University of Chicago BA, Political Science (Honors), Fundamentals: Issues and Texts (Honors)

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1 WILLIAM SELINGER Committee on Degrees in Social Studies 33 Kirkland St #336 Cambridge, MA ACADEMIC POSITIONS Lecturer, Social Studies Present EDUCATION PhD, Government University of Chicago BA, Political Science (Honors), Fundamentals: Issues and Texts (Honors) PUBLICATIONS Book Manuscript Parliamentary Liberalism (accepted for publication, Cambridge University Press, Ideas in Context series) Articles Fighting Electoral Corruption in the Victorian Era: An Overlooked Dimension of John Stuart Mill s Political Thought, European Journal of Political Theory (available online: 2015 forthcoming in print: 2018) The Other Side of Representation: The History and Theory of Representative Government in Pierre Rosanvallon (w. Greg Conti), Constellations 23 (2016) The Politics of Arendtian Historiography: European Federation and The Origins of Totalitarianism, Modern Intellectual History 13 (2016)

2 Le grand mal de l'époque: Tocqueville on French Political Corruption, History of European Ideas 42 (2016) Schumpeter on Democratic Survival, Tocqueville Review 36 (2015) Reappraising Walter Bagehot s Liberalism: Discussion, Public Opinion, and the Meaning of Parliamentary Government (w. Greg Conti), History of European Ideas 41 (2015) Patronage and Revolution: Edmund Burke s Theory of Parliamentary Corruption and His Reflections on the Revolution in France, Review of Politics 76 (2014) Reviews and Review Essays The Forgotten Philosopher, Review of Politics (forthcoming 2018): Review essay of Richard Mckeon, On Knowing: The Natural Sciences and Richard Mckeon, On Knowing: The Social Sciences The Battle Over Burke, Modern Intellectual History (forthcoming 2018): Review essay of Daniel O Neill, Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire and David Bromwich, The Intellectual Life of Edmund Burke: From the Sublime and Beautiful to American Independence Wilson and the League of Nations, Lawfare Book Review (August 2017): Review of Trygve Throntveit, Power Without Victory: Woodrow Wilson and the League of Nations INVITED TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS Liberalism in the Age of Ideologies, for the conference The History of Political Thought in the Age of Ideologies, , Queen Mary University of London, May 31- June 1, 2018 Parliament as a Substitute for Revolutionary Dissent, for the conference Resistance from the Inside: Institutional and Constitutional Dissent, University of Virginia, March 23, 2018 Rosanvallon on Populism, Elites, and the Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy, for the conference Elites and Democracy in Modern Political Thought, Cambridge University, December 7-8, 2017 Montreal Annual Political Theory Manuscript Award Conference, for my book manuscript Parliamentary Liberalism, McGill University, April 28,

3 CONFERENCES (SELECTED) Panel Discussant, Defining the People, American Political Science Association, September 2017 Repairing Representative Democracy: The Democratic Theory of Pierre Rosanvallon American Political Science Association, September 2016 Panel Organizer, Across the Revolutionary Divide: Rethinking Nineteenth-Century Political Thought, American Political Science Association, September 2015 Francois Guizot and the Challenge of French Parliamentary Government American Political Science Association, September 2015 Joseph Schumpeter and the Classical Theory of Parliamentarism Harvard Political Theory Workshop, September 2013 History as Judgment in Hannah Arendt s The Origins of Totalitarianism Southern Political Science Association, January 2013 Patronage and Revolution: Edmund Burke s Theory of Parliamentary Corruption and His Reflections on the Revolution in France Northeastern Political Science Association, November 2012 Religion as a Social Contract in the Political Thought of Thomas Hobbes Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory, April 2010 HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS Montreal Annual Political Theory Manuscript Award 2017 Derek Bok Teaching Award, 2016, 2017 Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Best Graduate Student Paper in Political Theory, Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting 2012 Institute for Humane Studies Fellowship Judith Shklar Prize Fellowship, Harvard Department of Government

4 Phi Beta Kappa, University of Chicago 2008 TEACHING AND ADVISING (SELECTED) Democracy and Populism Fall 2017 Co-Lecturer, Introduction to Social Studies Teaching Fellow, Shakespeare and Politics Professor Paul Cantor Teaching Fellow, Moral Values in Political Science Professor Michael Frazer Teaching Fellow, Introduction to Political Theory Professor Eric Beerbohm Teaching Fellow, Justice Professor Michael Sandel Undergraduate Thesis Adviser, A Phenomenological Theory of Authority Advisee: Matthew Stolz Undergraduate Thesis Adviser, The Moral Inequality of Non-Combatants Advisee: Theadora Skeadas Spring 2015 Spring 2012 Spring 2012 Fall PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Manuscript Reviewer: Journal of Politics, Modern Intellectual History, American Political Thought Coordinator: Harvard Political Theory Workshop, LANGUAGES Reading Proficiency: French, German, Attic Greek, Latin, Spanish 4

5 REFERENCES Available upon request 5