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Educational Background

PhD in Political Science, McGill University, 1995. Dissertation: Descent & Dissent: Nietzsche's Reading of Two French Moralists. Supervisor: Charles Taylor.

MA in Political Science, McGill University, 1989 Research paper: John Dewey: A Fresh Look

BA, Monash University, 1984. First class honours in Political Science and a Major in English. Thesis title: The Liberation of the senses in Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

Career Current Position

Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

Previous Positions

2005-2013 Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Notre Dame

2008-2009 Faculty Fellow Murphy Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs Tulane University, New Orleans

2002-2005 Senior Lecturer Department of Politics & International Relations University of Kent at Canterbury

2000-2002 Lecturer in Political Theory, Department of Politics and International Relations, UKC

2000 Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Australia

1999-2000 Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

1999 Acting Director, Politics & Law Program, College of Law, University of Notre Dame, Australia

Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of Western Australia.

1997 Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Social & Political Sciences, Cambridge University (Michaelmas Term)

1996-1997 Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Western Australia (UWA); Part-time lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, Australia

1995 Lecturer in Philosophy & Assistant Dean, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Notre Dame, Australia; Sessional Lecturer, Department of Political Science, UWA

1994 Part-time Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Australia

1991-1992 Assistant Lecturer, Department of Political Science, McGill University

1990 Part-time Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, McGill

1985-1987 Full-time Tutor, Department of Politics, Monash University

Publications Monographs

Nietzsche’s Middle Period. Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. 208pp.

Reviewed in The Review of Metaphysics, 55, September 2001, 117-18; Mind Vol. 111, No. 442, April, 2002, 434-443; British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2002, 318-20; Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 80, No. 3, Sept. 2002, pp. 390-92

Charles Taylor. Princeton University Press and Acumen Publishing, UK, 2000 250pp.

Selected as one of the 2002 Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice Magazine; Reviewed in Radical Philosophy, 108, July-Aug, 2001, 52-54; Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 36, Issue 3, Nov. 2001, p. 618; Review of Politics, Vol. 64, No. 1, Winter 2002, 170-72; Thesis Eleven, #71, 1, 2002, 142-146;

Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 56, No. 1, Sept. 2002, 157-8; University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 71, No.1, Winter 2002; Philosophy in Review, XXII, No. 5, 2002; Carnegie Council, July 1, 2002 Ethics, Vol. 113, No. 2, January 2003, 456. Australasian Catholic Record, 2003; Political Theory, Vol. 32, No. 5, Oct. 2004, 723-733

The Return of Feminist Liberalism. McGill-Queens University Press, 2011. 326pp.

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Dec. 2011 Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, September 2012, 327–8. International Feminist Journal of Politics, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2013 Hypatia, 2013 http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/HRO/reviews/content/178

In Progress

Human All too Human: A Critical Introduction and Guide, The Edinburgh Guides to Nietzsche Series, Edinburgh University Press, Edited by Keith Ansell Pearson and Daniel Conway

Edited Volumes

In Progress

Cosmopolitan Civility: Global-Local Reflections in Honor of Fred Dallmayr

Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 220pp.

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2004.08.02; Heythrop Journal, 46 (2): 272-273 April, 2005; Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 34, No. 1, Winter, 2005, p. 63; Philosophy in Review, XXV, No. 1, 2005, 1-3;

Feminist Interpretations of Rawls. Part of the Penn State University Press Series Re- Reading the Canon. 2013

Reviewed in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/50412-feminist-interpretations-of-john-rawls/

Hypatia http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/HRO/reviews/content/223

Publications in Refereed Journals

Published

“Putting Cruelty First: Animals and the Liberalism of Fear”, Animals and Politics, pp. 25 - 36, dec. 2016. ISSN 2002-0295. http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/pa/article/view/15202

“Closer Kinships? Rortyan Resources for Animal Rights”, Contemporary Political Theory, 2016, First online March 22, 2016. doi:10.1057/cpt.2016.10

“Nietzsche and Swanton on Self-Love” Journal of Value Inquiry. Volume 49, Issue 3 (2015), Page 387-403

“Lotsa Gotcha Moments for the Deciders”, Contribution to Symposium on The Eyes of the People. Political Theory. April 2014, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 202-6.

