Mary P. Nichols [email protected]
Professional Employment
Professor Emerita, Department of Political Science, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, 2018- present; Professor, 2004-2017; Chair, 2004-2010; Graduate Program Director, 2010-2012 Professor, Department of Political Science, Fordham University, Bronx, New York, 1993-2004; (Associate Professor, 1988-93; Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 1990-1992; Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, 1992-1998) Visiting Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University, Fall, 2000; Spring, 2002; Fall, 2003 Visiting Scholar for Honors Education, University of Delaware, 1986-1988 Associate Professor, Department of Politics, Catholic University of America, 1983-1986; Assistant Professor, 1978-1983 Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland, 1977-78 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois, 1974-77
Education Ph.D., University of Chicago, 1975 Thesis: A Commentary on Plato's Phaedrus Committee Chair: Joseph Cropsey M.A., University of Kansas, 1969 B.A., Newcomb College of Tulane University, magna cum laude, with honors in political science, 1968
Awards Leo Strauss Dissertation Award, “for the best doctoral dissertation completed and accepted in 1975 or 1976 in the field of political philosophy,” awarded by the American Political Science Association, September 1977
Fellowships Research Grant, Baylor University, Fall, 2008 Earhart Research Fellowship, 2004-05 Faculty Fellowship, Fordham University, 1994-95; Fall, 1999 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, Spring, 1994 NEH summer stipend, 1990 and 1982 Earhart summer stipend, 1988 NEH Fellowship for Independent Study and Research, 1984-1985 Earhart Research Grant, Spring 1980 William Rainey Harper Fellowship, University of Chicago, 1972-1973
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Publications
Books
Thucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2015)
Plato’s Euthydemus (with Gregory McBrayer and Denise Schaeffer), trans. and commentary (Newburyport, MA: Focus Publishing, 2010)
Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato’s Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen,. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998.
Citizens and Statesmen: A Study of Aristotle's Politics. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield, 1992.
Socrates and the Political Community: An Ancient Debate. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press, 1987.
Readings in American Government (with David K. Nichols). Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1976, (first edition), 1978 (second edition), 1983 (third edition), 1990 (fourth edition), 1996 (fifth edition), 2001 (sixth edition); 2004 (seventh edition); 2010 (eighth edition); 2013 (ninth edition) Articles
“Story-telling and Truth: Whit Stillman’s Conversation with Jane Austen,” Collection on the films of Whit Stillman, ed. David C. Calhoun (forthcoming, 2019).
“Conflicting Moral Goods: William Faulkner’s Barn Burning,” in Short Stories and Political Philosophy, ed. Erin A. Dolgoy, Kimberly Hurd Hale, and Bruce Peabody (Lexington Press, 2018).
“World Enough and Time: Immortal Longings, Tragedy, and Comedy in Antony and Cleopatra,” in Writing the Poetic Soul of Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Michael Davis, ed. Denise Schaeffer (South Bend, IN: St. Augustine’s Press, 2018).
“Both False and True: Love, Death, and Poetry in Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost,” (with Denise Schaeffer) in The Soul of Statesmanship: Shakespeare on Nature, Virtue, and Political Wisdom, ed. L. Joseph Hebert, Jr and Khalil Habib (Lexington Press, 2018).
“Philosophic Care in the Life of Plato’s Socrates,” in Socrates in the Cave: Essays on the Philosopher's Motive in Plato, eds. Paul J. Diduch and Michael P. Harding (Palgrave MacMillan 2018). 2
“Leaders and Leadership in Thucydides’ History,” Oxford Handbook of Thucydides, eds. Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot (Oxford University Press, 2017).
“Shakespeare’s Christian Vision in Henry VIII,” Review of Politics, 76 (Fall 2014): 537-57.
“Intensive Introspection and Human Action: Reflections on the Work of Joseph Cropsey” (with Dwight D. Allman), in Perspectives on Political Science 43.2 (2014): 82-86.
“Symposium on the Thought of Joseph Cropsey,” in Perspectives on Political Science 43.2 (2014): 61-62.
“Aristotle’s Nod to Homer: A Political Science of Indebtedness” (with Patrick Cain), in Socrates and Dionysus: Philosophy and Art in Dialogue, ed. Ann Ward (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013), 54-71.
“Both Friends and Truth Are Dear: Aristotle’s Political Thought as a Response to Plato,” in Natural Right and Political Philosophy, ed. by Ann Ward and Lee Ward (South Bend, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 2013), 67-96.
