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Curriculum vitae

Ellen Kennedy

Degrees: 1977: Ph.D., , The London School of Economics & 1970: M.A., Political Science, Indiana University 1968: B.A., Political Science, cum laude Trinity College

Academic appointments:

2003–present: Professor of Political Science

1992-2003: Tenured

1989-1991: Associate Professor of Political Science The University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA. 19104-6215 USA

1987-88: Lecturer in The University of London London, UK

1977-87: Lecturer in Politics, The University of York York, UK

1975-77: Lecturer in Government The University of Manchester Manchester, UK

Other appointments:

1970-73: Congressional staff, Office of the Director, U.S. National Institutes of Health 1968-69: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Management Internship

Research grants & fellowships:

2001: Gentle Foundation Grant (with Anne Norton) 2001: Research Foundation Grant, University of Pennsylvania 2

1999: Study & travel grant, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation 1999: Gentle Foundation Grant (with Anne Norton) 1996: Royal Institute of International Affairs, Travel Grant 1993: Research Foundation Grant, University of Pennsylvania 1989: Research Foundation Grant, University of Pennsylvania 1989: Mellon Foundation Visitor, The 1981-83: Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation 1983-84: Friedrich Ebert Foundation 1979: The British Academy 1978: The Nuffield Foundation

Publications:

Books & Monographs:

Constitutional Failure. Carl Schmitt in Weimar (Duke University Press, 2004)

The Bundesbank (“Key Institutions of German ” series, ed. Robert Gerald Livingston, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997)

The Bundesbank: ’s Central Bank in the International System (Royal Institute of International Affairs & the Council on Foreign Relations, 1991; New York: The Council on Foreign Relations, 1991)

Freedom & the Open : 's Contribution to (Garland, 1987)

Women in Western Political Philosophy (co-edited with Susan Mendus) (Harvester, 1986)

Carl Schmitt: the Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy (Carl Schmitt, Die geistesgeschichtliche Lage des heutigen Parlamentarismus 1923) (translated with critical notes, bibliography and introduction); (MIT,1985; fifth printing, 1996)

Articles:

"The Politics of in Weimar", University of Texas Law Review, March 1999, vol. 77 no.4, pp 1079-1093

"Hostis not inimicus: Toward a theory of the public in the work of Carl Schmitt", The Canadian Journal of Law & January 1997, vol X, no 1 pp 35-47. reprinted in Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt's Critique of (ed. D.Dyzenhaus) (Duke, 1998), pp 92-108

"Comments on The Basic Law & the Economic System" in Kommers (ed.) Germany & Its Basic Law. Past, Present, Future – A German American Symposium ( Verlag, 1993), pp 355-362.

"Politischer Expressionismus" in Quaritsch (ed.) Complexio Oppositorum (: Duncker & Humblot, 1987), pp 233-265.

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Japanese reprint in Masanori Shiyake & Keita Koga (eds & transl.),Das Erbe von Carl Schmitt (1993), pp. 144-174.

"Carl Schmitt und Hugo Ball: ein Beitrag zum Thema Politischer Expressionismus", Zeitschrift für Politik (Vol. 35, nr. 2, 6/1988), pp. 143-162.

"Carl Schmitt & the ", (Nr. 71, Spring, 1987), pp.37-66.

"Carl Schmitt & the Frankfurt School: a rejoinder to critics", Telos (Nr. 73, Fall,1988), pp. 101-116.

“Toward a theory of state and ” in Lawrence Freeman (ed.) Britain in the World Today (Cambridge University Press: 1988), pp. 143-163.

“Carl Schmitt”, Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Political Institutions, (ed. Vernon Bogdanor) (Oxford: Blackwells,1987) pp. 552-553

“ and Otto Gross: On the relationship between science, politics and eros in Wilhelmine Germany”, translated with comments, History of Political Thought (Vol VIII, Nr. 1, Spring 1987), pp131-152.

"Carl Schmitt und die Frankfurter Schule", Geschichte und Gesellschaft (Vol. 12, Nr. 3, 1987), pp 380-419.

„Introduction to Women in Western Political Philpsophy“, Ibid, pp1-20 [with Susan Mendus]

„Nietzsche: Woman as Untermensch“ in Kennedy & Mendus, Women in Western Political Thought, pp. 179-201

“From to Führerstaat: Carl Schmitt’s Political Theory 1928-1936”, German (Vol. 3, Spring 1986), pp. 57-61.

"Rechtsstaat or ?" Introduction to Hermann Heller, Economy & Society (Vol. 16, Nr. 1, 1985) pp. 120-142.

"Carl Schmitt in West German Perspective", West European Politics (Vol. 7, Nr. 3, July, 1984, pp.120-127.

"Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer freien Gesellschaft in der politischer Theorie von Hermann Heller", Christoph Müller & Ilse Staff (eds.), Der soziale Rechtsstaat. Gedächtnisschrift für Hermann Heller, 1891-1933. (Baden-Baden: Nomos Verlag,1983), pp. 347-366.

"The Politics of toleration in late Weimar", History of Political Thought (Vol. V, nr. 1, Spring,1984), pp.109-127.

“Review Essay on Joseph Bendersky,Carl Schmitt. Theorist for the Reich”, History of Political Thought, (Vol. IV, Nr. 3, Winter 1983), pp. 579-589.

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“Bergson’s Philosophy & French political doctrines: Sorel, Maurras, Peguy and deGaulle”, Government & Opposition (Vol. 15, Nr. 1 Winter, 1979) 5

Books, articles & roundtables concerning my work:

Harmuth Becker, Die Parlamentarismuskritik bei Carl Schmitt und Jürgen Habermas (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1994) 172pp.