[co-authored with Jeff Spinner Halev] “Rawls, Mill and the Problem of Political Liberalism”. Journal of Politics, 2013, pp. 1-13.

[co-authored with Sarah Hyde] ‘No Country for Older People? Age and the Digital Divide’, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, Vol. 7. No. 4, 2009, pp. 225-242.

‘Bricks and Stones’, The Review of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2008 pp.1-6.

‘Rawlsian Resources for Animal Ethics’, Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 12, No. 1, Spring 2007, pp. 1-22.

`Back Toward a Comprehensive Liberalism? Justice as Fairness, Gender and Families’, Political Theory, Vol. 35, No. 1, Feb, 2007, pp. 1-24.

'Turning or Spinning? Charles Taylor’s Catholicism’, Contemporary Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 163-175.

‘Is Liberalism Now an Essentially Contested Concept?’ Journal of New Political Science, Vol. 27, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 461-480.

'Recognising Taylor Rightly: A Reply to Morag Patrick’, Ethnicities, 3 (1), March, 2003, pp. 115-131.

'Pluralism in Practice: The Political Thought of Charles Taylor’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol 5, No. 3 (Autumn 2002) pp. 98-123.

'Young Karl Does Headstands: A Reply to Daniel Brudney’, Political Theory, Vol. 30, No. 1, February 2002. pp. 151-156.

[co-authored with Douglas Den Uyl] 'The Chief Inducement? The Idea of Marriage as Friendship', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2001. 37-52

'Circles, Ladders and Stars: Nietzsche on Friendship’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 2.4. Winter, 1999. pp. 50-73.

'The Roots of Ressentiment: Nietzsche on Vanity'. New Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 3, nos. 3 & 4, Summer/ Fall, 1999 pp. 47-61.

'Charles Taylor and the Politics of Recognition: A Reply to Jonathan Seglow’, Political Studies, 47 (4) September, 1999. pp. 710-714

'Back to the Future: Marriage as Friendship in the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft'. Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 14, 3, Summer 1999. pp. 78-95.

[co-authored with Fredrick Appel] 'Domesticating Nietzsche: A reply to Mark Warren’ Political Theory. Vol 27, No. 1. February, 1999 pp. 121-25

'Mediocrity versus Meritocracy: Nietzsche's (Mis)reading of Chamfort'. History of Political Thought, Volume XIX, No. 3, Autumn 1998. pp. 457-483

'Nietzsche and the Invention of Invention' Journal of Nietzsche Studies. Issue 15. Spring 1998 pp. 1-14.

[co-authored with Fredrick Appel] 'Nietzsche and the Will to Politics'. Review of Politics. Winter, 1998 (January, Vol. 60:1) pp. 83-114

'Odd Bedfellows: Nietzsche and Mill on Marriage' History of European Ideas, Vol. 23, No 2-4, 1997. pp. 81-104

'More perspectives on communitarianism: A reply to Chandran Kukathas' Australian Quarterly Winter 1997. Vol 69, No. 2 pp. 73-82

'A Critique of Lynch’s Locke' Political Theory Newsletter. March, 1997. Vol 8 No 2 pp. 11-14

'Beyond Misogyny and Metaphor: Women in Nietzsche's Middle Period', Journal of the History of Philosophy (US). 34:2 April 1996 pp. 233-56

‘Crocodile Dundee or Davy Crockett? What Crocodile Dundee doesn't say about Australia’ (with Jo Crawford) Journal of Popular Culture (US) XXIII:4 1990. pp. 155- 175. This was an expanded version of an article that appeared in Meanjin 46, 2. June 1987. pp. 145-52.

'Caveat Emptor! The False Advertising of the New Right' The Australian Quarterly 59: 3 & 4 1987. pp. 290-296.

Chapters in Books

"Siblings under the Skin?: Charles Taylor on Believers and Sceptics in A Secular Age" for Religion and Atheism: Beyond the Divide eds. Richard Norman and Tony Carroll. Routledge, UK, 2016.

“Skilled Marksman and Strict Self-Examination: Nietzsche on La Rochefoucauld” in Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Philosophy (ed.) Rebecca Bamford, 2015, Rowman and Littlefield, pp. 13-32.