“Sophistry and Socratic Philosophy in Plato’s Euthydemus” (with Denise Schaeffer), in Strange Fellows, ed. Denise Schaeffer and Christopher Dustin (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press, 2013), 53-73.
“Plato’s Socrates: One among Many, but Preeminent,” introduction to a symposium on Catherine H. Zuckert’s Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Platonic Dialogues, in Perspectives on Political Science 40.4 (2011): 186-87.
“Socratic Self-Examination: Cosmopolitanism, Imperialism, or Citizenship?” in Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization: Citizens without States, ed. Lee Trepanier and Khalil M. Habib (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2011), 13-39.
“Kant’s Teaching of Historical Progress and its Cosmopolitan Goal,” in Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization: Citizens without States, ed. Lee Trepanier and Khalil M. Habib (Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2011),119-38.
“Revisiting Heroism and Community in Contemporary Westerns: No Country for Old Men and 3:10 to Yuma,” in Perspectives on Political Science (Fall, 2008): 207-215.
“Philosophy and Empire: On Socrates and Alcibiades in Plato’s Symposium,” Polity, Vol. 39, No. 4 (October 2007): 502-21.
“Friendship and Community in Plato’s Lysis,” Review of Politics, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Winter, 2006): 1-19.
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“Seductive Beauty and Noble Deeds: Politics in The English Patient and Casablanca,” in Political Philosophy Comes to Rick’s, ed. James F. Pontuso (Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).
“Socrates’ Contest with the Poets in Plato’s Symposium,” Political Theory Vol. 32, No. 2 (April, 2004): 186-206.
“Woody Allen’s Light Film Noir: Self-Knowledge, Crime, and Love in The Curse of the Jade Scorpion,” in Woody Allen and Philosophy, ed. Mark T. Conard and Aeon J. Skoble (Peru, Illinois: Open Court Publishing, 2004).
“Machiavelli Meets the Mob: Palminteri’s A Bronx Tale” (with David Nichols), in Democracy and its Friendly Critics, ed. by Peter Lawler (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2004).
“Platonic Entanglements” (with Denise Schaeffer), (Book Review Essay) Polity (Spring, 2003).
“Heroes and Political Communities in John Ford's Westerns: The Role of Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine,” in Perspectives on Political Science, edited by Patrick Deneen (Spring, 2002): 78-85; reprinted in Print the Legend: Politics, Culture, and Civic Virtue in the Films of John Ford, Sidney Pearson, ed. (Lexington Books, 2009): 85-100.
“Tragedy and Comedy in Shakespeare’s Poetic Vision in The Winter’s Tale, in Shakespeare’s Last Plays, ed. Travis Curtright and Stephen Smith (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press, 2002).
“Huckleberry Finn and Twain’s Democratic Art of Writing,” in Seers and Judges: American Literature as Political Philosophy, ed. by Christine Henderson (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Press, 2002); reprinted in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, ed. Harold Bloom (Chelsea House Publications, 2005).
"Whit Stillman's Comic Art," Intercollegiate Review (Spring, 2000); reprinted in Doomed Bourgeois in Love: Essays on the Films of Whit Stillman, edited by Mark Henrie (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2001).
“Woody Allen’s Search for Virtue for a Liberal Society,” Film and Philosophy, 2000.
"In Defense of Popular Culture," Academic Questions (Winter, 1999-2000).
"Art and Liberalism in Hitchcock's Rear Window" (with Denise Schaeffer), Perspectives on Political Science (Summer 1999).
"Law and the American Western: The Case of High Noon," Legal Studies Forum (Summer, 1998).
"Romantic Education, Cultural Literacy, and the Great Books" in Community and Political Thought Today, ed. Peter Lawler (Praeger, 1998). 4
"Poetry and Philosophy: Competing Political Voices?" (Book Review Essay) Polity (Winter, 1996).
"Toward a New–and Old–Feminism for Liberal Democracy," Finding a New Feminism: Rethinking the Women Question in Liberal Democracy, ed. Pamela Jensen (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996); reprinted in Political Theory: Classical and Contemporary Readings, Vol. I, ed. Joseph Losco and Leonard Williams (Los Angeles: California: Roxbury Publishing Company, 2003).
"Aristotle's Science of the Best Regime," American Political Science Review, Vol. 89, No. 1 (March 1995), 152-55.
