JOHN MEDEARIS Office Address: Department of Political Science University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 tel. (951) 827-4345 e-mail: john.medearis@ucr.edu EDUCATION Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science, 1998 M.A. University of California, Los Angeles, Political Science, 1994 A.B. Harvard College, History, magna cum laude, 1985 ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Current University of California, Riverside. Associate Professor, 2005-present 2001-2005 University of California, Riverside. Assistant Professor 1999-2001 California State University, Northridge. Assistant Professor 1998-1999 University of California, Los Angeles. Visiting Assistant Professor California State University, Long Beach. Lecturer BOOKS Medearis, John. 2009. Joseph A. Schumpeter. New York: Continuum Reviewed in: Perspectives on Politics. Reprint: Medearis, John. 2013. Joseph A. Schumpeter. New York: Bloomsbury. Medearis, John. 2001. Joseph Schumpeter's Two Theories of Democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize (co-winner), Harvard University Press, 2000. Reviewed in: American Political Science Review, Review of Politics, Journal of Economic Literature, Perspectives on Political Science, and Choice.
JOURNAL ARTICLES 2 Phillips, Anne, John Medearis, Daniel I. O'Neill. 2010. The Political Theory of Carole Pateman. PS, Political Science and Politics. Vol. 43, 4 (October) 813-819. Medearis, John. 2005. Labor Democracy, Utility, and John Stuart Mill's Critique of Private Property, American Journal of Political Science, 49 (January) 135-149. Medearis, John. 2005. Social Movements and Deliberative Democratic Theory, British Journal of Political Science, 35 (January) 53-75. Best Article of 2005 (co-winner), International Communication Association, Political Communication Division Reprinted in Yu Keping, ed. 2012. Deliberative Democracy and Political Development. Beijing, China: Social Sciences Academic Press. Medearis, John. 2004. Lost or Obscured? How V.I. Lenin, Joseph Schumpeter, and Hannah Arendt Misunderstood the Council Movement, Polity 36 (April) 447-476. Medearis, John. 2001. Ideology, Democracy, and the Limits of Equilibrium: A Schumpeterian Critique, British Journal of Political Science, 31 (April) 355-88. Medearis, John. 1997. Schumpeter, the New Deal, and Democracy," American Political Science Review, 91 (December) 819-32. CHAPTERS OR ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN EDITED VOLUMES Medearis, John. Joseph Alois Schumpeter. The Encyclopedia of Political Thought. Michael Gibbons, ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. In Press. Medearis, John. Joseph Schumpeter. Gregory Claeys, ed. CQ Press Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought. Washington, DC: CQ Press. In Press. Medearis, John. 2010. Joseph Schumpeter, in International Encyclopedia of Political Science, eds. George T. Kurian, James E. Alt, Margaret Levi, Paula McClain, and Simone Chambers. Washington, DC: CQ Press. Medearis, John. 2008. Deliberative Democracy, Subordination, and the Welfare State, in The Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman, eds. Daniel I. O Neill, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Iris Marion Young. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State.
3 Paperback edition, 2013. Medearis, John. 2006. Joseph Schumpeter, in Dictionnaire des Sciences Humaines, eds. Patrick Savidan and Sylvie Mesure (Presses Universitaires de France) 1047-1048. BOOK REVIEWS Medearis, John. 2006. Review of Kristen Renwick Monroe (ed.), Perestroika! The Raucous Rebellion in Political Science. Perspectives on Politics, 4 (September) 576-78. AWARDS, GRANTS, AND HONORS University Scholar, 2007-2010. University of California Regents Faculty Fellowship/Faculty Development Award, 2004-2005 New Faculty Research Grant, California State University, Northridge, October 1999 Chancellor's Fellowship, UCLA, Spring 1996-Winter 1997 (dissertation year), 1991-1992 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS Secretary & Member. Executive Committee. Research Committee on Political Philosophy, International Political Science Association. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND GUEST LECTURES Liberalism and the Alternatives (chair and discussant). Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association. Los Angeles, CA, April 2013 Does the Left Still Need to Support Equality of Distribution? (discussant). Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association. Los Angeles, CA, April 2013 Democratizing the Economy (discussant). Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association. Los Angeles, CA, April 2013 The Ironic Place of Movements in Democratic Theory (guest lecture), University of California, Los Angeles, for PS 218, Democratic Theory, Department of Political Science, February, 2013.