[co-authored with Naomi Choi] Entry on Charles Taylor, Encyclopedia of Political Thought, edited by Michael Gibbon. 2015. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

“Are Women Human? Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of Rights for Women”, for the Vindication of the Rights of Woman in the "Rethinking the Western Canon" series, Yale University Press, 2014. Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting, pp. 229-245.

“Theorizing Secularity 3: Authenticity, Ontology, Fragilization ” in Aspiring to Fullness in a Secular Age: Essays on Religion and Theology in the Work of Charles Taylor (eds.) Carlos D. Colorado and Justin D. Klassen, University of Notre Dame Press. 2014, pp. 98- 124.

“Biography of a Bibliography: Three decades of feminist response to Rawls”, Editor’s Introduction to Feminist Interpretations of Rawls, Penn State University Press Series Re- Reading the Canon, 2013, pp. 1-23

“Liberalism, Pluralism, Multiculturalism: Contemporary Debates”, Chapter 8 in Modern Pluralism: Anglo-American Debates Since 1880, edited by Mark Bevir, Cambridge University Press, New York, 2012, pp. 154-78.

“Human, All too Human: A Book for Free Spirits” in A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche: Life and Works (ed.) Paul Bishop, Camden House, New York, 2012, pp. 114- 134.

“Another Philosopher-Citizen: The Political Philosophy of Charles Taylor”, Political Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Catherine Zuckert, Cambridge UP. 2011, pp. 264-277.

Translated into Arabic, 2014.

“A Secular Age: The Missing Question Mark” in The Taylor Effect: Responding to A Secular Age, Cambridge Scholars, edited by Ian Leask, pp. 8-25. 2010.

Entry on Nietzsche for The Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Sage Publications. 2010. (This book received an "Outstanding Reference Source" award at the American Library Association midwinter meeting, 2011.)

'Charles Taylor: Sources of the Self ' Chapter 13 in Central Works of Philosophy Volume 5: The Twentieth Century: Quine and After, edited by John Shand, Acumen Press, 2006, pp. 268-290.

'The Primary Enemy? Monotheism and Pluralism’ in How Should We Talk About Religion? (ed.) James Boyd White. University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, pp. 211-229.

Chapter on Rights in Political Concepts: a Reader and a Guide. Iain MacKenzie, (ed.) Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp. 109-126.

Entry for Charles Taylor, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Thoemmes Press, May 2005. ---- A revised and translated version of this appears as ‘Charles Taylor’ in Eskildsen, Birgitte (Ed.) Slagmark: Tidsskrift for Idehistorie. Tema: Charles Taylor. Sommer, 2007. Nr. 49, pp. 15-24.

“Timely Meditations in an Untimely Mode: The Thought of Charles Taylor”, Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 2004. pp. 1-28.

‘Circles, Ladders & Stars: Nietzsche on Friendship’ in The Challenge to Friendship in Modernity, (eds.) P. King & Heather Devere. Reprint of article. 2000.

Invited Publications

“Freiheit – ein roter Faden im Werk von Charles Taylor”, Transit, Europaische Revue, Heft 49, Grenzen der Toleranz / Charles Taylors Landkarte, pp.79-81 (translated by the journal). http://www.iwm.at/transit/heft-49-grenzen-der-toleranz-charles-taylors-landkarte/

“Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family: Twenty Five Years Later”, Hypatia, 31 (3) Summer 2016, pp. 636-7. (From APSA roundtable I initiated, chaired and then ushered into publication.)

“Editor’s Introduction: Roundtable: Mark Redhead’s Reasoning with Who We Are: Democratic Theory for a Not so Liberal Era”, Review of Politics, Vol. 77, 2015, pp. 637- 39.

“How to Live Together in Difference: Redhead on Taylor”, Review of Politics, Vol. 77, 2015, pp. 669-74.

“Lumping It and Liking It: On reading the works of Nietzsche’s Middle Period”, Pli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy, ‘Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works,’ Vol. 25, 2014, pp. 131- 152.

