PATCHEN MARKELL Department of Political Science The University of Chicago 5828 South University Avenue Chicago, IL 60637 USA office: 773-702-8057 home: 312-663-4167 fax: 773-702-1689 p-markell@uchicago.edu ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Associate Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago, 2006 present. (also appointed in Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, New Collegiate Division, 2007 2014). Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago, 1999 2006. Instructor and Lecturer, Social Studies, Harvard University, 1998 99. EDUCATION: Ph.D. in Political Science, Harvard University, 1999. Dissertation: Bound by Recognition: The Politics of Identity after Hegel. Committee: Seyla Benhabib, chair; Bonnie Honig; Michael Sandel. B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley (with highest honors), 1992. Honors thesis: Judgment and Paradox in Hannah Arendt s Political Theory. Supervisor: Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. BOOKS: Bound by Recognition (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003). Co-winner of the 2004 First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory; subject of a special Forum in Polity (January 2006) based on an Author Meets Critics roundtable, NPSA, Boston, November 13, 2004; reviewed in Choice (June 2004); Perspectives on Politics (December 2004); Political Theory (June 2005); Philosophy in Review/Comtes Rendus Philosophiques (August 2005); Political Psychology (April 2006); Law, Culture, & The Humanities (June 2006); Contemporary Political Theory (November 2006); Qui Parle (Fall/Winter 2008). ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS: Hannah Arendt, 1906 1975. Forthcoming in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael Gibbons (Wiley-Blackwell; refereed 8000-word entry).
The Moment Has Passed: Power After Arendt. Forthcoming in Radical Future Pasts: Untimely Political Theory, ed. Rom Coles, Mark Reinhardt, and George Shulman (Kentucky, 2014). Arendt, Aesthetics, and The Crisis in Culture. In The Aesthetic Turn in Political Thought, ed. Nikolas Kompridis (Bloomsbury, 2014). Arendt s Work: On the Architecture of The Human Condition. College Literature 38, no. 1 (Winter 2011): 15 44. Education, Independence, and Acknowledgment. In Debating Moral Education, ed. J. Peter Euben and Elizabeth Kiss, Duke University Press, 2010. The Experience of Action. In Thinking in Dark Times: Hannah Arendt on Ethics and Politics, ed. Roger Berkowitz, Jeff Katz, and Thomas Keenan. Fordham University Press, 2009. The Insufficiency of Non-Domination. Political Theory 36, no. 1 (February 2008): 9 36. (Winner of the 2006 Best Paper Award, Foundations of Political Theory organized section of APSA.) The Potential and the Actual: Mead, Honneth, and the I. In Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory, ed. Bert van den Brink and David Owen (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Recognition and Redistribution. In The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, ed. John Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips (Oxford University Press, 2006). The Rule of the People: Arendt, Archê, and Democracy. American Political Science Review 100, no. 1 (February 2006): 1 14. Spanish translation in Este País 201 (December 2007): 2 23. Reprinted in slightly revised and condensed form in Politics in Dark Times: Encounters with Hannah Arendt, ed. Seyla Benhabib (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Ontology, Recognition, and Politics: A Reply. Polity 38, no. 1 (January 2006): 28 39 (special forum on Bound by Recognition). (with Candace Vogler) Introduction: Violence, Redemption, and the Liberal Imagination. Public Culture 15, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 1 10. Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Antigone and Aristotle. Political Theory 31, no. 1 (February 2003): 6 38. The Recognition of Politics: A Comment on Emcke and Tully. Constellations 7, no. 4 (December 2000): 496 506. Making Affect Safe for Democracy? On Constitutional Patriotism. Political Theory 28, no. 1 (February 2000): 38 63. 2