Contesting the Welfare State. XXII nd World Congress of Political Science. International Political Science Association. Madrid, Spain, July 2012 4 The Welfare State, Intersectionality, and Democracy. Annual Meeting, Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, April 2012 Realism and Rights (roundtable presenter). Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association. Seattle, WA, August 2011 John Stuart Mill: Approaches and Themes, (chair and discussant). Annual Meeting, Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL, March 2011 Conceptualizing Conflict in Democratic Theory. Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association. Washington, DC, September 2010 (In)Justice, (Un)Freedom, and Alienation. Research Committee on Political Philosophy, International Political Science Association. Jena, Germany, June 2010 Labor and Politics (roundtable, chair and presenter). Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association. San Francisco, CA, April 2010 Global Social Relations and Problems of Freedom (lecture/seminar, invited), Department of Political Science, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. San Luis Obispo, California, January 2010. Global Social Relations and Problems of Freedom: Domination, Oppression and Exploitation, XXI st World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association, Santiago, Chile, July 2009 Three Approaches to Democracy and the War on Terror, International Political Science Association, Political Philosophy Research Committee, London, England, June 2007 Deliberative Democracy, Subordination, and the Welfare State, XX th World Congress of Political Science, International Political Science Association, Fukuoka, Japan, July 2006 Alienation and Democratic Theory, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2005 Deliberative Democracy, Contentious Politics, and the Problem of Coercion, Perspectives on Democracy Conference, California State University, Fullerton, September 2004 The Reception of American Political Science in Europe and Asia (discussant). Conference for the Study of Political Thought, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2004
5 Mill s Socialism. Annual Meeting, Association for Political Theory, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 2003 Roundtable on the History of Political Science (roundtable participant), Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2003 Lost or Obscured? How V.I. Lenin, Joseph Schumpeter, and Hannah Arendt Mis-Theorized the Council Movement, California Sociological Association Conference, Riverside, California, October 2002 Democracy Where It s Difficult, Lowdenslager Lecture (public lecture), Western State College, Gunnison Colorado, October 2002 Joseph Schumpeter s Two Theories of Democracy (public lecture), Center for European and Russian Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, April 2002 American Political Thought: The Early Twentieth Century (discussant), Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, Long Beach, California, March 2002 Schumpeter s Democracy-as-Method in Historical Context, Annual Meeting, Public Choice Society and Economic Science Association, San Diego, California, March 2002 The Making (and Unmaking) of Joseph Schumpeter s Democratic Theory, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August-September 2001 Elite Theories of Democracy and Their Critics (chair), Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, August-September 2001 Otto Bauer, V.I. Lenin, Joseph Schumpeter, and the Council Movement: An Exercise in Historical Retrieval, Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, Nevada, March 2001 Joseph Schumpeter s Two Theories of Democracy (public lecture), University of California, Los Angeles, for Pieces of the Craft Lecture Series, Department of Political Science and the Burkle Center for International Relations, January 2001 Effective Democratic Agency, Welfare and Poverty, Annual Meeting, American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September, 2000 Democratic Theory and the Meaning of 1989, (guest lecture), University of California, Los Angeles, for PS 112A, Democratic Theory, Department of Political Science, May 2000
From Democratic Deliberation to Democratic Movements, Annual Meeting, Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, April 2000 Democracy and Property in John Stuart Mill s Thought, Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, San Jose, California, March 2000 "Can Deliberation Deliver Democracy?" Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington, March 1999 Rethinking Democracy in the Liberal West: Toward Theories of Democracy in Action (co-chair). Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, Seattle, Washington, March 1999 "Ideology, Democracy and the Limits of Equilibrium," Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, Los Angeles, California, March 1998 "Schumpeter and Austrian Social Democracy," Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, Tucson, Arizona, March 1997 "Schumpeter, the New Deal, and Democracy," Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, California, March 1996 "Theorizing Democracy in the Context of Diversity: A Critique of Laclau and Mouffe" Annual Meeting, Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon, March 1995 6 APPLIED RESEARCH AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS Paul More, Patrice Wagonhurst, Jessica Goodheart, David Runsten, Enrico Marcelli, Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, and John Medearis. The Other Los Angeles: The Working Poor in the City of the 21 st Century, Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, August 2000. TEACHING INTERESTS Political theory, ancient, modern, and contemporary; democratic theory; courses linking political theory to participation, social movements and social policy; social science methodology and philosophy CAMPUS SERVICE
Member, Writing Program Committee. 2012 Present. 7 Member, Labor Studies Minor Committee. 2003 - Present Organizer, John L. Stanley Memorial Annual Lecture. 2006, 2012 Member, Graduate Council. 2010 2011 Graduate Advisor, Department of Political Science. 2006 2010 Director of Graduate Studies, 2006-10 Director of Graduate Admissions, 2006-9 Staff writer, Los Angeles Times, 1989-91 Staff writer, Boston Phoenix, 1986-89 JOURNALISM EXPERIENCE