‘Plus ça Change: Charles Taylor on Accommodating Quebec’s Minority Cultures’, Thesis Eleven, November 2009, Issue 99, pp. 71–92. - German Translation ‘Der Weg des Bürgers. Charles Taylor über die Integration vol kulturellen Minderhalten in Quebec’ in Wie Wollen wir leben? Das politische Denken und Staatsverständnis von Charles Taylor, (ed.) Ulf Bohmann, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 2014, pp. 289-314.

‘Comparativists and Cosmopolitans: Conversations across Cultures’ in Revista de Filosofia, 2008, 121, 40, January- April, pp. 45-63.

'Back to Baczko' (Review Article of Modern Social Imaginaries) by Charles Taylor for European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2006, pp.355-364

'Charles Taylor as a Postliberal Theorist of Politics’, in Perspectives on the Philosophy of Charles Taylor. Acta Philosophica Fennica. (eds.) Arto Laitinen and Nicholas H. Smith. Helsinki: The Philosophical Society of Finland. Vol. 71. 2002, 149-160.

'The Articulated Life: An Interview with Charles Taylor’, Reason in Practice, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2001, pp. 3-9

'Reply to Beiner & Calhoun’ Contribution to a discussion of Charles Taylor’s Political Thought. Cahiers du PEQ No. 19, June 2000, pp. 13-22.

'Communitarianism, Taylor-made. An Interview with Charles Taylor' Australian Quarterly. Vol 68 No 1. 1996 pp. 1-10.

I edited a version of Charles Taylor's 'The Stakes of Constitutional Reform' for William Dodge ed. Boundaries of Identity: A Quebec Reader, Lester & Denys, Toronto, 1992

'Between Ourselves - an Inconclusion' in William Dodge ed. Boundaries of Identity: A Quebec Reader, Lester & Denys, Toronto, 1992

‘Reading Between the Matrices: Conflicting Strategies in The Strategy of Conflict’ , York Centre for International and Strategic Studies, Working Paper, 9, York University, Toronto, 1991. (Available at www.yorku.ca/yciss)

Translation

(from French to English) Charles Taylor's 'The Stakes of Constitutional Reform' appears in Reconciling the Solitudes, (ed.) Guy La Forest, McGill-Queens University Press, Montreal 1993 pp. 140-54.

Book Reviews (since 2000)

2015 How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor by James K.A. Smith, The Los Angeles Review of Books.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/difficult-terrain-ahead-guide- recommended 2014 Dignity: Its History and Meaning by Michael Rosen for American Political Thought, Fall 2014, pp. 368-70.

Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth Century by Carol Pal, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 12, No. I, March, pp. 208-9.

Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy by Paul Raimond Daniels for Bryn Mawr Classical Review. http://www.bmcreview.org/2014/02/20140212.html 2013 Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights by Sue Donaldson and Will Kymlicka for Philosophy in Review.

Friendship: A Central Moral Value by Michael H. Mitias for AMITY The Journal of Friendship Studies, Vol. 1, pp. 89-91 http://amityjournal.leeds.ac.uk/files/2013/11/AmityjournalfirstissueRA28. 09.13FINAL.pdf

2012 Review Article covering Brake, Elizabeth. Minimizing Marriage: Marriage, Morality, and the Law; Overall, Christine. Why Have Children? The Ethical Debate; and Ramaekers, Stefan, and Judith Suissa. The Claims of Parenting: Reason, Responsibility and Society; for Philosophy in Review. Vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 9-15.

The Impossibility of Perfection: Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities of Ethics, by Michael Slote for Mind, pp. 11-15.

2011 Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. Vol. 38. No. 2, Spring, pp. 171-5.

Nietzsche’s Gay Science: Dancing Coherence. Philosophy in Review. Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 46-8.

Secularism and Freedom of Conscience, Notre Dame Philosophical Review, December.

2008 Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood. Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 6, No. 4, December, pp. 823-824.

2007 Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. July 30, 2007

Shaping the Future: Nietzsche’s New Regime of the Soul and Its Ascetic Practices. The Review of Politics, Vol. 69, 2007

2006 An Introduction to Political Theory Political Studies Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, May, 2006, pp. 185-186.

2005 Rebel Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment Politics http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/reviews/Gunther-Canada.htm

2004 Review of European Journal of Political Theory Times Higher Education Supplement, 24.4.2004, p. 35

Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator New Nietzsche Studies, Vols. 5: 3/4& 6:1/2, Winter 2003/ Spring 2004, pp. 220-224.

