ALEX SCHULMAN Visiting Assistant Professor • ACLS New Faculty Fellow Duke University • Department of Political Science [email protected] • (301) 5265010 • 5016 Gable Ridge Drive, Durham, NC 22713
EDUCATION
June 2009 Ph.D., Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles Dissertation: “The Secular Contract: The Divine, the Human and the Politics of the Enlightenment”
Committee Chair: Dr. Anthony Pagden Additional Members: Dr. Joshua Foa Dienstag, Dr. Margaret C. Jacob
May 2003 B.A., Magna Cum Laude, English Literature, Brown University
BOOKS
The Secular Contract: The Politics of Enlightenment (New York and London: Continuum Books, 2011)
REFEREED ARTICLES
(Under review) “From Social Darwinism to Darwinian Liberalism: Toward an Excavation in the History of Political Thought,” Politics and the Life Sciences
(Forthcoming) “Solving the TheologicalPolitical Problem in The Merchant of Venice,” Perspectives on Politics
“Carl Schmitt and the Clash of Civilizations: The Forgotten Context,” Journal of Political Ideologies, forthcoming June 2012.
“The Sopranos: An American Existentialism,” Cambridge Quarterly, 39.1 (March 2010): 23 38.
“Kulturkampf and Spite: The Rehnquist Court and American ‘Theoconservatism,’” Law and Literature, 22.1 (Spring 2010): 4875.
1 “Stockholm Syndrome: Radical Islam and the European Response,” Human Rights Review, 10.4 (November 2009): 469492.
“The Twilight of Probability: Bayle, Locke and the Toleration of Atheists,” Journal of Religion, 89 (July 2009): 328360.
“Gothic Piles and Endless Forests: Wollstonecraft Between Burke and Rousseau,” EighteenthCentury Studies, 41.1 (Fall 2007): 4154.
“PurgePolitik: The Political Functions of Decadence in Fascism,” Human Rights Review, 8.1 (OctoberDecember 2006): 534.
“Testing Ideology Against Neorealism in Hitler’s Drive to the East,” Comparative Strategy, 25.1 (JanuaryMarch 2006): 3354.
BOOK REVIEWS
(Forthcoming) Contemporary Political Theory: Corey Robin, The Reactionary Mind (Oxford, 2011); JanWerner Muller, Contesting Democracy: Political Ideas in Twentieth Century Europe (Yale, 2011); and Carolina Armenteros, The French Idea of History: Joseph de Maistre and His Heirs, 17941854 (Cornell, 2011)
(Forthcoming) Contemporary Political Theory: Steven D. Smith, The Disenchantment of Secular Discourse (Harvard, 2010) and Bryan T. McGraw, Faith in Politics: Religion and Liberal Democracy (Cambridge, 2010)
Review of Politics, 71.3 (August 2009): Mark E. Button, Contract, Culture, and Citizenship: Transformative Liberalism from Hobbes to Rawls (Penn State, 2008)
INVITED PUBLICATIONS
(Forthcoming) Forum on Eric Santner’s The Royal Remains: The People’s Two Bodies and the Endgames of Sovereignty (University of Chicago Press, 2011), Journal For Religious and Cultural Theory
(Forthcoming) “Hobbes, Thomas” in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael T. Gibbons, Diana Coole, Elisabeth Ellis and Kennan Ferguson (Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell)
2 BOOK PROJECTS
Darwinian Liberalism: Evolutionary Pathways in Political Philosophy (Prospectus and sample chapters in preparation for submission)
The Fall of Elsinore: Rethinking Shakespeare, Politics and Philosophy (Prospectus and sample chapters in preparation for submission)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Fall 2011 Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science, Duke University Courses taught: Religion and Secularism in Political Theory; Left, Right and Center; Politics and Literature
Fall 2010 Visiting Lecturer, Political Science, Brown University Courses taught: Ethics and Public Policy
20092011 Lecturer, Social Studies, Harvard University Courses taught: Introduction to Social Thought; Shakespeare and Political Philosophy; Darwinism and Social Thought; Revolutions in Political Thought
Spring 2008 Mentored Teaching Fellowship, Political Science, UCLA Courses taught: The Enlightenment and its Critics
