CURRICULUM VITAE DEVIN STAUFFER Department of Government The University of Texas at Austin Austin TX 78712 dstauffer@austin.utexas.edu 512-374-9254 EDUCATION Ph.D., Political Science, Boston College, 1998. Preliminary exams passed with distinction, 1995. B.A., Kenyon College, Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors in Political Science, 1992. PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007 present. Carl Friedrich von Siemens Fellow, Munich, 2013-14. Assistant Professor of Government, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005 07. Visiting Senior Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004 05. Assistant Professor of Political Science, Kenyon College, 1999 2005. Tutor, St. John s College, Annapolis, MD, 1998 99. PUBLICATIONS Books: The Unity of Plato s Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Plato s Introduction to the Question of Justice. Albany: SUNY Press, 2001. Empire and the Ends of Politics: Plato s Menexenus and Pericles Funeral Oration (with Susan Collins). Translations, with an introductory essay and notes. Newburyport: Focus Philosophical Library, 1999. Journal Articles and Book Chapters: On Classic Natural Right in Natural Right and History, in Brill s Companion to Leo Strauss Classical Writings, Timothy Burns, ed. Leiden: Brill Publishers, forthcoming, 2015. Leo Strauss s UnSocratic Aristophanes? In The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic Wisdom, Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeremy Mhire, eds. Albany: SUNY Press, 2014. Hobbes s Natural Theology. In Political Philosophy Cross-Examined: Perennial Challenges to the Philosophic Life, Thomas L. Pangle and John Harvey Lomax eds. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. Leo Strauss s On the Basis of Hobbes s Political Philosophy. In Leo Strauss s Defense of the
Philosophic Life: Reading What Is Political Philosophy? Rafe Major ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. (Selected by Choice Magazine as a 2013 Outstanding Academic Title.) Of Religion in Hobbes s Leviathan. Journal of Politics 72:3 (July 2010): 868-79. Socrates and the Sophists. In Recovering Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2010. Pp. 101-16. Strauss s Discussion of Hobbes in What is Political Philosophy? Perspectives on Political Science, 39:2 (Spring 2010): 87-91. Thrasymachus Attachment to Justice? Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek Political Thought 26:1 (2009): 1-10. Lead Article. Reopening the Quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns: Leo Strauss s Critique of Hobbes s New Political Science. American Political Science Review 101:2 (May 2007): 223-33. Socrates and Callicles: A Reading of Plato s Gorgias. The Review of Politics 64 (Fall 2002): 627-57. The Challenge of Plato s Menexenus (with Susan Collins). The Review of Politics 61 (Winter 1999): 85-115. Other Publications: Edited the transcripts of two courses Leo Strauss taught on Plato s Gorgias (1957, 1963) as part of the Leo Strauss Transcript Project. The edited transcripts, with an Editorial Introduction, are forthcoming on the Leo Strauss Center website. Stern s Socrates. Review of Knowledge and Politics in Plato s Theaetetus, Paul Stern. Review of Politics 71:3 (2009): 498-500. Mmm... This Tastes Good! In Educators Share Words of Wisdom (a collection of brief essays by award winning teachers). Austin American Statesman, November 22, 2009. Plato s View of Courage. Review of Plato and the Virtue of Courage, Linda R. Rabieh. Review of Politics 69:4 (2007): 687-689. Review of Talking Democracy: Historical Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy, Benedetto Fontana, Cary J. Nederman, and Gary Remer, eds. Perspectives on Politics 3 (September 2005): 616-17. Review of The Idea of Enlightenment: A Post-Mortem Study, Robert C. Bartlett. Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 31 (Fall 2003): 109-13. Pericles Funeral Oration (with Susan Collins). Translation in Liberty, Equality & Modern Constitutionalism, edited by George Anastaplo. Newburyport: Focus Philosophical Library, 1999. Pp. 34-38. Work in Progress: 2
Thomas Hobbes and the Theoretical Foundations of Modern Political Philosophy. Book project in progress. PAPERS PRESENTED AND INVITED LECTURES Leo Strauss s UnSocratic Aristophanes? Lecture delivered to the Harvard Government Department s Political Theory Colloquium, co-sponsored by the Program on Constitutional Government, Harvard University. November 2012. Leo Strauss s On the Basis of Hobbes s Political Philosophy. Paper prepared for the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans. September 2012. Socrates and the Sophists. Lecture delivered in the Bradley Foundation Lecture Series at Boston College. April 2009. Socrates and the Sophists. Lecture delivered at the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich. November 2008. The Problem of Justice and the Structure of Plato s Republic. Lecture delivered at the European College for Liberal Arts (ECLA), Berlin. October 2008. The Question of Rhetoric in Platonic Political Philosophy. Lecture delivered at the invitation of the Honors College of the University of Houston. October 2007. Of Religion in Hobbes s Leviathan. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. August 2007. Aristotle and Hobbes on the Precision of Political Philosophy. Lecture delivered in the Concordia University Political Theory Speakers Series, Montreal. March 2007. Thrasymachus Attachment to Justice? Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. August 2006. Political Philosophy and Liberal Education. Lecture delivered at the invitation of the Telluride Association Summer Program, University of Texas at Austin. July 2006. Aristotle on the Precision and Method of his Political Philosophy. Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. April 2006. Martin Buber s Response to the Death of God. Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta. January 2006. The Difference between Socrates and Xenophon in Leo Strauss s Account of the Anabasis. Paper presented at the Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. November 2005. The Rhetoric of Hobbes and Plato: A Window into the Divide between the Ancients and the Moderns. Lecture delivered in the Department of Government Political Theory Workshop Series at the University of Texas at Austin. February 2005. Virtue and Ambition in Xenophon s Cyropaedia. Roundtable paper presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio. April 2004. The Search for Justice in Plato s Republic. Lecture delivered at the invitation of the Integrated Program in Humane Studies, Kenyon College. October 2003. 3
The Difference between Xenophon and Socrates: Reflections on the Anabasis. Roundtable paper presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio. April 2003. Remarks on Lucretius and the Epicurean Alternative to Socratic Political Philosophy. Roundtable paper presented at the Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans. March 2002. Socrates and Callicles: An Interpretation of Plato s Gorgias. Lecture delivered in the Bradley Foundation Lecture Series at the Institute for the Study of Religion and Politics, Boston College. November 2001. Socrates and Callicles. Lecture delivered at St. John s College, Annapolis, MD. October 2001. An Introduction to Plato s Gorgias. Lecture delivered at St. John s College, Santa Fe, NM. March 2001. The Demand of Glaucon and Adeimantus in Plato s Republic. Lecture delivered at the invitation of the Integrated Program in Humane Studies, Kenyon College. October 2000. Callicles and the Lessons of Plato s Gorgias. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. September 2000. The Question of Justice in the Opening Sections of Plato s Republic. Lecture delivered in the 1999-2000 John M. Olin Lecture Series on The Lessons of Classical Political Thought for the 21 st Century, The University of Chicago. October 1999. Thrasymachus and the Power of Justice. Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston. September 1998. Justice as a Virtue: A Reflection on Aristotle s Nicomachean Ethics V.1-2. Paper presented at the Northeast Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. November 1997. From Owed to Fitting : Socrates Examination of Justice at the Beginning of Plato s Republic. Paper presented at the Southwestern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans. March 1997. Classical Perspectives on Empire and the Ends of Politics: Plato s Menexenus and Periclean Athens (with Susan Collins). Paper presented at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco. August 1996. OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Roundtable panelist, Leo Strauss: What is Political Philosophy? Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. April 2013. Roundtable panelist, On the 60 th Anniversary of Leo Strauss s Natural Right and History. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. April 2013. Participant in the conference Capitalism, Entrepreneurship, and Liberty in the Novels of Emile Zola. Hosted by the Liberty Fund, Pasadena. January 2012. Respondent on the panel Discussing Devin Stauffer s The Unity of Plato s Gorgias. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. April 2011. 4
Chair of the panel Justice, Friendship, and the Law. Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston. November 2010. Discussant on the panel Rhetoricians and Philosophers in Plato. Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston. November 2010. Chair and discussant on the panel Against Enlightenment. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. April 2010. Chair and discussant on the panel Philosophers and Poets on Eros. Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia. November 2009. Chair of the panel Prudence and Piety. Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago. April 2009. Discussant on the panel Theory and Practice in Aristotle. Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans. January 2007. Respondent on the panel Translating Plato Across Languages, Histories, and Disciplines: Rhetorical Reflections on The Unity of Plato s Gorgias by Devin Stauffer. Panel held at the annual meeting of the American Society for the History of Rhetoric, San Antonio, TX. November, 2006. Participant in the conference Leo Strauss and Politics. Hosted by the Henry Salvatori Center, Claremont, CA. October, 2006. Participant in the Program on Politics and Economics. Hosted by the George Mason Law & Economics Center, Arlington, VA. June 2006. Discussant on the panel Justice, Nature, and Reason from Homer to Aristotle. Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio. April 2006. Chair of the panel Religion and Politics: Competing Perspectives. Southwestern Social Science Association Annual Meeting, San Antonio. April 2006. Discussant on the panel Ancient and Modern Approaches to Imperialism. American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C. September 2005. Participant in the conference Law, Virtue, Knowledge, and Liberty in Plato. Hosted by the Liberty Fund, Toronto. August 2005. Participant in the Lehrman Summer Institute on American Ideals and Institutions. Hosted by Princeton University s James Madison Program, Princeton, NJ. June 2005. Participant in the symposium Living Issues in the Thought of Leo Strauss. Hosted by the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, Munich. June 2002. Participant in the conference The Origins of Historicism. Hosted by the Morton Foundation, Boston. January 2001. Participant in the conference Aristophanes and the Civic Role of the Poet in Democracy. Hosted by the Morton Foundation, Toronto. June 2000. Participant in the conference Piety and Liberty in Plato s Political Philosophy. Hosted by the Liberty Fund, Aspen. August 1999. Participant in the conference Tyranny and Liberty in Classical Thought. Hosted by the Liberty Fund, New Orleans. February 1999. 5
ADMINISTRATIVE AND PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Member of the Executive Committee, Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin. 2010-present. Member of the Committee to Restructure the Government Department Graduate Program, Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008-present. Member of Steering Committee of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas, The University of Texas at Austin. 2007 present. Member of Graduate Admissions Committee, Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin. 2006 09. Member of Financial Aid Committee, Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin. 2005-06, 2008-11. (Chair 2010-11) Advisor of graduate students, Department of Government, The University of Texas at Austin. 2005 present. Member of the Kenyon College Campus Senate. 2000-04. Advisor in Kenyon Academic Program (KAP), linking Kenyon College with secondary school programs throughout Ohio. 2004. Peer reviewer for American Political Science Review, Ancient Philosophy, The Review of Politics, The Journal of Politics, The Review of Metaphysics, and Interpretation. Member of the Editorial Board of Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. Member of American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, and Southern Political Science Association. HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS Carl Friedrich von Siemens Fellowship, a year-long research fellowship in Munich (with a stipend of approximately $200,000), 2013-14. Certificate for Outstanding Teaching in Political Science, presented by the American Political Science Association and Pi Sigma Alpha at the APSA Reception Honoring Teaching, APSA Annual Meeting, 2012. Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, 2012-13. President s Associates Teaching Excellence Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009-10. Nominated for the Raymond Dickson Substantial Writing Component Teaching Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008. 6
Faculty Research Assignment Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2008. Nominated for the Raymond Dickson Centennial Endowed Teaching Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, 2007. Award in recognition of excellence of scholarship ($10,000), George Mason Law & Economics Center, 2006. Summer Research Assignment Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006. Nominated for the Raymond Dickson Substantial Writing Component Teaching Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006. Artinian Award, Southern Political Science Association, 2006. Nominated for the Friar Centennial Teaching Fellowship, The University of Texas at Austin, 2005. Whiting Foundation Summer Stipend, 2003 (awarded on the basis of teaching excellence). Whiting Foundation Research Grant, 2001-02 (awarded on the basis of teaching excellence). Bradley Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship, 2000-01. Nominated by Boston College for the APSA award for the best dissertation in political theory, 1999. Bradley Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, Bradley Foundation, 1993-97. Earhart Foundation Doctoral Fellowship, 1993-94. All-American Tennis Player, NCAA Division III, 1992. Phi Beta Kappa, inducted 1992. SELECTED COURSES TAUGHT Thucydides Political Realism (graduate seminar) Socratic Political Philosophy (graduate seminar) Morality and Politics (Signature Course) The Quest for Justice The Classical Quest for Justice The Modern Quest for Justice The Problem of Socrates (graduate seminar) Politics and Literature The Theoretical Foundations of Modern Politics Liberalism and Its Critics Hobbes and the Origins of Modern Natural Right (graduate seminar) Justice and the Human Good (Signature Course) 7
RESEARCH INTERESTS LANGUAGES Classical political philosophy Early modern political philosophy Ancient Greek, Latin, German 8