2001 Beyond the Persecuting Society (Journal of Religious History) Vol. 25, No. 1, Feb. pp. 96-98

The Collected Works of Harriet Taylor Mill (Hypatia), Vol. 16. No. 1 Winter. pp. 94-98

Popular Works

Entry on Charles Taylor for Encyclopedia Britannica, http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/939950/Charles-Taylor

‘Humanism and Enchantment: Charles Taylor’s Gifford Lectures’, Literary Review of Canada, Vol. 8, No. 2, March 2000, pp. 9-12.

‘Communitarianism’ Arena Magazine No. 26, Dec-Jan 1996/7.

Prizes & Awards

2008 Faculty Fellowship, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, The Murphy Institute, New Orleans 2005- 2010 John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Endowed Associate Professorship

2004 Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship British Academy Small Research Grant University of Kent Social Science Faculty Small Research Grant

2001 Summer Fellowship, St Johns College Oxford Small Research Grant, Faculty of Social Science, UKC American Political Science Association Senior Scholar Travel Grant

1999-2000 Research fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

1999 Australian Research Council Small Grant (declined)

1996-1998 University of Western Australia Postdoctoral Fellowship

1995 McGill Governor General's Gold Medal (top PhD student in the Human Sciences). McGill CB Jenckes Prize (most outstanding PhD student in Social Sciences & Humanities) Dean's Honours List for PhD Dissertation.

1993 McGill Principal's Dissertation Fellowship

1992 McGill Women's Centennial Fellowship

1987-1992 Australian Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship

Conference Participation & Seminar Papers (since 2000) 2016

Keynote Speaker, “Ethics and Ontology. The Moral Phenomenology of Charles Taylor” conference in Antwerp, Belguim, June.

2014

Chair and Organizer of Roundtable on the 25th Anniversary of Justice, Gender and the Family, APSA Annual Meeting, September Panelists – Brooke Ackerly, Elizabeth Beaumont, Michaele Ferguson, Nancy Hirschman, Joan Tronto.

2013

“Swanton and Nietzsche on Self-Love” Conference on Nietzsche and Virtue Ethics,

October, Guelph, Canada

Roundtable on The Return of Feminist Liberalism Midwest Political Science Association Conference, April, Chicago Other panelists - Charles Mills, Jill Locke, Monique Deveaux, Karie Cross

“Author-Meets-Critics Session for The Return of Feminist Liberalism, Society for Applied Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division Meeting, March, San Francisco Other panelists - Christie Hartley, Lori Watson, Charles Mills, Hugh LaFollette

2012

Participant in Roundtable on The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of Spectatorship Midwest Political Science Association, April Chair of panel on Nietzsche and Schmidt, Midwest Political Science Association, April

Visiting Speaker, Department of Political Science, UNC, Chapel Hill, March

Visiting Speaker, Social and Political Thought Workshop, Vanderbilt, October

2011

‘Comprehensive Liberalism Revisited’, co-authored with Jeff Spinner-Halev, Association for Political Theory, October.

‘Politics and the Internet’ Wednesday Luncheon, the Divinity School, University of Chicago, May.

2010

Discussant on Panel, “Democratic Politics and the Problem of Judgment”, APSA Annual Meeting, September.

Chair of Panel, “Feminist Interpretations of Rawls”, APSA Annual Meeting, September. “A Secular Age: A Walking Tour”, After Secularism Conference, Paris, June.

Keynote Speaker at Conference on Martha Nussbaum, Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice, May 6-7, University of Nottingham, England.

2009

‘The Challenges of Pluralism for Feminist Liberalism’ Conference on Modern Pluralism: Anglo-American Debates since 1880, Berkeley University, October.

Keynote Speaker at Conference on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, Dublin, Ireland, June

‘The Return of Feminist Liberalism’, Yale Political Theory Workshop, April.

2008

‘I have made this point before: Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age’, American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, August

‘So Polyphonous a Being: Friedrich Nietzsche in his Middle Period’ Conference on ‘Nietzsche and the Philosophical Life’, Texas Christian University, April.