20052008 Teaching Assistant, Political Science, UCLA Courses taught: Introduction to Political Theory; Introduction to World Politics; American Political Thought 1865present
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND INVITED TALKS
Chair/Discussant, “Beyond Enclosure: The Political,” WPSA, March 2012
“Raze the Sanctuary: Shakespeare and the TheologicalPolitical Problem,” WPSA, March 2012
3 “Raze the Sanctuary: Shakespeare and the TheologicalPolitical Problem,” Political Theory Colloquium, Duke University Political Science Department, October 2011
“The Pagan Christ: On the Politics of Shakespeare’s Coriolanus,” APT, October 2011
“From Lear to the Leviathan: The State of Nature in Shakespeare’s Political Thought,” APSA, September 2011
Discussant, “Troubling Liberal Democracy,” APT, October 2010
Discussant, “Deliberating Deliberation,” APSA, September 2010
“The Myth(s) of Social Darwinism,” WPSA, April 2010
“Temporality, Secularism and Contract: On the Birth of Progress in Political Theory,” NPSA, November 2009
Chair/Discussant, “Feudal, Contractarian or Bourgeois? A Look at Rights and Individualism,” NPSA, November 2009
“Reflections on the (Other) Revolution in France: Marx and Tocqueville on the Ironies of 1848,” APT, October 2009
Chair, “Rethinking Teleology and Liberalism,” APSA, September 2009
“Carl Schmitt and the Clash of Civilizations: The Forgotten Context,” WPSA, March 2009
“The Politics of Diderot’s History of Philosophy in the Encyclopédie,” ASECS, March 2009
“Legitimacy in History: Enlightenment History Writing and the Idea of Secular Progress,” EC/ASECS, Georgetown University, November 2008
“The Lost Treasure of the Liberal Tradition,” APT, October 2008
Chair/Discussant, MPSA, April 2008
“The Well of the Caliph: Rousseau and lateEnlightenment Anxieties,” MPSA, April 2008
“Immanuel Kant and the Secular Contract,” APT, October 2007
4 “Albert Camus’s Existential Politics,” Conference on “Intellectuals and the Academy in Public Life,” Brown University, Department of History, May 2007
“The Twilight of Probability: Locke, Bayle and the Toleration of Atheists,” MPSA, April 2007
“Testing Ideology Against Neorealism in Hitler’s Drive to the East,” MPSA, April 2006
“Nietzsche Contra Luther,” MPSA, April 2006
“Toward a New North Atlantic Alliance,” MPSA, April 2005
“PurgePolitik: The Political Functions of Decadence in Fascism,” MPSA, April 2005
AWARDS
201113New Faculty Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies
20089 Dissertation Year Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
20078 Mentored Teaching Fellowship, University of California, Los Angeles
2004 Summer Graduate Research Mentorship, University of California, Los Angeles
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
20092011 Board of Advisers, Social Studies Program, Harvard University Additional duties: Course design, undergraduate advising, senior thesis grading and supervision, conducting oral exams
20078 Representative, Graduate Studies Committee, UCLA
OTHER SERVICE
Article referee: Review of Politics; Political Research Quarterly; American Journal of Political Science; Canadian Journal of Political Science; Eighteenth Century Thought
5 PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
American Political Science Association; Midwestern Political Science Association; Western Political Science Association; Northeastern Political Science Association; Association for Political Theory
REFERENCES Anthony Pagden UCLA, Phone: (310) 8259984, Email: [email protected] Joshua Dienstag UCLA, Phone: (310) 2675410, Email: [email protected] Andrew Sabl UCLA, Phone: (310) 8257196, Email: [email protected] Anya Bernstein Harvard, Phone: (617) 4952163, Email: [email protected] Michael Gillespie Duke, Phone: (919) 6604308, Email: [email protected]
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