CURRICULUM VITÆ MAURIZIO VIROLI (February 2014) PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT - UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN PROFESSOR OF POLITICS, EMERITUS - PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR OF POLITICAL COMMUNICATION - UNIVERSITÀ DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA CONTACT INFORMATION: Prof. Maurizio Viroli Princeton University Department of Politics Corwin Hall - Princeton 08544 (e): [email protected] Prof. Maurizio Viroli University of Texas at Austin Department of Government, 158 W 21st ST STOP A1800 Austin, TX 78712-1704 (e): [email protected] (p): 0015122327256 Prof. Maurizio Viroli Università della Svizzera italiana Faculty of Communication Science Via G. Buffi, 13 6900 Lugano (e): [email protected] (p): 0041586664125 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Professor of Politics, Emeritus, Department of Politics, Princeton University (2013 - present); Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin (2013 - present); Professor of Political Communication and Political Theory, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (2008-present); Director of the Laboratorio Studi Civili, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (2013-present); Visiting Speaker, The Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University (Fall 2013); Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, Princeton University (1997-2013); Visiting Professor, University of Brisbane, Australia (June 2013); Director of the Laboratorio Studi Mediterranei, Università della Svizzera italiana, Lugano (2008-2013); Associated Faculty Member, Department of History, Princeton University (until 2013); Associated Faculty Member, Department of French and Italian, Princeton University (until 2013); Honorary Visiting Fellow, The Center of the Study of History of Political Thought, Queen Mary- University of London (2009); Jean Braudel Fellow at the European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization (October-December 2006); Visiting Professor, University of Trento, Faculty of Letters and Philosophy (October 2006-January 2007); Professor of History of Political Thought, Scuola Superiore dell'Amministrazione dell'Interno (2004- 2006) Visiting Professor, University of Molise, Faculty of Law (2002-2004); Associate Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, Princeton University (1993-1997); Assistant Professor of Politics, Department of Politics, Princeton University (1987-1993); Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Ferrara (Spring 1995); Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University (Spring 1993); Visiting Professor, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa (May 1993); Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, New School for Social Research, New York (Fall 1992); Research Fellow, European University Institute, Florence (1987); Teaching Assistant, History of Philosophy, University of Bologna, (1976-78). HONOURS Nominated Ufficiale della Repubblica by the president of the Italian Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, May 30, 2001. EDUCATION 1985 - Ph.D. in Social and Political Sciences awarded at the European University Institute in Florence (Italy). Thesis on La théorie de la société bien ordonnée chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Jury composed by Professors Werner Maihofer, Quentin Skinner, Norberto Bobbio, Maurice Cranston, Athanasios Moulakis. 1976 - Degree in Philosophy (summa cum laude) at the University of Bologna, thesis on Method and System in Friedrich Engels. RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS 2008-2010 - Senior Fellow, Real Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (Italy). 1986 (October-November) - Max-Planck Institut für Gesellschaftsforschung in Köln (Project: Theorien zur Eigendynamik Sozialen Systeme). 1985 (October)-1986 (September) - Jean Monnet Fellow, European University Institute in Florence. 1985 - Research Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge University, Cambridge, England. 1982 - Research Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence for a Ph.D. thesis on La théorie de la société bien ordonnée chez Jean-Jacques Rousseau. AWARDS AND GRANTS 2010-2011 - Credit Suisse Award for best teaching: «Per la qualità dell’insegnamento offerto e riconosciuto nell’ambito della valutazione dei corsi». 2006 (October-December) - Jean Braudel Fellowship, European University Institute, Department of History and Civilization, project The Religion of Liberty from Machiavelli to Croce. 2006 - Member of the International Aspen Institute, Italy. 2005-2006 - Grant from the Istituto Italiano Studi Filosofici – Naples, project title The Religion of Liberty from Machiavelli to Croce. 2002-2005 - Awarded Cotsen Faculty Fellow for the three-year period as a recognition of «distinguished career both in teaching and scholarship in Princeton». 