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Curriculum Vitae |
Faculty Appointments
2007- Associate Professor of Political
Science, University of Chicago, 2004-07 Assistant Professor of Politics,
Princeton University, 2000-04 Assistant Professor of Political
Science, Yale University Education 2000 Ph.D.,
Political Science, Harvard University (1994-2000) "Nation, rights, and progress: the emergence of liberal imperialism, 1780-1850" Committee:
Richard Tuck (chair), Stanley Hoffmann, Pratap B. Mehta 1992 B.A.,
summa cum laude, English, Yale
University Publications
Books
2005 A Turn to Empire: the rise of imperial
liberalism in Britain and France (Princeton) Co-winner
of the 2006 Best First Book award, Foundations of Political Theory section,
American Political Science Association; A Choice
Outstanding Academic Title for 2005 French translation: Naissance de la bonne conscience coloniale (Paris: Éditions de l'Atelier, 2008). Chinese translation in preparation. 2001 Editor
and translator, Alexis de Tocqueville:
Writings on empire and slavery (Johns Hopkins). Articles and Essays In press "Political
Theory and Empire," Annual Review of
Political Science In press "Hobson's
Imperialism: A Reconsideration," Raritan In press "
'Great and Distant Crimes': Bentham on Empire and International Law," Bentham: Rethinking the Tradition, ed.
Stephen Engelmann, Yale UP. In press "Liberalism
and Colonialism in Early Nineteenth-Century France," in Empire and Modern Political Thought, ed. Sankar
Muthu, Cambridge In press "Empire,
progress, and the 'savage mind'"; in Colonialism
and its Legacies, Jacob Levy and Iris Marion Young, eds. Rowman and
Littlefield 2009 "Staat
und colonialismus bei Bentham und Mill," Vom
Nutzen des Staates: Das Staatsverstnädnis des klassischen Utilitarismus Hume -
Bentham - Mill, ed. Olaf Asbach. Baden-Baden: Nomos-Verlagsgesellschaft. 2009 "Constant's
Thought on Empire and Slavery," in The
Cambridge Companion to Benjamin Constant, ed. Helena Rosenblatt, Cambridge,
pp. 115-45 2009 "Liberalism
and empire in a nineteenth-century Algerian mirror," Modern Intellectual History 6.2, pp. 287-313 2007 "Boundaries
of Victorian International Law," in Victorian
Visions of Global Order, Duncan Bell, ed. Cambridge, pp. 67-88 2007
"Liberalism, Democracy, and Empire: Tocqueville on Algeria"; in Tocqueville Today?, Raf Geenens and
Annelien De Dijn, eds., Palgrave Macmillan 2005 "Jeremy
Bentham: Legislator of the World?"; in Utilitarianism
and Empire, Bart Schultz and Georgios Varouxakis, eds., Lexington Books,
57-91. 2005 "L'Empire britannique, un modèle pour l'Algérie française: Nation et civilisation chez Tocqueville et J.S. Mill," in L'esclavage, la colonisation, et après... Etats-Unis, France, Royaume-Uni, ed. Stéphane Dufoix, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 55-81. 2004 "Edmund
Burke's peculiar cosmopolitanism," Diacritica
(Portugal) 18.2, 173-204. 2003 "Legislator
of the world? A rereading of Bentham on India," Political Theory 31.2, 200-234. 2000 "Liberalism
and Empire: Tocqueville on Algeria," Journal
of Political Philosophy 8.3, 295-318. Book reviews In press Patrick Weil, How to be French: Nationality in the Making since 1789, Duke 2008 In press Frederick
Whelan, Enlightenment Political Thought
and Non-Western Societies: Sultans and Savages, Routledge 2009, in Perspectives on Politics In press Aurelian
Craiutu and Jeremy Jennings eds., Tocqueville
on America after 1840, Cambridge 2008, on H-France 2005 Jeanne
Morefield, Covenants without Swords,
Princeton 2004, in Perspectives on
Politics 2005 Martin
Staum, Labeling People: French Scholars
on Society, Race, and Empire 1815-1848, McGill-Queen's 2003, in Journal of Modern History 2005 Georgios
Varouxakis, Victorian Political Thought
on France and the French Palgrave 2002, in Nations and Nationalism 2003 Cheryl
Welch, De Tocqueville (Oxford UP,
2001), in French Politics, Culture, and
Society 2002 Bruce
Baum, Rereading Power and Freedom in J.S.
