion Young.
M.A. University of Pittsburgh. Political Science, 1990.
B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison (with Distinction), 1988. Majors: Political Science; Philosophy.
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2 I. RESEARCH
A. Publications:
1. Book:
Rethinking Racial Justice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. 272 pp. ISBN: 9780190860554 (cloth); 9780190860561 (paper).
2. Edited Volumes:
Iris Marion Young: Gender, Justice, and the Politics of Difference. ed. Michaele Ferguson and Andrew Valls. New York: Routledge. Routledge Innovators in Political Theory Series. ISBN: 9780367085643 (cloth), 9780429023019 (e-book). Forthcoming.
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society, ed. Angela Coventry and Andrew Valls. With an Introduction by Andrew Valls and essays by Mark G. Spencer, Elizabeth S. Radcliff, Frederick G. Whelan, and Peter Vanderschraaf and Andrew Valls. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. Rethinking the Western Tradition Series. 408 pp. ISBN: 9780300207149 (paper).
Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy, ed. Andrew Valls. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. 294 pp. Paperback ISBN: 0801472741; Cloth ISBN: 0801440335. Chapters on Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Rousseau, Kant, Hegel, Mill, Marx, Nietzsche. Contributors: Timothy Reiss, Barbara Hall, Debra Nails, Robert Bernasconi, Anika Simpson, William Uzgalis, Andrew Valls, Bernard Boxill, Charles Mills, Michael Hoffheimer, Anthony Bogues, Richard Peterson, James Winchester.
Ethics in International Affairs: Theories and Cases, ed. Andrew Valls. Foreword by Virginia Held. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. 272 pp. Paperback ISBN: 0847691578; Cloth ISBN: 084769156X. Sections on Just War Theory, Terrorism and Political Violence, Humanitarian Intervention, and Global Distributive Justice. Contributors: David Welch, Nicholas Fotion, Anthony Coates, Frances Harbour, Andrew Valls, David George, Neve Gordon, George Lopez, Simon Caney, George Kieh, Emil Nagengast, Peter Jones, Gerard Elfstrom, and Jeffrey Cason.
3. Journal Articles:
“What Should Become of Confederate Monuments? A Normative Framework.” Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 33., no. 3, July 2019, 177-93..
“Rawls, Islam, and Political Constructivism: Some Questions for Tampio.” Contemporary Political Theory, vol. 11, no. 3, August 2012, pp. 324-30.
3 "A Liberal Defense of Black Nationalism." American Political Science Review, vol. 104, no. 3, August 2010, pp. 467-81.
"Racism: In Defense of Garcia." Philosophy of the Social Sciences, vol. 39, no. 3, September 2009, pp. 475-80.
"Housing Discrimination as a Basis for Black Reparations" (with Jonathan Kaplan). Public Affairs Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 3, July 2007, pp. 255-73.
"Same-Sex Marriage and the Regulation of Language" (with Andrew Stivers). Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 6, no. 2, June 2007, pp. 237-53.
"A Truth Commission for the United States?" Intertexts (issue on The Future of Cultural Memory, guest editor: Meili Steele), vol. 7, no. 2, Fall 2003, pp. 157-69.
"Racial Justice as Transitional Justice." Polity, vol. 36, no. 1, October 2003, pp. 665-83.
"The Libertarian Case for Affirmative Action." Social Theory and Practice, vol. 25, no. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 299-323.
"Self-Development and the Liberal State: The Cases of John Stuart Mill and Wilhelm von Humboldt." The Review of Politics, vol. 61, no. 2, Spring 1999, pp. 251-74.
4. Book Chapters
“Hume on Decisions, Convention, and Justice” (with Peter Vanderschraaf). In Angela Coventry and Andrew Valls, eds., David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018, pp. 317-38.
“Hume, Justice, and the Environment” In Engaging Nature: Environmentalism and the Political Theory Canon, ed. Peter Cannavo and Joseph H. Lane, Jr. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014, pp. 117-32.