"Rousseau's Influence on Contemporary Educational Philosophy: Romantic or Authoritarian?" in Law and Philosophy: The Practice of Political Theory, Essays in Honor of George Anastaplo, ed. by William T. Braithwaite, John A. Murley, and Robert L. Stone (Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992).
"Reply to Wallach," a Critical Response in Political Theory (February, 1990), 154-158.
"Spiritedness and Philosophy in Plato's Republic," in Understanding the Political Spirit, ed. by Catherine Zuckert, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988
"Aristotle's Defense of Rhetoric," The Journal of Politics (August, 1987), 657-677.
"Kant's Teaching of Historical Progress and Its Cosmopolitan Goal," Polity (Winter, 1986), 194- 212.
"Rousseau's Novel Education in the Emile," Political Theory (November, 1985), 535-558.
"Glaucon's Adaptation of the Story of Gyges and Its Implications for Plato's Political Teaching," Polity (Fall, 1984), 30-39.
"The Republic's Two Alternatives: Philosopher-kings and Socrates," Political Theory (May, 1984), 252-274.
"Women in Western Political Thought," The Political Science Reviewer (Fall,1983), 241-260.
"The Good Life, Slavery, and Acquisition: Aristotle's Introduction to Politics," Interpretation (May 1983), 171-83.
"Rationality and Community: Swift's Criticism of the Houyhnhnms," Journal of Politics (November, 1981), 1153-69.
"The Winter's Tale: The Triumph of Comedy Over Tragedy," Interpretation (Fall, 1981), 169-90 5
"A Study of Fortescue's De Laudibus Legum Angliae," Interpretation (Spring, 1976), 11-47.
Book Reviews “Our ‘Great American Middle Class’ and Aristotle’s Golden Mean,” review of America, Aristotle, and the Politics of a Middle Class, by Leslie G. Rubin, Law and Liberty (July 2, 2018), https://www.lawliberty.org/book-review/our-great-american-middle-and-aristotles-golden-mean/
The Form of Politics: Aristotle and Plato on Friendship, by John von Heyking, in The Review of Politics 79.4 (Fall 2017): 709-11.
Socrates’ Daimonic Art: Love for Wisdom in Four Platonic Dialogues, by Elizabeth S. Belfiore, in Polis The Journal for the Society of Greek Political Thought 30:2 (2013): 32-34.
Plato’s Political Philosophy, by Mark Blitz, in Claremont Review of Books 11.3 (Summer, 2011): 78-79.
Shows about Nothing: Nihilism in Popular Culture from the Exorcist to Seinfeld, by Thomas S. Hibbs, in Society (July/August, 2001)
Erotic Liberalism, by Diana J. Schaub, in Review of Politics (Summer, 1996)
Who Stole Feminism? by Christina Hoff Sommers, in Crisis (November, 1995)
The Humanity of Thucydides, by Clifford Orwin, in The American Political Science Review (June, 1995)
The Faces of Injustice, by Judith N. Shklar, in Thought (March, 1992)
Natural Right and the American Imagination, by Catherine H. Zuckert, in The American Political Science Review (December, 1990)
Finding the Mean: Theory and Practice in Aristotelian Political Philosophy, by Stephen G. Salkever, in Review of Politics (Fall, 1990)
Women and the Ideal Society: Plato's Republic and Modern Myths of Gender, by Natalie Harris Bluestone, in The Review of Politics (Summer, 1988)
Self-Knowledge in Plato's Phaedrus, by Charles Griswold, in The Journal of Religion (October, 1988)
The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, by Joel Schwartz, in Teaching Political Science (August, 1988)
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Women in the History of Political Thought, by Arlene W. Saxonhouse, in The Review of Politics (Winter, 1987).
The Laws of Plato, trans., with an interpretive essay by Thomas L. Pangle, in Ancient Philosophy (Fall, 1984).
Dictatorships and Double Standards: Rationalism and Reason in Politics, by Jeane Kirkpatrick, in The Review of Politics (July, 1984).
Education and Culture in the Political Thought of Aristotle, by Carnes Lord, in The American Political Science Review (December, 1983).
American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony, by Samuel P. Huntington, in The Review of Politics (January, 1983).
Aristotle on Political Reasoning: A Commentary on Aristotle's Rhetoric, by Larry Arnhart, in Teaching Political Science (Winter, 1982-83).
Women in Western Political Thought, by Susan B. Okin, in The Review of Politics (Jan., 1981).
Political Philosophy and the Issues of Politics, by Joseph Cropsey, in The Review of Metaphysics (June, 1980).