Contesting Consensus: Rereading Habermas on the Public Sphere. Constellations 3, no. 3 (January 1997): 377 400. ONLINE PUBLICATIONS: Hannah Arendt and the Case of Poetry. Weblog entry, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities (August 6, 2012). URL=http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?p=6986 On Facts (For Elisabeth Young-Bruehl). Weblog entry, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities (December 19, 2011). URL= http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?p=3474 Power, Arrest, Dispersal. Weblog entry, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities (November 7, 2011). URL=http://www.hannaharendtcenter.org/?p=2452 BOOK REVIEWS: After the End of Thought. Contribution to book symposium on Tracy Strong, Politics Without Vision. Forthcoming in Political Theory (October 2014). Review of Alessandro Ferrara, The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, in Constellations 17, no. 3 (September 2010): 498 500. Review of Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics, in Political Theory 38, no. 1 (2010): 172 77. Review essay: Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility, and Serena Parekh, Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (posted November 19, 2008, online at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=14788). Review of Anthony F. Lang, Jr., and John Williams, eds., Hannah Arendt and International relations: Reading Across the Lines. Ethics and International Affairs 20, no. 4 (Winter 2006): 535 37. Review of John Tambornino, The Corporeal Turn: Passion, Necessity, Politics. Perspectives on Politics 2, no. 1 (March 2004): 128 29. The Art of the Possible. Review essay (Jane Bennett, The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, Ethics, and Wendy Brown, Politics Out of History). Political Theory 31, no. 3 (June 2003): 461 70. Review of Stephen K. White, Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Political Theory. Ethics 112, no. 2 (January 2002): 415 17. Hannah Arendt s Difficult Freedom. (Review of Arendt, Essays in Understanding 1930 1954.) Religion and Values in Public Life 4, no. 1 (Fall 1995): 5 7. 3
OTHER PUBLICATIONS: Iris Marion Young, 1949 2006. Memorial minute in the Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 80, no. 5 (February 2007): 184 85. (with Danielle Allen, Robert Gooding-Williams, John P. McCormick, Martha Nussbaum, Cass Sunstein, and Nathan Tarcov) Iris Marion Young: Tributes from her colleagues in political theory at the University of Chicago, PS (January 2007): 168 70. Annotated Bibliography on Hannah Arendt and Feminism. In Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt, ed. Bonnie Honig. University Park: Penn State Press, 1995. WORK IN PROGRESS: Anonymous Glory (under submission) The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt (working paper) What Are Poets For? Arendt on Brecht, and Others (paper to be revised for journal submission) Arendt and Habermas Revisited: The Critique of Marx and the Critique of Capitalism (working paper) Hannah Arendt and the Rule of Law (working paper) Hannah Arendt and the Architecture of The Human Condition (book in progress). The Rule of the People: Power, Activity, and Democracy (book in progress). GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, AND AWARDS: Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Advising, University of Chicago, 2014. Member, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 2012 2013. Social Sciences Divisional Research Grant, University of Chicago, 2008 09. American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2007 2008 (to support work on The Architecture of The Human Condition). Best Paper Award, Foundations of Political Theory organized section of the APSA, 2006 (for The Insufficiency of Non-Domination ). Social Sciences Divisional Research Grant, University of Chicago, 2006 07. 4
Social Sciences Divisional Research Grant, University of Chicago, 2005 06. First Book Award, Foundations of Political Theory organized section of the APSA, 2004 (for Bound by Recognition; co-winner with Alan Keenan, Democracy in Question). Faculty Fellowship, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, 2004 05. Social Sciences Division Collaborative Research Grant, with John Comaroff, Jacob Levy, Steve Pincus, and Iris Young, Colonialism and its Legacies, 2002 04. Social Sciences Divisional Research Grant, University of Chicago, 2001 02. Sumner Prize (one of three prizes awarded annually to outstanding political science dissertations), Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1999. Mellon Dissertation Completion Fellowship, Department of Government, Harvard, Spring 1998. Dissertation Writing Fellowships, Program for the Study of Germany and Europe, Harvard, Fall 1996 and 1997. Graduate Fellowship in Ethics, Program in Ethics and the Professions, Harvard, 1996 97. Mellon Dissertation Research Fellowship, Department of Government, Harvard, 1995 96. Certificates of Distinction in Teaching, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard, Spring 1995, Fall 1998, and Spring 1999. Jacob K. Javits Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences, 1992 96. V. O. Key, Jr. Prize Fellow, Department of Government, Harvard, 1992 93. Departmental Citation (valedictorian) Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley, 1992. Bennett Prize in Political Science, UC Berkeley, for the essay Judgment and Paradox in Hannah Arendt s Political Theory, 1992. Bennett Prize in Political Science, UC Berkeley, for the essay Freedom of Speech and Communicative Action: A Historical and Philosophical Consideration of the First Amendment, 1991. Owen D. Young Prize in International Relations, UC Berkeley, for the essay John Rawls s A Theory of Justice and Principles of International Morality, 1991. Phi Beta Kappa, UC Berkeley, 1991. 5