“The Bell Curve.” In Science and Politics: An A to Z Guide to Issues and Controversies, ed. Brent S. Steel. Los Angeles: Sage/CQ Press, 2014, pp. 51-54.
"Reconsidering the Case for Black Reparations." In Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, ed. Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, pp. 114-29.
“'A Lousy Empirical Scientist:' Reconsidering Hume’s Racism.” In Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy, ed. Andrew Valls. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005, pp, 127-49.
"The Broken Promise of Racial Integration." NOMOS XLIII: Moral and Political Education, ed. Stephen Macedo and Yael Tamir. New York: New York University Press, 2002, pp. 456-74.
4 "Can Terrorism Be Justified?" In Ethics in International Affairs: Theories and Cases, ed. Andrew Valls. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 65-79. Reprinted in: -Political Philosophy: Classic and Contemporary Readings, ed. Louis P. Pojman. New York: McGraw Hill, 2002, pp. 563-73. -The Morality of War: Classical and Contemporary Readings, ed. Larry May, Eric Rovie, and Steve Viner. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005, pp. 316-27. -Contemporary Moral Arguments: Readings in Ethical Issues, ed. Lewis Vaughn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012. -The Moral Life: An Introductory Reader in Ethics and Literature. 6th ed. Ed. Louis Pojman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
"Presidential Rhetoric: A Social Constructionist Approach." In The Theory and Practice of Political Communication Research, ed. Mary E. Stuckey. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996, pp. 142-58.
5. Book Reviews and Review Articles:
Racial Justice in the Age of Obama, by Roy L. Brooks. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Political Science Quarterly, vol. 125, no. 2, Summer 2010, pp. 334-36.
The Racial State, by David Theo Goldberg (Blackwell, 2002). Constellations, vol. 13, no. 4, December 2006, pp. 589-92.
Racism in Mind, ed. Michael P. Levine and Tamas Pataki (Cornell, 2004). Philosophy in Review, vol. 25, no. 5, October 2005, pp. 371-73.
Race, Racism, and Reparations, by J. Angelo Corlett (Cornell, 2003). Philosophy in Review, vol. 25, no. 2, April 2005, pp. 98-101.
Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government by Nadia Urbinati (University of Chicago Press, 2002). The Review of Politics, vol. 65, no. 2, Spring 2003, pp. 288-90.
Toward a Theory of Immigration by Peter C. Meilaender (Palgrave, 2001). Perspectives on Politics, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 173-74.
“The (Human) Nature of International Ethics.” Review of Ethics and International Affairs: Extent and Limits, ed. Jean-Marc Coicaud and Daniel Warner (United Nations University, 2001) and Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century by Jonathan Glover (Yale, 2000). International Studies Review, vol. 4, no. 1, Spring 2002. pp. 219-23.
"Between Past and Future: Recent Work on Transitional Justice." Review of Transitional Justice and the Rule of Law in New Democracies edited by A. James McAdams (University of Notre Dame Press, 1997); Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History after Genocide and
5 Mass Violence by Martha Minow (Beacon Press, 1998); When Sorry Isn't Enough: The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice edited by Roy L. Brooks (New York University Press, 1999); and Transitional Justice by Ruti G. Teitel (Oxford University Press, 2000). Trames: A Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (Estonia), vol. 4, no. 3, 2000, pp. 394-411.
Race and Social Justice by Howard McGary (Blackwell, 1999). Constellations, vol. 6, no. 4, December 1999, pp. 590-92.
The Racial Contract by Charles W. Mills (Cornell, 1997). American Political Science Review, vol. 92, no. 3, September 1998, pp. 691-92.
6. Encyclopedia Entries
"Reparations." International Encyclopedia of Ethics, ed. Hugh LaFollette. Blackwell, 2013, pp. 4538-47. Slightly revised, 2019.
"Affirmative Action." Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2010.
"Critical Race Theory." "Violence and Justice," and "Individualism." Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, ed. David Clark. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2007.
7. Other Publications
“Foreword” to Equality, Citizenship, and Segregation: A Defense of Segregation, by Michael S. Merry. New York: Palgrave, 2013.
