JONATHAN PETER SCHWARTZ Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy Department of Political Science University of Wisconsin-Madison 416 North Hall, 1050 Bascom Mall Madison, WI 53706 +1(619) 865-2210 jschwartz8@wisc.edu http://www.jonathanpschwartz.com/ (April 2017) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS (2014-Present), Postdoctoral Fellow, Center of the Study of Liberal Democracy, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI EDUCATION Ph.D., Spring, 2014/M.A., Spring, 2012. Entered 2009. Political Science,, Durham, NC Committee: Michael Allen Gillespie (Chair), Ruth Grant, Thomas Spragens, Tracy Strong (U.C. San Diego) Dissertation: Hannah Arendt's Theory of Political Judgment B.A., summa cum laude, Spring, 2008 Political Science (with highest honors), University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA PUBLICATIONS Book: Schwartz, J.P. Arendt's Judgment: Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. Reviewed in: International Philosophical Quarterly, (June, 2017); Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, (Winter, 2017); Universa. Recensioni di filosofia, (Feb., 2017); Choice, (Dec., 2016): Essential recommendation Peer-Reviewed Article: Schwartz, J.P. To choose one's company: Arendt, Kant, and the Political Sixth Sense. European Journal of Political Theory. (Published online 3 Nov., 2015): 1-20. (Forthcoming in print) Invited Peer-Commentary: Schwartz, J.P. On Staying Focused: Response to Thom Brooks How Not To Save the Planet. Ethics, Policy & Environment. 19(2), (Sept., 2016): 157-159. Book Review: Schwartz, J.P. Book Review: Wurgaft, Benjamin Aldes, Thinking in Public: Strauss, Levinas, Arendt. Perspectives on Politics. 15(1), (Mar., 2017): 230-232. RESEARCH INTERESTS Specializations: Modern, Contemporary, and Continental Political Theory; Political Judgment and Practical Reason; Hannah Arendt; Political Realism; Critical Theory; Environmental Politics and Political Theory 1
Competences: American Political Thought; Ancient and Democratic Political Theory; Radical and Environmental Political Economy; Religion and Politics RESEARCH IN PROGRESS Articles under review: What is Ideology? What is Political Judgment? What s the Difference? (revise and resubmit) Arendt s Participatory Political Realism (under review) Why Economic Growth Can t Save Center-Right Political Theory (under review) Articles in development: Non-Sovereign Agency and the Status of Justice: Incommensurable Language Games? The Meaning of the Judgment Turn in Political Thought AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS (2015), Grant for invited speaker, Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy (2014-17), Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, Center for the Study of Liberal Democracy (2011-12), Graduate Fellowship, Kenan Institute for Ethics (2011), Erlangen Exchange Program Travel Scholarship, University of Erlangen (2009-14), Doctoral Fellowship,, (2009-14), Full Tuition Scholarship, Graduate School, INVITED TALKS (Scheduled June 3, 2017), A Congress on Iceland s Democracy, Invited panelist, Center for Democracy, U.C. Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (2016), Arendt and America: A Discussion with Richard King, Invited moderator/discussant, U.W.-Madison (2016), The Politics of the Earth, Feb. 15, 2016 episode of Earthspeak Radio, Faculty interview on green political theory, 91.7 WSUM (Student- run radio station), University of Wisconsin- Madison CONFERNCE PRESENTATIONS (Scheduled September, 2017), What is Ideology? What is Political Judgment? What s the Difference? APSA Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2017), What is Ideology? What is Political Judgment? What s the Difference? MPSA Meeting, (2016), Theorizing Deep Capital: Why Democracy, Cosmopolitanism, and Sustainability Demand a Revolution in Financial Capitalism, APSA Meeting, Philadelphia, PA (2016, declined), Introduction to Arendt s Judgment: Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship, APSA Meeting, Philadelphia, PA 2
