CURRICULUM VITAE
I.
NAME
: James Edward CRIMMINS
II.
FACULTY ADDRESS
: Department of Political Science
Huron University College
1349 Western Rd.
London, Ont., N6G 1H3
: Tel. 519–438–7224, ext. 312
: Fax 519–438–3938
: Email : [email protected]
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ACADEMIC POSITIONS
3.1. Current
1. Professor of Political Theory, Huron University College, Western University
2. Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies for Political Science, Western
University (1988–2016), and Religious Studies, Huron University College (2007–16)
3.2. Previous
1. Fulbright Research Chair, Vanderbilt University, 2013–14
2. International Academic Advisor, Huron, 2000–2005
3. Dean of Arts and Social Science, Huron, 1994–99
4. Chair, Department of Political Science, Huron, 1989–93
IV.
EDUCATION
4.1. Secondary
St. Illtyd’s College, Cardiff, 1967–72: Advanced Level: History and Economics
4.2. Post-secondary
1. School of Environmental Science, Architecture
North East London Polytechnic, London, UK
2. University of Wales, Swansea, UK
3. University of Wales, Swansea, UK
4. The University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
B.A.
M.A.
Ph.D
1972–74
1974–77
1977–80
1980–84
4.3. Degrees Awarded
1977: B.A. (Hons.) Political Theory and Government (Class II, Div. I)
1980: M.A. in Politics, specializing in Political Theory
Thesis: ‘The Political Ideas of the Rev. Dr. John Brown (1715–66)’
Supervisor: Dr B.A. Haddock
1984: Ph.D in Political Science, specializing in Political Theory
Thesis: ‘Jeremy Bentham on the Utility of Religion and the Church of England’; Supervisor:
Dr D.G. Long
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SCHOLARSHIPS, FELLOWSHIPS, HONOURS, AND DISTINCTIONS
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Fulbright Visiting Research Chair, Vanderbilt University, 2013–14
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Bill of Rights Law, The College of William & Mary, 2013–14
Huron University College Excellence in Teaching Award, 2010
Visiting Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Manitoba, October 13–17, 1993
Canadian representative to the East–West Seminar 1992, International Society for Eighteenth–
Century Studies and the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, 8–21 June 1992
American Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies Fellowship (tenurable at William Ready
Division of Archives and Research Collections, Mills Library, McMaster University), 1989–90
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellowship, 1985–87
Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship (Dalhousie University), 1985–87 – declined
Honorary Killam Postdoctoral Fellowship (University of British Columbia), 1985–86 –
declined
Ontario Graduate Scholarships – Foreign Student, 1984, 1983, 1981
Special University Scholarship (UWO), 1980–84
Canadian Bureau for International Education Scholarship, 1983
J.A.F. Stevenson Memorial Fellowship (Western), 1982
Catherine and Lady Grace James Education Award (Wales), 1980, 1974
Social Science Research Council (UK) post–graduate grant, 1977–79
Edwin Drew Prize in Public Administration (University College of Swansea), 1976
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Years
2000–
1991–2000
1987–91
1985–87
1984–87
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Professorial Rank
Full Professor
Associate
Assistant
SSHRC Postdoc
Assistant
Assistant
PROMOTION AND RANK HISTORY
2000–
1991–2000
1987–91
1984–97
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University
Huron University College, Western
Huron University College, Western
Huron University College, Western
University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario
Brescia University College, Western
University of Western Ontario
Full Professor (effective 1 July 2000)
Associate Professor with Tenure (effective 1 July 1991)
Assistant Professor: Huron University College
Assistant Professor: University of Western Ontario and Brescia College
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
8.1. Area(s) of Specialization
1. Political Theory
2. History of Political Thought, esp. 18th and 19th centuries
3. Jeremy Bentham and Utilitarian Theory
4. American Constitutional Law
5. The Politics of Britain and Northern Ireland
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8.2. Courses Taught
1. Introduction to Political Science (020E)
2. Introduction to Political Theory (2237E, formerly History of Political Thought 237E)
3. Capitalism and Democracy (022F)
4. Revolution and Political Change (024G)
5. Comparative European Politics (129E)
6. International Relations (131/231E)
7. Theories of the State (3351E, formerly 351E)
8. Utilitarian Theory (493E)
9. Liberalism and Utilitarian Theory (374E)
10. The Liberal Tradition: Selected Texts (374E)
11. British Politics: Continuity and Change (2299E, formerly British Political Tradition 229E)
12. Law, State and Democracy (3355E)
13. US Constitution (2239F/G)
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SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES
9.1. Major Work in Progress
American Political Thought, Utility and Rights, a study of the dissemination and influence of utilitarian
ideas in the United States.
9.2. Major Research Grants Awarded
1. Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant, 1989–91, to assist
research and production of Jeremy Bentham’s Church–of–Englandism (1818) for The Collected
Works of Jeremy Bentham
2. Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant, 1993–96, to assist
research for a study of ‘Bentham’s Politics’
3. Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant, 1997–2000, to assist
research for a study of ‘Liberalism and Utilitarianism’
4. Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant, 2005–2008, to assist
research for a study of Jeremy Bentham’s Final Years: A Philosopher’s Remains
5. Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant, 2013–16, to assist
research for a study of American Political Thought, Utility and Rights, 1776–1918
9.3. Publications
9.3.1. Books
1. Religion, Secularization and Political Thought: Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill, edited with an introduction,
London: Routledge, 1989. 202 pp.
Includes essays by S.A. State on Hobbes; David Wootton on Locke; Roger L.
Emerson on Scotland 1680–1800; Douglas G. Long on Hume, Smith and Bentham;
Frederick Dreyer on Burke and Wesley; James E. Crimmins on Paley and Bentham, T.R
Sansom on F.D. Maurice; and Richard Vernon on J.S. Mill.
Reviewed in Choice, 28 (1990), 327; Political Studies (UK), 39/3 (1991), 644; Canadian
Journal of Political Science, 25/1 (1992), 201–203; Filosofia Politica (IT), 6/16 (1992), 167–68;
Utilitas: A Journal of Utilitarian Studies (UK), 4/2 (1992); and International Hobbes Association
Newsletter (USA), No.15 (1992), 23–30.
2. Secular Utilitarianism: Social Science and the Critique of Religion in the Thought of Jeremy Bentham, Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1990. xi, 348 pp.
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Reviewed in Times Higher Education Supplement (August 24, 1990); Theological Book
Review (USA), 3/1 (1990), 3; Choice, 28 (1991), 1361; Utilitas: A Journal of Utilitarian Studies
(UK), 3/2 (1991), 317–20; American Political Science Review, 85 (1991), 993–94; Political Studies
(UK), 39/4 (1991), 789; Canadian Journal of Political Science, 24/4 (1991), 883–85; Albion
(USA), 23/4 (1991), 762–63; History of Political Thought (UK), 12/4 (1991), 740–43; Filosofia
Politica (IT), 6/1 (1992), 167–68; and British Journal for Eighteenth–Century Studies, 16/1 (1993),
142–43.