COURSES OFFERED: Most course syllabi available at http://home.uchicago.edu/~pmarkell/classroom.html List of dissertations, master s theses, and senior theses advised available upon request. Action and Responsibility, undergraduate seminar, Winter 2001. Adorno s Aesthetic Theory, graduate seminar, Spring 2012. Agamben s Political Thought, graduate seminar, Fall 2014 (scheduled). Arendt and Heidegger, advanced undergraduate and graduate seminar, with Bob Gooding- Williams, Spring 2012. Classics of Social and Political Thought, undergraduate Social Sciences core course, Fall quarter of 2014 (scheduled), 2009, Winter Quarter of 2015 (scheduled), Spring quarters of 2015 (scheduled), 2009, 2007 (two sections), 2006, 2004, 2003, 2001, 2000. Cold War Political Theory, graduate seminar, Spring 2009. Contemporary Political Theory and its Histories, graduate seminar, Winter and Spring 2015 (scheduled). Contemporary Theories of Agency, graduate seminar, Spring 2004. Democracy and its Critics in the 19th Century, undergraduate lecture, Winter 2003. Democratic Theory, graduate seminar, Spring 2006; Spring 2000. Dissertation Proposal Seminar, audit-only graduate seminar, Spring 2005, Winter 2009. Hannah Arendt s The Human Condition, advanced undergraduate/graduate seminar, Spring 2014, Spring 2011, Winter 2009, Winter 2006; also offered as Theories of Agency: Hannah Arendt, graduate seminar, Spring 2003. Hegel and Marx, advanced undergraduate and graduate lecture, Winter 2004; Winter 2000. Introduction to Social Studies, undergraduate tutorial, Fall 1998 and Spring 1999 (Harvard). Language, Politics, and Political Theory, graduate seminar, Winter 2006. Marx s Capital, graduate seminar, Winter 2001 (with William Sewell). The Political Theory of Jürgen Habermas, advanced undergraduate/graduate seminar (Fall 2009). Politics, Art, and Aesthetics, graduate seminar, Winter 2007, 2014 (scheduled). 6
The Politics of Greek Tragedy, freshman seminar, Spring 1999 (Harvard). The Politics of Recognition, undergraduate seminar, Fall 1998 (Harvard). Power, Action, and Rule in Radical Democratic Theory, graduate seminar, Fall 2011. Self, Culture, and Society, undergraduate Core course in Social Science, Fall 2011. Twentieth-Century Hegelianisms, graduate seminar, Winter 2004. OTHER TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Head Teaching Fellow (Spring 1995) and Guest Lecturer (Fall and Spring 1995), Moral Reasoning 50, The Public and the Private in Politics, Morality, and Law, Professor Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University. Senior Thesis Advisor, Department of Government (Fall 1994) and Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, Harvard University (Fall 1997 and 1998 1999). Guest Lecturer, Women s Studies 150, Moral Dilemmas, Professor Bonnie Honig, Harvard University, Spring 1997. ADVISING: At the University of Chicago, served on committees of 32 completed dissertations since 1999 (13 chaired or co-chaired); currently working with 13 other ABD or near-abd students, 5 in (or likely to be in) the role of chair or co-chair. Have served on two dissertation committees outside Chicago (UC San Diego, University of Utrecht). Regular advisor of Master s and BA theses. Further information about graduate and undergraduate advising experience is available upon request. LECTURES, TALKS, AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS: Fourteen Theses on Political Theory and History, WPSA, Seattle, April 2014. Roundtable presentation on Nancy Luxon s Crisis of Authority, WPSA, Seattle, April 2014. The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt, Richard Sinopoli Memorial Lecture, University of California, Davis, April 2014. The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt, Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, March 2014. 7
