Richard P. Hiskes richard.hiskes@uconn.edu Department of Political Science University of Connecticut Storrs, CT 06268 (860) 486-2536; cell: 860 428-5331 FAX: (203) 486-3347 Education: A.B. Hope College, Holland, MI, June, l973. M.A. Indiana University, May, 1975. (Political Science) Ph.D. Indiana University, Dec., 1978. (Political Science) Academic Appointments: Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, 1998-. Associate Director, University of Connecticut Human Rights Institute, 2008- o Increased Number of Human Rights Minors from 20-80 o Established Human Rights Major Director of Undergraduate Programs, Connecticut Human Rights Institute, 2005- Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, 1984-98. Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut, 1978-79, 1980-84. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1979-80. Professional Honors and Recognition: American Political Science Association Best Book in Human Rights Award, 2010. The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice (Cambridge, 2009). University of Connecticut Alumni Association Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2007. Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor Nominee, 2006-2010. Editor, Journal of Human Rights, 2006- Provost s Research Fellowship, University of Connecticut: 1994; 2003. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Fellow, 1981. Telluride Foundation Teaching Fellow, Cornell University, Summer, 1983.
Consultant, Human Rights Program Development: o Hunter College, CUNY o Webster University o University of Chicago Undergraduate Human Rights Consortium Scholarship: Books: The Human Right to a Green Future: Environmental Rights and Intergenerational Justice. Cambridge University Press, 2009. (Winner, 2010 American Political Science Association Prize for Best Book in Human Rights Scholarship.) Reviews (selected): o Environmental Ethics o International Journal of Human Rights o Human Rights Review o Human Rights and the Environment o Intergenerational Justice Review Democracy, Risk, and Community: Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism. Oxford University Press, 1999. Reviews: o American Political Science Review o Policy Studies Journal o Science, Technology and Human Values Direct Democracy and International Politics: Deciding International Issues Through Referendums. (Co-authored with John T. Rourke and C.E. Zirakazdeh) Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1992). Science, Technology, and Policy Decisions. (Co-authored with Anne L. Hiskes.) Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1986. Community Without Coercion: Getting Along in the Minimal State. University of Delaware Press, June, 1982. Refereed Articles: The Relational Foundations of Emergent Human Rights: From Hobbes to the Human Right to Water. Zeitschrift fuer Menschenrechte/The Journal for Human Rights (German) 4:127-146, December, 2010. 2
Missing the Green: Golf Course Ecology, Environmental Justice, and Local Fulfillment of the Human Right to Water. Human Rights Quarterly 32:2, May, 2010. Environmental Human Rights and Intergenerational Justice. Human Rights Review 7:81-95, April-June, 2006. Environmental Rights, Intergenerational Justice, and Reciprocity with the Future, Public Affairs Quarterly 19:177-194, July, 2005. The Right to a Green Future: Human Rights, Environmentalism, and Intergenerational Justice. Human Rights Quarterly 27: 1346-1364, November, 2005. Emergent Citizens: Keeping Faith in Democratic Politics. Kettering Review, Winter, 2000. Hazardous Liaisons: Risk, Power, and Politics in the Liberal State. Policy Studies Journal, Fall, 1999. Relearning the Risks of Democracy, The Good Society 7:28-32, Spring, 1997. "The Democracy of Risk." Industrial Crisis Quarterly 6, 1992. "Emergent Risks and Convergent Interests: Democratic Policy Making for Science and Technology." Policy Studies Journal 17:73-83, 1988. "Misogyny and Modernity: Rousseau and the Pathologies of Freedom. Women and Politics :2, Summer, 1987. "Spencer and the Liberal Idea of Community." Review of Politics 45:4, October, 1983. "Community in the Anarcho-Individualist Society: The Legacy of Benjamin R. Tucker." Social Anarchism I:2, Oct., 1980. "Has Hume a Theory of Social Justice?" Hume Studies III:2, November, 1977. Other Publications: Environmental Human Rights. Routledge Handbook of Human Rights. Forthcoming, 2011. 3
"Acts of Democracy: Citizenship, Participation, and Competence," The Public Perspective 7:4, June, 1996. Republished as New Forms of Public Participation, The Kettering Review, Spring, 1998. "Assessing Risk for Hard Choices: Technology in the Public Discourse." Pondside: The Annual Journal of the Program in Environmental Studies. Fairfield University. Summer, 1993. "Why Did Americans Back Term Limits?" The Public Perspective 4:2 Jan/Feb, 1993. -Dictionary of Public Administration. John Moore Publication, 1986. Contributing editor for science and technology policy, technology assessment. Reviews: Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Taking Action, Saving Lives (Oxford, 2007), Human Rights Quarterly 8:2. Ithiel de Sola Pool, Technologies Without Boundaries (Cambridge: Harvard, 1990.) American Political Science Review 86:3, Sept., 1992. Joel Schwartz, The Sexual Politics of Jean-Jacques Rousseau (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984). American Political Science Review, 79:1, 1985. Claude E. Barfield, Science Policy from Ford to Reagan (Washington D.C.: AEI, 1982). American Political Science Review, March, 1984. Robert A. Solo, The Positive State (Cincinnati: South-Western, 1982). American Political Science Review, March, 1983. Professional Papers: The Relational Foundations of Environmental Rights: From Hobbes to the Human Right to Water. Presented at the Sawyer Seminar in Human Rights, University of Wisconsin, December 3, 2010. Emergent Environmental Rights and the Human Right to Water. Presented at the Environmental Ethics Symposium, Utah Valley University, April, 2011. The Relational Foundations of Emergent Human Rights: From Hobbes to the Human Right to Water. Delivered at APSA Annual Meeting, August, 2010. 4
