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CURRICULUM VITAE J. Budziszewski Professor Member of Depts. of Government and Philosophy; Home: 5601 Exeter Drive also teach courses in Dept. of Religious Studies and School of Law Austin, Texas 78723-3519 The University of Texas at Austin Home (512) 928-1306 1 University Station A1800 Office (512) 232-7229 Austin, Texas 78712-0119 Office fax (512) 471-1061 Email [email protected] Website www.undergroundthomist.org EDUCATION Ph.D., Yale University, 1981 M.A., University of Florida, 1977 B.A., University of South Florida, 1975 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Professor, Depts. of Government and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 2002- Associate Professor, Depts. of Government and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, 1995-2002 Associate Professor, Dept. of Government, University of Texas at Austin, 1988-1995 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Government, University of Texas at Austin, 1981-1988 Acting Instructor, Dept. of Political Science, Yale University, 1980-1981 FIELDS Political Theory Ethical Theory Religion and Political Thought GRANTS, HONORS, AND AWARDS (This section is alphabetical because of overlap in dates) Christianity Today magazine. Book Award for Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law, 1998. Earhart Foundation. Two six-week Summer Research Fellowships to research the theoretical basis of the politics of moral character, 1991, 1992. One-semester Research Fellowship to complete a commentary on Thomas Aquinas’s Treatise on Law, Fall Semester, 2012. Ethics and Public Policy Center. My book Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law was the subject of a one-day conference held by the EPPC in November, 1997. My monograph "Evangelical Minds in Politics: The Problem and the State of the Response" was the focus of a three-day conference, "Evangelicals in Civil Life: An Intellectual Inventory" held in September, 2003. 1 J. Budziszewski Page 2 Vitae Ford Foundation. Six-week summer fellowship to develop new liberal arts courses and pedagogical methods, 1988. Pew Charitable Trusts. Participant in collaborative project on "The Nature of the Human Person," 2001-2004. See also next item. Pew Charitable Trusts in collaboration with the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Participant in collaborative project on "The Evangelical Community in American Civic Life," 2000-2004. Also served on the project advisory board, as reflected in "Professional Service: Offices Held," below. University of Texas at Austin. Summer Research Awards, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989; Faculty Research Assignment, 1991; Dean's Fellow, 2002-2003; Supplemental College Research Fellowship, 2012. PUBLICATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS Academic Books Commentary on Thomas Aquinas'sTreatise on Law. Cambridge University Press, 2014. Companion to the Commentary. Cambridge University Press, 2014. This is a complete online book, distinct from the Commentary on Thomas Aquinas's Treatise on Law, above. It includes commentary on additional parts of St. Thomas’s text as well as extended discussions of various themes throughout the Treatise. On the Meaning of Sex. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2012. The Line Through the Heart: Natural Law as Fact, as Theory, and as Sign of Contradiction. Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2009. Evangelicals in the Public Square: Four Formative Voices on Political Thought and Action. Introduction by Michael Cromartie, afterword by Jean Bethke Elshtain. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2006. Natural Law for Lawyers. Scottsdale, Arizona: Blackstone Fellowship, 2006. What We Can't Not Know: A Guide, revised and expanded edition. San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 2011; prev. edition 2003. The Revenge of Conscience: Politics and the Fall of Man. Dallas: Spence Publishing, 1999; republished Eugene, Oregon: Wipf and Stock, 2010. Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law. Downer's Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity, 1997). True Tolerance: Liberalism and the Necessity of Judgment. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1992, paperback edition 1999. Transaction is one of the two university presses of Rutgers. The Nearest Coast of Darkness: A Vindication of the Politics of Virtues. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988. The Resurrection of Nature: Political Theory and the Human Character. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1986. 