ADAM KISSEL

Committee on Social Thought 116 S. 7th St., #506

University of Chicago Philadelphia, PA 19106

1130 East 59^th Street (302) 668-8219

Chicago, IL 60637

kissel@uchicago.edu

EDUCATION

2003 ABD in Social Thought, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago.

2002 A.M. in Social Thought, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago.

1994 A.B. cum laude in English and American Literature and Language, Harvard University.

DISSERTATION

Deliberative Architectonic Rhetoric: A New Method for Resolving Interdisciplinary Conflicts.

Committee: Danielle Allen (Chair), Donald Levine, †Wayne Booth, Richard Buchanan.

Abstract: Interdisciplinary deliberations about a specific problem often depend on identifying the characteristics of the problem in a common, nondisciplinary framework. Deliberators can arrive at better decisions by employing a comprehensiveness criterion. I propose a method for such communication that integrates stasis theory from ancient rhetoric with contemporary work on rhetorical invention.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO)

Autumn 2005 Lecturer, Human Being and Citizen, two sections*

Autumn 2005 Faculty Fellow, Vincent House, Burton-Judson Courts

2002-03; 2003-04 Writing Instructor and Teaching Assistant, Human Being and Citizen*

Spr. 2001; Spr. 2004 Teaching Assistant and Discussion Leader, The Organization of Knowledge**

Autumn 2003 Guest Lecturer, Conflict Theory and Aikido

Spring 2003 Teaching Intern, Classics of Social and Political Thought***

*general education core course for first-year students in the humanities

**general education capstone course for fourth-year students in all fields

***general education core course for second-year students in the social sciences

Course completed on “Pedagogies of Writing,” Spring 2002.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE (HARVARD UNIVERSITY)

Nonresident tutor in sociology, Lowell House, 2005-06.

ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Please contact me at adam@thefire.org for an updated vita or resume.

1997- Professional and Developmental Editor. Projects in a wide variety of disciplines for Harvard and University of Chicago faculty including Nobel laureate in economics James Heckman, psychologist Stephen Kosslyn, rhetorician Wayne Booth, sociologist Donald Levine, and philosopher Jonathan Lear. Literary agent for Wayne Booth estate for My Many Selves.

2004- Staff Assistant. Department of Sociology, Harvard University, for Michèle Lamont and Mary Brinton. Support courses, lectures, workshops, and communication with other departments and institutions; supervise and train student workers.

2004- Publishing Assistant. Perspectives, Newsletter of the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association.

1995-2004 Research Assistant to Donald Levine (1999-2004); Joseph Williams (1997-1998); George H. Williams (full time, 1995-1996).

1999-2001 Student Liaison to the Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago. Three terms. Led successful efforts to reinvigorate discussion of the core curriculum.

1999-2001 Program Assistant. American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Midwest Center, Chicago.

1997-98 Project Manager. For Prof. Ian Evison, Meadville-Lombard Theological School, Chicago (on behalf of three consortia of theological schools in Chicago, Boston, and Berkeley). Initiated and executed a survey of directors of theological consortia in the United States and Canada.

1996-97 Operations Manager. Boston Theological Institute (consortium of nine theological schools), Newton, MA (full time, 5/96 to 9/97).

1995-96 Editorial Intern. Boston Book Review, Cambridge, MA.

1995 Publications Specialist (Intern). Cambridge Publications, Brookline, MA.

1994-95 Senior Project Manager. Database Publishing Group, Cambridge, MA (full time). Supervised a staff of about 20.

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS

Philadelphia Society conference stipend, 2005.

Western Civilization Fellowship ($20,000), Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2004-05, including summer 2005.

Department nomination and first alternate, Benjamin Bloom Dissertation Fellowship, 2004.

Karen DiNal Memorial Award for teaching undergraduate academic writing, 2003.

Earhart Fellow, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05.

Institute for Humane Studies Fellow, 2001-02, 2002-03, 2003-04, 2004-05.

Institute for Humane Studies Summer Research Fellow, 2002.

Conference travel stipends, Committee on Social Thought, April 1999, June 2002.

Full tuition and stipend fellowship, University of Chicago, 1998-2001.

ALSC conference travel stipends, 1997, 1998.

Hayward Scholarship, Harvard University, 1991-92, 1992-93, 1993-94.

Malcolm Holmes Scholarship, Harvard University, 1990-91.

Stephen MacDiarmid Award, Harvard University, 1990.

ADDITIONAL RESEARCH

Prepared a study of foreign-language references in Max Weber’s The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism for the fourth edition of the Roxbury translation (by Stephen Kalberg, Boston University).

PUBLICATIONS/JOURNALISM

In progress Midnight Oil: Last-Minute Writing Advice for Students in a Bind (short book).

2005a "Writing Resource Center: What Makes a Good Essay?" <http://www.gradesaver.com/resources/goodessay.html>. 4,000 words.

2005b "Writing Resource Center: Academic Essays." <http://www.gradesaver.com/resources/academic.html>. 5,000 words.

2005c “Writing Resource Center: Admission Essays.” <http://www.gradesaver.com/resources/admission.html>. 5,000 words.

2005d “Writing Resource Center: Scholarship and Award Essays.” <http://www.gradesaver.com/resources/scholarship.html>. 4,700 words.

2001a “You Gonna Do That in Public?” Regeneration Quarterly 7:3 (Fall 2001), 8-9.