John F. Kennedy: Catholic and Humanist, by Albert J. Menendez, brief notice in The Journal of Politics (November, 1980).
Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle in Social Context, by Ellen Meiksins Wood and Neil Wood, in The American Political Science Review (March, 1980).
Participation at Professional Meetings
Roundtable on Leslie G. Rubin’s America, Aristotle, and the Politics of the Middle Class, Princeton University, May 17, 2018.
“Contemporary Film and Old Books: Stillman’s Popular Art for the Modern World,” paper presented at “Faith, Film, and Philosophy Seminar,” Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington, Oct. 13-14, 2017
Chair of Roundtable on The Soul of the Greeks by Michael Davis, at the Northeast Political Science Association, Philadelphia, November 2011
Chair and Discussant on panel, “Liberal Education and Political Philosophy,” at conference “Wisdom in Educating for the 21st Century, sponsored by the Institute of Faith and Learning, Baylor University, October, 2011 7
Chair and Discussant, “Poetry, Philosophy, and Politics in Greek and Renaissance Tragedy,” at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, September, 2011
Roundtable on Catherine H. Zuckert’s Plato’s Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues, at the meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, November 2010
“Solon, Croesus, and Looking to the End in Ronna Burger’s Aristotle’s Dialogue with Socrates,” roundtable at the meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, MA, November, 2008
“Rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus: Private or Public?” paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September, 2008.
Discussant on panel on “Authority on Ancient Athens,” at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September, 2008.
Discussant on panel on “Aristophanes: New Thoughts on an Old Poet,” at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, September, 2007
“Sophistry and Socratic Philosophy in Plato’s Euthydemus” (with Denise Schaeffer), paper presented at paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September, 2006.
“Plato’s Socrates: with Kierkegaard as a Point of Departure,” paper presented at the meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, January, 2005, New Orleans, LA
“Seductive Beauty and Noble Deeds: Politics in The English Patient and Casablanca,” paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Sept., 2004.
Chair, panel on “Leadership and Paranoia in American Film,” at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, MA, Sept., 2003
Discussant on panel on “History and Freedom in Contemporary Literature,” at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, Sept., 2002
“Alcibiades’ Socrates and Plato’s Alcibiades: Plato’s Defense of Political Philosophy in the Symposium,”paper presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Social Science Association, New Orleans, March 2002
Participant on a roundtable on “Paul Cantor’s Gilligan Unbound,” at the meeting of American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, Sept., 2001.
Discussant on panel on “The Soul in the Political Thought of Plato and Aristotle,” at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 2001.
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Participant on Roundtable on “Class and Comedy in the Films of Whit Stillman,” at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, Sept., 2000
"Heroes and Political Communities in John Ford's Westerns: The Role of Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine," paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA, September, 1999
Participant on Roundtable on Reconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen at the meeting of the New England Political Science Association, Providence, RI, May, 1999
“In Defense of Popular Culture,” paper presented at the meeting of the National Association of Scholars, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1999
"Spectatorship, Moviemaking, and Community in Hitchcock's Rear Window," paper presented at the meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, MA, November, 1998
"On Plato's Lysis," paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, in Boston, MA. September, 1998
"Woody Allen's Annie Hall: Serious Comedy at the Children's Table," paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, in Boston, MA. September, 1998
Discussant on a panel on "Politics and Moral Education: Ancient and Modern Perspectives," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, in Washington, D.C. September, 1997
"Woody Allen's Search for Virtue: Mighty Aphrodite," paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, August, 1996
Participant on a Roundtable on Aristotle, at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Providence, RI, November, 1992
Discussant on a panel on "Theory and Practice in Modernity," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association in Chicago, September, 1992.
Discussant on a panel on Greek Political Theory, at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April, 1992.
