S. Sara Monoson
[email protected] Northwestern University Evanston IL 60208 (abbreviated, February 2018) Current Position at Northwestern Professor of Political Science, Classics and Philosophy Chair of the Department of Political Scienc Director of the Graduate Classics Cluster Prior Positions Chair, Department of Classics, Northwestern University, 2004-07, 2008-11 Associate Professor of Political Science and Classics, Northwestern University, 2001-2012 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University, 1993-2000 Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 1991-93 Research Assistant, Presidency Research Center, Princeton University, 1990-91 Scholarly Specializations History of political thought, Greek political philosophy, democratic theory, politics in the ancient world, classical receptions methodology, reception of Greek political thought in American political discourse. Education Ph.D., Politics and Program Political Philosophy, Princeton University. 1993 M.Sc. Political Philosophy, London School of Economics & Political Science. Awarded with Distinction. 1982 B.A., Brandeis University. Awarded with Highest Honors in Social & Political Thought, Phi Beta Kappa. 1981 Ancient Greek, The Latin/Greek Institute, The Graduate Center, CUNY. 1979 Research Books • Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy, Princeton University Press, 2000. Awarded “Best First Book Prize” by the Foundations Section of the American Political Science Association, 2001 • Socrates in the Vernacular (under contract, Harvard University Press) • Roadmap to Plato’s Republic, manuscript in preparation Journal articles, book chapters, white papers • "Socrates’ Military Service", in Our Ancient Wars, edited by Victor Caston and Silke- Maria Weineck, University of Michigan Press, 2016. • "Aesop Said So: Ancient Wisdom and Radical Politics in 1930s NY,” Classical Receptions Journal, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 1 (2016), pp.