Full text of Secular Utilitarianism is published online at www.questia.com, and at
http://www.oxfordscholarship.com. An extract from Secular Utilitarianism was published in
Nineteenth–Century Literary Criticism, vol. 84 (London, Gale Group, 2000), 327–39; see
articles below, no. 25.
Philip Schofield mounted a comprehensive critique of my interpretation of
Bentham’s religious writings in ‘Political and Religious Radicalism in the Thought of Jeremy
Bentham’, History of Political Thought (UK), 20/2 (Summer 1999), 274–91. My reply
‘Bentham’s Religious Radicalism Revisited: A Response to Schofield’, was published in
History of Political Thought, (UK), 22/3 (2001), 494–500; see articles below, no.26. Certain
aspects of my interpretation of Bentham’s critique of religion were taken to task by Delos
B. McKown, Behold the Anitchrist: Bentham on Religion (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books,
2004). My review of McKown’s book contains my response to his criticism, in Philosophy in
Review (Canada), 25/4 (2005), 294–96.
3. Utilitarians and Religion, two parts: Pt I. Religious Utilitarians, Pt II. Secular Utilitarians, edited
with two introductions, biographical notes, and notes on the texts; hardback and
paperback, Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1998. x, 502 pp.
Reviewed in Religious Studies (UK), 35 (1999), 242; Enlightenment and Dissent (UK), 18
(1999), 260–63; Utilitas, 12/1 (2000), 106–107; The Philosophical Quarterly (USA), 51/204
(2001), 421–23; and Faith and Philosophy (USA), 20/2 (2003), 252–55.
4. Jeremy Bentham’s Auto–Icon, and Related Writings, edited with an introduction and annotations,
Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002. lxix, 203 pp.
Text used for a programme on Jeremy Bentham’s auto–icon in National
Geographic TV series entitled ‘The Mummy Road Show: A Head for Science’, produced by
Engel Brothers Media (New York), The National Geographic Channel, broadcast 25 April
2004; see http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/mummy/index.html
Introduction published online: www.thoemmes.com/19cphil/autoicon_intro.htm
and http://www.utilitarian.net/bentham/about/2002----.htm
5. On Bentham, Wadsworth Philosophers Series, Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 2004. 97 pp.
Reviewed in History of Political Thought (UK), 25/3 (2004), 554–56; and Lumen (Journal of the
Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies), 25 (2006), 241.
6. The Opinions of Different Authors upon the Punishment of Death, Selected by Basil Montagu, Esq. of Lincoln’s
Inn, 3 vols. (London 1809, 1812, 1813), with an introduction and bibliographic list of
contents (vol. 1, vii–xlii); Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum; Tokyo: Edition Synapse, 2004.
Reviewed in Lumen (Journal of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies), 25
(2006), 240–41.
7. The Death Penalty: Debates in Britain and the US, 1725–1868, 7 vols., edited with a preface and
introduction (vol. I, xiii–xliv); Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum; Tokyo: Edition Synapse,
2004.
Reviewed in Lumen (Journal of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies), 25
(2006), 240–41.
8. Theory of Legislation; by Jeremy Bentham. Translated from the French of Etienne Dumont, by Richard
Hildreth, 2 vols. (1840; 2nd. edn., London 1864), with an introduction, appendix, and index;
Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004.
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9. with Mark Spencer, Utilitarians and Their Critics in America, 1789–1914, 4 vols., edited with an
introduction by James E. Crimmins; Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.
10. with Catherine Fuller, Church–of–Englandism and its Catechism Examined (1818), in The Collected
Works of Jeremy Bentham, edited with an introduction, notes, appendices, collations and
indexes, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2011. xxx, 652 pp.
11. Utilitarian Philosophy and Politics: Bentham’s Later Years, Continuum Studies in British Philosophy,
London & New York: Continuum, 2011. xi, 247 pp.
*** Nominated for the C.B. Macpherson Prize 2012.
Reissued in paperback in Bloomsbury Studies in British Philosophy, London & New York:
Bloomsbury, 2013.
Reviewed in Utilitas, 25/2 (2013), 284–87.
12. Religion, Secularization and Political Thought: Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill, edited with an introduction
(1989; #1 above), rept., Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion, vol. 11;
London: Routledge, 2013. 216 pp.
13. The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Utilitarianism, edited with an introduction, London & New York:
Bloomsbury, 2013. xx, 585 pp.
Reviewed in Reference Reviews, 28/2 (2014), 13–14; Journal of Bentham Studies, 16 (2014):
http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1429463/.
9.3.2. Articles/Chapters in Journals, Collections, Encyclopaedias, Dictionaries
(* blind refereed publications)
Essays published in conference proceedings are not included here.
*1. ‘John Brown and the Theological Tradition of Utilitarian Ethics’, History of Political Thought
(UK), 4/3 (1983), 523–50.
2. ‘Bentham’s Religious Writings: A Bibliographic Chronology’, The Bentham Newsletter (UK), 9
(1985), 21–33.
Reprinted in B. Parekh (ed.), Jeremy Bentham: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (London and
New York, Routledge, 1993), vol. 2, 129–44. Also online: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/BenthamProject/journal/newsletter/Newsletter%2009%20June%2085.pdf
*3. ‘Bentham on Religion: Atheism and the Secular Society’, Journal of the History of Ideas (USA),
47/1 (1986), 95–110.
Reprinted in B. Parekh (ed.), Jeremy Bentham: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (London and
New York, Routledge, 1993), vol. 2, 113–28.
*4. ‘Bentham’s Unpublished Manuscripts on Subscription to Articles of Faith’, British Journal for
Eighteenth–Century Studies, 9/1 (1986), 33–44.
*5. ‘“The Study of True Politics:” John Brown on Manners and Liberty’, Studies on Voltaire and the
Eighteenth Century (UK), 241 (1986), 65–84.
6. With J.F. McGarry, ‘The Hillsborough Deal and the Lessons of Sunningdale’, Fortnight: An
Independent Review for Northern Ireland, 237 (1986), 11–12
7. ‘Murder under the Charter’, Policy Options (Canada), 7/7 (1986), 36–37.
*8. ‘Bentham’s Metaphysics and the Science of Divinity’, Harvard Theological Review, 79/4 (1986),
387–411.
Reprinted in B. Parekh (ed.), Jeremy Bentham: Critical Assessments, 4 vols. (London and New
York, Routledge, 1993), vol. 2, 72–93.
9. With J.F. McGarry, ‘Stalemate in Northern Ireland?’ The World Today (UK), 43/1 (1987), 8–11.
*10. ‘“A Hatchet for Paley’s Net:” Bentham on capital punishment and judicial discretion’, The
Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence, 1/1 (1988), 63–74.