(2016), Between Radical Conflict and Consensus: A Relational Theory of Political Realism, MPSA Meeting, (2016), A Non-Sovereign Theory of Political Realism, WPSA Meeting, San Diego, CA (2016), Introduction to Arendt s Judgment: Freedom, Responsibility, Citizenship, The Hannah Arendt Circle, West Chester University, West Chester, PA (2015), Arendt s Non-Sovereign Political Realism, Political Theory Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (2015), Arendt, Kant, and the Political Sixth Sense, MPSA Meeting, (2013), The Hidden Structure of Hannah Arendt's Thought, Political Theory Writer s Workshop,, Durham, NC (2011), Citizenship and the Problem of Late Modern Sustainability, Political Theory Writer s Workshop,, Durham, NC CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION (2017), Discussant, Political Judgment, Capabilities, and Participation, Panel, MPSA Meeting, (2017), Chair, Dialogues in Modernity, Panel, MPSA Meeting, (2016), Discussant/Chair, Ecology, Sustainability, and Political Theory, Panel, MPSA Meeting, (2016), Discussant/Chair, Nature and Politics, Panel, MPSA Meeting, (2016), Chair, Conservatism, the Market, and Theology, Panel, MPSA Meeting, (2015), Discussant, Responsibility in the Commons, Paper presented by Steven Vogel at U.W.- Madison Political Theory Workshop (2011-12), Discussant, Graduate Fellow Seminar, Kenan Institute for Ethics (2011), Invited discussant, Hegel s Philosophy of Right, Short Course, University of Erlangen, Erlangen Germany TEACHING EXPERIENCE Courses: Associate Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI PS 506/ILS 371: Hannah Arendt and the Human Condition, (Spring, 2017: Undergrad sem.) PS 506/400: Green Political Theory, (Spring, 2016; Fall, 2016: Lecture) PS 506: Environmental Political Thought, (Spring, 2015: Lecture) PS 506/ILS 371: Capitalism and Its Critics, (Fall, 2014; Fall 2015: Undergrad sem.) Graduate Instructor,, Durham, NC PS 275: Left, Right, and Center, (Spring, 2014: Lecture) Teaching Assistant,, Durham, NC PS 175D: Introduction to Political Philosophy, (Spring, 2013; Fall, 2013) PS 267: Liberal Democracy, (Fall, 2011) PS 270: Ambition and Politics, (Spring, 2011) 3
Supervision: PS 699: Independent Directed Study, Brian Hendricks, U.W.-Madison, (Spring, 2017) ILS 371: Honors Research Project, Kyra Fox, U.W.-Madison, (Spring, 2017) Teaching Interests: Contemporary Political Theory, Twentieth Century Political Thought, Environmental Political Theory, Continental Political Theory, Radical Political Economy, Modern Political Theory, Democratic Political Theory, Religion and Politics, American Political Thought, Liberal Democracy SERVICE Campus Events Organized: (2017), Organizer, Should the U.S. Electoral College be abolished, reformed, or left to the states to determine? Undergraduate Essay Contest, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2016), Organizer, Are Free Speech and a Welcoming Campus Compatible? Undergraduate Essay Contest, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2016), Co-organizer, Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights, Public lecture by Emily Zackin U.W.-Madison (2015), Organizer, Thinking Like a Mall: Environmentalism after the End of Nature, Public lecture by Steven Vogel, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2015), Co-organizer, Militarization of the Police Force, Symposium, University of Wisconsin- Madison (2014), Organizer, Blueberry Soup, Documentary screening on the Icelandic constitutional referendum, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2014), Co-organizer, Is It Time to Rewrite the Constitution? Symposium, University of Wisconsin-Madison Reviewer: American Political Science Review (2014, 2015) Constitutional Studies (2015) Ethics, Policy & Environment (2016) Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (2016) Review of Politics (2016) Memberships: American Political Science Association Midwestern Political Science Association Association for Political Theory Community Service: (2016-17), Volunteer researcher and grant writer, Aldo Leopold Nature Center, Madison, WI 4
REFERENCES Michael Allen Gillespie Email: mgillesp@duke.edu Phone: (919) 660-4308 Thomas Spragens Email: spragens@duke.edu Phone: (919) 660-4313 Ruth Grant Email: grant@duke.edu Phone: (919) 660-4316 Richard Avramenko Associate Department of Political Science University of Wisconsin-Madison Email: avramenko@wisc.edu Phone: (608) 263-2292, 262-8661 5