2001b “Synergy in Chicago.” Regeneration Quarterly 7:3 (Fall 2001), 5.

2001c “Abstinence as Higher Education?” Project Reality News 5:1 (August 2001). Reprint of 2000b.

2000a “How I Became a Campus Revolutionary.” Regeneration Quarterly 6:3 (Fall 2000), 6-8.
Reviewed in Christianity Today (12/4/00: “a writer to watch”); cited in Lingua Franca 11:3 (April 2001); cited in David Kirp, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line (Harvard University Press).

2000b “Courtship Classes.” University of Chicago Criterion 5 (November 2000).

2000c “An Administrative Biography of Don Randel.” University of Chicago Free Press, 2000. Quoted in University of Chicago Magazine (December 2000).

1999a “The Current and Future Status of the University of Chicago.” Summary of the work of four standing committees of the student government and dozens of interviews. Published at the University of Chicago, May 1999.

1998a Report on Wayne Booth's course, “The Rhetorics of Science and Religion.” Faith and Science Exchange Newsletter (1998).

1997 “Humanities and the Great Books.” Review of Literature Lost by John Ellis. University of Chicago Criterion 2:3 (December 1997), 16-17.

1996-97 Editor, Boston Theological Institute Newsletter (weekly publication).

PRESENTATIONS

2005d Discussant (with honorarium), sessions on “Free Trade and Globalization,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Mecosta, MI (6/9/05-6/11/05).

2004a Discussant (with honorarium), sessions on “Liberal Education in a Free Society,” Liberty Fund colloquium, Mecosta, MI (11/4/04-11/6/04).

2004b Introductory remarks for lecture by Josiah Bunting on “The Quadrangle and the Arena,” University of Chicago (9/28/04).

2003a Discussant, Politics and Rhetoric Section, 61st annual conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago (4/3/03).

2003b Discussant, Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago (1/6/03). (On Gary Remer, “Cicero and the Ethics of Deliberative Rhetoric.”)

2002a “Architectonic Rhetoric.” Humane Studies Fellows Research Colloquium, Institute for Humane Studies (5/18/02); IHS Summer Fellows Colloquium (June 2002); IHS Social Change Workshop (June 2002).

2002b “Western Civilization at the University of Chicago,” Tenth General Conference of the National Association of Scholars. Introductory remarks for a roundtable discussion I initiated and planned (6/1/02).

1999b “The University in Crisis.” Mandel Hall, University of Chicago (6/5/99).

1999c “Consumerist Culture and the Future of Liberal Education: Tensions at the University of Chicago.” Eighth conference of the National Association of Scholars, Chicago (4/18/99).

1999d “Saving the University of Chicago.” Remarks at a reception for the American Council of Trustees and Alumni, Chicago (4/18/99).

1999e Interview on Extension 720 with Milt Rosenberg (radio show), April.

1999f “How the Rhetoric of Nature Informs the Rhetoric of the Ethics of Cosmetics in A Discourse of Artificial Beauty (1662).” Paper presented at a SUNY-Binghamton conference on gender studies and history (4/9/99).

1998b Introductory remarks for a debate on “Political Correctness: Myth or Menace?” among Alan Kors, Harvey Silverglate, and John K. Wilson. University of Chicago (10/30/98).

LANGUAGES READ (in rough order of reading proficiency)

German High Pass, University of Chicago translation exam

Attic Greek one year, university study

Biblical Hebrew two years, university study

French independent study

Latin one year, university study

Spanish four years, high school study

CONFERENCES ATTENDED

Eleventh Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. Boston, MA, November 4-6, 2005.

“The Ownership Society and Conservative Principles.” Philadelphia Society Regional Meeting, October 7-8, 2005.

“Free Trade and Globalization.” Liberty Fund colloquium, Mecosta, MI, June 9-11, 2005.

“The Social Study of the Social Sciences and the Humanities.” Harvard University, April 8-9, 2005.

“Liberal Education in a Free Society.” Liberty Fund colloquium, Mecosta, MI, November 4-6, 2004.

“Teaching America’s Founding Principles in Higher Education.” Chicago, September 2004.

Midwest Political Science Association, 61st Annual National Conference. Chicago, April 3-6, 2003.

“Higher Education and Democracy in Peace and War.” Tenth General Conference of The National Association of Scholars. Washington, DC, May 31-June 2, 2002.

“The Idea of the University Colloquium” (colloquium series). Publisher of proceedings <iotu.uchicago.edu>. Chicago, 2000-01.

“Economy and Society: Max Weber in 2000.” Madison, WI, September 21-24, 2000.

“Our Universities and Our Culture.” Eighth National Conference of the National Association of Scholars. Chicago, April 16-18, 1999.

Fourth Annual Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. Toronto, ON, October 2-4, 1998.

Third National Conference of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. San Francisco, CA, November 7-9, 1997.

FOREIGN TRAVEL

Europe: Ireland, Scotland, England, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia, Turkey.

Asia: Turkey.

North America: Canada, Mexico.

TEACHING REFERENCES

Mary (Lee) Behnke, Director, Latin Program, Univ. of Chicago, 773-702-3319, <mhbehnke@uchicago.edu>.

Ted O’Neill, Dean of Admissions, Univ. of Chicago, 773-702-8662, <toneill@uchicago.edu>.