Mill(U of Toronto Press, 2000), in Political
Theory 30.2 Fellowships
and Awards 2006 Co-winner
of the Best First Book award, Foundations of Political Theory, APSA 2006-07 Institute
for Advanced Study, Member in Social Science, 2003-04 John
K. Castle Scholar of Ethics in Political Science, Yale University 2003-04 Junior
Faculty Fellowship, Yale University, (competitive fellowship for year's leave) 2003-04 Visiting
research associate, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2000 Best
paper, Foundations of Political Theory, APSA (for "Legislator of the World? A
rereading of Bentham on India") 2000 Chase
Dissertation Prize, Department of Government, Harvard University 1998-99 Charlotte
W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship, 1998-1999 1998 Mellon
Dissertation Writing Fellowship, summer 1994-98 Jacob
K. Javits Fellowship, 1994-95 John
Montgomery Prize Fellow in Government, Harvard University, 1992 John
Hersey Prize, the top journalism prize in Yale College Invited
Lectures 2009 "Democracy and Domination: Empire, Slavery, and
Democratic Corruption in Tocqueville's Thought," University of Richmond
Tocqueville Symposium 2009 Keynote
lecture, Biennial conference of Australian Association of European Historians,
Adelaide 2009 "Europe,
Empire, and the Boundaries of the International," University
of Sydney 2008 "The
Rise of Imperial Liberalism," Keynote lecture, "Imperium and Liberal Values,"
Free University of Bolzano, Italy. Also Midwest Faculty Seminar, University of
Chicago (31 October 2008). 2008
"Les penseurs libéraux et la question impériale." Harper Lecture, University of
Chicago Center in Paris; additional talks in Dijon, Grenoble, Poitiers,
Université de Nanterre, Sorbonne 2005 "Empire
and Democratic Anxiety in Victorian Britain," University of Chicago Nicholson Center for British Studies Invited
Talks 2009 Stanford
University, Political theory workshop 2009 Yale
University, Seminar on Transitions to Modernity 2009 Columbia
University, Seminar on Modern Europe 2008 New
York University, Remarque Institute seminar 2007 University
of California, San Diego political theory workshop 2006 French
Studies Seminar, National Humanities Center, North Carolina 2006 University
of London 2005 Brown
University, Political Theory Colloquium 2004 Columbia
University, Seminar in Social and Political Thought 2003 Harvard
University, Political Theory Colloquium Conference
Papers 2009 "Sovereignty
and intervention in Wolff and Vattel," presented at "The Ethics of Military Intervention"
Columbia University, September 2009. 2007 "Legal
Pluralism and Burke's Law of Nations," presented at "Edmund Burke and the
Business of Affection," Oxford University. Also presented at APSA annual
meeting, Chicago. 2007 "Nationality
and Empire in Nineteenth-Century French Liberalism," Presented at "From Early-Modern to Modern Empire and from
Empire to Nation-State, UCLA and Clark Memorial Library.
Also presented at Oxford-Princeton workshop on international relations,
Princeton. 2006 "
'Great and Distant Crimes': Bentham on Empire and International Law," presented
at "Lineages of Empire," British Academy, London. 2006 "Le
libéralisme et la suprématie européenne," Conference on C.A. Bayly's Empire in the Modern World, organized by Le Monde Diplomatique, UNESCO, Paris. 2006 "Barbarism
and civilization, Islam, and international law: Nineteenth-century debates,"
presented at "What Is "Civilization," United Nations Alliance of Civilizations
initiative, New York 2006 "Ancient
Empires, Modern Empires: Rome and imperialism in 19th-century
British thought"; presented at "Imperial Republics? Ancient Rome and the USA,"
Princeton University. 2005 'Liberalism, Democracy, and Empire:
Tocqueville on Algeria'; presented at "Destined to democracy? Tocqueville 1805-2005," UCSIA,
Antwerp. 2004 "Boundaries
of Victorian International Law." American Political Science Association (APSA)
annual meeting, Chicago, September 2-5, 2004. Cambridge University conference
on Victorian Visions of Global Order.
