June 2016 CURRICULUM VITAE
MARY G. DIETZ
Department of Political Science Gender & Sexuality Studies Program Northwestern University 303 Scott Hall, 601 University Place Evanston IL 60208 Email: [email protected]
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor, Department of Political Science & Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, Northwestern University, 2007- Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1996-2007 Adjunct Professor, American Studies, 1996-2007 Associate Faculty, Women's Studies Department and Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota, 1984-2007 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1988-1995 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1982-1988 Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Smith College, Massachusetts 1981-1982 Instructor, Department of Government and Legal Studies, Bowdoin College, Maine 1980- 1981
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Political Science, The University of California at Berkeley, June 1982 Dissertation: Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weil. Advisor: Hanna Fenichel Pitkin; Norman Jacobson, Michael Rogin, Anne Smock M. A. Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, June 1974 A.B. Political Science, Mount Holyoke College, June 1972 (Magna cum laude)
PUBLICATIONS
Books/Edited Volumes:
TURNING OPERATIONS: FEMINISM, ARENDT, AND POLITICS. New York: Routledge, 2002.
THOMAS HOBBES AND POLITICAL THEORY, Ed. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1990.
BETWEEN THE HUMAN AND THE DIVINE: THE POLITICAL THOUGHT OF SIMONE WEIL Totowa, NJ: Rowman and Littlefield, 1988.
Journal Articles/Chapters in Edited Volumes: 2
The Sexual Contract by Carole Pateman, Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory, ed J Levy, 2016 (forthcoming)
Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics, American Political Science Review, Vol. 106:2: May 2012: 275-293.
Machiavelli and Religion, in The History of the Philosophy of Religion, Vol 3. ed. G Oppy and N Trakakis. (Acumen Press, 2009): 19-32 (co-authored with I Winham)
Current Controversies in Feminist Theory, in The Annual Review of Political Science Vol. 6 (Annual Reviews, 2003): 399-431.
*Reprinted in Women in Politics, M Sinko, ed. (Center for Women’s Studies, Zagreb, Slovenia 2016)
Working in Half-Truth: Some Premodern Reflections on Discourse Ethics in Politics, in E. Portis, A. Gundersen, and R. Shively, ed., Political Theory and Partisan Politics (State University of New York Press, 2000): 117-146.
Arendt and the Holocaust, in Dana Villa, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt, 2000): 86- 109.
`Politics Would Undoubtedly Unwoman Her': Gender, Suffrage, and American Political Science, in Helene Silverberg, ed. Gender and the Origins of American Social Science (Princeton University Press, 1998), ch.2. [co-authored James Farr].
Merely Combating the Phrases of this World: Recent Democratic Theory, Political Theory, Vol. 26:1: February 1998: 112-139.
Feminist Receptions of Hannah Arendt, Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt, Bonnie Honig, ed. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995): 17-50.
*Translated into Japanese and reprinted, Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt, 2002.
The Slow Boring of Hard Boards: Methodical Thinking and the Work of Politics, American Political Science Review, December 1994: 873-886.
*Translated into Czech and reprinted, Politologicky casopis (Journal of Politics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 1997).
In Search of a Citizen Ethic, Reconsidering the Democratic Public, Russell L. Hanson and George E. Marcus, ed. (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1993): 173-185.
Special Cluster: Debating Simone de Beauvoir, editor; and Debating Simone de Beauvoir (introduction); Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 18 (1992): 74-161; 74-88.
Mixing Methods: A Multistage Strategy for Studying Patriotism and Citizen Participation, Political 3
Analysis (1992): 89-121. [With Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Amy Fried and John L. Sullivan]
Patriotism and the Presidential Election of 1988, American Journal of Political Science, 36 (1992): 200- 234. [With John L. Sullivan and Amy Fried]
Machiavelli in Dispute, Machiavelli Studies, 4 (1991): 77-93.