An earlier version, entitled ‘“Strictures on Paley’s Net:” Capital Punishment and the
Power to Pardon’, appeared in The Bentham Newsletter (UK), 11 (1987), 23–34. Also online:
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http://www.ucl.ac.uk/BenthamProject/journal/newsletter/Newsletter%2011%20June%2087.pdf
11. ‘Religion, Utility and Politics: Bentham versus Paley’, in J.E. Crimmins (ed.), Religion, Secularization
and Political Thought: Thomas Hobbes to J.S. Mill (Routledge, 1989), 130–52.
*12. With M.R. Moore, ‘The Case for Negotiated Independence’, in J.F. McGarry and B. O’Leary
(eds), The Future of Northern Ireland (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990), 242–67.
*13. ‘Legislating Virtue: John Brown’s Scheme for National Education’, Man and Nature/L’Homme
et la Nature, (The Journal of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies), 9
(1990), 69–90.
*14. ‘The Common Law and Benthamic Praxis: Crimmins on Postema’, The Canadian Journal of Law
and Jurisprudence, 3/1 (1990), 145–59.
15. ‘The Canadian Senate: Comedy or Remedy? A modest proposal for Senate reform along the
lines of the British House of Lords’, Policy Options (Canada), 12/7 (1991), 29–30.
*16. ‘Margaret Thatcher: A Critical Retrospective’, Current World Leaders (USA), 34/6 (1991), 893–
916.
17. With K.E. Garay, ‘The C.K. Ogden Papers at McMaster University: Bibliographia
Benthamiana’, Archivaria (Canada), 32 (1991), 114–23.
18. ‘Bentham’s Philosophical Politics’, The Harvard Review of Philosophy, 3/1 (1993), 18–22. Also
online: http://hcs.harvard.edu/~hrp/issues/1993/Crimmins.pdf and
http://www.utilitarian.net/bentham/about/1993----.pdf
Reprinted in Phineas Upham (ed.), The Space of Love and Garbage: And Other Essays
from the Harvard Review of Philosophy (Chicago and La Salle, Illinois: Open Court Press, 2008),
213–27.
*19. ‘Bentham’s Political Radicalism Reexamined’, Journal of the History of Ideas (USA), 55/2 (1994),
259–81. Also online: http://www.jstor.org/view
Reprinted in Fred Rosen (ed.), Jeremy Bentham (International Library of Essays in the
History of Social and Political Thought; Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers, 2007), 511–34.
20. ‘From an “ultra democrat” to an “ultra aristocrat”: Bentham Tracts in the Adams Collection,
Quincy, Massachusetts’, The Book Collector (UK), 43 (1994), 229–55.
*21. With Dr P. Nesbitt–Larking, ‘Canadian Prime Ministers in the House of Commons: Patterns
of Intervention’, The Journal of Legislative Studies (UK), 2/3 (1996), 145–71.
*22. ‘Contending Interpretations of Bentham’s Utilitarianism’, Canadian Journal of Political Science,
29/4 (1996), 751–77.
An extended version in Spanish translation entitled ‘El legado liberal de Bentham:
teoría y práctica utilitarista’ [‘Bentham’s Liberal Legacy: Utilitarian Theory and Practice’],
Telos: Revista Iberoamericana de Estudios Utilitaristas (Spain), 6/2 (1997), 9–42.
*23. ‘Jeremy Bentham and Daniel O’Connell: Their Correspondence and Radical Alliance, 1828–
31’, The Historical Journal (UK), 40/2 (1997), 359–87. Also online:
http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FHIS%2FHIS40_02%2FS0018246X
9700720Xa.pdf&code=c7a25b087f35582de4a6c55bf429b91c
*24. ‘The Genius Debate and Jeremy Bentham’, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (UK),
362 (1998), 283–302.
25. ‘Ethics and the Science of Legislation’ an extract from Secular Utilitarianism (see books above), in
Suzanne Dewsbury (ed.), Nineteenth–Century Literary Criticism, vol.84 (London: Gale Group,
2000), 327–39.
Also online: http://www.enotes.com/nineteenth-century-criticism/utilitarianism/james-ecrimmins-essay-date-1990
*26 ‘Bentham’s Religious Radicalism Revisited: A Response to Schofield’, History of Political Thought
(UK), 22/3 (2001), 494–500.
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27. ‘History of Utilitarian Social Thought’, The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral
Sciences, 26 vols., Gen. eds. Neil J. Smelser and Paul B. Baltes (Oxford: Pergamon, 2002),
vol.24, 16107–11.
28. ‘Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)’, Dictionary of Nineteenth–Century British Philosophers, 2 vols., ed.
W.J. Mander and Alan P.F. Sell (Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 2002), vol. 1, 85–92.
*29 ‘Hobbes and Bentham: An Issue of Influence’, Journal of the History of Ideas (USA), 63/4 (2002),
677–96.
30. ‘Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832)’, Biographical Dictionary of British Economists, 2 vols., Gen. ed.
Donald Rutherford (Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2004), vol. 1, 95–99.
*31. ‘John Brown (1715–1766)’, in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography… From the earliest times to the
year 2000, 60 vols., ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004), 64–66. Also online: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3621
*32. ‘William Paley (1743–1805)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography… From the earliest times to the
year 2000, 60 vols., ed. H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison (Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2004), 445–51. Also online: http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21155
*33. With Anne Skoczylas, ‘Religiöse Utilitaristen [Religious Utilitarians]’, Grundriss der Geschichte der
Philosophie: Die Philosophie des 18. Jahrhunderts, Band 1: Grossbritannien. Nordamerika. Niederlande,
ed. Herausgegeben von Helmut Holzhey und Vilem Mudroch (Basel: Schwabe Verlag,
2004), 917–39.
*34. With Anne Skoczylas, ‘Jeremy Bentham’, Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie: Die Philosophie des
18. Jahrhunderts, Band 1: Grossbritannien. Nordamerika. Niederlande, ed. Herausgegeben von
Helmut Holzhey und Vilem Mudroch (Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2004), 940–66.
35. ‘Utilitarianism’, Encyclopedia of British Philosophy, ed. A.C. Grayling, Andrew Pyle, and Naomi
Goulder (London & New York: Continuum, 2006), 3251–59.
36. ‘Utility, Truth, and Atheism’, Revue d'études benthamiennes (e-journal of the Centre Bentham, Paris),
Numéro 6 (Janvier–Février 2010), pp.6–10.
*37. ‘The Principles of Utilitarian Penal Law in Beccaria, Bentham and Mill’, in Peter Karl
Koritansky (ed.), The Philosophy of Punishment and the History of Political Thought (Columbia,
Missouri: The University of Missouri Press, 2011), pp.136–71.