2004 "Progress
and Empire: Enlightened histories, 'backwardness', and colonial rule."
Conference for the Study of Political Thought annual meeting, Chicago, April
2004. 2003 Respondent
to lecture by Frederick Whelan. Conference on Edmund Burke, The Edmund Burke Society of America, Washington, DC,
November 21-22, 2003. 2003 "This
map of misgovernment: Edmund Burke's cosmopolitanism" (Towards Cosmopolitan
Citizenship? Arrabida, Portugal, October 12-13, 2003). 2003 "'The
stronger ties of humanity': Humanitarian intervention in the eighteenth
century" (APSA, Philadelphia; and International Society for Eighteenth-Century
Studies (ISECS) meeting, Los Angeles) 2002 "Empire
and social criticism: Burke, Mill, and the abuse of colonial power" (APSA) 2002 "Legislator
of the world? A rereading of Bentham on Empire." (University of Chicago
political theory workshop, May 13, 2002; APSA meeting, Washington, D.C., 2000) 2002 "Empire,
rights, and democratic exclusion in Tocqueville," (University of California at
Los Angeles, Center for 17th and 18th century studies History, Theory, and the Subject of Rights,
ca. 1640–1848) 2001 "Tocqueville,
J.S. Mill, and the British Empire as a model for French Algeria." ('The
legacies of colonization and decolonization on the integration of migrants in
Europe and the Americas', Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris) 2000 "Progress
and pluralism in the age of empire" (Yale Political Theory Workshop; also
presented at APSA, Washington, D.C.) 2000
"From conjectural history to the march of civilization: the transformation of
'progress' in the age of empire" (International Society for the Study of
European Ideas, Bergen, Norway) 1999 "Liberalism
and Empire: Tocqueville on Algeria" (APSA) 1998 "Nation
and empire: Constant, Tocqueville and the liberal volte-face'. Presented at "Europe and Empire," Harvard University Discussant
and Roundtable Participant Participant, "New Directions in Eighteenth-Century
Studies," Lewis Walpole Library, October 2009 "Tocqueville on America after 1840," APSA meeting,
Toronto 2009 "Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy,"
University of Chicago, 2/5/09 J.G.A. Pocock's "Historiography and Political
Thought," Nicholson Center for British Studies, University of Chicago
conference, 12/05/08 "Tocqueville and the Intellectual Origins of French
Liberalism," APSA meeting, Boston 2008 "Pluralism Before Pluralism," APSA meeting, Boston
2008 "Law in 18th
Century European International Political Thought," Commemorative Conference on
Alberico Gentili, New York University Law School, 3/13-15/08 "Bentham in the World," Centre for History and
Economics, Harvard University, 6/5/06 "Genealogies of Empire," APSA meeting, Washington,
DC, 2005 "Radical reinterpretations of Tocqueville," APSA
meeting, Philadelphia 2003 "Sites of Comparison: Empire and Encounter in
Modern Political Thought," APSA meeting, Boston, 2002 "Tocqueville on Democracy," APSA meeting, San Francisco, 2001 Conference Organizer
"Europe and Empire: encounters, transformations, legacies,"
graduate student conference, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies,
Harvard University (October 1998) Professional
Affiliations and Participation
2009- Member,
Editorial Board, Ideas in Context
Series, Cambridge University Press 2009- Member,
Conseil scientifique, Critique
internationale, Presses de Sciences Po 2008-09 Chair
of Walter Lippincott Award Committee, APSA 2007- Member
of the executive committee, Conference for the Study of Political Thought 2007- Editorial
Advisory Board, Studies in Burke and his
Time 2006-07 Member
of David Easton Award Committee, APSA, Foundations of Political Theory 2006 Advisory
Committee, John Stuart Mill Bicentennial Conference, 1806-2006, University
College London Member: American Political Science Association, Conference for
the Study of Political Thought, American Society for Political and Legal
Philosophy Referee: Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press,
Princeton University Press, American
Political Science Review, Political
Theory, American Journal of Political
Science, Journal of British Studies,
Modern Intellectual History, Review of Politics At the University of Chicago: 2007- Nicholson
Center for British Studies 2008- Human
Rights Program 2008- Women's
Leadership Council 2008- College
Council 2008- Senior
Fellow, Society of Fellows |