Center for the Study of Contemporary Germany, Johns Hopkins University, „Roundtable on The Bundesbank” during the IMF meetings, Spring 1999.

Martin Jay, „Reconciling the Irreconcilable? A rejoinder to Kennedy”, Telos (Nr.71, Spring 1987), pp 67-80.

Alfons Söllner, “Beyond Carl Schmitt: Political Theory in the Frankfurt School”, Telos (Nr. 71, Spring 1987) pp 81-97.

Ulrich K. Preuß, “The Critique of German Liberalism: A reply to Kennedy”, Telos, ( Nr. 71, Spring 1987), pp. 97-110.

Invited Lectures:

2004: “Carl Schmitt’s Die Diktatur” , History of Political Thought Seminar, Cambridge University

2004: “Reading Schmitt’s Theorie des Partisanen today”, “The International Political Thought of Carl Schmtt” SGIR Conference, The Hague, Netherlands

2002: “The Rise & Impact of the Social Sciences”, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

2000: “The Economic Complications of Political Pluralism – Weimar to Bonn”, Conference, “Beyond Markets“,

1999: “Constitutional Narrative” Alexander von Humboldt Foundation International Conference, Deutsche Umbrüche im 20. Jahrhundert, Bamberg, Germany

1997: „The New European Monetary System“, Warsaw, Poland

1996: “Roundtable on ” The American Political Science Association Conference

1995: “Law & Society in Modern Germany”, Center for European Studies, Harvard University

1995 “Democracy & its Undemocratic Elements”, The President’s Lecture Series, The , Indiana

1992: “Constitutional Failure: civil and public law in the ”, The American Political Science Association Conference

1991: “Germany & Russia in the 20th century in comparative perspective”, The University of Pennsylvania 6

1990: “Opinion & Slogan. Dilemmas of the post-modern state”, The American Political Science Association Conference

1989: “Constitutionalism in Germany and America”, The University of Pennsylvania

1988: “Who should defend the ? Schmitt v. Heller”, The American Historical Association

1987: “Sovereignty”, Britain in the World Today, King’s College, London

1986: “Politischer Expressionismus” Conference on Carl Schmitt, Speyer, Germany

1984: “Carl Schmitt und die Frankfurter Schule”, Die Frankfurter Schule und die Folgen, Internationa Conference, Ludwigsburg,Germany

1983: „Möglichkeiten und Grenzen einer freien Gesellschaft in der politischen Theorie Hermann Hellers“, Free University of Berlin, West Berlin, Germany, 1983

1980: Weber’s Politik als Beruf and Carl Schmitt’s Der Begriff des Politischen”, German Historical Institute, London, England.

University & Professional service:

University of Pennsylvania:

Graduate Executive Committee, Political Science, 2002-present

Graduate Group, German, 2003 -present

Graduate Group Committee, The Lauder Institute, 2003-present

School Based Master’s Advisory Committee, 2003-present

Provost’s Task Force on Study Abroad, Advisory Committee for Eastern and Central , 2002-2003

Chair (with Anne Norton) “The Modern Setting of the Classical Text” An international Conference sponsored by the Gentle Foundation, The University of Pennsylvania, 2003.

Pilot curriculum course, “War, violence and political vision” (with Anne Norton) Spring 2002.

Undergraduate Committee, Department of Political Science (2001-2002)

Pilot curriculum course, “The Theory & Practice of Freedom” (with Paul Guyer & Sheldon Hackney), Spring, 2001.

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Penn Reading Project, ’s Candide, 2001

Penn Reading Project, “Kafka’s Metamorphosis”, 2000

Chair (with Anne Norton), “Reflections on 1729-1797”, An International Conference sponsored by the Gentle Foundation, The University of Pennsylvania, Spring, 1999

Graduate Executive Committee, Department of Political Science (1997-2000)

Appointments committee, Deutsche Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Visiting Professorship (1991-1999)

MLA committee, College of General Studies (1997-present)

Graduate Chair, Department of Political Science (1991-93)

Provost’s Task Force on Study Abroad Program, Advisory Committee for Programs in Western Europe, 1991-1995.

Program & Planning Committee, School of Arts & Sciences (Dean Rosemary Stevens), (1990-93)

Senate Executive Committee, (1992-93)

Undergraduate Chair, Department of Political Science (1989-90)

Personnel Committee, Department of Political Science (Spring 1989)

Curriculum innovation:

Political Science 498: The Political Novel, Spring 2002 [ Honors Seminar

Political Science 001: Introduction to Political Science, Fall Semester, 2000

Political Science 198, Modern Germany, Fall 1990 [Freshman Seminar]

MLA Capstone seminars:

Politics & Art: Fall semester, 2003

Greece & Rome: theory & history in the ancient world: Fall Semester 2001

Faculty of the International Summer School in Political Science & International Relations, Poland (1993-98) A "senior" school for Professors & Lecturers in the former Soviet Union and Central Europe, funded by the Soros & Ford Foundations. Among the faculty were: Karol Soltan (Maryland), Ken Jowett (Berkeley), 8

Steve Fish (Berkeley), Pratap Metha (Harvard), Tom Schwartz (Calf Institute of Technology), Jack Knight (Wash U), Andrew Arrato (New School).

Research grant proposal review board, Chateaubriand Fellowships, France, 2002

Ad hoc committee [tenure review], Harvard University, 1997