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Updated 8/2018 Patrick J. Deneen, Ph.D. Department of Political Science Voice: 574-631-7659 2019 Nanovic Jenkins Halls Fax: 574-631-4405 University of Notre Dame E-mail: [email protected] Notre Dame, IN 46556 DEGREES Rutgers University, Ph.D., 1995: Political Science Rutgers University, B.A., 1986: English, Highest Honors OTHER UNIVERSITIES ATTENDED Universität Düsseldorf, Germany: 1992-1994 The University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought: 1986-1987 Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland: 1984-1985 CURRENT POSITION Professor of Political Science, University of Notre Dame David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair of Constitutional Studies PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSTS University of Notre Dame. Associate Professor Political Science, 2012-2018. Georgetown University. Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government, 2005-2012 Georgetown University. Visiting Assistant Professor, Georgetown University, 2004-5. Princeton University. Assistant Professor of Politics, 1997-2005 PREVIOUS POSITIONS U. S. Information Agency, Washington, D.C. 1995-1997. Special Advisor and Speechwriter to the Director FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS ISLA, Small Faculty Grant, in support of archival research on Mark Kingsbury Simkhovitch (Harvard University), 2017. Nanovic Institute, University of Notre Dame. Grant for Scholarly Collaboration. Rome, Italy. Summer, 2015. Madison Program Fellowship, Princeton University. Ann and Herbert W. Vaughan Visiting Fellow, James Madison Program on American Ideals and Institutions, Princeton University. 2008-09. 2001 APSA Foundations of Political Theory Section Best First Book Honorable Mention. Higher Education Initiatives Summer Grant, Summer, 2002. Laurence S. Rockefeller University Preceptorship, Princeton University, 2000-2003. James Madison Program Research Fellowship, Princeton University, 2001. Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 1999; 2001-2002; 2005 Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Award, 2001. Center for the Study of Religion Faculty Fellow, Princeton University, 2000-2001. Princeton University Committee on Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences Award, 1999. Pew Scholar Fellowship, 1999-2000. 1995 APSA Leo Strauss Award - Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy SCHOLARSHIP Books - Published 1. The Odyssey of Political Theory: The Politics of Departure and Return. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000; Paperback, 2003. • Awarded 2001 APSA Foundations of Political Theory Best First Book Honorable Mention. 2. Democratic Faith. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005. 3. Conserving America: Essays on Present Discontents. South Bend, IN: St. Augustine Press, 2016. 4. Why Liberalism Failed. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. January, 2018. • Paperback edition (with New Preface), January 2019. • Audiobook Edition, June 2019 • Spanish Language edition, May 2018. • Other language editions currently in production: French, German, Korean, Italian, Croatian, Hungarian, Portuguese (Brazil and Portugal editions), Polish, Serbian, Ukranian, Danish. Edited Books Redeeming Democracy in America. Co-edited with Susan J. McWilliams. University Press of Kansas, 2011. The Democratic Soul: A Wilson Carey McWilliams Reader. Co-edited with Susan J. McWilliams. University Press of Kentucky, 2011. Democracy’s Literature: Politics and Fiction in America. Co-edited with Joseph Romance. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. Articles or Chapters in Books Refereed “Hegemonic Liberalism and the End of Pluralism,” in The Role of Church in a Pluralist Society – Good Riddance or Good Influence? Ed. Cornelius Casey and Fainche Ryan. Forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press, 2019. “Defending the Indefensible Liberal Consensus,” in In Search of the Ethical Polity: Critical Essays on the Work of Jean Bethke Elshtain. Ed. Debra Erickson and Michael LeChevallier. Forthcoming, University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. 2 “The Public Intellectual as Teacher and Student as Public.” Public Intellectuals In the Global Arena: Professors or Pundits?, Ed. Michael Desch. University of Notre Dame Press. 