Anonymous Glory, Toronto-area CSPT, March 2014. The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt, Williams College, November 2013. The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt, Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, October 2013. Anonymous Glory, APSA, Chicago, September 2013. Introduction: To Think What We Are Doing, presentation of book introduction to the T2 Reading Group, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, May 2013. The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt, SUNY-Albany Political Theory Colloquium, April 2013. The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Social Science, Thursday Lunch Seminar, February 2013. Roundtable presentation on Tracy Strong s Politics Without Vision, UCLA, February 2013. The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt, Yale University Political Theory Workshop, February 2013. The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt, Oxford Political Thought Conference (Britian and Ireland Association for Political Theory) January 2013. The Case of Poetry: Arendt on Brecht, invited presentation, University of Southampton (UK), Department of Politics, January 2013. The Surprising Platonism of Hannah Arendt, conference in honor of J. Peter Euben, Duke University, November 2012. The Moment Has Passed: Power After Arendt, Prindle Center and Department of Political Science, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana, December 2011. Truth and Visibility: Arendt and Heidegger on Politics, Philosophy, and Poetry, Department of Philosophy, SUNY Purchase, November 2011. The Moment Has Passed: Power After Arendt, Graduate Political Theory Conference, Harvard University, October 2011. After Power, invited presentation at a colloquium honoring the dissertation defense of Thomas Fossen, Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University, Netherlands, May 2011. 8
The Architecture of The Human Condition, invited lecture and informal brown-bag discussion, Presidential Dream Course on Hannah Arendt, University of Oklahoma, Norman, April 2011. After Power, Keynote Address, Graduate Political Theory Conference, Princeton University, April 2011. Arendt, Aesthetics, and The Crisis in Culture, DePaul University, Chicago, February 2011. What Are Poets For? Arendt on Brecht, and Others, Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, November 2010. What Are Poets For? Arendt on Brecht, and Others, invited lecture, Society of Fellows, University of Chicago, October 2010. Roundtable presentation, on the panel Power, Authority, Rule: Democratic Perspectives, APSA, Washington, DC, September 2010. The Moment Has Passed, invited presentation at the conference Waiting for the Political Moment, Rotterdam and Utrecht, June 2010. Arendt and Habermas Revisited: The Critique of Marx and the Critique of Capitalism, Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University, June 2010. Arendt and Habermas Revisited: The Critique of Marx and the Critique of Capitalism, Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis, April 2010. What Are Poets For? Arendt on Brecht, and Others, WPSA, San Francisco, April 2010. On Hannah Arendt, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago, Wednesday Lunch series, February 17, 2010. On the Architecture of The Human Condition, Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago, November 5 7, 2009. Arendt and Habermas Revisited: The Critique of Marx and the Critique of Capitalism, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Fall 2009. Roundtable on Stephen K. White, The Ethos of a Late Modern Citizen, APSA, Toronto, August 2009. Arendt and Habermas Revisited: The Critique of Marx and the Critique of Capitalism, Department of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, May 2009. Arendt and Habermas Revisited: The Critique of Marx and the Critique of Capitalism, Department of Political Science, Brown University, April 2009. 9
Arendt, Aesthetics, and The Crisis in Culture, Department of Government, Cornell University, March 2009. The Critique of Marx and the Critique of Capitalism; or, Arendt and Habermas Revisited, panel on Reification and its Malcontents, WPSA, Vancouver, March 2009 Arendt, Aesthetics, and The Crisis in Culture, Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, February 2009. Arendt, Aesthetics, and The Crisis in Culture, Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame, February 2009. Arendt, Republicanism, and the Rule of Law, Discourses of Republicanism conference, Ancient Studies and Poetics and Theory, NYU, November 2008. Invited discussion of The Insufficiency of Non-Domination, Graduate Political Theory Workshop, Northwestern University, October 2008. Presentation at roundtable on Fifty Years of Hannah Arendt s The Human Condition, APSA, Boston, August 2008. Arendt, Aesthetics, and The Crisis in Culture, UCLA Political Theory Colloquium, May 2008. On the Architecture of The Human Condition, Columbia University, Political Philosophy Seminar, April 2008. On the Architecture of The Human Condition, New School for Social Research, April 2008. Discussion of chapters from Bound by Recognition, Seminar on Antigones, Prof. Tina Chanter, DePaul University, Department of Philosophy, April 2008. Arendt, Aesthetics, and The Crisis in Culture, WPSA, San Diego, March 2008. On the Architecture of The Human Condition, Stanley Lecture, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside, May 2007. On the Architecture of The Human Condition, Department of Political Science, UC San Diego, April 2007. The Power of Books, Fundamentals: Issues and Texts, University of Chicago, April 2007. On the Architecture of The Human Condition, WPSA, Las Vegas, March 2007. On the Architecture of The Human Condition, invited presentation at Duke University, Department of Political Science, February 2007. 10
