GENEVIEVE ROUSSELIERE rousseliere@wisc.edu www.rousseliere.com 702 Lorillard Court, # E312 Department of Political Science Madison, WI 53703 110 North Hall (609) 751-1867 1050 Bascom Mall Madison, WI 53706 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The University of Wisconsin, Madison, Fall 2015-current Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago, 2011-2015 EDUCATION Princeton University PhD, Politics, 2011 Dissertation: Freedom and the State in the Age of Market Economy: French Republicanism from Montesquieu to Tocqueville Committee: Philip Pettit (Chair), Alan Patten, Alan Ryan, Nadia Urbinati, Anna Stilz MA Politics, 2008 Université Paris I -Panthéon-Sorbonne Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris Agrégée de philosophie [Post-Master's title conferred upon completion of the highest national competitive certification in philosophy], 2002 MA Philosophy summa cum laude, 2001 BA (Hon.), Philosophy PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS Books Republicanism and the Future of Democracy (under review with Cambridge University Press) An edited volume (with Yiftah Elazar, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on republican democracy Sharing Freedom. Republican Democracy from Rousseau to Durkheim (under consideration at Yale University Press) A book-length manuscript on the construction of republican democracy in French political thought Rousseau s Economies (in preparation) A book-length manuscript on Rousseau s economic thought and its political implications 1
Peer-Reviewed Articles Rousseau on Freedom in Commercial Society, American Journal of Political Science 60 (2): 352-63, April 2016. On Political Responsibility in Post-Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant s Debate on Lying, European Journal of Political Theory, forthcoming 2016, online publication June 2015. Rousseau s Theory of Value and the Case of Women (Under review) Chapters in Edited Volumes Audi Alteram Partem: Rhetoric and Republican Political Thought, in The Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory, ed. Keith Topper and Dilip Gaonkar, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2016. Sur la Neutralité Libérale/ On Liberal Neutrality, ed. R. Merrill and G. Rousselière, Les Ateliers de l'ethique, la Revue du CREUM, Université de Montréal, volume 4, n.2 summer 2009. Rousseau s Political Economy, in The Rousseauan Mind, eds. Eve Grace and Christopher Kelly, Routledge (in progress). Book reviews The power of political economy. Review of Sophus A. Reinert s Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, The Review of Politics, vol. 74, n.3, Summer 2012, pp. 530-533. Review of Jeremy Jennings s Revolution and the Republic, History of Political Thought, volume 14, n. 2, 2013. AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION Areas of research: modern European social and political thought; history of political economy; republicanism, liberalism and democratic theory Areas of teaching interest: history of political thought (ancient, modern, contemporary); contemporary political theory AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS Princeton Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2011 Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellow, 2009-2010 Princeton Center for Human Values grant, summers 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies grant, 2007, 2008, 2010 Stafford funding recipient, 2009, 2010, 2011 Princeton Merit Prize, 2006 Research grant, Maison Française d Oxford, Oxford, May 2006 2
Recipient, Tocqueville Grant, Funded research stay at Harvard University, Spring 2004 Visiting Fellow, Northwestern University, 2001-2002 Recipient, European Union grant (Erasmus), 2000 Research Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship at Université Paris I, 2003-2006 MA Fellowship of the French Government, 2001 Fellow, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1997-2001 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015-Current French Political Thought from Rousseau to Durkheim, Graduate Seminar Collegiate Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago, 2011-2015 Power, Identity, Resistance : a yearlong introduction to social and political philosophy Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, 2007-2010 Introduction to Political Theory (Professor Alan Ryan) Ethics and Public Policy (Professor Stephen Macedo) Introduction to Political Theory (Professor Maurizio Viroli) Lecturer, Université Paris I, 2003-2006 What is Democracy? Freshman seminar in political philosophy Locke's Two Treatises on Government, Freshman seminar in political philosophy The Concept of Legitimacy Freshman seminar in political philosophy What is Evil? Freshman seminar in ethics Moral Dilemmas Freshman seminar in ethics SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS Montesquieu and Rousseau on the Possibility of a Large and Commercial Republic, APSA annual meeting, September 2016 Rousseau s Theory of Value and the Case of Women, Invited Talk, Georgetown, Nov. 2015 The French Model of Republican Democracy, APSA annual meeting (San Francisco 2015) Rousseau on the Value of Women, APSA annual meeting (San Francisco 2015) On Principles and Responsibility in Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant s Debate on Lying, Seminar in Political Thought (University of Cambridge, 2015) Rousseau s Theory of Economic Independence, APSA annual meeting (Washington DC 2014) Rousseau on Independence in Commercial Society, Liberty, Domination and Democracy Conference, Yale University (April 2014) 3
On Principles and Responsibility in Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant s Debate on Lying, Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago (February 2014) Rousseau s Critique of Political Economy, APSA annual meeting (Chicago, August 2013) Republican Freedom and Social Justice, APSA annual meeting (Chicago, August 2013) Rousseau on poverty and freedom, MPSA annual meeting (Chicago, May 2013) A French Republican Perspective on Inequality: Rousseau and his Critics, Weissbourd Conference, The University of Chicago (Chicago, May 2012) "Benjamin Constant and the birth of modern freedom," The Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago (Chicago, January 2012) "Tocqueville and the Social Question: a Republican Response to Hard Times?" APSA annual meeting(washington, DC, September 2010) "Freedom and Republicanism: the Internal Critique of Louis Blanc," MPSA annual meeting (Chicago, May 2010) Freedom, Labor and the Republic: Tocqueville and Blanc on the potentialities of Republican freedom, Association for Political Theory (College Station, Texas, Nov. 2009) A Case for Economic Democracy: John Stuart Mill and the development of individuality, Harvard Graduate Student Conference in Political Theory (Sept. 2008) LANGUAGES French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS Weissbourd Co-Chair at the Society of Fellows, the University of Chicago. In charge of the organization of a lecture series and two conferences. Discussant, Colloquium on the Neutrality of the State (Montreal, 2008); Princeton University Graduate Student Conference in Political Theory (Princeton, 2009; 2010); Workshop on Political Moderation (Princeton, 2011), MPSA 2015, 2016, APSA 2016 Panel co-organizer and co-chair, Pettit s On the People s Terms: Non-Domination and the Power of the People, APSA, August 2013 Co-organizer, (with Roberto Merrill and Daniel Weinstock), International colloquium on the Neutrality of the State, Université de Montréal and McGill University (May 2008) 4
Co-organizer, Graduate Student Research Seminar in Political Philosophy hosted by the Department of philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (2003-5) Teaching Training Program (three year program leading to Teaching Certification) (Université Paris I) Editorial Board member of the collection in Ethics and Political Theory, L avocat du diable at Herman Press, Paris (www.lavocatdudiable.googlepages.com) PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS American Political Science Association American Philosophical Association REFERENCES Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University Center for Human Values, Department of Politics and Philosophy, Princeton University. ppettit@princeton.edu, (609) 258.4759 Alan Patten, Professor of Politics, Princeton University. apatten@princeton.edu, (609) 258.6831 Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic Studies, Columbia University. nu15@columbia.edu, (212) 854-3977 Alan Ryan, Professor of Politics (emeritus), Oxford University alan.ryan@new.ox.ac.uk Anna Stilz, Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University. astilz@princeton.edu, (609) 258.7475 Jennifer Pitts, Associate Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago. jpitts@uchicago.edu, (773) 702.8868 Gary Herrigel, Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago. g-herrigel@uchicago.edu, (773) 702.8067 5