Hannah Arendt and Feminist Politics, Feminist Interpretation and Political theory, Carole Pateman and Mary Shanley, ed. (London: Polity Press, 1990): 232-252.
*Reprinted in Political Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings, J. Losco and L. Williams, ed. (LA:Roxbury Publishing, 2002). *Reprinted in Hannah Arendt: Critical Essays, Sandra Hinchman and Lewis Hinchman, ed. (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994).
Hobbes' Subject as Citizen, Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory, M. Dietz, ed. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990): 91-119.
Introduction, Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory, M. Dietz, ed. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1990): 1-8
Patriotism, Political Innovation and Conceptual Change, Terence Ball, Russell Hanson and James Farr, eds. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989): 297-325.
*Reprinted in Patriotism, Igor Primoratz, ed. NY:Humanity Books, 2002.
"Trapping or Teaching the Prince: A Controversy," American Political Science Review 80 (1987): 173- 177
Context is All: Feminism and Theories of Citizenship, Daedalus, 116 (1987): 1-24.
*Reprinted in Learning About Women, Jill K. Conway, Susan C.Bourque and Joan W. Scott, ed. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1987): 1-24. *Translated into Spanish and reprinted in debate feminista, -140. 1 (1990): 114 *Reprinted in Dimensions of Radical Democracy, Chantal Mouffe, ed. (London: Verso Press, 1992) *Translated into Turkish and reprinted in Birikim, 55 (1993): 82-94 *Translated into French and reprinted in Genre et politique: Debats et perspectives, T-H. Ballmer-Cao, V. Mottier, L. Sgier ed., (Gallimard, 2000) *Reprinted, Feminism and Politics, Anne Phillips, ed. (Oxford University Press, 1998). *Edited and reprinted in Kettering Review, Winter 2001. *Reprinted, Feminist Ethics, Moira Gatens, ed. (Ashgate Press 2001)
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Trapping the Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception, American Political Science Review 80 (1986): 777-799.
*Reprinted in Political Theory: Classic Writings, Contemporary Views, Joseph Losco and Leonard Williams, eds. (New York, St. Martins Press, 1992): 211-228.
Populism, Patriotism and the Need for Roots, The New Populism: The Politics of Empowerment, Harry Boyte and Frank Reissman, ed. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987): 261-271.
Citizenship with a Feminist Face: The Problem with Maternal Thinking, Political Theory 13 (1985): 19- 37. *Reprinted, Feminism, the Public and the Private, J. Landes, ed. (Oxford University Press, 1998).
Encyclopedia Articles:
“Simone Weil,” Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Sage Publications (2009) “Hannah Arendt,” Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Oxford University Press (2008) “Niccoló Machiavelli,” Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Routledge, 1998) "Hannah Arendt," "Eric Voegelin," and "Simone Weil," The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth Century Political Thinkers, R. Benewick and Philip Green, ed. (London and New York: Routledge): 8-10, 228- 229, 236-237. "Civic Good and Virtues," The Encyclopedia of Ethics, Lawrence Becker, ed.(New York: Garland Press, 1992): 162-165
Review Roundtables, Review Essays:
“Perspectives on Plurality: Redhead on Arendt,” Roundtable on Mark Redhead, Reasoning With Who We Are: Democratic Theory for a Not So Liberal Era, The Review of Politics, 77: 4 (2015): 661-668
“Out in the Cold,” Symposium on Tracy Strong, Politics Without Vision: Thinking Without a Banister in the Twentieth Century, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy, 42:5 (2014): 590-625
"Simone Weil," Ethics, (1992): 184-188.
"The Intractable Simone Weil," The Review of Politics, 53 (1991): 410-413.