2016. “How Swiss is Ben Barber? Participatory Democracy and the Problem of Scale.” Strong Democracy in Crisis. Edited by Trevor Norris. Lexington Books, 2016. “Conservatism in America? A Response to Sidorsky,” in NOMOS: American Conservatism, ed. Sanford Levinson and Joel Parker (New York: New York University Press, 2016). “Religious Liberty After Liberalism: Rethinking Dignitatis Humanae in an Age of Illiberal Liberalism.” Communio 40:2 (Summer/Fall, 2013). “The Great Combination: Modern Political Thought and the Collapse of the Two Cities,” in Political Theology, ed. Michael Kessler, Oxford University Press, 2013. “Cities of Man on a Hill.” American Political Thought, 1:1 (Spring, 2012): 29-52. “What G.K. Chesterton Saw in America: The Cosmopolitan Threat from a Patriotic Nation.” In America Through European Eyes, Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008/9. “Faith and Reason in Henry Adams’s Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres.” In A Political Companion to Henry Adams, ed. Natalie Taylor. University Press of Kentucky, 2009. “Democratic Prospects in Undemocratic Times.” Invited concluding essay, Democratization: Comparisons, Confrontations, and Contrasts, ed. Jose Ciprut. Forthcoming, Cambridge U. Press, 2008/9. “The Alternative American Tradition in the Thought of Wendell Berry.” In Wendell Berry: Life and Work. Ed. Jason Peters. University Press of Kentucky, 2007. “The Only Permanent State: Tocqueville on Religion in Democracy,” forthcoming, Talking About Religion in Academic Disciplines, ed. James Boyd White. University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. “Was Huck Greek?: The Odyssey of Mark Twain.” Modern Language Studies 32 (Spring, 2003): 35- 44. • Included in the Huck Finn: The Complete Buffalo and Erie County Public Library Manuscript – Teaching and Research Digital Edition, edited by Victor Doyno, 2003. “Invisible Foundations: Science, Democracy, and Faith among the Pragmatists,” Political and Legal Anthropology Review 26 (November, 2003). “Antigone and the Limits of Tragedy.” Polis 16 (Fall, 1999), 1-16. Non-Refereed “The Ignoble Lie,” First Things, April 2018. “Jean Bethke Elshtain and the Limits of Political Theory,” Preface to 2nd edition, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Augustine and the Limits of Politics, University of Notre Dame Press, 2018. 3 “Moral Minority,” First Things, April, 2017. “The Tragedy of Liberalism,” The Hedgehog Review, Winter, 2017. “A Republic of Front Porches,” in Front Porch Republic Manifesto. Wipf & Stock Books, 2017. “The Power Elite,” First Things, June, 2015. “The Future of the Liberal Arts,” in The Future of Liberal Education, ed. by Timothy W. Burns and Peter A. Lawler. New York: Routledge, 2015. “The Science of Politics and the Conquest of Nature.” In Science, Virtue and the Future of Humanity. Edited by Peter A. Lawler and Marc D. Guerra. Rowman & Littlefield, 2015. “After the Interregnum.” Academic Questions (Winter, 2014), 27:4, 268-375. “Manners and Morals: Or, Why You Should Not Eat the Person Sitting Next to You.” Jerusalem, Athens, and Rome: Essays in Honor of Rev. James V. Schall, S.J. Ed. Marc Guerra. St. Augustine Press, 2013. “Against Great Books.” First Things, January, 2013. “Unsustainable Liberalism.” First Things. May, 2012. “Wendell Berry and Democratic Self-Governance.” In Wendell Berry and The Modest Republic, I.S.I. Books, 2012. “The Science of Politics.” The New Atlantis, 2011. “The Crisis of the University and the Restoration of the Humanities.” New Atlantis, Winter, 2009. “Strange Bedfellows: John Dewey and Allan Bloom Against Liberal Education, Rightly Understood.” Invited essay, The Good Society (PEGS), 2008. “A Different Kind of Democratic Competence: Citizenship and Democratic Community.” Critical Review. 2008. “A House Divided: Peter Lawler’s America, Rightly Understood.” Perspectives on Political Science, 2008. “Technology, Culture and Virtue.” The New Atlantis 21 (Summer, 2008): 63-74. “Transcendentalism, Ancient and Modern: Brownson vs. Emerson.” Perspectives on Political Science. 2008. “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity in the Thought of Wilson Carey McWilliams.” Perspectives on Political Science, 2007. 4 “Rising Religious Pluralism? A Contrarian View.” In Religion and Politics in Germany and America. Edited by Kerstin Jager. Published by the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies, 2007. “From the Active Society to the Good Society: The Second Sailing of Amitai Etzioni.” Invited and Commissioned essay in The Active Society Revisited. Edited by Wilson Carey McWilliams. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. “Hearing Tocqueville in DeLillo’s White Noise.” Democracy’s Literature: Politics and Fiction in America, ed. Patrick J. Deneen and Joseph Romance. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. “Introduction: ‘There’s Nothing Political About American Literature’” to Democracy’s Literature: Politics and Fiction in America, ed. Patrick J. Deneen and Joseph Romance. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. “Ordinary Virtue.” Democracy and Excellence, ed. Neil Reimer and Joseph Romance. New York: Praeger, 2005. [Republished in Conserving America] “Christopher Lasch and the Limits of Hope. First Things. December, 2004: 26-30. “Citizenship as a Vocation.” Invited chapter in Tocqueville and American Political Life Today. Edited by Peter A. Lawler. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004. [Republished in Conserving America] “Desecration.” Society 39 (September, 2002): 48-52. “‘Lonesome No More’: Individualism and the Rise of Democratic Despotism.” Invited essay in The Hedgehog