B. Fellowships, Research Grants, and Honors:
Faculty Excellence Publication Support Grant from the Oregon State University Center for the Humanities and College of Liberal Arts, 2018.
School of Public Policy Research Grant, Oregon State University, 2013-14.
School of Public Policy Research Grant. Oregon State University, 2011-12 (Fall term).
Oregon State University Humanities Center Fellowship, 2006-07 (Winter term).
Oregon State University College of Liberal Arts Research Grant, 2004-05 (Winter term).
6 Fulbright Senior Scholar Lecturing Grant. University of Tartu, Estonia, 1999-2000.
Social Science Research Council Grant to attend the Baltic Studies Summer Institute, Indiana University, 1999.
National Endowment for the Humanities Dissertation Grant, 1993-94.
Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship. University of Pittsburgh, 1992-93.
Best Graduate Student Paper at the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the New York State Political Science Association, for "The Liberal Commonwealth of Thomas Hobbes," 1992.
C. Recent Invited Lectures and Conference Papers:
“What Should Become of Confederate Monuments? A Normative Framework,” at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 29-September 1, 2019.
“Response to My Critics,” on Author-Meets-Critics panel at the meeting of the American Philosophical Association-Pacific Division, Vancouver, BC, April 18-21, 2019.
“Rethinking Racial Justice.” Department of Philosophy, Pomona College. January 31, 2019.
“Race, Racism, and Racial Justice,” Seikei University, Japan, January 27, 2019.
“Rethinking Racial Justice,” Kobe University, Japan. January 24, 2019.
“Enough Already with the All-Affected Principle.” Presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Mass., August 30-September 2, 2018.
“Affirming Racial Equality: Justice, Acknowledgement, and Collective Memory.” Presented at: -CUNY conference on Racial Inequality, March 9-10, 2018. -Portland State University, April 19, 2018.
“Racial Justice and Criminal Justice.” Presented at the meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, BC, April 13-15, 2017.
“Racial Segregation and the Geography of Justice,” at the meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Pacific Division, San Francisco, CA, March 30-April 3, 2016.
“Reparations and Climate Justice,” at the workshop, Balancing Responsibility and Solidarity in International Climate Negotiations. Brussels, Belgium, March 2, 2016.
7 “Citizen Cyclists: Are Bikes Good for Democratic Politics?” (with Tamara Metz and James Brewer), at the meeting of the Association for Political Theory, Boulder, CO, October 22-24, 2015.
“Is There a Right Not to Be a Father? The Basis and Limits of Fathers’ Rights and Responsibilities,” at the meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV, April 2-4, 2015.
“The Future of Racial Justice in Education.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 2014.
“Racial Justice, Acknowledgement, and Collective Memory.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Seattle, WA, April 17-19, 2014.
“Hume, Justice, and the Environment.” Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 22-24, 2012.
“Doing Political Theory.” Remarks presented at Roundtable on Political Theory, Reed College, February 4, 2011.
"Reconstructing the Case for Black Reparations." Presented at: -Hendricks Symposium, "The Challenge of Inequality in the Age of Obama: Does Race Still Matter?" University of Nebraska-Lincoln, November 3-5, 2010. -School of Public Policy, Oregon State University, February 11, 2011. -Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Antonio, TX, April 21-23, 2011.
"Rethinking Racial Justice." Presented at Western Oregon University, April 19, 2010.
"Reconsidering Rawlsian Affirmative Action." Presented at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, April 1-3, 2010.
"Selling a Book Manuscript." Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Pacific Northwest Political Science Association. Victoria, BC. October 15-17, 2009.
"Justice and Racial Residential Segregation." -Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. Vancouver, BC. March 19-21, 2009. -Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, Sept. 2-5, 2010.
"Race, Housing, and Class Mobility." Presented at the Oregon Council for the Humanities Summer Teacher Institute, "Decoding Class: Money, Mobility, and the American Dream." Bend, Oregon. July 19, 2008.