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The following articles (#38-72) are published in James E. Crimmins, ed., The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of
Utilitarianism (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2013):
38. ‘Auto–Icon’, pp.32–35.
39. With George Hamzo, ‘Peregrine Bingham (bap. 1788–1864)’, 57.
40. With George Hamzo, ‘John Hill Burton (1809–81)’, 67–68.
41. With George Hamzo, ‘Edgar Frederick Carritt (1876–1964)’, 74.
42. ‘John Flowerdew Colls (1801–78)’, 84.
43. With Stephen L. Newman, ‘Thomas Cooper (1759–1839)’, 100–103.
44. With George Hamzo, ‘Alfred Cyril Ewing (1899–1973)’, 154.
45. With George Hamzo, ‘Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald (1820/21–1900)’, 168–69.
46. With George Hamzo, ‘Thomas Fowler (1832–1904)’, 172.
47. With George Hamzo, ‘William Johnson Fox (1786–1864)’, 172–73.
48. ‘John Gay (1699–1745)’, 179–81.
49. With George Hamzo, ‘Anthony Hammond (1758–1838)’, 198.
50. ‘Happiness (Pursuit of)’, 203–207.
51. With George Hamzo, ‘Henry Roy Forbes Harrod (1900–78)’, 212–13.
52. ‘Richard Hildreth (1807–65)’, 234–40.
53. ‘David Hoffman (1784–1854)’, 241–42.
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54. ‘John Codman Hurd (1816–92)’, 252–54.
55. With George Hamzo, ‘Horace William Brindley Joseph (1867–1943)’, 289–90.
56. ‘Edward Livingston (1764–1836)’, 313–15.
57. ‘Bernard Mandeville (1670–1733)’, 326–27.
58. ‘John Neal (1793–1876)’, 367–69.
59. ‘John L. O’Sullivan (1815–95)’, 384–85.
60. ‘William Paley (1743–1805)’, 388–94.
61. ‘Panopticon’, 394–97.
62. ‘Papal Index’, 397–98.
63. ‘Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877–1959)’, 414–16.
64. With James A. Jaffe, ‘Francis Place (1771–1854)’, 416–18.
65. With George Hamzo, ‘Harold Arthur Prichard (1871–1947)’, 446.
66. ‘Punishment’, 454–59.
67. ‘Religious Utilitarians’, 475–78.
68. With Cyprian Blamires, ‘Samuel Romilly (1757–1818)’, 486–88.
69. ‘Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713)’, 500–503.
70. With George Hamzo, ‘Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge’, 527–28.
71. ‘Utilitarian Society’, 554–55.
72. ‘Westminster Review’, 569–71.
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73. ‘Jeremy Bentham’, Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, 2 vols., ed. Gregory Claeys (London:
Sage, 2013), vol. 1, 74–80.
74. ‘Utilitarianism’, Encyclopedia of Modern Political Thought, ed. Gregory Claeys (London: Sage, 2013),
vol. 2, 828–33.
*75. ‘Bentham and Utilitarianism in the Early Nineteenth Century’, in Ben Eggleston and Dale
Miller (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Utilitarianism (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2014), 34–52.
*76. ‘Utility and Religion’, in Aaron Garrett (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Eighteenth Century
Philosophy (London and New York: Routledge, 2014), 465–99.
*77. ‘Jeremy Bentham’, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2015), ed. Edward N. Zalta, online:
http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2015/entries/bentham, pp.1–56.
*78. ‘History of Utilitarian Social Thought’, International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences,
2nd edn., ed. James D. Wright (Oxford: Elsevier, 2015), vol. 24, pp.980–85.
79. ‘Utilitarianism’, Encyclopedia of the American Enlightenment, 2 vols., ed. Mark J. Spencer (London &
New York: Continuum, 2015), vol. 2, pp.1061–64.
9.3.3. Book Reviews
1. L.C. Boralevi, Bentham and the Oppressed (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1984), Canadian Journal of
Political Science, 18/2 (1985), 421–42.
2. G. Foote, The Labour Party’s Political Thought: A History (London: Croom Helm, 1985), British
Politics Group (BPG) Newsletter (USA), 42 (1985), 32–33.
3. R. Sales, English Literature in History 1790–1830 (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983), BPG
Newsletter (USA), 43 (1986), 32–33.
4. S.G. Ellis, Reform and Revival: English Government in Ireland 1470–1534, Royal Historical Society
Studies in History 47 (New York: St. Martin’s Press), BPG Newsletter (USA), 47 (1987), 43–
44.
5. I. Lustick, State–Building Failure in British Ireland and French Algeria, Institute of International
Studies, Research Series No.63 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985), BPG
Newsletter (USA), 47 (1987), 49–50.
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6. ‘Provos pin hopes on guns, bombs’, a review of P. Mallie and E. Bishop, The Provisional IRA
(London: Heinemann, 1987), The Toronto Star (January 17, 1988), A20.
7. G. Claeys, Machinery, Money and the Millenium: From Moral Economy to Socialism, 1815–1860 (New
Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1987), BPG Newsletter (USA), 53 (1988), 22–42.
8. J. Darby, Intimidation and the Control of Conflict in Northern Ireland, Irish Studies, ed. Richard Fallis
(New York: Syracuse University Press, 1986), BPG Newsletter (USA), 53 (1988), 24–26.
9. K. Williams and J. Williams (eds), A Beveridge Reader (London: Allen & Unwin, 1987), BPG
Newsletter (USA), 53 (1988), 33–35.
10. D. Winch, Malthus (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987), Political Studies (UK), 36/4 (1988),
753–54.
11. J. Ditch, Social Policy in Northern Ireland Between 1939–1950 (Aldershot: Avebury, 1988), Political
Studies (UK), 37/1 (1989), 139.
12. J. Ditch, Social Policy in Northern Ireland Between 1939–1950 (Aldershot: Avebury, 1988), BPG
Newsletter (USA), 54 (1988), 18.
13. C. O’Leary, S. Elliott, and R.A. Wilford, The Northern Ireland Assembly 1982–1986: A
Constitutional Experiment (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1988), BPG Newsletter (USA), 58
(1989), 34–36.
14. C. Townshend (ed.), Consensus in Ireland: Approaches and Recessions (New York: Oxford University
Press, 1988), BPG Newsletter (USA), 58 (1989), 38–39.
15. L. Tivey and A. Wright (eds), Party Ideology in Britain (London and New York: Routledge, 1989),
BPG Newsletter (USA), 62 (1990), 20–21.
16. G.R. Searle, The Quest for National Efficiency: A Study in British Politics and Political Thought, 1899–
1914 (1971; London: Ashfield Press, 1990), Political Studies (UK), 39/1 (1991), 171.
