LISA R. GILSON
Committee on Degrees in Social Studies Harvard University William James Hall, Third Floor 33 Kirkland St Cambridge, MA 02138 [email protected] +1 (703) 705-2085
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2019– College Fellow in Social Studies, Harvard University
EDUCATION
Yale University, New Haven, CT Ph.D. in Political Science (with distinction), May 2019 Dissertation: Another Romanticism: Rethinking Social Criticism from Rousseau to Tolstoy
Field Exams: Political Theory, American Politics, Comparative Politics
M.A. in Political Science, 2016
Tufts University, Medford, MA
B.A. in Political Science, summa cum laude, 2010
PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed
2020 “Whitman, White Revanchism, and the Dilemmas of Social Criticism,” American Political Thought 9, no. 1 (Winter 2020): 1-26.
2020 “Emerson on Critique and Political Agency” (revise and resubmit at Political Theory)
Review Essays
2020 “Theorizing White Nationalism: George Hawley’s The Alt-Right: What Everyone Needs to Knowâ” (forthcoming at American Political Thought).
Manuscripts in Preparation
2019 “‘But Color Sees You’: The Ideology of Whiteness in the American Far-Right and Critical Whiteness Studies” (presented at the 2019 American Political Science Association Conference).
2017 “The Alternative Right and the Renaissance of Romantic Nationalism” (presented at the 2017 American Political Science Association Conference).
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2016 “The Romantic Roots of Nonviolent Resistance” (presented at the 2016 Association for Political Theory Conference).
BOOK MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Romantics as Critics: Reshaping the Practice of Social Criticism (book proposal available upon request)
HONORS, AWARDS & FELLOWSHIPS
2018-2019 Fox International Fellowship at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University 2017 Yale CTL Teaching Prize Nomination (university-wide) 2017 Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Research Fellowship 2015-2016 Yale University Dissertation Fellowship 2015 Yale GSA Conference Travel Award 2013 Yale Summer Language Institute Fellowship 2011-2012 Yale University Sterling Prize Fellowship 2010 Phi Beta Kappa 2010 Tufts University Class of 1942 Prize 2010 Tufts University James Vance Elliot Prize 2009 Pembroke College Book Award Prize 2008-2009 Visiting Student Fellowship at Pembroke College, Oxford University 2006-2007 National Merit Scholarship
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS & PARTICIPATION
2019 “Romantics as Critics: Reshaping the Practice of Social Criticism,” Association for Political Theory Conference Book Proposal Workshop, October 25.
“‘But Color Sees You’: Racial Aesthetics in the American Far-Right and Whiteness Studies.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 29.
“Individualizing Dissent: Emerson and the Problem of Critical Agency.” American
Political Thought Conference, May 31.
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau as a Romantic Social Critic,” Young Rousseauists Conference, Société Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Geneva, Switzerland, May 8.
“Walt Whitman and White Revanchism.” Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory, April 13.
2 2018 “Countering White Revanchism: Whitman and the Promise of a Democratic Culture.” Association for Political Theory Conference, October 20.
“Walt Whitman’s Pragmatist Nationalism and the Obstacles to Ethical Unity.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 31.
“The Renaissance of Romantic Nationalism,” invited presentation for Democracy in
Decline? The Challenge of Global Populism Conference at the University of Delaware, May 4.
“Walt Whitman, Romantic Nationalism, and the Politics of Reconstruction.” Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, March 30.
2017 “Remodeling Reform: Emerson’s New Social Critique for Antebellum America.” Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory, October 29.
“Legitimizing Ethnic Exclusion: Herder and Romantic Nationalism.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2.
“Beyond Populist Conservatism: Reframing Trumpism as Political Romanticism.” Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 7.
2016 “The Romantic Roots of Nonviolent Resistance” Association for Political Theory Annual Conference, October 22.
“Remodeling Reform: Emerson’s New Social Critique for Antebellum America.” American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 3.
“Rousseau’s Romantic Liberalism” Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 08.
2015 “Skepticism and the Conservative Impulse in Montaigne’s Political Thought,” New England Political Science Association Annual Conference, April 25.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE AND TRAINING
Teaching Areas:
History of Political Thought; American Political Thought; Contemporary Political Theory; Literature and Politics; Democratic Theory; Feminist Political Thought
Harvard University
Spring 2019 American Social Movements Spring 2019 Introduction to Social Studies (second semester) Fall 2018 Introduction to Social Studies (first semester)
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2014, 2018 Moral Foundations of Politics (writing intensive)
2016, 2017 Religion and Politics 2015 Capitalism and its Critics
2014, 2015 Introduction to Political Philosophy (writing intensive)
Tufts University
2011 Nietzsche’s Political Thought 2010 Liberty, Morality, and Virtue
2010 Introduction to American Politics
2009, 2010 Western Political Thought 2007 Constitutional Law
Other Teaching Experience:
2016, 2018 Instructor, Yale Young Global Scholars, Yale University. Seminars taught include: “Democracy and its Discontents,” “Civil Disobedience,” “Criminal Justice Reform.”
2014–2018 ESL Writing Tutor and Writing Partner for the Center for Teaching and Learning, Yale University.
2014–2017 GED Tutor for incarcerated men ages 16 through 21 at Manson Youth Institution, with Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, Cheshire, CT.
Completed Trainings:
2014 ESL Writing Tutor Training, Yale University
2014 Writing Intensive Teaching Training, Yale University 2014 Teaching in Political Science Training, Yale University 2014 Tutoring in Connecticut State Prisons Training
ACADEMIC WORK AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE
2018 Research Assistant, Prof. Bryan Garsten, Yale University Assistance with forthcoming book, The Heart of a Heartless World
2018 Research Assistant, Prof. Ian Shapiro, Yale University Assistance with forthcoming book on the politics of redistribution
2018 Research Assistant, Prof. Michael Graetz, Columbia University Assistance with forthcoming book on the politics of redistribution
2008–2010 Research Assistant, Prof. Robert Devigne, Tufts University Assistance with book chapter, “Michael Oakeshott as Conservative”
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2013–2014 Co-founder and Organizer, The Politics of Time and Value Reading Group, Yale University.
2009–2010 Lecture Coordinator, Political Science Department, Tufts University.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
2015– American Political Science Association (APSA) 2016– Association of Political Theory (APT) 2016– Midwestern Political Science Association (MPSA) 2018– American Historical Association (AHA)
LANGUAGES
English (Native), Spanish (Intermediate), French (Proficient), German (Reading), Hebrew (Reading)
REFERENCES
Bryan Garsten Ian Shapiro Professor of Political Science Sterling Professor of Political Science Yale University Yale University 115 Prospect Street 34 Hillhouse Avenue New Haven, CT 06520 New Haven, CT 06520-8206 [email protected] [email protected]
Karuna Mantena Giulia Oskian Professor of Political Science Assistant Professor of Political Science Columbia University Yale University 704 International Affairs Building 115 Prospect St Mail Code 3320 New Haven, CT 06520 New York, NY 10027 [email protected] [email protected]
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