8 II. TEACHING AND ADVISING
A. Courses Taught at Oregon State:
Introduction to Political Theory (PS 206) Honors Introduction to Political Theory (PS 206H) Introduction of Political Theory (Hybrid) (PS 206h) Classical Political Thought (PS 361) Modern Political Thought (PS 362) Gender and Race in American Political Thought (PS 363) American Political Thought (PS 365) Special Topics in Political Theory: Global Political Theory (PS 399) Seminar in Political Theory: Theories of Justice (WIC) (PS 469/569) Seminar in Political Theory: Environmental Political Theory (WIC) (PS 469/569) Seminar in Political Theory: Democracy and Education (WIC) (PS 469/569) Environmental Political Theory (PS 4/561) Theories of Law (PS 4/562) Contemporary Political Theory (PS 364)
B. Teaching-related Grants:
Hybrid Course Development Grant. Oregon State University, 2011.
LL Stewart Grant to develop course on environmental political theory. Oregon State University, 2008.
C. Student Thesis Supervision:
1. Committee Chair
Alethia Miller, MPP, 2013-14. Essay Title: An Analysis of Community Attributes Likely to Result in School Districts Repealing Native American Mascots.
Jennica Vincent, MPP, 2013-14. Essay Title: Defining Community: The Impact of Student Civic Engagement.
Dennis Dugan, MPP, 2012-13. Essay Title: Applying a Collaboration Model to Collaboration Corvallis.
Chrysanthemum Mattison, MPP, 2011-12. Essay Title: Voluntary Contributions to Public Schools in California: Growth, Distribution, and Equity.
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10 III. SERVICE
A. Recent Professional Service:
1. Journal Editorships
Member, Editorial Board, Contemporary Political Theory, 2019-
Co-Editor, Contemporary Political Theory, 2015-19.
Associate Editor, Contemporary Political Theory, 2011-2015.
2. Program Reviews
External Reviewer, Political Science Department, Montana State University, 2015.
3. Other Professional Service
Member, Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Theory Committee. American Political Science Association, 2017-18.
Chair, Pi Sigma Alpha Award Committee for the best paper at the 2015 meeting of the Western Political Science Association, 2015-16.
Secretary-Treasurer of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy, 2014-18.
Member, Best Paper in Political Research Quarterly Committee, 2014-15.
Section Co-chair, Environmental Political Theory Section, Western Political Science Association meeting, March 28-30, 2013, Hollywood, California.
Co-Organizer, Workshop on Environmental Political Theory, at the annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, OR, March 21, 2012.
Political Theory Section Chair, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association meeting, Seattle, WA, October 13-15, 2011.
Member, Undergraduate Poster Session Selection Committee, meeting of the Association for Political Theory, Portland, OR, October 21-23, 2010.
Political Theory Section Chair, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association meeting, Victoria, BC. October 15-17. 2009.
11 Member, Foundations of Political Theory Council of the American Political Science Association, 2002-05.
B. Institutional Service at Oregon State:
Member, Provost Portland Bridge Committee, 2017-18.
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee for Michael Jones, 2017-18.
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee for Brett Burkhardt, 2017-18.
Chair, Third Year Review Committee for Christopher Stout, 2017.
Member, University Council on Student Engagement and Experience, 2016.
Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee for Alison Johnston, 2016-17.
Member, Faculty Senate Executive Committee, 2015-16.
Member, P&T Committee for Allison Hurst, 2015.
Member, Hybrid Course Development Pilot Program Review Committee, 2014-
Member, Faculty Senate, 2014-16.
Chair, Political Science Personnel Committee, 2013-14.
Member, Sociology search committee, 2013-14.
Member, Faculty Senate Budgets and Fiscal Planning Committee, 2013-14.
Member, American politics/political theory instructor search committee, 2013.
Chair, School of Public Policy mini-grant awards committee, 2012.
Member, Political Science Personnel Committee, 2010-13.
Member, Law, Crime and Justice position search Committee, 2010-11.
Member, Humanities Center Advisory Board, 2010-12.
Member, CLA Budget Committee, 2010-12.
December 2019
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