17. S. Wichert, Northern Ireland Since 1945 (New York: Longman, 1991), BPG Newsletter (USA), 66
(1991), 23–25.
18. J. Braithwaite and P. Pettit, Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Law (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1990), Political Studies (UK), 39/4 (1991), 787.
19. S. Collini, Public Moralists: Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain 1850–1930 (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1991), Political Studies (UK), 40/2 (1992), 423–24.
20. G. Parry, G. Moyser, and N. Day, Political Participation and Democracy in Britain (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1992), Canadian Journal of Political Science, 25/3 (1992), 619–21.
21. D. Spadafora, The Idea of Progress in Eighteenth–Century Britain (New Haven, Conn.: Yale
University Press, 1990), The Journal of Modern History (USA), 64/4 (1992), 787–90.
22. F. Rosen, Bentham, Byron and Greece: Constitutionalism, Nationalism and Early Liberal Political Thought
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992), Political Studies (UK), 41/1 (1993), 190.
23. M.W. Taylor, Men versus the State: Herbert Spencer and Late Victorian Individualism (Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1992), Political Studies (UK), 41/1 (1993), 192.
24. D. Berman, A History of Atheism in Britain: From Hobbes to Russell (London: Routledge, 1988),
Utilitas: A Journal of Utilitarian Studies (UK), 5/2 (1993), 337–40.
25. N. Phillipson and Q. Skinner (eds), Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993), Political Studies (UK), 41/1 (1993), 726–27.
26. A. Dube, The Theme of Acquisitiveness in Bentham’s Political Thought (New York and London:
Garland Publishing, Inc., 1991), Utilitas (UK), 6/1 (1994), 138–40.
27. J. Semple, Bentham’s Prison: A Study of the Panopticon Penitentiary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993),
Albion (USA), 26/3 (1994), 531–33.
28. D. Winch, Riches and Poverty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Utilitas (UK), 11/1
(1999), 133–34.
29. D. Boucher and P.J. Kelly (eds), Social Justice: From Hume to Walzer (London and New York:
Routledge, 1998), Canadian Journal of Political Science, 33/3 (2000), 641–43.
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30. S. Collini, R. Whatmore, and B. Young (eds), Economy, Polity, and Society: British Intellectual History
1750–1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, Political Studies (UK), 49/3
(2001), 560.
31. The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham (Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham), vol. xi (1822–24), ed. C.
Fuller (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000), Political Studies (UK), 49/3 (2001), 562.
32. R. Plant, Politics, Theology and History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001), Canadian
Journal of Political Science, 35/1 (2002), 217–18.
33. J. Ehrman, The Younger Pitt (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1996), The Eighteenth Century: A
Current Bibliography, new series vols. 22, 23, 24 – for 1996, 1997, 1998, Gen. Eds. Kevin L.
Cope and Robert C. Leitz III (New York, AMS Press, 2003), 300.
34. I.Q. Brown and R.D. Brown, The Hanging of Ephraim Wheeler: A Story of Rape, Incest, and Justice in
Early America (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2003), Eighteenth–Century Book Reviews
Online (American Society for Eighteenth–Century), April 2004: http://back.csulb.edu:8080/asecs
35. A. Cross, Catherine the Great and the British: A Pot–Pourri of Essays (Nottingham: Astra Press,
2001), Eighteenth–Century Book Reviews Online (American Society for Eighteenth–Century), August
2004: http://back.acs.csulb.edu:8080/asecs
36. H. Barker, Newspapers, Politics, and Public Opinion in Late Eighteenth Century England
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), Eighteenth–Century Book Reviews Online (American Society for
Eighteenth–Century), December 2004: http://back.csulb.edu:8080/asecs
37. R. Harrison, Bentham, in The Arguments of the Philosophers, ed. T. Honderich (London and New
York: Routledge, 1999), The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, new series vol. 26,
Gen. Eds. Kevin L. Cope and Robert C. Leitz III (New York, AMS Press, 2004), 580–81.
38. F. Rosen, Classical Utilitarianism from Hume to Mill (London and New York: Routledge, 2003),
History of Political Thought (UK), 26/1 (2005), 164–66.
39. D.B. McKown, Behold the Antichrist: Bentham on Religion (New York: Prometheus Books, 2004),
Philosophy in Review (Canada), 25/4 (2005), 294–96.
40. P. Edwards, The Statesman’s Science: History, Nature, and Law in the Political Thought of Samuel Taylor
Coleridge (New York: Columbia University Press, 2004), The Review of Politics (USA), 67/4
(2005), 781–83.
41. S. Miller, Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat (Lewisburg: Bucknell
University Press, 2001), The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, new series vol. 29,
Gen. Eds. Kevin L. Cope and Robert C. Leitz III (New York, AMS Press, 2007), 263–64.
42. J. Dinwiddy, Bentham: Selected Writings of John Dinwiddy, ed. William Twining (Stanford, California:
Stanford University Press, 2004), The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography, 31 (2010),
128–29.
9.3.4. Multifarious Publications
Newspaper and newsletter articles on aspects of British, Irish, European, and Canadian politics, in
publications including The British Politics Group Newsletter (USA), The Globe and Mail, The Ottawa
Citizen, The Financial Post, The London Free Press, The Winnipeg Free Press, The Kitchener–Waterloo Record,
and other Canadian provincial papers. The latest is:
‘The problem with democracies is elections’, The Hamilton Spectator, June 7, 2010, 10
9.4. Conference Papers/Lectures/Commentaries
Includes papers published in conference proceedings.
1. A commentary on Professor R.A. Fenn’s ‘The Structure of James Mill’s Political Arguments’,
annual meetings, Canadian Political Science Association, University of British Columbia,
June 1983.
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2. ‘Bentham’s Secular Utilitarianism’, annual meetings, Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century
Studies, University of Guelph, October 1985.
3. with J.F. McGarry, ‘The Anglo–Irish Agreement (1985): Problems and Proposals’, annual
meetings of the Canadian Political Science Association, University of Manitoba, June 1986;
reproduced in Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Annual Meeting 1986/ACSP Congrés
annuel 1986 Proceedings (1986), 20 pp.
4. ‘Utility and Politics: The Religious and the Secular’, annual meetings, Canadian Society for
Eighteenth–Century Studies, University of British Columbia, October 1987.
5. ‘The Sage of Queens Square Place: Bentham and the Bentham Project’, a Humanities Society of
Canada lecture, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University, 18 February 1988.
6. Invited member of a panel on Jeremy Bentham and Political Economy, hosted by the
International Bentham Society at the annual meetings of the Canadian History of
Economics Society, University of Toronto, June 1988.
7. ‘Manners maketh the nation: John Brown’s road to national salvation’, annual meetings,
Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies, Dalhousie University, October 1988.
8. ‘The Thatcher Reign: Style and Substance’, University of Western Ontario, Senior Alumni
Special Interest Program Series on ‘World Leaders Today’, 14 March 1989.