2001 - Niccolò’s Smile nominated ‘Honor Book’ for the year 2001 by the New Jersey Council of Humanities. 1990-1993 - Arthur H. Scribner Bicentennial Preceptorship, Princeton University. 1990 (summer) - Princeton University Graduate Mellon Summer Seminar, on The Acquisition and Transformation of the Language of Politics in Early-Modern Europe. 1989-1990 - Member of the Institute for Advanced Study Princeton, School of Social Science. 1989 - New Jersey Governor’s Fellowship in the Humanities, research project on Civil Philosophy in Italian Political Thought (1300-1600). COURSES MOST FREQUENTLY TAUGHT Political theory Political communication History of political thought Modern history Modern political theory Politics and religion Political rhetoric Niccolò Machiavelli Patriotism and nationalism SERVICE Princeton University Member of the Executive Committee, Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society; Member, University Community Council; Member of the Executive Committee, Political Philosophy Colloquium; Faculty Advisory Board, Center for Human Values; Faculty Executive Committee, European Cultural Studies Program; Faculty Executive Committee, James Madison Program on American Ideals and Institutions; Faculty Executive Committee, Italian Studies; Università della Svizzera italiana Member of the Executive Committee, Collegio dottorale (Ph.D. Council); Public and private Institutions Former consultant and project coordinator, Italian Minister of Internal Affairs, ‘Committee for the strengthening of civic values of Italian Public Servants’; Consultant, Presidency of the Italian Republic, projects to reinforce the civic culture of Italian citizens (2000-2006); Consultant, ANCI (Associazione Nazionale Comuni Italiani), project ‘Lectures for the Republic’ (1999- 2001); Consultant, Comune of Siena, research project on Self-government and Civil Life in Italian Free Republics (1996-1997); President, AMI (Associazione Mazziniana Italiana), (2000-2007); Consultant, Collegio di Milano, projects on Civic Education; Consultant and project coordinator, Fondazione per la Scuola della Compagnia di San Paolo, Turin, projects on Civic Education; Founder and Director, Master Program in Civic Education, Ethica, Asti; Member of the Scientific Committee, Ethica, Asti; Member of the international committee of referees, Fondazione Collegio San Carlo, Modena; Consultant and project coordinator, Agnelli Foundation, Turin, research on The historical and theoretical significance of Republicanism (1996-1997); Coordinator, USA-Europe Locarno Seminar on Politics and Society (1994-1996); Member of the Scientific Committee, Biennale Democrazia, Turin; Member of the Scientific Committee, Scuola Studi internazionali, University of Trento; Member of the Scientific Committee, Fondazione Italianieuropei (1998-2008); Member of the Scientific Committee, Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples; Member of the Scientific Committee, Fondazione Circolo Fratelli Rosselli, Florence; Member of the Scientific Committee, Società di studi politici, Naples; Scientific press and newspapers Book series Director, Collana Dei doveri e delle libertà, Diabasis Press, Reggio Emilia; Member of the Scientific Committee, review «Limes - Rivista di geopolitica»; Member of the Scientific Committee, review «Critica liberale»; Contributor, newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano (2010-present); Contributor, newspaper La Stampa (1996-2005). Contributor, newspaper Il Sole 24ore (1992-2011). BOOKS AND MONOGRAPHS 2013 Redeeming The Prince: The Meaning of Machiavelli’s Masterpiece, Princeton, Princeton University Press. Italian translation, La redenzione dell’Italia. Saggio sul «Principe» di Machiavelli, Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2013. Il sorriso di Niccolò. Storia di Machiavelli, new and revised edition, Roma-Bari, Laterza. Scegliere il principe. I consigli di Machiavelli al cittadino elettore, Roma-Bari, Laterza. 2012 L’Intransigente, Roma-Bari, Laterza. Le parole del cittadino, Roma-Bari, Laterza. 2010 La libertà dei servi, Roma-Bari, Laterza (paperback edition: 2012). English translation, The liberty of servants: Berlusconi’s Italy, translated by Antony Shugaar, with a new preface by the author, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2011. Lo scrittore di ricami, Reggio Emilia, Diabasis. 2009 Come se Dio ci fosse. Religione e libertà nella storia d’Italia, Torino, Einaudi. English translation, As If God Existed: Religion and Liberty in the History of Italy, translated by Alberto Nones, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2012. 2008 How to read Machiavelli, Cambridge, Granta. Italian translation, Machiavelli filosofo della libertà, translated by Silvia Righini, Roma, Castelvecchi, 2013. L’Italia dei doveri, Milano, Rizzoli. 2005 Il Dio di Machiavelli e il problema morale dell’Italia, Roma-Bari, Laterza. English translation, Machiavelli’s God, translated by Antony Shugaar, Princeton,