Book Reviews: Miguel Vatter, Between Form and Event: Machiavelli’s Theory of Political Freedom, in Political Theory (2003). Richard Bell, Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion, in American Political Science Review (1999) Harry Boyte and Nancy Kari, Building America The Democratic Promise of Public Work, in The American Academy of Political and Social Science (1999) Dana Villa, Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political, in Ethics (1997). 5
Linda M.G. Zerilli, Signifying Woman: Culture and Chaos in Rousseau, Burke and Mill, in American Political Science Review (1995) Maurizio Passerin D'Entreves, The Political Philosophy of Hannah Arendt, in Political Studies (1995) Mark E. Kann, On the Man Question: Gender and Civic Virtue in America, in The American Political Science Review (1992) Shiraz Dossa, The Public Realm and the Private Self: The Thought of Hannah Arendt; and Leah Bradshaw, Acting and Thinking: The Political Thought of Hannah Arendt, in American Political Science Review (1991) Natalie Harris Bluestone, Women and the Ideal Society: Plato's Republic and Modern Myths of Gender, in Women and Politics (1989) Joan Landes, Women in the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution, Political Theory (1989) Jean Bethke Elshtain, Meditations on Modern Political Thought, in Contemporary Sociology (1987) John Dunn, Rethinking Modern Political Thought, in Contemporary Sociology (1987) Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, Fortune is a Woman: Gender and Politics in the Thought of Niccolo Machiavelli in Contemporary Sociology (1986)
Work Forthcoming and In Progress:
Forthcoming: “Feminist Political Theory” Online annotated bibliography for Oxford Bibliographies (commissioned)
In progress: Aristotle Between Polis and Empire [book mss/advanced contract with Rowman & Littlefield, Series in Modernity and Political Theory, ed. M Schoolman] Sexualizing the Citizen: The Crisis of Masculinity in the Hobbesian Commonwealth “Patriotism: A Revised History of the Term” [commissioned] (revision and expansion of earlier article)
SCHOLARLY LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS/PANEL CHAIR/CONFERENCES
“Politics and Philosophy in Justice and the Politics of Difference,” Roundtable on 20th Anniversary of Justice and the Politics of Difference by Iris Marion Young, American Political Science Association Panel, San Francisco, September 2015
Remarks on the Feminist Scholarship of Alex Owen, Roundtable on “Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies,” in Honor of Alexandra Owen, Northwestern University, May 2015
Chair and Introduction, Panel with Seyla Benhabib, for Conference on “Critical Theory in Critical Times,” Northwestern University, May 2014
Remarks on Antigone, Interrupted by Bonnie Honig, Symposium at Northwestern University, May 2013
Presentation for Panel on “History: (How) Is it Different in Other Disciplines?” Chabraja Center for Historical Studies, Northwestern University, February 2013
“Vision Without Politics?” Paper for Symposium on Politics Without Vision: Thinking Without a 6
Banister in the Twentieth Century by Tracy B Strong, University of California Los Angeles, February 2013
“Is There Something About Politics?” Roundtable Paper for Symposium in Honor of the Work of Peter Euben, Duke University, November 2012
Presentation for Panel on “Measuring the Quality of Research in Political Theory and Political Philosophy,” Association of Political Theory Roundtable, University of Notre Dame, October 2011.
Chair of Panel, “Dependency, Humility, Care,” Association of Political Theory, University of Notre Dame, October 2011.