On the Architecture of The Human Condition, invited presentation at the Princeton University Political Philosophy Colloquium, December 2006. What is the Activity of Democratic Citizenship? Presentation at Thinking in Dark Times: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt, conference at Bard College, October 2006. On the Architecture of The Human Condition, invited presentation at Crises of Our Republics: Hannah Arendt at One Hundred, conference at Yale University, September 2006. The Insufficiency of Non-Domination, invited presentation at the Department of Political Science, Northwestern University, Evanston, December 2005. The Insufficiency of Non-Domination, invited presentation at the Department of Political Science, McGill University, Montreal, December 2005. The Potential and the Actual: Mead, Honneth, and the I, Political Communication and Society Workshop, University of Chicago, November 2005. The Insufficiency of Non-Domination, on the panel Freedom, Power, and Agency, APSA, Washington, DC, September 2005. The Insufficiency of Non-Domination, invited presentation at the Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin, Madison, May 2005. The Potential and the Actual: Mead, Honneth, and the I, invited presentation at the Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, April 2005. The Rule of the People? Arendt, Archê, and Democracy, Franke Institute for the Humanities, Fellows Seminar, April 2005. The Insufficiency of Non-Domination, WPSA, Oakland, March 2005. The Rule of the People? Arendt, Archê, and Democracy, Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago, February 2004. Respondent, Author Meets Critics roundtable on Bound by Recognition, NPSA, Boston, November 2004. Rule of the People: Democracy and the Problem of Agency, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, November 2004. Mead, Honneth, and the I, on the panel Recognition and Politics, APSA, Chicago, September 2004. Arendt on Democratic Rule, invited presentation at the International Social Science Seminar, Stockholm University, Sweden, May 2004. 11
Mead, Honneth, and the I, invited presentation at the Political Science Department General Seminar, Stockholm University, Sweden, May 2004. Mead, Honneth, and the I, on the panel Agency and Democracy, WPSA, Portland, March 2004. Education, Independence, and Acknowledgment, presentation at the conference Debating Moral Education: Rethinking the Roles and Responsibilities of Higher Education, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University, March 2004. On Democratic Rule, on the panel Antagonizing Democracy, APSA, Philadelphia, August 2003. Culture, Agency, and the Sources of Domination, on the panel The Search for the Political, WPSA, March 2002. Bound by Recognition: The Sovereign State and Jewish Emancipation in Hegel and History, at Inside/Outside Constitutionalisms, a conference at the Clark Library/UCLA Center for 17th and 18th Century Studies, February 2002. Culture, Agency, and the Sources of Domination, at the first conference of the Chicago Conference for the Study of Political Thought, November 2001. Roundtable participant, Violence and Redemption, conference of the Late Liberalism Project, Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago, October 2001. Culture, Agency, and the Sources of Domination, at Agency: An Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Chicago, October 2001. Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Aristotle and Antigone, at the Rhetoric and Poetics Workshop, University of Chicago, May 2001. Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Aristotle and Antigone, on the panel The Poetics of Politics, MPSA, Chicago, April 2001. Recognition and Acknowledgment, invited presentation at Northwestern University Center for Law, Culture, and Social Thought, Evanston, March 2001 The Tragic Politics of Recognition: Action and Identity in Antigone, on the panel Moral Psychology and Identity, APSA, Washington, September 2000. The Politics of the Universal, on the panel After Universals, APSA, Atlanta, September 1999. Making Affect Safe For Democracy? On Constitutional Patriotism, on the panel Place, Race, and the State, APSA, Washington, August 1997. 12
