Dustin Ells Howes Department of Louisiana State University 219 Stubbs Hall Baton Rouge, LA 70803 W 225-578-2619 [email protected]

POSITIONS HELD

David J. Kriskovich Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Fall 2014 –– present.

Associate Professor, Louisiana State University. Fall 2013 –– present.

Assistant Professor, Louisiana State University. Fall 2008 –– Spring 2013.

Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Fall 2006 –– Spring 2008.

Visiting Assistant Professor, State University of New York, Oswego, New York. Fall 2005 – Spring 2006.

EDUCATION

University of North Carolina; Chapel Hill, North Carolina — Ph. D. in Political Science 2005

University of Chicago; Chicago, Illinois — A.M. in Social Sciences 1996

University of Michigan; Ann Arbor, Michigan — A.B. in Political Science and Communications 1995

BOOKS

Freedom Without Violence: Resisting the Western Political Tradition. Under contract with Oxford University Press.

Toward A Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Possibilities of Politics. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009.

ARTICLES

“The Just War Masquerade.” The Peace Review. Forthcoming.

“The Failure of Pacifism and the Success of Nonviolence.” Perspectives on Politics. June 2013. Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 427-446.

“Creating Necessity: Well-used Violence in the Thought of Machiavelli.” For a double issue of symplokē on violence, 2012, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2, pp. 145-169.

“Torture Is Not a Game: On the Limitations and Dangers of Rational Choice Methods.” Political Research Quarterly. March 2012. Vol. 65, No. 1, pp. 20-27.

1 “Terror In and Out of Power.” European Journal of Political Theory. January 2012. Vol. 11, No. 1: 25-58.

“Conservative Democratic Thought and the War on Terror.” Review essay in Human Rights Review. 2010. Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 135-149.

“‘Consider If This Is a Person’: Primo Levi, Hannah Arendt and the Political Significance of Auschwitz.” Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Fall 2008. Vol. 22, No. 2: 266-292.

“When States Choose to Die: Reassessing Assumptions About What States Want.” International Studies Quarterly. 2003. Vol. 47, No. 4: 669-692.

BOOK CHAPTERS

“Defending Freedom with Civil Resistance in the Early Roman Republic.” In Civil Resistance: Process and Practice. Edited by Kurt Schock. Minneapolis, MN: Press, forthcoming.

“Nonviolent Liberation.” In Nonviolence: A Reader. Edited by Bidyut Chakrabarty. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

“Two Meanings of Violence.” Lead essay in Ruminations on Violence edited by Derek Pardue. Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2008.

GRANTS

Board of Regents ATLAS Grant ($43, 070). “Freedom and Violence.” Fall 2011- Summer 2012.

Manship Summer Research Award ($9,000). “Liberation” and “The Capacity for Freedom.” Summer 2011.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland Faculty Development Grant ($2,500). “Toward a Credible Pacifism.” Spring 2007.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Review of Laura Sjoberg's Gendering Global Conflict: Toward a Feminist Theory of War for a symposium in Perspectives on Politics, forthcoming.

“The Nonviolent 99.” For #OccupyThought on the New Everyday, a Media Commons project. March 15, 2012.

Review of Frames of War by Judith Butler and States of Violence edited by Austin Sarat and Jennifer Culbert. Perspectives on Politics, December 2010, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 1187-1190.

“How Effective is Torture? Not Very.” Op-ed in The Times-Picayune, April 25, 2009.

Review of Anthony J. Parel’s Gandhi’s Philosophy and the Quest for Harmony. Political Studies Review, September 2009, p. 379.

2 “Political Theory.” Entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. New York: Macmillan, 2007.

“Thomas Hobbes.” Entry in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2nd Edition. New York: Macmillan, 2007.

“The Sense Behind Senseless Violence.” For a special issue on . The River Gazette. Vol. 7, Issue 5, October-November 2007.

Opinion Pieces for the news website Waging Nonviolence: “Freedom and the Second Amendment” April 18th, 2013 “The Rhetoric and Reality of Violence” January 14th, 2011 “Is the Tea Party a nonviolent movement?” November 18th, 2010 “Gandhi and King on the Mavi Marmara” June 8th, 2010 “Emergency Nonviolence” January 18th, 2010 “Getting Real in the New Year” January 5th, 2010

SELECTED INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Guest on Third Place (3dP) episode discussing the first anniversary of the Occupy Movement. WHYR 96.9 Community Radio, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. November 1st, 2012.

Guest Lecturer for the colloquium “Gandhi and His Legacies.” Sponsored by the Department of English and Professor Gaurav Desai. Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana. April 24th, 2012.

Plenary Speaker for the international symposium The Politics and Aesthetics of Nonviolence. University of Verona, Verona, Italy. June 2-4, 2011. Other plenary speakers included Paul Kottman of the New School for Social Research, renowned war photographer Louie Palu, Fulvio Manara of the University of Bergamo and members of the Combatants for Peace, Nouraddin Shehaddah and Ricki Levi. Sponsored by the Finnish Centre for Conceptual Thought and Political Change.