Presentation/Paper, “Power/Authority/Rule: Democratic Perspectives,” American Political Science Association Panel, Washington D.C. September 2010
Chair and Discussant, “Democratic Politics and the Problem of Judgment,” American Political Science Association Panel, Washington D.C. September 2010
Keynote Lecture, “Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics,” Interdisciplinary Program in the Humanities, Washington University, St. Louis, March 2010
Presentation, “Reading Aristotle Politically,” Language, History, and Political Theory Project, University of Chicago, November 2009
Paper, “Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics,” Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, November 2009
Chair, “Machiavelli and Democracy,” American Political Science Association, Panel, Toronto, August 2009
Presentation, “Keywords: ‘POLITICS’, Gender Studies Colloquium, Northwestern University, May 2009
Discussant, Roundtable “A Lecture by Judith Butler: ‘Keeping Company with Oneself (Arendt on Eichmann Contra Kant)”, Northwestern University, April 2009
Workshop Coordinator on Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem (preparatory session for a lecture by Judith Butler), Northwestern University, April 2009
Chair, “Authority in Ancient Athens” American Political Science Association [APSA] Panel, Boston, August 2008
Chair and Organizer, Roundtable “Author Meets Critics,” on Feminism and the Abyss of Freedom by L Zerilli, APSA Panel, Boston, August 2008
Paper, “Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics,’ APSA, Chicago, August 2007
Paper, “Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics,” Political Theory Symposium, Indiana 7
University, Bloomington, April 2007
Paper, “Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics, Michigan Colloquium in Political Theory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 2006
Roundtable (paper), “Facing Up to Reality”: Hannah Arendt on ‘Lying in Politics,’ APSA Panel, Philadelphia, August 2006
Presentation/Discussion, “Contemporary Controversies in Feminist Theory,” Gender Studies Program, Northwestern University, February 2006
Presentation/Discussion, “Arendt and the Holocaust”: NEH Summer Seminar, San Diego State University, San Diego, June 2006
Paper, “Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle’s Politics,” Northwestern University, Evanston IL, December 2005
Paper, “Aristotle and Empire,” Workshop in Political Theory, Ohio State University, October 2005
Workshop on Publishing in Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy, Department of Political Science, Ohio State University, October 2005
Discussant, “The Fate of the Political,” Panel Session for Conference on Critical Theory in Dark Times, University of Minnesota, Spring 2004
Chair, “Science, Technology, and Democracy,” APSA Panel, Philadelphia, PA 2003
Chair, “Machiavelli and Popular Government,” APSA Panel, Philadelphia, PA 2003
Discussant, “Hannah Arendt,” APSA Panel, San Francisco CA, 2001
Chair and Discussant, "Hobbes and Mortality," APSA Panel, Atlanta GA., 1999
Roundtable (paper), "Hanna on Arendt: The Attack of the Blob and Other Writings," Symposium in Honor of Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, Berkeley, CA 1999
Roundtable (paper), "The In-Between of Politics," Citizenship and Cosmopolitanism, Conference for the Study of Political Thought, Madison WI, November 1998
Chair and Discussant, "Citizenship and Community" APSA Panel, Boston, 1998
Lecture, "Working in Half-Truth: Some Premodern Reflections on Discourse Ethics in Politics," Department of Political Science, University of Houston, Houston, October 1997
Lecture/Paper, "Working in Half-Truth: Some Premodern Reflections on Discourse Ethics in Politics," Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, April 1997
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Paper, "Working in Half-Truth: Some Premodern Reflections on Discourse Ethics in Politics," American Political Science Association, San Francisco, 1996
Paper, "A Transfiguring Evening Glow: Hannah Arendt's Space of Appearances in the Presence of Dark Times." Conference on Hannah Arendt Twenty Years Later: A German-Jewess in the Age of Totalitarianism, Harvard University. 22-23 March 1996.
Paper and Seminar, "Working in Half-Truth: Some Premodern Reflections on Partisanship in Political Speech," Political Theory Conference, Texas A&M University, College Station TX. March 1995.
Paper, "Feminist Receptions of Hannah Arendt," American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New York, NY 1994
"Participation and Global Spaces," (panel chair), American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New York NY 1994
Public Lecture, "Politics and the Problem with `Problem-Solving'," plenary session, Project Public Life, University of Minnesota, October 1993
Moderator, panel on Political Ideology and the European Radical Right, Conference on the Radical Right in Western Europe, University of Minnesota, November 1991.
"Reading The Sexual Contract," (paper), Roundtable on Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract, Social Science History Conference, University of Minnesota, November, 1990.