The Human Right to a Green Future. Presented to faculty and students of Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, April, 2008. Environmental Rights as the Human Rights of Future Generations. Delivered at APSA annual meeting, August, 2003. Emergent Citizens and the Technology of Democracy. Delivered to faculty and students at Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY; October, 2001. Emergent Citizenship: Democratic Faithfulness and the Politics of Risk. Delivered at APSA Convention, San Francisco, Sept., 2001. Author Meets Critics Panel, American Philosophical Assn., May, 2000. Democracy, Risk, and Community, Oxford, 1998. Author Meets Critics Panel, APSA Convention, August, 1999. Democracy, Risk, and Community, Oxford University Press, 1998. The Work, Not the Talk of Democracy, Keynote Address delivered at the Thirteenth Annual American Bar Association Conference for University teachers, Charleston, SC, March, 1997. "Hazardous Liaisons: Risk, Power, and Politics in the Liberal State." Presented at meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, 1996. "Tacit Consent v. NIMBY in the Liberal Community." Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 1995. "Assessing Risk for Hard Choices: Technology in the Public Discourse." Keynote Address given at Fairfield University Convocation, April, 1993. "Normalized Democracy: Referendums, Domination, and the Constitution." Presented at meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Pasadena, March, 1993. "Participatory Ethics and Technological Risk." Presented at 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, Sweden, August, 1991. Published abstract in Congress Proceedings. "Emergent Risks and Convergent Interests: Democratic Policy Policy for Biotechnology." Keynote Address presented at the University of Missouri, Conference on "Food for the Twenty-first Century," 1988. "Misogyny and Modernity: Rousseau and the Pathologies of Freedom." Delivered at the APSA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, l985. 5
"Science and Technology Policy Making in a Democratic Society." Delivered at the APSA Annual Meeting, Denver, 1982. "Political Community in the Minimal State." Delivered at the APSA Annual Meeting, New York, 1981. "Cooperative Individualism: Community and Freedom in the Minimal State." Delivered at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1977. Teaching: Graduate Advising PhD Advisees: Five completed PhD s Five current students Masters Advisees: 14 completed Masters 3 currrent students Courses: Undergraduate: Introduction to Political Theory Introduction to American Political Processes Classic and Medieval Political Theory Modern Political Theory The Theory of Human Rights Western Marxist Tradition American Political Thought and Ideology Internship and Portfolio in Human Rights Science, Technology and Public Policy Senior Seminar: Justice, War, and the State Women in Political Theory George Orwell and 1984 (team taught) Current Political Issues Minority Politics Courses: Graduate: 6
Theories of Justice Theory of Human Rights Democratic Theory Liberalism and the Enlightenment Theories of Justice, Identity, and Community Democratic Theory and Behavior Political Theory of Hannah Arendt, Sheldon Wolin, and Leo Strauss Proseminar in Political Theory The Nature of Political Inquiry Professional Service: Editor, Journal of Human Rights, 2006-. Panel Organizer, APSA Science, Technology and Environmental Politics Section, 1997. Member, Executive Committee, APSA Science, Technology and Environmental Politics Section Member, Executive Committee, APSA Human Rights Section Grant Proposal External Reviewer o National Science Foundation o National Endowment for the Humanities o Fulbright Foundation Editorial Boards o Polity o Human Rights and Human Welfare External Reviewer: o Oxford University Press o Cambridge University Press o Harper & Row Publishers, o McGraw-Hill Publishers o Westview Press o American Journal of Political Science o Human Rights Review o Journal of Politics o Politics and the Life Sciences o Public Affairs Quarterly, o Review of Politics o Western Political Quarterly o Polity o Human Rights Quarterly University Service: 7
University (Selected Committees): Committee for Excellence in Graduate and Professional Programs (CEGaPP), 2009-2010 Chair, Conflict of Interest Committee, University of Connecticut Research Foundation 1999-2000 Provost s Research Award Selection Committee, 1995; 2004; 2006 University Senate, 2010- University Senate Scholastic Standards Committee, 2010- President s Athletic Advisory Committee 2007- University of Connecticut Research Foundation Large Grants Committee Reviewer, University of Connecticut Research Foundation, Large Grants, Small Grants College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (Selected Committees) Associate Director, Connecticut Human Rights Institute, 2008- Director, Human Rights Minor, 2005- Advisory Board, Connecticut Human Rights Institute (Gladstein Committee) 2005- Department Head Search Committee, 1992 Courses and Curriculum Committee 1980-85 Committee to Design New Core Curriculum, 1981-82 Department of Political Science (Selected Committees): Chair, Promotion, Tenure and Reappointment Committee Chair, Political Theory Subfield Chair, Political Theory, American Politics Search Committees Director of Undergraduate Studies, 1984-89 Department Executive Committee References: Available upon request. 8