9. ‘The Political Ideas of the Rev Dr John Brown (1715–66)’, The Interdisciplinary Seminar on the
Eighteenth Century, The University of Western Ontario, 31 March 1989.
10. Panelist on ‘Nineteenth–Century Liberalism’, annual meetings, Canadian Political Science
Association, Laval University, Quebec, 1 June 1989.
11. A critique of H. Patterson’s ‘Gerry Adams and the Modernisation of Republicanism’, 3rd
Annual Conflict Studies Conference on ‘Northern Ireland: A 20 Year Retrospective’,
Centre for Conflict Studies, University of New Brunswick, 13 October 1989.
12. Panellist on aspects of the Northern Ireland problem, 3rd Annual Conflict Studies Conference
on ‘Northern Ireland: A 20 Year Retrospective’, Centre for Conflict Studies, University of
New Brunswick, 14 October 1989.
13. ‘Thatcher and Thatcherism: A Ten–Year Retrospective’, University of Western Ontario, Part–
time and Continuing Education public lecture series on ‘World Leaders Today’, 30 October
1989.
Other expanded/amended versions:
(1) ‘The Thatcher Phenomenon and the Thatcher Effect’, public lecture, University of New
Brunswick, St. John, 20 February 1990.
(2) ‘The Thatcher Years in Britain, 1979–1990’, invited lecture, Humanities Society of
Canada, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University, 18 March 1993.
14. ‘Editing the Works of Jeremy Bentham’, University of New Brunswick Eighteenth–Century
Society, St. John, 21 February 1990.
15. ‘The Northern Ireland Problem: Sectarian Division and Constitutional Initiatives’, an invited
lecture, Canadian Institute for International Affairs (UNB), St. John, New Brunswick, 21
February 1990.
16. A commentary on Professor D. Braybrooke’s ‘Liberalism, Utilitarianism, and the Political Use
of Statistics’, and on Dr A. Dube’s ‘Hayek on Bentham’, annual meetings, Canadian
Political Science Association, University of Victoria, 29 May 1990.
17. ‘John Brown (1715–66), Jeremy Bentham (1748–1832), C.K. Ogden (1889–1957) and the
William Ready Archives at McMaster University’, Mills Memorial Library, McMaster
University, 1 June 1990.
20. ‘Bentham’s Radicalism’, annual meetings, Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies,
Queen’s University, October 1990.
Other expanded/amended versions:
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(1) ‘Understanding Bentham’s ‘Radicalism’’, annual meetings of the Canadian Political
Science Association, Queen’s University, 3 June 1991; reproduced in Canadian
Political Science Association (CPSA) Annual Meeting 1991/ACSP Congrés annuel 1991
Proceedings (1991), 29 pp.
(2) ‘Bentham’s “radicalism” re–examined’, International Society for Utilitarian Studies
conference, University of Western Ontario, April 1991.
(3) ‘Bentham’s “radical” politics and “radical” philosophy’, East–West Seminar 1992,
International Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies and the Istituto Italiano per
gli Studi Filosofici, Naples, 8–11 June 1992.
(4) ‘Bentham’s “Radicalism” and Thoughts on Democracy’, invited lecture, Department of
Politics, University College of Swansea, United Kingdom, 26 November 1993.
21. ‘The Constitutional Impasse in Northern Ireland’, invited lecture, Royal Canadian Legion,
Woodstock, 25 November 1992.
22. ‘Benthamic Theory and Practice’, annual meetings of the Canadian Political Science
Association, Carleton University, June 3, 1993; reproduced in Canadian Political Science
Association (CPSA) Annual Meeting 1993/ACSP Congrés annuel 1993 Proceedings (1993), 30 pp.
Another version: ‘Utilitarian Theory and Practice: Bentham’s Legacy to Liberalism’,
invited paper, Institute for the Study of the Humanities, University of Manitoba, 14
October 1993.
23. ‘Benthamic Inventions and Remains’, The Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Eighteenth Century,
The University of Western Ontario, 3 December 1993.
24. ‘The Bentham – O’Connell Correspondence’, invited paper, Bentham Seminar, University
College London, United Kingdom, March 1994.
Other expanded/amended versions:
(1) ‘Jeremy Bentham and Daniel O’Connell: Their Correspondence and Radical Alliance,
1828–1831’, International Society for Utilitarian Studies Conference, Chuo
University, Tokyo, 27–29 August 1994; included in ISUS, The Fourth Conference of the
International Society for Utilitarian Studies (Tokyo: Chuo University, 1994), 15–39.
(2) ‘English and Irish Radicalism: Bentham and O’Connell’, annual meetings of American
Conference for Irish Studies, Ft Lauderdale, USA, 17 April 1998.
25. An invited paper on ‘The Genesis of “Genius”’, Interdisciplinary Conference on Creativity and
Discovery sponsored by the Canada Council, Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial
University, 28 May 1994; reproduced in Creativity and Discovery: Conference Proceedings (Sir
Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1994), 59–78.
Another version: ‘Jeremy Bentham and the Genius Debate’, annual meetings,
Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies, University of Saskatchewan, 13–16
October 1994.
26. ‘Hobbes, Bentham and the British Political Tradition’, Interdisciplinary Seminar on the
Eighteenth Century, Annual Conference, Huron University College, The University of
Western Ontario, 4 March 1995.
Another version: ‘Hobbes and Bentham’, annual meetings of the Canadian Political
Science Association, Université du Québec à Montréal, 4 June 1995; reproduced in
Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA) Annual Meeting 1995/ACSP Congrés annuel 1995
Proceedings (1995), 27 pp.
27. with Dr P. Nesbitt–Larking, ‘Canadian Prime Ministers in the House of Commons: Patterns of
Intervention’, annual meetings of the Canadian Political Science Association, Université du
Québec à Montréal, 6 June 1995; reproduced in Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA)
Annual Meeting 1995/ACSP Congrés annuel 1995 Proceedings (1995), 25 pp.
28. ‘Northern Ireland’s Constitutional Predicament’, an invited lecture presented to the Western
Senior Alumni Association, The University of Western Ontario, 24 September 1996.
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29. ‘Utilitarians and Religion’, annual meetings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century
Studies, Victoria, 20 October 1996.
30. ‘The Religious Utilitarians before Bentham’, International Society for Utilitarian Studies
Conference, New Orleans, 23 March 1997.
31. ‘The Utility Principle and Religion: John Gay to J.S. Mill’, annual meetings of the Canadian
Political Science Association, Memorial University, St John’s, Newfoundland, 8 June 1997.
32. ‘The 19th century utilitarian response to 18th century religious utilitarianism’, annual meetings
of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth–century Studies, The University of Western
Ontario, 16–19 October 1997.