"Simone Weil, Hannah Arendt and Political Community," (paper) American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA, 1990
Moderator, panel on "Feminist Theory Today," American Political Science Association Annual Meetings, San Francisco, CA, 1990
"Where's the Action? Hannah Arendt and Feminist Politics," (paper), University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 1990
"Empowerment for What? The Political Challenge for Feminist Theory," (lecture), University of North Carolina, March 1989
"Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota," (lecture), University of North Carolina, March 1989
"Democracy in Action," (discussant) Minnesota Public Issues Forum, Minneapolis, October, 1988
"Feminism and Postmodernism," National Women's Studies Association Annual Convention, Minneapolis, 1988
"Feminism and Postmodernism," KUOM Radio, University of Minnesota, May 1988.
"Feminism and Democracy," Women's Studies Department Series, University of Minnesota, Spring 1988. 9
"The Political Philosophy of Thomas Hobbes 1588-1988," Benjamin Evans Lippincott Symposium in Political Theory, University of Minnesota, Spring, 1988, Convener and moderator.
"Women and Images of Representation," American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Chicago, September 1987.
"Patriotism," American Political Science Association Annual Convention, New Orleans, Sept 1985 "Trapping the Prince: Machiavelli and the Politics of Deception", Smith College, Spring 1985
"Perspectives on Hannah Arendt," American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., September 1984.
"Feminist Theory and Political Reality," Faculty Development Seminar, University of Minnesota, 1984
"Citizenship and Feminism: A Critique of Jean Elshtain's Concept of Social Feminism," Western Political Science Association, Seattle, 1983.
"The Meaning of Labor and Its Relation to Political Life: Three Views," Falk Lecture Series, Yale University, Winter 1982.
"Simone Weil and the Problem of the Self," American Political Science Association Annual Convention, Washington, D.C., 1979
GRANTS, HONORS, AWARDS
John Evans Professor of Political Theory (Endowed Chair), Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, 2011- Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Professor (Rotating Chair), Weinberg College of the Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University 2007-2011 Scholar of the College, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2004-2007 Single Semester Leave, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Fall 2004 Faculty Summer Research Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota, 2004 (declined) "Best Paper Award," Women and Politics Section, APSA Annual Meeting, 1994. Bush Sabbatical Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1992 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1990 CLA Distinguished Teacher Award, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 1989 Graduate Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1987 Single Quarter Leave, University of Minnesota, Spring 1986 Summer Research Fellowship, University of Minnesota, 1984 Departmental Teaching Award, Political Science, University of Minnesota, 1984 McMillan Travel Grant, University of Minnesota, 198
TEACHING
Ancient and Medieval Western Political Thought Early Modern Western Political Thought (c15th/c18th) 10
Modernity and its Discontents (c19th/c20th Late Modern Political Theory) Contemporary Political and Social Theory (c20th) Advanced Feminist Theory Feminist Theory and Methods Democratic Theory Politics and Language
Special Topics (Undergraduate Level):
“Woman” in Western Political Thought Machiavelli, In and Out of Hell Feminist Interventions in Political Thought Gender Theory: After Beauvoir: The Turbulence in Contemporary Feminist Theory
Special Topics (Graduate Level):
Thomas Hobbes: Theory and Theorist Friedrich Nietzsche: Theory and Theorist Niccoló Machiavelli: Theory and Theorist Hannah Arendt: Theory and Theorist Tracking the Political: Variations on a Search in Contemporary Theory The Content of Politics in European Thought: Heidegger, Jaspers, Arendt Postmodernism Language and Politics Feminist Theory as Political Theory Feminist Theory and Global Politics Feminist Approaches to Contemporary Political Theory (Arendt, Rawls, Habermas, and Foucault) Gender, Class, and Empire in Marx, Tocqueville, and Mill Political Theory and Real Politics (from Machiavelli to Raymond Geuss)