"Courage, Moderation and the Platonic Dialogue: Plato and the Limits of Statesmanship," paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, in Washington, D.C. September, 1991
Discussant on a panel on Plato's Theaetetus and Aristotle's Politics, at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April, 1991 9
Discussant on a panel on "Socrates and the Bad Boys," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September, 1990
Discussant on a panel on Aristotle, at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, September, 1989
Discussant on a panel on "The Treatment of Thumos in Plato's Republic," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1988 Participant on a Roundtable on "Political Change in Plato and Aristotle," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, in New Orleans, La., September, 1985
"Spiritedness and Philosophy in Plato's Republic," paper presented at a conference on "The Political Role of Spiritedness," at the University of Chicago, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, May, 1985
"Plato's Introduction to the Republic: The Drama of Book I," paper presented at the meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, Houston, Texas, March, 1985
"The Place of Aristotle's Rhetoric in his Political Science," paper presented at the meeting of the Southern Political Science Association," Savannah, Georgia, November, 1984
Chairperson of a panel on "Rousseau and the Family," at the meeting of the Capitol Area Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., February, 1984
"The Role of Poetry in the Republic," paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September, 1983
"Philosopher-Kings and Political Philosophy: The Place of Eros and Spiritedness in Plato's Republic," paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Denver, Colorado, September, 1982
"Women in Western Political Thought," paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 1982
"Thought and Action in Aristotle's Political Science," paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Cincinnati, Ohio, April, 1981
"The Winter's Tale: The Triumph of Comedy over Tragedy," paper presented at the meeting of the Rocky Mountain British Studies Association, Ft. Collins, Colorado, October, 1977
Discussant on a panel on "The Political Philosophy of Plato and Aristotle," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association Washington. D.C., September, 1977
Discussant on a panel on "Plato," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Ill., Sept., 1976 10
Lectures
“Leaders and Leadership in Thucydides,” Annual Kirwan Lecture in the History of Political Philosophy at the University of Nebraska, at Omaha, March, 2018. Also at Colgate University, September 2017; at the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas, University of Texas, November 2016; at the Marshall Center Lecture, University of Richmond, March 2016; at the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio, November 201; and as a faculty/graduate seminar, University of Notre Dame, April, 2016
“Justice and Tragedy in Book 5 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: A Shrine to the Graces,” Friday night lecture at Thomas Aquinas College, February, 2018
“Thucydides and Clint Eastwood on War and Human Life,” the annual Great Ideas Lecture, at the University of St. Thomas University, Fredericton, New Brunswick, October, 2015
“Shakespeare’s New Heaven and New Earth in Antony and Cleopatra,” at the “Galileo-Shakespeare Project: A Conference on the Humanities and Sciences in the Modern World,” at Roosevelt University and the Illinois Institute of Technology,” Chicago, IL, November, 2014
“Piety and Friendship in Aristotle Ethics,” keynote address at the meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society, South Bend, IN, April 2013
“Thucydides: Tragic Realist?” The College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA, April, 2012
“Thucydides, as Historian,” as a faculty/graduate seminar, University of Notre Dame, October, 2011.
“Aristotle’s Critique of Plato as Support for a Republican Politics,” Keynote Lecture, at a conference on “The Ancient Republic and the Birth of Political Philosophy,” sponsored by the Center for Teaching of America’s Western Foundations,” at Mercer University, Macon, Georgia, March 2010
“Liberalism and Patriarchy in Shakespeare’s Much Ado about Nothing,” Polaris Lecture, University of Alaska at Anchorage, March 2009
“Rhetoric in Plato’s Phaedrus: Private or Public?” Murphy Institute Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane University, New Orleans, November, 2008
“Friendship and Community in Plato’s Lysis,” Plenary Session, on a panel on Classical Friendship at a conference on “Friendship: The Quest for Character, Community, Truth, sponsored by the Institute of Faith and Learning, Baylor University, October, 2007
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“Virtue for a Liberal Society: Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite,” Atwood Lecture, at Salve Regina University, Newport, RI, March, 2007
“The Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy,” McFarlin Lecture in Philosophy, University of Tulsa, August, 2006.