2007

Respondent to Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers, Cosmopolitanism Conference, University of Notre Dame, September

Chair of Panel on 'Property and Justice' American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April.

Chair of Panel on 'Varieties of Liberalism' Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April

2006

Presented paper on 'Rawls and Gender', Dept of Political Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, November

2004

Participant in Roundtable discussion of The Logic of the History of Ideas by Mark Bevir, Political Studies Association Conference.

2003

March. 'Is Liberalism Now an Essentially Contested Concept?’ Department of Politics, Nottingham University and to York Political Theory Workshop, York University.

2002

July. Participant in Liberty Fund Summer Institute for 2.5 weeks at Jesus College, Oxford.

May. Videoconference Research Seminar with the Philosophy Dept., University of Natal, South Africa on Charles Taylor, monotheism and pluralism.

March. 'What is Postliberalism?’ Department of Politics, Reading University.

2001

September. 'Charles Taylor as a Postliberal Theorist of Politics’, Perspectives on the Philosophy of Charles Taylor Conference. Helsinki.

---Commentator on panel on 'Justice, Peace and National Interest’, European Consortium for Political Research Conference.

April. 'Monotheism and the Good(s): Charles Taylor vs Stuart Hampshire’, Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester.

2000

August. ‘By Circuitous Paths: Nietzsche’s Ethic of Care of the Self’. Panel on 'Another Nietzsche Morality and Politics in Nietzsche’s Middle Period’ American Political Science Association, Washington DC. I was also the chair of the panel.

June. Two week seminar on `How to Talk About Religion in Academic Disciplines’ at the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.

March. ‘Up Close and Personal: English-Australian Women Talk about Citizenship’ School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study,

Teaching Experience

Undergraduate Courses

Introduction to Philosophy Introduction to Political Theory Politics, Democracy and the State What is Friendship? Questions and Answers, Old and New Feminist Contributions to Political Theory Theories of Human Rights Rights, Freedoms and Individualism: Debates within Contemporary Liberalism Political Philosophy: Who Should Rule? What is Liberalism? Hobbes to Rorty. Nietzsche and Beyond: the origins of postmodernism Politics and the Internet The Better Angels of our Nature? Political Philosophy (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Mill) The Justice Seminar (co-taught with Paul Weithman in 2015 and Mary Keys in 2016)

Graduate Courses

Problems in Democracy. Education in Philosophical Thought

Nietzsche Landmarks in Contemporary Political Theory The Political Philosophy of Charles Taylor Varieties of Liberalism (Directed Reading) Environmental Political Thought (Directed Reading)

Supervision

Undergraduate

Senior Thesis Advisor for Michael Redding, AY 07-08 Capstone Essay, Gender Studies, Jennifer Gast Fall 2011 Senior Thesis Advisor for Lindsay Dun, AY 13-14 Winner of - 2013-2014 Genevieve D. Willis Senior Thesis Prize Competition in Gender Studies; - Guillermo O’Donnell Award for the best Senior Thesis in Comparative Politics

Summer 2016 – supervisor for Daniel Loesing’s summer research project on Liberalism and Multiculturalism

Graduate

External Supervisor of the PhD dissertation by Helen O’Grady on `The Politics of Therapy: Michel Foucault, Narrative Therapy, Women and Self-Policing’, Awarded 2001

Member of PhD committee of several Kent students.

Member of PhD committee for Tim Dale and Jarret Carty in Spring, 2006; Jeremy Johns in Fall 2007; Jeff Church Spring 2008; Krista Duttenhaver, Spring 2010; David McPherson (Philosophy, Marquette University) – Spring 2013; Kyle Beam – Spring 2016; Madeline Cronin – Summer 2016.

Continuing

Cameron O’Bannon; Vince Bagnulo; Karie Cross;

Member of PhD oral committee for two students in Philosophy Department – Brad Thames, Brian Pilkington. Member of PhD examining committee for Daniel Hicks, Philosophy Department. Member of Dissertation Proposal committee for Jordan Rodgers, Philosophy Department. External Member of Dissertation Proposal Committee for Ashley Drake, Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago.