Roundtable on Toward a Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Possibilities of Politics. With Randall Amster, Barry Gan, Amy Hubbard, Michael Nagler, Amy Shuster and David Smith. At the meeting of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 9th and 10th, 2009.

“The Problem with Pacifism and How to Fix It.” Public lecture at Lemoyne College. Sponsored by the Center for Peace and Global Studies, the Department of Political Science and the Lectures Committee. March 25th, 2010. Syracuse, NY.

“A Conversation With Heather Raffo.” As Part of Ms. Raffo’s presentation of monologues from her award-winning one-woman play about Iraqi women, entitled 9 Parts of Desire. October, 2007, St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

“A Conversation with Kevin Phillips on Wealth and Democracy.” Panel participant at the Institute for the Arts and Humanities at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Spring 2004.

3 SELECTED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

“Liberty As Life: The Origins of the Concept of Defending Freedom.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Association for Political Theory. Madison, Wisconsin. October 18th, 2014.

“The Plebs Never Fought For Their Freedom.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Western Political Science Association. Seattle, Washington. April 17th, 2014.

“Nonviolent Liberation.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Western Political Science Association. Hollywood, California. March 28th, 2013.

“The Modern Origins of the Concept of “Defending Freedom.” Paper presented at the meeting of the Peace and Justice Studies Association Meeting. . Boston, Massachusetts. October 5th, 2012.

“Pacifist Freedom.” Paper presented at the 2011 meeting of the American Political Science Association. Seattle, Washington, September 1st – 4th, 2011.

Chair of the Roundtable on the 80th Anniversary of the Great Salt March. With David Cortright of the University of Notre Dame, Lloyd and Susanne Rudolph of the , and Ronald Terchek of the University of Maryland. 2010 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September 2nd – 5th, 2010.

“Terror In and Out of Power.” Paper presented at the 2010 Meeting of the International Studies Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 17th – 20th, 2010.

“Freedom and Violence.” Paper presented at the 2009 meeting of the Association for Political Theory, College Station, Texas, October 23rd and 24th, 2009.

“How Terrorism Challenges Liberal Conceptions of Violence” Paper presented at the 2007 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, August 30 – September 2, 2007.

“Strange Realism: Reassessing Machiavelli’s Economy of Violence.” Paper presented at the 2006 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 31 – September 1, 2006.

“The Challenge of Violence for Political Theory.” Paper presented at the 2003 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, August 28 – August 31, 2003.

“If This is A Person: Primo Levi and the Possibility of Community.” Paper presented at If This is a Man: The Life and Legacy of Primo Levi, a conference of the Hofstra University Cultural Center, Hempstead, NY, October 22nd – October 24th, 2002.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Louisiana State University, Assistant Professor: Graduate Seminar: “Democratic Political Thought.”

Undergraduate Classes:

4 “Nonviolence in Theory and Practice.” “Theories of Freedom.” “Introduction to Political Theory.”

Honors College Seminar: “The Twentieth Century: Standup Politics.”

St. Mary’s College of Maryland, Assistant Professor: Seminars: “Stand-Up Politics.” “Violence and Politics.”

Core Courses: “Modern Political Thought.” “Classical Political Thought.” “Democratic Political Thought.” “Introduction to Politics.”

State University of New York, Oswego. Assistant Professor: “Ancient Political Thought.” “History of Political Thought.” “American Government.” “Critical Thinking in Politics.” “Introduction to Politics.”

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Instructor: “Problems in World Order: Violence and Politics.”

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Teaching Assistant: “ and World Politics.”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Co-Chair of the Program Committee for the Association for Political Theory, 2010 Meeting at Reed College, Portland, Oregon. With Keally McBride, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of San Francisco.

Graduate Education Committee Member. Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. Fall 2008 – present.

Ad-Hoc Assessment Committee Member. Department of Political Science at Louisiana State University. Fall 2008 – Spring 2009.

Association for Political Theory. Program Committee Member. 2007 and 2008.

Perspectives on Politics Book Review. Assistant to the Editors. March 2003 – June 2005.

American Political Science Review Book Review. Assistant to the Editors. June 2002 – February 2003.

5 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Research Assistant to Stephen Biddle. Fall 1998- Spring 1999. Assistance with book project Military Power: Explaining Victory and Defeat in Modern Battle (Princeton University Press, 2004).

Detroit Area Study, Student Researcher. Institute for Social Research. 1994. Principal Investigator: Charlotte Steeh.

HONORS AND AWARDS

University of North Carolina Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, Spring 2002.

University of North Carolina Academy of Distinguished Teaching Scholars, member, Spring 2002.

University of North Carolina Department of Political Science John Patrick Hagen Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student, Spring 2001.

Phi Beta Kappa, University of Michigan, 1995.

Honors in Communications, University of Michigan, 1995

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