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Education
Ph.D.
M.A.
A.B.
Academic
Positions
Associate
Professor, Department of Political Science,
Assistant
Professor, Department of Political Science, Pennsylvania State University,
1984-1989
Visiting
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Swarthmore College,
1983-1984
Lecturer,
Government Department, Cornell University, 1981-1982
Selected
Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
American
Fellowship, American Association of University Women, Alternate, 2001-2002
Public
Scholarship Associate, Office of Undergraduate Education, Pennsylvania State
University, 2001-2002
Graduate
Faculty Mentorship Award,
Course
Development Seed Grant,
Model
Teacher,
Christian
R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching, 1991
Josephine
Berry Weiss Endowed Faculty Fellow in the Humanities, Pennsylvania State
University, 1988-1989
Fellowship
for the Study of Modern Society and Values, American Council of Learned
Societies, 1986
1982-1983
Josephine
De Karman Fellowship, Aerojet-General Corporation, 1982-1983
Sage
Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, 1980-1981
Andrew
Dickson White Graduate Fellowship, Cornell University, 1977-1980
John
Chestnut Memorial Prize for Outstanding Work in Political Science,
Courses
Taught
Graduate: Aesthetics and Politics (with
Theory; Marx and His Legacy; Modern Democratic Theory
Undergraduate: Introduction to Political Theory; Foundations of
American Political Thought;
Feminist Political Theory; Political Ideologies;
Marxist and Socialist Theory; Ancient,
Medieval, and Renaissance Political Theory; Modern and
Contemporary Political Theory;
Introduction to American Government; Introduction
to Political Science
Honors Program: Campus Multiculturalism: A Legacy of the 60's; Exploring Diversity:
Origins, Attitudes, Institutions; Who Governs? Power and Politics in
Publications
Books
Musical
Democracy, (
Understanding
Dogmas and Dreams: A Text, 2nd edition (
pp.
278; 1st edition (Chatham, New Jersey: Chatham House Publishers, Inc., 1998).
Dogmas
and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies,
3rd ed., (
Press,
2005/2006), pp. 737; 1st and 2nd editions (
Publishers,
Inc., 1991, 1998).
Marx,
Nietzsche, and Modernity, (
increased
demand 1996), pp. 264.
“Why
do the Sirens Sing?: Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic of Enlightenment”
in Rethinking
the
111-122 [Revised/reprinted version of my Theory
& Event article below.]
“Disembodying
Democracy: Gendered Discourse in Habermas’s Legalistic Turn” in Confronting
Mass Democracy and Industrial Technology:
German Political and Social Thought from
Nietzsche to Habermas,
ed. John McCormick (
2002), 321-342.
“What’s
Left of Marx?” in The Cambridge Companion to Habermas, ed. Stephen K.
White
(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1995),
46-66.
“Rawlsian
Harmonies: Overlapping Consensus [as] Symphony Orchestra,” Theory, Culture,
& Society,
20:6
(December 2003), 121-140.
“’Singing
For Our Lives’: Women’s Music and Democratic Politics,” Hypatia: A Journal
of
Feminist Philosophy,
17:4 (Fall 2002), 71-94.
“Why
do the Sirens Sing?: Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic
of Enlightenment, Theory and Event 3:1 (1999).
“Ideal
Speech and Feminist Discourse: Habermas Re-Visioned,” Women and Politics
11:3
(Fall 1991), 101-122.
“Politics
and Voice(s): An Empowerment/Knowledge Regime?,” differences:
A Journal of
Feminist Cultural Studies
3:1 (Spring 1991), 85-103.
“Thinking
(and Teaching) Democratically: A Defense of Ideologies,” The Political
Science
Teacher 3:1 (Winter 1990), 12-14.
“Foucault
and Habermas on Discourse and Democracy,”
Polity 22:2 (Winter 1989), 269-293.
“Epistemology
and Exchange: Marx, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory,” New German Critique,
41
(Spring/Summer 1987), 71-94.
“Class
or Mass: Marx, Nietzsche, and Liberal-Democracy,” Studies in Soviet Thought,
33:1
(January
1987), 43-64.
“Fighting
for the Sixties: Political Movements and Cultural Change,” (with
William F. Fine),
Polity
32:2 (Winter
1999), 285-299.
“Dialectics
and Politics,” Polity 19:4 (Summer 1987), 693-705.
“Democracy” (with Joshua L.