33. ‘Political Economy and Projector’s: Bentham’s Defence of Usury’, The Science of Morality, 250th
anniversary of birth of Jeremy Bentham, St Petersburg Metaphysical Society, Russia, 18
May 1998, reproduced in Tartiana V. Artemieva and Michael I. Mikeshin (eds), The
Philosophical Age Almanac 9. The Science of Morality: J. Bentham and Russia (St. Petersburg,
Russia, 1999), 58–72.
Also online:
http://ideashistory.org.ru/pdfs/07crimmins.pdf#search=%22Review%20of%20Crimmins
%20On%20Bentham%22
34. ‘Bentham and the Shelburne Circle’, International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies,
Quadrennial Congress, University College, Dublin, 26 July 1999.
35. ‘Bentham’s Religious Radicalism Revisited’, International Society for Utilitarian Studies 2000
Conference, Wake Forest University, 25 March 2000.
36. Panellist on ‘Varieties of Classical Utilitarianism’, International Society for Utilitarian Studies
2000 Conference, Wake Forest University, 26 March 2000.
37. ‘Bentham and Hobbes: An Issue of Influence’, annual meetings of the Canadian Society for
Eighteenth–century Studies, University of Toronto, 19 October 2000.
38. Invited participant in Liberty Fund Socratic Seminar on ‘William Paley and the Origins of
Liberalism’, Liberty Fund, Indianapolis, Indiana, 23–25 March 2001.
39. ‘Worshipping a Dead Man’s Bones: Jeremy Bentham and the Utility of Spectacle’, annual
meetings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth–century Studies, University of
Saskatchewan, 19 October 2001.
40. ‘Basil Montagu and the Death Penalty: Strategies of Debate in the Post–Enlightenment’, annual
meetings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth–century Studies, Laval University, Quebec
City, 23–26 October 2002.
41. ‘Philosophical Remains: Jeremy Bentham – The Final Years’, annual meetings of the Canadian
Society for Eighteenth–century Studies, University of British Columbia, 22–25 October
2003.
42. Panel Chair on ‘Divided Societies’ at Political Culture and Democracy: A Seminar in Honour of
Sid Noel, Windermere Manor, The University of Western Ontario, 31 January 2004.
43. ‘Utilitarian Ideas in 19th Century America’, annual meetings of the Georgia Political Science
Association, Savannah, Georgia, USA, 11–13 November 2004.
44. Invited participant, Liberty Fund Socratic Seminar on ‘Godwin on Liberty and Justice’,
Richmond, Virginia, 3–6 March 2005.
45. Panel Chair on ‘Arendt and Friends on the Political’, annual meetings of the Canadian Political
Science Association, The University of Western Ontario, 2 June 2005.
46. ‘First Generation Utilitarians in the USA: Livingston, Cooper, Neal, O’Sullivan, Hildreth’,
International Society for Utilitarian Studies 2005 Conference, Dartmouth College in
Hanover, New Hampshire, 11–14 August 2005.
47. ‘Inventions and “projectors” in Bentham’s Defence of Usury (1787)’, annual meetings of the
Canadian Society for Eighteenth–century Studies, Trois–Rivières, Québec, 19–22 October
2005.
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48. Chair, Panel on Bentham, International Society for Utilitarian Studies 2006 Conference,
University College London, United Kingdom, 5 April 2006.
49. ‘Mill on Bentham’, International Society for Utilitarian Studies 2006 Conference, University
College London, United Kingdom, 6 April 2006.
50. Chair, Political Theory Workshop: ‘John Stuart Mill: Bicentennial Reflections, 1806–2006’,
annual meetings of the Canadian Political Science Association, Congress of the Social
Sciences and Humanities, York University, 2 June 2006.
51. ‘Bentham on Hume and the History of the Utility Principle’, annual meetings of the Canadian
Society for Eighteenth–century Studies, Halifax, 19–22 Oct. 2006.
52. ‘Bentham and the Monarchy: The History of the War between Jeremy Bentham and George
III, By one of the Belligerents’, annual meetings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth–
century Studies, Winnipeg, 17–20 Oct. 2007.
53. ‘Republicanism and Democratic Theory in the Thought of Jeremy Bentham’, annual meetings
of the Mid–West Political Science Association, Chicago, 3–6 April 2008.
54. ‘The Political Context of Bentham’s “Article on Utilitarianism”’, International Society for
Utilitarian Studies 2008 Conference, University of California, Berkeley, 11–14 September
2008.
55. ‘Bentham’s Republican Politics’, annual meetings of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth–
century Studies, Montreal, 15–19 October 2008.
56. ‘The Principles of Utilitarian Penal Law: Beccaria, Bentham and Mill’, annual conference on
‘Law and Governance in Britain’, The University of Western Ontario, 16–17 October 2009.
57. ‘The Structure of Utilitarian Theory: Operationalising the Utility Principle’, Association for
Political Theory annual conference, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 22–23
October 2009.
58. ‘Contra Locke: Utilitarian Ideas in late Enlightenment America’, Northeast American Society for
Eighteenth–Century Studies, Buffalo, New York, 21–22 October 2010.
59. ‘The Origin and Meaning of “the pursuit of happiness”: New Thoughts on an Old Debate’,
International Society for Utilitarian Studies, Lucca, Italy, 23–25 June 2011.
60. ‘Thomas Jefferson and the Right to the Pursuit of Happiness’, annual meetings of the Canadian
Society for Eighteenth–century Studies, London, Ontario, 16–19 October 2013.
61. Invited lecture on ‘Utilitarianism and the Law in Early Nineteenth Century America’,
Department of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University, 31 October 2014.
62. Panellist on ‘American Political Theory: Founding Perspectives’, annual meetings of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, 16 April 2015
9.5. Radio, TV and Newspaper Interviews
Radio and television interviews on topics including the death–penalty debate, Irish politics,
Margaret Thatcher, the European Community, Communism in Europe, apartheid in S. Africa, and
UK elections.
X.
MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC/PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.
International Society for Utilitarian Studies (UK)
Canadian Political Science Association
International Society for Intellectual History (USA)
Canadian Society for Eighteenth–Century Studies
Hume Society (USA)
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XI.
GRADUATE THESIS EXAMINATIONS
1. Rev. D.P. McCallum, MA thesis: ‘George Hill, D.D.: Moderate or Evangelical Erastian?’,
Department of History, Western, 22 May 1989.
2. J.F. Suderman, MA thesis: ‘Politeness and History: The Scottish Historians, 1752–1777’,
Department of History, Western, 14 September 1990.
3. K. Mohrmann–Watson, MA thesis: ‘Austrian Neutrality and the European Communities’,
Department of Political Science, Western, 10 June 1991.
4. G. Sabathy–Judd, MA thesis: ‘Edmund Burke and Friedrich Gentz: The Mind of Counter–
Revolution’, Department of History, Western, 4 September 1991.
