Note: this is a condensed c.v., updated Winter 2011. For teaching, go here. |
| Employment |
| > Associate Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago, 2006-. (Joined faculty of Fundamentals: Issues and Texts in 2007.) > Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College, University of Chicago, 1999-2006. |
> Lecturer and Instructor in Social Studies, Harvard University, 1998-99. |
| Education |
| > Ph.D. in Political Science. Harvard University, Department of Government, March 1999. Dissertation: Bound by Recognition: The Politics of Identity after Hegel. Committee: Seyla Benhabib (chair), Bonnie Honig, Michael Sandel. |
> B.A. in Political Science and Philosophy. University of California, Berkeley, June 1992 (with highest honors). Honors thesis: Judgment and Paradox in Hannah Arendt's Political Theory, supervised by Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. |
| Selected Work in Progress |
> The Architecture of The Human Condition. New book project in progress. > Rule of the People: Power, Activity, and Democracy. New book project in progress. > A variety of essays on Hannah Arendt, aesthetics, law, power, and a range of other topics that will probably have shifted by the time you read this. |
| Selected Publications |
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> "Arendt's Work: On the Architecture of The Human Condition," College Literature, special issue on Arendt, Politics, and Culture, 38, no. 1 (Winter 2011). > "Education, Independence, and Acknowledgment," in Debating Moral Education, ed. J. Peter Euben and Elizabeth Kiss (Duke University Press, 2010). > Review of Alessandro Ferrara, The Force of the Example: Explorations in the Paradigm of Judgment, in Constellations 17, no. 3 (September 2010): 498–500. > Review of Raymond Geuss, Philosophy and Real Politics, in Political Theory 38, no. 1 (2010): 172–77. > "The Experience of Action," in Thinking in Dark Times, ed. Roger Berkowitz, Thomas Keenan, and Jeffrey Katz (Fordham University Press, 2009). > Review essay: Peg Birmingham, Hannah Arendt and Human Rights: The Predicament of Common Responsibility, and Serena Parekh, Hannah Arendt and the Challenge of Modernity: A Phenomenology of Human Rights, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (posted November 19, 2008, online at http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=14788. |
> "The Insufficiency of Non-Domination," Political Theory 36, no. 1 (February 2008): 9-36. |
> "The Potential and the Actual: Mead, Honneth, and the 'I'." In Recognition and Power: Axel Honneth and the Tradition of Critical Social Theory, edited by Bert van den Brink and David Owen (Cambridge University Press, 2007). > "Recognition and Redistribution." In The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory, edited by John Dryzek, Bonnie Honig, and Anne Phillips (Oxford University Press, 2006). > "The Rule of the People: Arendt, Archê, and Democracy." The American Political Science Review 100, no. 1 (February 2006): 1-14. |
> "Ontology, Recognition, and Politics: A Reply." Polity 38, no. 1 (January 2006): 28-39. |
> Bound by Recognition. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003. Co-winner of the Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, 2004. |
> "The Art of the Possible." Review essay (Jane Bennett, The Enchantment of Modern Life: Attachments, Crossings, Ethics, and Wendy Brown, Politics Out of History). Political Theory 31, no. 3 (June 2003): 46170. |
> "Tragic Recognition: Action and Identity in Antigone and Aristotle." Political Theory 31, no. 1 (February 2003): 6–38. |
> (with Candace Vogler) "Introduction: Violence, Redemption, and the Liberal Imagination." Public Culture 15, no. 1 (Winter 2003): 1–10. |
> "The Recognition of Politics: A Comment on Emcke and Tully." Constellations 7, no. 4 (December 2000): 496–506. |
> "Making Affect Safe for Democracy? On ‘Constitutional Patriotism.’" Political Theory 28, no. 1 (February 2000): 38–63. |
> "Contesting Consensus: Rereading Habermas on the Public Sphere." Constellations 3, no. 3 (January 1997): 377–400. |
| Selected Professional Activities |
> Co-director of the Project on Language, History, and Political Theory in the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 2008-present. > Co-director of the Political Theory Workshop in the Department of Political Science, University of Chicago, 1999-present. > Editorial Associate (2001-2005) and Editorial Council member (2005-2010, 2010-present) of Constellations. |
> Member of the Editorial Board of Polity, 2004-present. |
> Member of the Editorial Committee (2001-2004) and Editorial Collective (2004-present) of Public Culture, 2001-present. |
> Member of the Late Liberalism Project at the Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago, 1999 until roughly 2008. > Associate of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of Chicago, 2004-present. |
> Member of the Faculty Board of Wilder House, the Center for the Study of Politics, History and Culture, University of Chicago, 2000-2004. |
> Founding member, webmaster and email list adminstrator for Chicago Political Theory (CPT), the Chicago-area chapter of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought. |