“Art, Life, and Politics in Shakespeare in Love,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, October, 2003
“Undermining Male Authority: Daughters and Wives in Much Ado About Nothing,” Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia, March, 2001
“Machiavelli Meets the Mob: Palminteri’s A Bronx Tale,” Berry College, Mt. Berry, Georgia, March, 2001
“Huckleberry Finn and Twain’s Democratic Art of Writing,” Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, December, 2000
“The Place of Diotima in Plato’s Symposium,” Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, November, 2000
“Socrates Confronts the Poets: The Symposium,” University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, September, 2000
"Liberal Virtue and the American Western," Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, March, 1999
Professional Appointments
Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 2012-2016
Editorial Advisory Board, The Review of Politics (at Notre Dame University), 1990-present
International Editorial Board of Amity: The Journal of Friendship Studies, 2011- present
Consulting Editor, Perspectives on Political Science, 2010 to present
Senior Fellow, Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization, 2006-present
Editorial Board, Polity (Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association), 1995-2009
National Council of the American Political Science Association, Sept., 1994-Dec. 1996
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Program Committee, and Chair of the Politics and Literature Organized Section of the American Political Science Association, 1993-94
Member of the Committee of Publications, American Political Science Association, 1991-1993
Editorial Board, The American Political Science Review, 1982-1985
Professional Service
Guest editor, “Symposium on the Thought of Joseph Cropsey,” in Perspectives on Political Science 43.2 (2014)
Co-Organizer (with David K. Nichols), Graduate Student Conference on “The Cold War and American Statesmanship” (June, 2016); on “Churchill and de Gaulle: Statesmanship in a Democratic Age” (June, 2015); on “Tocqueville’s Democracy in America (June 2014); on “What So Proudly We Hail: Readings in the American Tradition” (June 2013); on “Natural Law in the Western Tradition,” (June 2012); on “Renaissance Drama and the Spirit of Commerce” (July 2011); on “Race, Liberalism, and the Meaning of America” (July 2010); and “Machiavelli and Shakespeare: Alternative Visions of Modern Politics” (July 2009). Conferences were held at and co-sponsored by the Alexander Hamilton Institute, Clinton, NY.
External Review Committee, Hampden-Sydney College, Department of Political Science, October 13-15, 2004
External Committee Member, MA Thesis, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, August, 2002 and July, 2007
Grant Reviewer, Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education, Department of Education, March, 2002
Organizer and Presenter, short course on “Teaching Political Philosophy through Film,” at the 2000 meeting of the American Political Science Association
Discussion leader, faculty workshop on the Core Curriculum at Oglethorpe University, Atlanta, GA, May, 1999
External Evaluator (for BA, MA, and PhD programs) at Boston College, Department of Political Science, Spring, 1995
Lecturer, NEH Summer Institute for high school teachers, "The Classics and the U.S. Constitution," Holy Cross College, Worcester, Massachusetts, Summer, 1990
Scholar in Residence, The Tocqueville Forum, Wake Forest University, Spring, 1989
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Advisor for a National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholar Award, Summer, 1986 and Summer, 1988
Referee for grant applications for doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships, for the American Association of University Women, February, 1988 and February, 1990
Panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1987, 1991, and 2006
Manuscript reviewer for The American Political Science Review, Teaching Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Polity, Political Theory, The Review of Politics, Perspectives on Political Science; Western Political Quarterly, Women and Society; Journal of Church and State; Rhetoric and Public Affairs, International Journal of Philosophy; Amity: The Journal of Friendship Studies
Manuscript reviewer for Cambridge University Press, Cornell University Press, State University of New York Press, Rowman and Littlefield, Johns Hopkins University Press, Penn State University Press, Harvard University Press, Yale University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Kentucky Press, and Baylor University Press
Director, Liberty Fund Conferences, “Liberty and Responsibility in Faulkner’s Snopes Trilogy,” March, 2006; Liberty and Responsibility in Shakespeare’s History Plays: The Monarchy After Henry V,” March, 2002; Liberty and Responsibility in Shakespeare's Comedies,” May, 1999, and May, 1996; "Liberty and Responsibility in Shakespeare's Historical Plays," February, 1998, and April, 1998
Discussion leader, Liberty Fund Conference for Younger Scholars, on "The Literature of Liberty" (on Spinoza, Sophocles, Shakespeare, and Achebe), Charleston, SC, July 6-12, 1998
Recent University and Department Service (Baylor University)
Chair, Department of Political Science, 2004-2010 (on leave from position, 2008-09)
Graduate Program Director, Fall 2007 and Spring 2009; Fall 2010-2012; Associate Graduate Program Director, 2012-present; Graduate Program Director, Spring, 2016
Graduate Council, Fall 2007; Spring 2009; Fall 2010 to 2012; Spring 2016
Graduate Committee of the Department, 2004-present
Undergraduate Committee of Department, 2004-2010
Membership on 12 Departmental Search Committees, for positions in Political Theory, Comparative Politics, International Relations, American Politics, American Constitutional Development, and Morrison Professorship 14
Search Committee, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, 2005-06
Provost’s Committee to redesign the Faculty Performance Review, Fall, 2007
Graduate Dean’s Committee to investigate ways of ranking doctoral programs, Spring, 2009
Baylor Press Committee, 2009-2015 (two 3-year appointments)
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