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 1 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. 3 “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,