5. David W. Koop, MA thesis: ‘Ludwig von Mises: Praxeology and Liberalism’, Department of
Political Science, Western, 22 November 1991.
6. Valerie L. Lembke, MA thesis: ‘Locke on Women’, Department of Political Science, Western, 30
January 1992.
7. J. Eugene Lang, MA thesis: ‘Terrorism and State Repression in Liberal Democracies: The West
German Experience’, Department of Political Science, Western, 26 May 1992.
8. Paul Baxter, MA thesis: ‘Michel Foucault on Power and Agency’, Department of Political
Science, Western, 10 September 1992.
9. Christian Bayly, MA thesis: ‘The Individual and the Community According to John Dewey’,
Department of Political Science, Western, 21 September 2000.
10. Leah N. LeClair, MA thesis: ‘Reconsidering Negative Liberty’, Department of Political Science,
Western, 18 September 2001.
11. Samar El–Masri, Ph.D thesis: ‘Power Sharing and Social Transformation: Approaches to Ethnic
Conflict Resolution in Lebanon, Cyprus and Switzerland’, Department of Political Science,
Western, 9 September 2004.
12. Jonathan A. Boyd, MA thesis: ‘Sovereign Obligation and Religious Toleration in Hobbes’
Leviathan’, Department of Political Science, Western, 1 April 2005.
13. Mary Shamley, MA thesis: ‘Transformational Conflict Resolution Theory and the Ordination of
Women in the Anglican Church of Canada’, Faculty of Theology, Huron University
College, 15 April 2009. Chair of examination board.
14. Brent Brodie, MA thesis: ‘The Prevalence of the Magistrate in the Political Theology of
Heinrich Bullinger’, Faculty of Theology, Huron University College, 8 August 2013. Chair
of examination board.
15. Malith Jongkuch Kur, MA thesis: ‘The Christian Contribution to the South African TRC: A
Paradigm for South Sudan?’ Faculty of Theology, Huron University College, 26 August
2015. Chair of examination board.
XII.
B.A. (HONS) THESIS SUPERVISOR/EXAMINER
Paul Haslam, ‘Class and the Neo–Marxist Debate’, Huron University College, 1992–93.
XIII.
MANUSCRIPT REFEREE
Books for Routledge, Prentice–Hall, Oxford University Press, Ashgate, Palgrave, and Brill. Articles
for POLITY. The Journal of the North Eastern Political Science Association (USA), Conflict Quarterly
(Canada), Canadian Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought (UK), Journal of History and
Politics (Canada), The Journal of Legislative Studies (UK), Political Studies (The Journal of the Political
Studies Association of the United Kingdom), Journal for the History of Philosophy (USA), Encyclopedia of
Social Measurement (UK), Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAC Working Papers;
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Italy), Journal of Conflict Studies (Canada), Journal of the History of Ideas (USA), Journal of Philosophical
Research (USA), and The Historical Journal (UK).
XIV.
CONSULTANT
Consultant for a programme on Jeremy Bentham’s auto–icon in National Geographic TV series
‘The Mummy Road Show’, produced by Engel Brothers Media (New York), National Geographic
Channel, broadcast 25 April 2004; see
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/mummy/index.html
XV.
FACULTY ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE
15.1. Huron University College
2007–13, 2014–18: Promotion and Tenure Committee (Chair 2008–10)
2011–12, 2013–15: McNaughton Teaching Award Committee
2014–15: Principal’s Reappointment Committee
2013–14: Department of English Selection Committee
2010–12: Academic Council representative on the Medal of Distinction Committee
2008–09: Dean’s Selection Committee
2006–09: Occupational Health and Safety Committee
2006–09: College Appeals Officer
2004–05: Research Complaints Committee
2003–05: Promotion and Tenure Committee (Chair 2003–4)
2000–05: International Academic Advisor: responsibilities included exchanges, study abroad
programmes, international recruitment, academic elements of work/study opportunities
abroad, general counselling for international students, liaison with Western on
international matters, Chair of Committee on International Activities
2002–03: FASS rep. to Faculty of Social Science Council, Western
2001–02: Academic Review Board (Theology)
1994– : Academic Council
1994–99: Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Science
1994–98: Senate, Western
1989–93: Chair/Coordinator, Political Science; Committee of Chairs, 1992–93
1990–92: FASS Representative on the Residence Consultative Council
1991–92: FASS rep. on Academic Council
1989–90: FASS rep. on Huron University College Students Council; Member of Huron’s PPE
planning committee
1989: Interim Committee on Proposed New Multi–Disciplinary Liberal Arts Course (report
submitted and reproduced in 1989 report of the AOR Task Force); Huron University
College Faculty Association Issues Committee
1988: Secretary General, 3rd annual Huron University College Model United Nations; Faculty Rep.
on Don’s Selection Committee
1987–88: Coordinator of an eight–part seminar series held at Huron’s Great Hall on the theme
‘The Religious and the Secular in Britain’
15.2. University of Western Ontario
1994–95, 1998–99: SCAPA (Senate sub–committee on academic programs and policies)
1994–98: Senate
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1998–99: Coordinator (with Lorne Falkenstein, Philosophy, and Douglas Long, Political Science),
Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Eighteenth Century, Western
1990–93: Coordinator (with Roger Emerson, History, 1990–92, and with Jim Woodruff, English,
1992–93), Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Eighteenth Century, Western
March 20–21, 1992: Coordinator (with Roger Emerson, History) of a two–day conference on
‘Philosophers in the Eighteenth Century’, Great Hall, Huron University College and The
University of Western Ontario
November 16–17, 1990: Coordinator (with Roger Emerson, History, and Robert Muelhmann,
Philosophy) of a weekend workshop on ‘David Hume and His Background’, sponsored by
Interdisciplinary Seminar on the Eighteenth Century and Department of Philosophy, Great
Hall, Huron University College and The University of Western Ontario
1988: Western Model Parliament – invited panelist on Free Trade debate
1980–83: Graduate rep. on Political Science Graduate Committee; Graduate rep. on Political
Science Promotion and Tenure Committee; Graduate rep. on Political Science
Appointments Committee; and Chair of the Political Science Colloquium Series
XVI.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
1. Senior University Administrators Course (SUAC), Centre for Higher Education Research and
Development, The University of Manitoba, Banff, Alberta, June 8–18, 1995
2. Political Theory Section Coordinator (with Margaret Moore), annual meetings of the Canadian
Political Science Association, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, York
University, 1–3 June 2006.
3. HUC Faculty Association Bargaining Team, Chief Negotiator, 2006–7
4. HUC Faculty Association Salary Committee, 2009–10, 2014-15.
XVII. Entry in Canadian Who’s Who, 1991–present.
2000 Scholars of the 21st Century, 2001–present.
Contemporary Authors, 2005–present.
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