Research Mentor for Visiting International Students:

Spring – Summer 2010, Ching-Pey Lin, PhD student funded by the Taiwanese National Research Council to study with me on the basis of my expertise on Charles Taylor. PhD has been completed.

Fall 2012, Paul Barry, PhD student funded by LaTrobe University, Australia, to study with me on the basis of my expertise on Charles Taylor. After Barry returned to Australia, I became an Associate Supervisor. PhD has been completed.

Spring - Summer 2015, Doris Ospina Muñoz, PhD student and Profesora Titular funded by Universidad de Antioquia-Colombia to study with me on the basis of my expertise on Charles Taylor.

Summer 2016 – Directed Individual Study with Justin Brophy on Charles Taylor Administrative Experience / Service (since 2000) NOTRE DAME

Departmental 2016-17

Individual Promotion Committee for Eileen Botting

2015-16

Individual Promotion Committee for Tanisha Fazal,

2014-15

Executive Committee

2013-14 On leave

2012-13

Interim Chair, Political Science Department

2011-12

Member of Committee on Appointments and Promotions Chair of Ad Hoc Committee writing section on future of department for departmental review

2010-11

Latin American Politics Search Committee (open rank; up to three positions)

2009-10

Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2010 On Leave (Fall 09)

2008-09

On Leave

2007-08

- Member of Committee on Appointments and Promotions - Member of Undergraduate Policy Committee - Member of Search Committee, American Politics - Chair, Political Theory Subfield

2006-07

- Member of Committee on Appointments and Promotions

2005-06

- Member of Mission & Diversity Committee - Member of Graduate Admissions Committee

College

2014-15

Social Sciences Representative on Gender Studies Steering Committee

2013-14

Member at Large for Sociology CAP Nanovic Graduate Dissertation Fellowship Committee

2011-12

Nanovic Institute for European Studies Faculty Committee

2007-08

Director, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Gender Studies Executive Committee Teachers as Scholars Program Ad Hoc appeals Committee for Graduate School 2006-07

Acting Director, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts Co-chair, Nanovic Institute, Film Series Committee

2005-06

Arts & Letters College Council Kaneb Teaching Award Committee Gender Studies Senior Thesis Prize Committee

University

Summer 2014 – Summer 2017

Interim Director, Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies

Keough School of Global Affairs Leadership Council (ex officio)

2015 -16

Development Ethics Search Committee

Spring 2014

Director of University Seminars

2014-15

Global Gateway Faculty Advisory Committee

2013-14

Search Committee for new director of Center for Civil and Human Rights Search Committee for new director of Kroc Institute Consultative Committee for School of International Affairs

2011-12

Mentor in Building Bridges Multiculturalism Program

2010-11

Speaker at Feminist Voice Panel, November

2007-08

Editorial Board Member, Notre Dame Press Residential Scholars Programme

2006-07

First Year of Studies Orientation Mentor in Building Bridges Multiculturalism Program

UKC

Faculty Representative on University Working Group on Institutional Audit

Faculty Representative on University Committee on Introduction of Personal Development Profiles Chief Examiner, Part II

Director of Student Support and Guidance (Senior Tutor) Director of Graduate Studies Chairperson of Staff-Student Liaison Committee

Director of BA in Politics Departmental Equality and Diversity Representative

Member of search committee for job in Japanese Politics, 2001 and 2003

Member of search committee for job in European Politics, 2003.

Member of search committee for job in European IR, 2004

Non-departmental member of search committee for job in Sociology, 2003. Departmental mentor for two new staff members.

PGCHE mentor for new member of staff

Departmental Representative at Chaucer College

Professional Activities (since 2000)

Continuing (since 2014) Consultant, Feminist Studies

2014 - 2016 Book Review Editor, The Review of Politics

2016 Reviewer for Flanders Research Foundation, Oxford University Press, Rowman and Littlefield International; Journal of Philosophical Research; Constellations; Journal of Social Philosophy; Ethical Perspectives; PS: Political Science and Politics; Res Publica; South African Journal of Philosophy; The Southern Journal of Philosophy; Program Committee for FEMMSS (Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies, Metaphysics and Science Studies; Jury member for dissertation defense by Michiel Meijer, University of Antwerp; Promotion to Full Professor for two candidates; 2015 Chair of the APSA Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy Committee; External Examiner for PhD Dissertation, McGill University Reviewer for British Journal for the History of Philosophy; Journal of Value Inquiry, Journal of Applied Philosophy, American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought; American Political Thought; European Journal of Political Theory; Ethics and the Environment; Review of Politics (x 2); American Political Science Review; Routledge; Journal of Social Philosophy; Social Theory and Practice; 2014 Reviewer for Israel Science Foundation; Research Foundation Flanders; Rowman and Littlefield; also Puff for Rowman and Littlefield; Oxford University Press.