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE:
Board of Editors, American Political Science Review, 2013- Editorial Board, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy (Permanent)
Editor, Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy (July 2005-December 2012) Advisory Editor, Cambridge Dictionary of Political Thought June 2008-)
Editorial Board/Professional Journals (Other):
Political Theory, Executive Editorial Committee 1998-2004 American Journal of Political Science, 1994-1996 Polity, 1992-1998 Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 1993-1995
American Political Science Association:
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Member, Spitz Prize Committee, Conference for the Study of Political Thought, for best book in liberal or democratic theory (political theory), 2015- Chair, “David Easton Award Committee,” Organized Section: Foundations of Political Thought, APSA, 2002-2003 Member, Editorial Search Committee, for new journal “Perspectives on Politics,” APSA, 2001-2002 Chair, Benjamin E. Lippincott Award Selection Committee, for best book of 15+ years standing in political theory/philosophy, APSA, 2000-2001 Coordinator, Foundations of Political Theory, APSA Organized Section, APSA 1998-2000 Chair, Leo Strauss Award Committee, Best dissertation in political theory and philosophy 1997-98 Member, "Alice Paul Award Committee" for Women's Caucus for Political Science, APSA, 1998 Chair, "Best Paper Award Committee," Women and Politics Section, APSA, 1996 Member, "Best First Book Award Committee," Foundations of Political Theory Section, APSA, 1996 Member, Committee for Best First Book Award, Foundations of Political Thought (Organized Section, APSA) 1995 Division Chair and Organizer, Political Theory and Philosophy: Historical Approaches, for APSA Annual Meeting, New York City, 1994. Governing Board, Foundations of Political Thought (Organized Section, APSA) 1992-1994 Member, Committee for Best First Book Award, Foundations of Political Thought APSA, 1992
Midwest Political Science Association: Chair, Committee on the Status of Women, Midwest Political Science Association, 1998-1999 Co-Chair, Program Committee (with John Freeman), Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, Chicago 1997 Section Chair, Political Theory, for APSA Midwest Meetings, Chicago, 1991
Other: Fellowship Committee, Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars Regional Correspondent, Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT)
Northwestern University:
Weinberg College of the Arts and Sciences:
2013- (present) Member, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Council Member, Events Committee 2014-2015 Member, WCAS Ad Hoc Committee re: Promotion & Tenure 2012-2013 Chair, WCAS Ad Hoc Committee re: Promotion & Tenure 2011-2012 Member, WCAS Ad Hoc Committee re: Promotion & Tenure 2008-2012: Member, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Council 2008-11 Member, Kaplan Evaluation Committee for Co-sponsorship Applications
Department of Political Science
2015-2016 Chair, Political Theory Search Committee 2012-2014 Director of Graduate Admissions 2013-2014 Member, Ad Hoc Committee [Promotion and Tenure] 2012-2013 Chair, Ad Hoc Committee [Promotion to Full] 12
2013-2014 Chair, Political Theory Subfield 2010-2011 Chair, Political Theory Subfield Member, Graduate Admissions Committee Faculty Coordinator, Graduate Student Political Theory Workshop 2008-2009 Chair, Political Theory Subfield Chair, Search Committee, Political Theory Member, Graduate Admissions Committee 2008- Faculty Coordinator, Graduate Student Workshop in Political Theory
Gender and Sexuality Studies Program
2015-2016 Member, Search Committee (Position in Black Feminist Theory) 2015-2016 Member, Advisory Board GSS &SPAN Cluster Cohort Selection Committee 2014-2015 Member, Advisory Board GSS & SPAN Cluster Cohort Selection Committee 2013-2014 Member, Advisory Board 2012-2013 Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee 2012-13 Member, Senior Honors Thesis Committee 2011-13 Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee 2010-2011 Co-Chair, Curriculum and Personnel Review Committee Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Review Sub-committee 2008- 2009 Member, Advisory Board Events Committee (2008-9) George C Casey Prize Committee (Spring 08; Spring 11) Senior Honors Thesis Award Committee (Spring 09; Spring 12)