Vermette) in Youth Activism: An
International Encyclopedia,
ed. Lonnie R. Sherrod, et. al. (
I
have reviewed books for the following journals: American Political Science
Review, Ethics, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, Journal
of the History of the Behavioral Science, Journal of Politics, Perspectives
on Politics, Political Theory, Polity, The Review of
Politics, Signs, Women and Politics
Selected
Conference Papers and Presentations
“Globalization
and the
“The
Dialectic of Enlightenment at Fifty,” 1997 American Political
Science Association
Convention and 1997
“Teaching
Feminist Theory,” 1992 American Political Science Association Convention and
1991
Northeast Political Science Association Convention
“Postmodernism,
Critiques of Cultural Imperialism, and the Identity Crisis for Feminism,” 1989
American Political Science Association
Convention
“The
Politics of Postmodernism,” 1988 American Political Science Association
Convention
“The
Aesthetic Politics of Hate: Religion,
Creativity, and RaHoWa,” paper proposed for the
2007
American Political Science Association Convention
“Trendy
Fascism: Hate Rock, White Power, and
Global Capital,” 2006 American Political
Science
Association Convention
“Journey
to Justice: Of Songs, Suffering, and Surprises,” 2002 American Political
Science
Association Convention
“Rawlsian
Harmonies: Overlapping Consensus as Symphony Orchestra,” 2001 American
Political Science Association Convention
“’Singing
For Our Lives’: Women’s Music and Communicative
Democracy,” 2000 American
Political
Science Association Convention (for a panel I organized entitled “Corporeal
Communicative
Action”)
“Musical
Metaphors in Democratic Theory: Habermas and Rawls,” 1999 American Political
Science Association Convention
“Why
Do the Sirens Sing?:
Figuring the Feminine in Dialectic of Enlightenment,” 1998
Rethinking
the
“Disembodying
Democracy: Habermas’s Legalistic Turn,” 1998 American Political Science
Association
Convention
“’Singing
For Our Lives’:
Women’s Music as Political Activism,” 1994 Western Political
Science
Association Convention
“’You
Just Don’t Understand’: Genderlects, Lifeworlds, and Rational Communication,”
1993
American
Political Science Association Convention
“Feminist
Subjects: A Serial Paper” (with Christine Di Stefano, Kirstie McClure, and
Shane
Phelan), 1992 Western Political Science
Association Convention
“Politics
and Voices: From Normalization to Justification,” 1990 American Political
Science
Association Convention
“Ideal
Speech and Feminist Discourse,” 1990 Western Political Science Association
Convention
“Freeing
the Feminine: Critical Theory and the Family Revisited,” 1987 American
Political
Science Association Convention
“Marx,
Nietzsche, History,” 1986 American Philosophical Association Convention,
Eastern
“Foucault
and Habermas on Discourse and Democracy,” 1986 American Political Science
Association
Convention
“Reason,
Repression, and Reality in Marxism,” 1984 American Political Science
Association
Convention
“Epistemology
and Exchange: Marx, Nietzsche, and Critical Theory,” 1984
Northeastern
Political
Science Association Convention
“Class
or Mass: Marx, Nietzsche, and Liberal-Democracy,” 1984 Western Political
Science
Association Convention (nominated for Phi
Sigma Alpha Award)
“Commodities
and Idols: Marx, Nietzsche, and Modern Ideology,” 1983
Northeastern Political
Science
Association Convention
“(Un)fashionable
Citizens,” 2005 American Political Science Association Convention
“Terror/Security”
and “Spectres of the Public: Politics as
Spectacle,” 2003 American Political
Science Association Convention [withdrew due
to recent surgery]
“The
Nature of Political Argument,” 2002
American Political Science Association Convention
“What
Ethical Practice Follows From Arendt, Marx, Marcuse, and Conservatism,” 1999
American Political Science Association
Convention
“Derrida,
Levinas, and Politics,” 1998 American Political Science Association Convention
“Difference
and Toleration,” 1994 American Political Science Association Convention
“Politics
and the Arts,” 1991 American Political Science Association Convention
“Rationality
and the State,”
1986 American Political Science Association Convention
“Nietzsche,
Aesthetics, and Politics,” 1985 American Political Science Association
Convention
“Ignorance
and Recognition,” Ethics and Epistemologies of Ignorance Conference, Rock
Ethics
Institute,
Panel
Four, “Art, Nature, Will: Engaging Jean-Jacques Rousseau” Conference,
“Labour
and Forgiveness: The Framing of Recognition in Phenomenology VI, 1999
“Hegel:
Phenomenology
and Spirit” Conference,
“Nietzsche,
Schiller, and the Boundaries of Political Morality,” 1997
Association
Convention
“Communicative
Rationality Revisited,”1995 American Political Science AssociationConvention
“Intersections
of Feminism, Marxism, and Postmodernism,” 1991 American Political Science
Association
Convention
Director,
Writers,”
“Women’s
Studies Reading and Discussion Group”:
“Women, Work, and Family,” Tyrone
Snyder
Library, 1997
Pennsylvania
Humanities Council Commonwealth Speaker, 1989 (Presented two lectures –
“When
Will There Be a Woman President?” and “Conspicuously Absent: Women and the
Constitution”
– throughout
Selected
Professional Service
Member,
First Book Award Selection Committee, Foundations of Political Theory Section,
American
Political Science Association, 2006-2007.
Subcommittee
Chair, “Citizenship, Democracy, and Social Justice”,
American
Regional Conference on Gender and Policy, Women’s Studies Program,
Selection
Committee, Best Paper Presented at the American Political Science Association
Convention
Award, Foundations of Political Theory Section, 2001-2002
External
Review, Department
of Political Science,
External
Reviewer for tenure and promotion,
Faculty
Program
Chair, Normative Political Theory Section, 1995 American Political Science
Association
Convention
Acting
Chair,
Chair,
Benjamin Lippincott Award Committee, American Political Science Association,
1992-93
Member,
Foundations of Political Theory Book Award Selection Committee, American
Political
Science
Association, 1992
Member,
Alice Paul Dissertation Proposal Award Selection Committee, Women’s Caucus,
American
Political Science Association, 1992 and 1993
Secretary/Treasurer,
Member,
Leo
Strauss Dissertation Award Chair,
American Political Science Association, 1990-1991
Selection
Committee, American Council of Learned Societies, Recent Recipients of the
Ph.D.
Fellowship,
1988, 1989, and 1990
External
Examiner in Political Theory, Honors Program,
Professional
Memberships: American Political Science Association; Women’s Caucus, American
Political
Science Association; American
Society for the Study of Political and Legal Philosophy;
Society
for Values in Higher Education
Selected
Editorial Experience
Member,
Editorial Board, Polity, 1995-2002; 2005--
Member,
Editorial Committee,
Contributing
Reviewer: American Political Science Review; Canadian Journal of
Political Science; Journal of Politics; Polity; Review of
Politics; Signs; Studies in Comparative International Development; Theory, Culture, and
Society; Western Political Quarterly