The Symbolic Politics of Gender in Hegel s Antigone, the Gender and Politics Workshop, Department of Government, Harvard University, April 1997. Hegel, Jewish Emancipation, and the Politics of Recognition, on the panel Historical Perspectives on Politics, Identities, and Cultures, NPSA, Boston, November 1996. OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION: Discussant, Hannah Arendt, APSA, Chicago, September 2013. Organizer and participant, workshop on Hannah Arendt s Denktagebuch, Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, Bard College, June 2012. Organizer and speaker, In a Rut, third in a series of conferences on the Arts of Non- Sovereignty organized by the Worlding, Writing Project, University of Chicago, April 2012. Discussant, Rhetoric and Materiality, WPSA, March 2012. Discussant, Political Education, APSA, August 2011. Panel Moderator, The Lives of Things, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory and Object Cultures Project, University of Chicago, April 2011. Chair, Habermas: New Perspectives, WPSA, San Antonio, April 2011. Chair and Discussant, World, Freedom, and Politics, WPSA, San Antonio, April 2011. Participant in a book manuscript workshop for Lars Tønder, Becoming Tolerant, Northwestern University, June 2010. Discussant, No Laughing Matter (on Arendt), WPSA, San Francisco, April 2010. Discussion leader, The Human Condition, Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of Chicago, November 5 7, 2009. Chair, Motivating Politics: Ancient and Modern Perspectives on Reason and Desire, APSA, Toronto, August 2009. Chair, Possibility and Paradox: On Rhetoric and Political Theory, Northwestern University/CSPT, April 2008. Discussant, Conversations with Arendt, WPSA, San Diego, March 2008. Chair, Just Emotions, WPSA, San Diego, March 2008. 13
Panel Chair, The Golden and the Brazen World: Political Thought in British History, Literature, and Philosophy, Nicholson Center for British Studies, University of Chicago, December 2008. Discussant, Death, Chance, and the Politics of Self-Sacrifice, conference marking the 25th anniversary of Benedict Anderson s Imagined Communities, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory, University of Chicago, October 2008. Co-organizer (with Cathy Cohen and Deborah Nelson), Symposium Celebrating the Life and Work of Iris Marion Young, University of Chicago, May 2007. Chair, roundtable on Iris Marion Young, Midwest Political Science Association, April 2007. Chair, Deliberation, Judgment, and Democracy, WPSA, Las Vegas, March 2007. Discussant, The Politics of Food, Taste, and Time, APSA, Philadelphia, September 2006. Chair, Contestation and Closure: Rethinking Agonistic Democracy, APSA, Philadephia, September 2006. Chair, How to Address a Political Subject, WPSA, Albequerque, March 2006. Discussant, Judgment and Action in Democratic Politics, APT, St. Louis, October 2005. Chair, Communication, Acknowledgment and Recognition, WPSA, Oakland, March 2005. Discussant, Materialism and Politics, APSA, Chicago, September 2004. Chair, Colonialism and its Legacies, meeting of the international Conference for the Study of Political Thought, University of Chicago, April 2004. Discussant, Contemporary Readings of Hegel, WPSA, Portland, March 2004. Discussant, Rooted Cosmopolitanisms, WPSA, Denver, March 2003. Chair, Universalism after Multiculturalism, APSA, Boston, August 2002. Discussant, Publicity and Secrecy, APSA, Boston, August 2002. Chair, On Justice/On Violence/On Law: Political Theory and 11 September, MPSA, Chicago, April 2002. Chair, Unruly Democracy, MPSA, Chicago, April 25 28, 2002. Chair and discussant, National Identity and Political Theory, MPSA, Chicago, April 2001. Chair and discussant, Freud, Moses, and Monotheism, APSA, Atlanta, September 1999. 14
Chair and discussant, Multiculturalism, Political Integration, and Ethnic Difference, at the conference Multiculturalism and Struggles for Recognition in Comparative Perspective, Center for European Studies, Harvard University, March 1999. Discussant, Philosophy after Identity, conference at the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, University of Chicago, May 2000. Discussant, Pluralism, MPSA, Chicago, April 2000. