Aaron Alexander Zubia Curriculum Vitae Department of Politics and International Affairs, Furman University 864-294-4289 (Office) 915-204-3644 (Cell) [email protected] www.aaronzubia.com
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
2020-21 Furman University: Postdoctoral Fellow, The Tocqueville Program Department of Politics and International Affairs 2019-20 Princeton University: Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, Department of Politics
EDUCATION
2019 Columbia University: Ph.D., Political Science Dissertation Title: “The Making of Liberal Mythology: David Hume, Epicureanism, and the New Political Science” Dissertation Advisor: Nadia Urbinati 2017 Columbia University, M.Phil., Political Science 2016 Columbia University, M.A., Political Science 2012 Princeton Theological Seminary, M.Div. 2009 University of Texas at El Paso, B.B.A. in Marketing Summa Cum Laude
PUBLICATIONS
Book Manuscript
2020 Liberalism’s Founding Myth: David Hume and the Modern Political Imagination
Journal Articles
2020 “The Centrality of Convention in Hume’s Moral and Political Philosophy,” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, 47:1 (Fall 2020)
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Manuscripts in Submission
2020 “Political Realism and the Primacy of Theory in the Thought of David Hume” at Polity (Revise and Resubmit) 2020 “David Hume’s Modern Epicurean Political Theory” at Hume Studies
Manuscripts in Preparation
“Hobbes and Mandeville against Christianity and Classical Republicanism” “The Raging Hour of Approbation: How the Federalists Won the Struggle for the Constitution” “John Rawls’s Humean Conception of Society” “An Alternative American Liberalism: James Wilsons’ Lectures on Law”
Other Publications
2020 “Universities Abandon Reason for a False Idea of ‘Empowerment’,” The Wall Street Journal 2020 “Black Lives Matter is not the same as ‘black lives matter’,” Washington Examiner 2020 “Comedy for Believers: Hannah Gadsby’s Woke Comedy Gospel,” National Review Online 2018 “Jefferson’s ‘Master Epicurus’ and the Nature of the American Regime,” in Public Discourse: The Online Journal of the Witherspoon Institute
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Papers Presented
2021 “The Priority of Artificial over Natural Virtue Hume’s Moral Psychology” 47th Hume Society Conference, Bogotá, Colombia, July 6-10 2021 “The Priority of Justice in Hume’s Moral Psychology” New England Political Science Association (NEPSA), Mystic, CT, Apr. 23-5 2020 “David Hume’s Modern Epicurean Political Theory” American Political Science Association (APSA), San Francisco, CA, Sep. 10-13 2020 “The Priority of Justice in Hume’s Moral Psychology” Southern Political Science Association (SPSA), San Juan, PR, Jan. 9-11 2020 “Hume on Faction and the Necessity of Enlightenment” Southern Political Science Association (SPSA), San Juan, PR, Jan. 9-11
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2019 “Hume on Faction and the Liberal Strategy of Enlightenment” Association for Political Theory (APT), Irvine, CA, Oct. 24-26 2019 “Hobbes and Mandeville on the Liberal Government of the Passions” 4th Braga Colloquium in the History of Moral and Political Philosophy, Jan. 29-30 2017 “David Hume’s Neo-Epicurean Political Theory” Northeastern Political Science Association (NPSA), Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 9-11
Discussant
2020 “Faith, Hope, and Progress?” Panel Southern Political Science Association (SPSA), San Juan, PR, Jan. 9-11
2018 “Ancient Roots” Panel Unions and Federations Conference, Columbia University, April 27-28
INVITED TALKS
2020 “Hume: What Makes Men Moral, Commerce or God?” (Canceled due to COVID-19) The Morningside Institute, New York, NY, April 20 2020 “Hume on Faction and the Necessity of Enlightenment” The Invisible Hand Seminar, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, Feb. 22 2019 “Hobbes and Mandeville on the Liberal Government of the Passions” The King’s College, New York, NY, April 8
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2020 Furman University, POL 103: Introduction to Political Thought 2018 Columbia University, Teaching Assistant POLS 3213: American Urban Politics 2017 Columbia University, Teaching Assistant POLS 1101: Introduction to Political Theory 2017 Columbia University, Teaching Assistant POLS 3235: The American President 2016 Columbia University, Teaching Assistant HR3001: Introduction to Human Rights 2016 Columbia University, Teaching Assistant POLS 3245: Race and Ethnicity in American Politics
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2015 Columbia University, Teaching Assistant POLS 3115: American Political Thought
UNIVERSITY ACTIVITIES
2020 Co-Leader, James Madison Program Undergrad Reading Group, Princeton University 2018 Assistant Convener, Unions and Federations Conference, Columbia University 2016-18 Rapporteur, University Seminar on Social and Political Thought, Columbia University 2016-17 Co-Convener, Political Theory Student Workshop, Columbia University
EXTRA TRAINING
2020 “Separation of Powers in Theory and Practice,” JMC Summer Institute (Postponed) Jack Miller Center, Philadelphia, PA, June 22 – July 2 2018 “The Thomistic Seminar: Philosophical Anthropology” The Witherspoon Institute, Princeton, NJ, August 5-11
FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS
2019 Institute for Humane Studies, Hayek Fund for Scholars 2017-18 Columbia University, Schiff Fellowship 2015-18 Columbia University, GSAS Teaching Fellowship 2014-15 Columbia University, GSAS Diversity Fellowship 2014-15 Columbia University, GSAS Dean’s Fellowship
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
2019 Hume Society 2019 Southern Political Science Association 2019 American Philosophical Association 2018 American Political Science Association 2018 Association for Political Theory 2017 Northeastern Political Science Association
COURSES PREPARED TO TEACH
“Introduction to Political Thought”
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“American Political Thought” “The Scottish Enlightenment and the American Founding” “Commerce and Virtue: Writings in Eighteenth-Century Political Economy” “The Age of Enlightenment: Modern and Anti-Modern Perspectives”
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Ancient and modern political philosophy; Scottish Enlightenment; American political thought; political liberalism; politics and religion; political economy; public reason
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
2015 Latin Proficiency Exam
REFERENCES
Benjamin Storey Professor of Politics and International Affairs Furman University [email protected] (864) 294-3574
Nadia Urbinati Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory Columbia University [email protected] (212) 854-3977
Pierre Force Professor of French and of History Columbia University [email protected] (212) 854-5526
Carl Wennerlind Professor of History Barnard College [email protected] (212) 854-2055
Don Garrett Silver Professor; Professor of Philosophy New York University [email protected] (212) 998-3562
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