University of Minnesota:
University: President’s Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, 2001-2005 University Committee on the Press, 1990-1992 University Tenure Committee, 1982-1985 Treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa Society, 1991-1994
Graduate School NEH Summer Stipend Fellowship Committee, 2003, 2005 Faculty Summer Research Fellowship Committee, 2004-2005 Social Sciences Policy and Review Council, 1988-1990; 1995-1998
College of Liberal Arts: Humanities Institute Advisory Committee 2004-2006 Promotion and Tenure Committee 2000-2004 Department of Philosophy, Recruitment Committee 1997-1998 Department of Philosophy, Recruitment Committee 1994-1995 Chair, Faculty Research Support Committee, 1996-1998 Bush Sabbatical Fellowship Committee, 1995-1996 13
Search Committee, Associate Dean of the College, 1994 CLA Course Review Committee 1993-1995 Stout and Wallace Awards Selection Committee, 1993 CLA Conference Committee, 1989-1991 CLA Consultative Committee, 1986-1989 Visiting Faculty Committee, 1984-1986 Committee for the College Review of the Department of Philosophy, 1988 American Studies, Graduate Studies Committee 1993-1995 Women's Studies Department, Associate Faculty: Travel Funds Committee, 1994-1995, 1995-1996 Governing Council, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, 1989-1991 Organizer, Faculty Development Seminar, 1988-1989 Rockefeller Visiting Scholars Committee, 1988-1989 Merit Advisory Committee, 1985-1989 Executive Committee, Women's Studies, 1987-1988 Admissions Committee, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, 1987-1988 Chair, Women's Studies Events Committee, 1985-1986
Continuing Education in Extension: "Ways of Knowing" (undergraduate seminar) 1989-1990; 1990-1991
Department of Political Science Chair of Subfield, Political Theory 2005-2006 Director of Placement, 2003-2005 Graduate Work Committee, 2002-2003 Caseworker for Promotion and Tenure, 2002-2003 Merit Advisory Committee, 2001-2002 Omnibus Search Committee, 1998-1999 Chair, Subfield of Political Theory, 1998-1999 Director of Graduate Studies, 1995-1998 Director of Teaching Assistants, 1992-1993 Director of Graduate Studies 1988-1991 Chair, Graduate Work Committee, 1988-1991 Graduate Admissions Committee 1986-87, 1988-1991, 1995- Recruitment Committee, Political Theory 1989-1990 Chair of Subfield, Political Theory 1987-1988; 1988-1989; 1994-1995, 1998-1999 Department EEOC Officer, 1987-1988 Organizer, Lippincott Colloquium on Thomas Hobbes, Spring, 1988 Graduate Work Committee, 1986-1987 Merit Advisory Committee, 1983-1984; 1984-1985; 1985-1986 Recruitment Committee, 1985-1986 Recruitment Committee, 1984-1985 Recruitment Committee, 1983-1984 Department Secretary, 1982-1983
PH.D. ADVISEES (Current and Former) & DISSERTATION TITLES (1990-)
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University of Minnesota:
Biser, Ashley (2008), Associate Professor, Ohio Wesleyan University. “Political Thinking and the Question Concerning Reprogenetic Technologies.”
Biskowski, Lawrence (1990), Attorney at Law, Chicago IL. “Political Rationality and Citizenship.” [co- advisor with T Ball]
Bickford, Susan (1993), Associate Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Listening, Conflict and Citizenship.” Dissertation published as: The Dissonance of Democracy: Listening, Conflict and Citizenship. Cornell University Press 1996
Cidam, Cigdem (2009), Assistant Professor, Union College. “Action in Concert: Recasting Democratic Practices as Political Friendship.”
Cruikshank, Barbara (1993), Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “Technologies of Citizenship in the Age of Democracy.” Dissertation published as: The Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects. Cornell University Press 1999
Cuzzo, Maria (1995), University of Wisconsin, Superior. “Habermas’s Communicative Action Theory and the Adversarial Assumption of the Civil Litigation System: A New Perspective for Empowering Dispute Resolution.”