2 J. Budziszewski Page 3 Vitae Articles and Book Chapters Representing New Work “The Strange Second Life of Confessional States.” In Paul R. Dehart and Carson Holloway, eds., Reason, Revelation, and the Civic Order: Political Philosophy and the Claims of Faith (DeKalb, Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2014). "Natural Rights." New Catholic Encyclopedia Supplement 2012-2013: Ethics and Philosophy, ed. Robert L. Fastiggi, Vol. 3 (Detroit: Gale, 2013), pp. 1042-1044. "How Natural Law Points to a Divine Origin," in Francis J. Beckwith, Robert P. George, and Susan McWilliams, eds., A Second Look at First Things (South Bend, Indiana: St. Augustine's Press, 2013). "More than a Passing Fancy? The Evangelical Engagement With Natural Law," in Jesse Covington, Bryan McGraw, and Micah Watson, eds., Natural Law and Evangelical Political Thought (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012). "Two Theories, Not One." In Kenneth L. Grasso and Cecilia R. Castillo, eds., Theology and Public Philosophy: Four Conversations. (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2012). "The Lower Is Not the More Solid." Communio: International Catholic Review 38 (Summer 2011), pp. 279-297. "Diplomacy and Theology in the Dialogue on Universal Ethics," part of a symposium on the International Theological Commission's statement, "The Search for Universal Ethics: A New Look at Natural Law." Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 9:3 (2011), pp. 707-735. "To Lose God Is to Lose Man: What 'Public Reason' Can Learn from Public Faith." Invited symposium contribution in Catholic Social Science Review 15 (Fall 2010), pp. 35-46. "Natural Law, Democracy, and Shari'a." In Rex Ahdar and Nicholas Aroney, eds., Shari'a in the West (Oxford University Press, 2010), pp. 181-206. "Natural Law Revealed," First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, No. 188 (December 2008), pp. 29-33. "How a Constitution May Undermine Constitutionalism." In Patrick McKinley Brennan, ed., Civilizing Authority: Society, State, and Church (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2007), pp. 145-160. "Natural Law as Fact, as Theory, and as Sign of Contradiction." In Holger Zaborowski, ed., Natural Moral Law and Contemporary Society, Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy, Volume 53 (Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2010). Also published in Catholic Social Science Review 12 (October, 2007), pp. pp. 11-32, with responses by Francis J. Beckwith and Kevin Lee. "On Having Done With It: The Death of Modernist Tolerance." In Gerson Moreno-Riano, ed., Tolerance in the 21st Century: Prospects and Challenges (Lantham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2006). 3 J. Budziszewski Page 4 Vitae "Natural Law." In Jack Campbell and Gavin McGrath, eds., New Dictionary of Christian Apologetics (Leicester, England: InterVarsity U.K., 2006). "The Illusion of Gay Marriage." Contribution to a symposium issue of Philosophia Christi 7:1 (Summer 2005), pp. 45-52. "Response to Marvin Ellison." Contribution to a symposium issue of Philosophia Christi 7:1 (Summer 2005), pp. 15-17. "Capital Punishment: The Case for Justice." First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, No. 145 (August/September, 2004), pp. 39-45. "Accept No Imitations: The Rivalry of Naturalism and Natural Law." Comprises Chapter 6 of William A. Dembski, ed., Uncommon Dissent (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Press, 2004). "Feeling Moral." First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, No. 127 (November, 2002), pp. 9- 11. "The Second Tablet Project." First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, No. 124 (June-July 2002), pp. 23-31. "Categorical Pardon: On the Argument for Abolishing Capital Punishment." Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 16:1 (2002), pp. 43-56. Reprinted in John Carlson, Eric Elshtain, and Erik Owens, eds., A Call for Reckoning: Religion and the Death Penalty (Grand Rapids: Eerdman's, 2004). "Preliminary Thoughts on Irrevocable Punishment." Included in Sightings (a publication of the Martin Marty Center, Divinity School, University of Chicago), 8 November 2001, and in A Call for Reckoning: A Conference Reader on Religion and the Death Penalty, University of Chicago Divinity School, November 2001 (for conference January 2002). "Pilgrim Meets Compassionate" (in the style of John Bunyan). First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, No. 117 (November, 2001), pp. 13-14. "Human Life, Natural Law, and Pastoral Care." Theology Matters 7:1 (Jan/Feb 2001), pp. 1-4. "Denying What We Can't Not Know." In Timothy Fuller and John P. Hittinger, eds., Reassessing the Liberal State: Reading Maritain's MAN AND THE STATE (Washington, D.C.: American Maritain Association / Catholic University Press, 2001), pp. 159-165. "The Humanist Manifestos (1933, 1973, 1999)." Contribution to a symposium on books of the Twentieth Century. First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, No 101 (2000), pp. 42-43. "Playing Dumb: The Natural Consequences of Violating the Natural Law." American Journal of Jurisprudence 44 (1999), pp. 75-89. "Handling Issues of Conscience." The Newman Rambler (Spring-Summer, 1999), pp. 1-7. This was the text of the Beatty Memorial Lecture/Newman Lecture given in January 1999 at McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 4 J. Budziszewski