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND INSTITUTIONAL ACTIVITIES: Departmental service (Chicago) Director of Graduate Studies (2006 07, 2008 10). Faculty Search Committee (1999 2000, 2002 03). Graduate Admissions Committee (1999 2000, 2000 01, 2002 03, 2005 06, 2006 07 [chair], 2008 09 [chair], 2011 2012 [scheduled]). Prize Committee (2006 07 [chair], 2008 10 [chair]). Political Theory Examination coordinator (2003 04) and reader (Fall 2002, Winter 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2006, Fall 2006, Fall 2008, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011). Budget Committee (2008 2009). Collegiate, divisional, and university service (Chicago) Member of the Subcommittee of the Council of the University Senate on 12.5.3 of the Statutes (2012). Member of the Council of the University Senate (July 2011 June 2012). Discussion facilitator, Workshop on Teaching in the College (2008). Member of the Board of the Library (2006 2009). Member of the College Council (2003 2005). Chair of the Classics of Social and Political Thought core sequence, Social Sciences Collegiate Division (Spring 2006; Spring 2007; Spring 2009). Social Sciences Divisional Research Grant Award Committee (for 2004 05 award year). 15
Co-director of the Political Theory Workshop (1999 present); primary co-director, 2000 01, 2002 03, Fall 2003, Spring 2006, Spring 2012, Spring 2014 (scheduled). Member of the Project on Interdisciplinary Studies (2004 2005). Centers, projects, etc. (Chicago) Co-director, Project on Language, History, and Political Theory (2008 present). Fellow, Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (2012 present). Faculty Associate of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (2004 2011). Member of the Faculty Board of Wilder House, the Center for the Study of Politics, History and Culture (2000 04). Editorial Board member, Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning, a book series published by the University of Chicago Press (active 2002 2004). Faculty Affiliate of the Center for Gender Studies (1999 present). Member of the Late Liberalism Project (1999 present, Project dormant since ~2009). Member of the Writing, Worlding Project (2011 present). External and earlier service, activities, and affiliations External dissertation evaluator for Wout Cornellisen, University of Leiden, Netherlands, 2013. External dissertation examiner for Adam Dunn, University of Southampton, UK, May 2011. External co-convenor and committee member for Thomas Fossen, Philosophy, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, 2010. External dissertation examiner for Trevor Tchir, University of Alberta, Canada, May 2009. External committee member for Andrew Poe, University of California, San Diego. Manuscript reviewer for: American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Contemporary Political Theory, Constellations, DuBois Review, Ethics, Hypatia, Journal of Political Philosophy, Law & Social Inquiry, Perspectives on Politics, Political Research Quarterly, Political Studies, Polity, Review of Politics, Social Theory and Practice, Blackwell Publishers, Cambridge University Press, University of Chicago Press, Columbia University Press, MIT Press, Princeton University Press, Duke University Press, Harvard University Press, Stanford University Press, Yale University Press. 16
Member of the Editorial Board of the American Political Science Review (2007 2012). Member of the Editorial Board of Polity (2004 2011). Member of the Editorial Committee (2001 04) and Collective (2004 2006?) of Public Culture. Editorial Associate (2001 2005) and Editorial Council member (2005 2009, 2010 present) of Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. Member, Interim Executive Committee, CSPT, 2006 2011. Founding member, webmaster and email list adminstrator for the Chicago Conference for the Study of Political Thought (2000 present, currently dormant). Member, Chairs and Discussants Committee, APT Conference, 2006. Present or past member of: American Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, International Conference for the Study of Political Thought (CSPT), American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (NOMOS), Association for Political Theory (APT). Affiliate of the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 1996 99. Member (1994 96) and co-chair (1995 96) of the Graduate Student Committee, Department of Government, Harvard University. Coordinator of the Political Theory Colloquium, Department of Government, Harvard University, Spring 1993. Research Assistant to Professors Seyla Benhabib and Bonnie Honig, Department of Government, Harvard University, 1993 1996. Editor, Managing Editor, and Editor-in-Chief (successively) of the Journal of the Undergraduate Political Science Association, UC Berkeley, 1989 91. REFERENCES: Available upon request. ABBREVIATIONS: APSA = American Political Science Association APT = Association for Political Theory CSPT = Conference for the Study of Political Thought MPSA = Midwest Political Science Association NPSA = Northeastern Political Science Association WPSA = Western Political Science Association 17
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