Edwards, Ross (2015), Instructor, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT. “Crises of the Republic: Memory, History, and the Hermeneutics of Citizenship.”
Gagnon, Jennifer (2012), University of British Columbia (Sessional Lecturer). “Agonistic Politics, Contest, and the Oresteia.”
Gatta, Giunia (2008), Adjunct Instructor, European University Institute. “Political Theory and the Remainder of Politics: Situations at the Boundary.”
Gerencser, Steven (1996), Professor, Indiana University, South Bend. “Michael Oakeshott: History, Tradition and Political Philosophy.” Dissertation published as: The Skeptic’s Oakeshott. St Martin’s Press 2000
Geroux, Rob (1999), DePauw University. “Healing Ideas: Body, Soul and Body Politics in the Visions of Plato, Paul, Augustine, and Rousseau.”
Gimbel, Edward (2010), Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater. “An Interpreting Animal: Hermeneutics and Politics in the Human Sciences”
Goi, Simona (2000), Calvin College. “The Citizen as Believer: Politics and Religion in the Making of the Modern Self”
Gott, Katie (2010), Metropolitan State University. “ ‘Prostitutes of Wisdom’: Sophists, Rhetoric, and 15
Deliberative Democracy”
Guisan, Catherine (2000), University of Minnesota (adjunct); Utrecht University (visiting scholar): “Lost Treasure? An Arendtian Study of the Ethical Politics of Contemporary European Integration.” Dissertation Published as : Etude sur les principes d’ethique politique fondant l’integration europeenne. Paris: Editions Odile Jacob (2003).
Gundogdu, Ayten (2008), Assistant Professor, Barnard College. “A Right to Have Rights: Perplexities of Humanity and Citizenship in Global Politics.” Dissertation published as Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants (Oxford University Press 2015). [co-advisor with R Duvall]
Janara, Laura (1998), Associate Professor, University of British Columbia. “After the Mother: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.” Dissertation published as: Democracy Growing Up: Authority, Autonomy, and Passion in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America. SUNY Albany Press 2002
Mattern, Mark (1994), Professor, Baldwin-Wallace College. “Acting in Concert: Music, Community and Political Action.” Dissertation published as: Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action. Rutgers University Press 1998
Seligsohn, Andrew (2000), President, Campus Compact (Boston MA). “Aesthetic Politics and the American Polity.”
Soper, Paul (1999), University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. “The Texture of American Political Discourse: Political Argument Over the Bank of the United States: 1791-1832.”
Weidenfeld, Matthew (2007), Associate Professor, Elon College, Chapel Hill, N. “First Things, First: Toward a Phenomenology of Political Theory.”
Winham, Ilya (2015), Temporary Appt., University of Georgia. “After Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, and the Realization and Defeat of the Western Tradition” Zumbrunnen, John G (2000), Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison. “Democratic Politics and Political Judgment in Thucydides.” Dissertation published as Silence and Democracy: Athenian Politics in Thucydides’ History (Penn State University Press, 2008)
Zurick, Della [ABD]
Northwestern University:
Carroll, Ross (2013), Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Exeter University, United Kingdom. “The Politics of Enthusiasm in Shaftesbury, Hume, and Burke.”
Munro, André (2015), Manager, Content at PressReader, Vancouver Canada. “Democratic Excess and Popular Sovereignty.”
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Philips, Menaka (2013), Assistant Professor, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. “Contesting the ‘Liberal’ Paradigm: The Case of John Stuart Mill.”
Current Ph.D. Advisees Burdman, Javier [ABD] Cane, Lucy [ABD] Clark, Clement [ABD] Gercek, Emre [ABD] Litvin, Boris [ABD] LoTempio, Christina [ABD] Neame, Lexi [ABD]