Review of Politics (x4), British Journal for the History of Philosophy; Constellations; American Political Thought; Social Theory and Practice; Politics, Religion & Ideology; Sophia; Journal of Value Inquiry; Res Publica; Hypatia; History of Political Thought; 2008-14 Associate Editor, The Review of Politics 2013 Section Chair for Political Philosophy: Approaches and Themes for 2013 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting (cont.)

Reviewer for

Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press;

Hypatia; Review of Politics (x4); Politics, Groups and Identities; Feminist Studies (x2); Social Theory and Practice; Political Studies; Public Affairs Quarterly; History of Political Thought; Sophia; Constellations; Journal of Nietzsche Studies; Journal of Politics;

External Examiner for PhD Dissertation, University of Guelph (October)

2003-2013 Manager of Electronic Bibliography of works by and about Charles Taylor.

2012 Section Chair for Political Philosophy: Approaches and Themes for 2013 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting.

Reviewer for

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; The European Research Council; Research Foundation Flanders; Edinburgh University Press;

Review of Politics (x5); Hypatia; Social Theory and Practice; Environmental Philosophy; Journal of Politics; Journal of Homosexuality; Journal of Nietzsche Studies;

2011 Co-organizer (with Eileen Botting) of Notre Dame’s hosting of Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting in Fall 2011 Reviewer for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy; Feminist Theory; Political Theory; Review of Politics (x2); Constellations; Encyclopedia of Political Thought; Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; History of Political Thought;

External Examiner for PhD Dissertation, University of South Australia (August)

2010 Tenure Review for a large public research university (March) External Examiner for PhD Dissertation, University of South Australia (May)

Reviewer for European Journal of Political Theory; Southern Journal of Philosophy; History of Political Thought (x2); Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Review of Politics (x3); American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly; Human Studies; Constellations; Political Research Quarterly; Political Theory; Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy.

Radio Interview about Nietzsche for The Philosophers’ Zone, Australian Broadcasting Company, May.

2009

Reviewer for The Review of Politics x 3; Polity; The Journal of Nietzsche Studies; Social Theory and Practice; Reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program - Dissertation Completion Fellowships; Tenure Review a small liberal arts college; Tenure Review for a large, public research university. Radio Interview about Charles Taylor and A Secular Age for Encounters, Australian Broadcasting Company, June.

2008 Reviewer for Princeton University Press, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Asian Women; New Political Science; Review of Politics x 3; Hypatia; Religion and Literature; History of Political Thought; Journal of Political Philosophy; Global Society; Reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program - Dissertation Completion Fellowships 2007 Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, Review of Politics (x4), Critical Inquiry, Inquiry, History of Political Thought, Political Theory 2006 Reviewer for Harvard University Press, Contemporary Political Theory, Review of Politics, American Council of Learned Societies Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program - Dissertation Completion Fellowships

2005 Reviewer for Review of Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, Political Theory, South African Journal of Philosophy, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Inquiry, Adam Smith Review 2004

Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, UK, Political Studies, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, Inquiry, Contemporary Political Theory, Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, Hypatia, Political Theory

2003

Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, New York, Review of Politics; History of Political Thought, American Political Science Review

Opponent for PhD, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland

Senior Research Scholar on the History of Care Project, Georgetown University.

2002

Reviewer for Blackwell Publishing, USA, Global Society, The Journal of Political Philosophy, History of Political Thought, Political Theory, Review of Politics, Journal of Canadian Studies, Political Studies

2001

Reviewer for Political Studies, American Political Science Review, History of Political Thought

2000

Reviewer for The Review of Politics, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy