Updated – Dec. 2016
CURRICULUM VITAE
RUTH ABBEY
Educational Background
PhD in Political Science, McGill University, 1995.
Dissertation: Descent & Dissent: Nietzsche's Reading of Two French Moralists.
Supervisor: Charles Taylor.
MA in Political Science, McGill University, 1989
Research paper: John Dewey: A Fresh Look
BA, Monash University, 1984. First class honours in Political Science and a Major in
English.
Thesis title: The Liberation of the senses in Karl Marx’s Economic and Philosophical
Manuscripts of 1844
Career
Current Position
Professor, Dept. of Political Science, University of Notre Dame
Previous Positions
2005-2013
Associate Professor,
Dept. of Political Science,
University of Notre Dame
2008-2009
Faculty Fellow
Murphy Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs
Tulane University, New Orleans
2002-2005
Senior Lecturer
Department of Politics & International Relations
University of Kent at Canterbury
2000-2002
Lecturer in Political Theory,
Department of Politics and International Relations, UKC
2000
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Australia
1999-2000
Member of the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study,
Princeton, New Jersey
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1999
Acting Director, Politics & Law Program, College of Law, University of
Notre Dame, Australia
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Political Science, University of
Western Australia.
1997
Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Social & Political Sciences, Cambridge
University (Michaelmas Term)
1996-1997
Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Western Australia
(UWA); Part-time lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame,
Australia
1995
Lecturer in Philosophy & Assistant Dean, College of Arts & Sciences,
University of Notre Dame, Australia; Sessional Lecturer, Department of
Political Science, UWA
1994
Part-time Lecturer in Philosophy, University of Notre Dame, Australia
1991-1992
Assistant Lecturer, Department of Political Science, McGill University
1990
Part-time Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, McGill
1985-1987
Full-time Tutor, Department of Politics, Monash University
Publications
Monographs
Nietzsche’s Middle Period. Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. 208pp.
Reviewed in
The Review of Metaphysics, 55, September 2001, 117-18;
Mind Vol. 111, No. 442, April, 2002, 434-443;
British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2002, 318-20;
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 80, No. 3, Sept. 2002, pp. 390-92
Charles Taylor. Princeton University Press and Acumen Publishing, UK, 2000
250pp.
Selected as one of the 2002 Outstanding Academic Titles by Choice Magazine;
Reviewed in
Radical Philosophy, 108, July-Aug, 2001, 52-54;
Australian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 36, Issue 3, Nov. 2001, p. 618;
Review of Politics, Vol. 64, No. 1, Winter 2002, 170-72;
Thesis Eleven, #71, 1, 2002, 142-146;
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Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 56, No. 1, Sept. 2002, 157-8;
University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 71, No.1, Winter 2002;
Philosophy in Review, XXII, No. 5, 2002;
Carnegie Council, July 1, 2002
Ethics, Vol. 113, No. 2, January 2003, 456.
Australasian Catholic Record, 2003;
Political Theory, Vol. 32, No. 5, Oct. 2004, 723-733
The Return of Feminist Liberalism. McGill-Queens University Press, 2011. 326pp.
Reviewed in
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Dec. 2011
Journal of Gender Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, September 2012, 327–8.
International Feminist Journal of Politics, Volume 15, Issue 1, 2013
Hypatia, 2013
http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/HRO/reviews/content/178
In Progress
Human All too Human: A Critical Introduction and Guide, The Edinburgh Guides to
Nietzsche Series, Edinburgh University Press, Edited by Keith Ansell Pearson and Daniel
Conway
Edited Volumes
In Progress
Cosmopolitan Civility: Global-Local Reflections in Honor of Fred Dallmayr
Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
220pp.
Reviewed in
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2004.08.02;
Heythrop Journal, 46 (2): 272-273 April, 2005;
Perspectives on Political Science, Vol. 34, No. 1, Winter, 2005, p. 63;
Philosophy in Review, XXV, No. 1, 2005, 1-3;
Feminist Interpretations of Rawls. Part of the Penn State University Press Series ReReading the Canon. 2013
Reviewed in
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/50412-feminist-interpretations-of-john-rawls/
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Hypatia
http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/HRO/reviews/content/223
Publications in Refereed Journals
Published
“Putting Cruelty First: Animals and the Liberalism of Fear”, Animals and Politics,
pp.25-36,dec.2016.ISSN2002-0295.
http://journals.lub.lu.se/index.php/pa/article/view/15202
“Closer Kinships? Rortyan Resources for Animal Rights”, Contemporary Political
Theory, 2016, First online March 22, 2016. doi:10.1057/cpt.2016.10
“Nietzsche and Swanton on Self-Love” Journal of Value Inquiry. Volume 49, Issue 3
(2015), Page 387-403
“Lotsa Gotcha Moments for the Deciders”, Contribution to Symposium on The Eyes of
the People. Political Theory. April 2014, Vol. 43, No. 2, pp. 202-6.
[co-authored with Jeff Spinner Halev] “Rawls, Mill and the Problem of Political
Liberalism”. Journal of Politics, 2013, pp. 1-13.
[co-authored with Sarah Hyde] ‘No Country for Older People? Age and the Digital
Divide’, Journal of Information, Communication & Ethics in Society, Vol. 7. No. 4,
2009, pp. 225-242.
‘Bricks and Stones’, The Review of Politics, Vol. 70, No. 2, 2008 pp.1-6.
‘Rawlsian Resources for Animal Ethics’, Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 12, No. 1,
Spring 2007, pp. 1-22.
`Back Toward a Comprehensive Liberalism? Justice as Fairness, Gender and Families’,
Political Theory, Vol. 35, No. 1, Feb, 2007, pp. 1-24.
'Turning or Spinning? Charles Taylor’s Catholicism’, Contemporary Political Theory,
Vol. 5, No. 2, May 2006, pp. 163-175.
‘Is Liberalism Now an Essentially Contested Concept?’ Journal of New Political Science,
Vol. 27, No. 4, December 2005, pp. 461-480.
'Recognising Taylor Rightly: A Reply to Morag Patrick’, Ethnicities, 3 (1), March, 2003,
pp. 115-131.
'Pluralism in Practice: The Political Thought of Charles Taylor’, Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy, Vol 5, No. 3 (Autumn 2002) pp. 98-123.
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'Young Karl Does Headstands: A Reply to Daniel Brudney’, Political Theory, Vol. 30,
No. 1, February 2002. pp. 151-156.
[co-authored with Douglas Den Uyl] 'The Chief Inducement? The Idea of Marriage as
Friendship', Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 1, 2001. 37-52
'Circles, Ladders and Stars: Nietzsche on Friendship’, Critical Review of International
Social and Political Philosophy 2.4. Winter, 1999. pp. 50-73.
'The Roots of Ressentiment: Nietzsche on Vanity'. New Nietzsche Studies, Vol. 3, nos. 3
& 4, Summer/ Fall, 1999 pp. 47-61.
'Charles Taylor and the Politics of Recognition: A Reply to Jonathan Seglow’, Political
Studies, 47 (4) September, 1999. pp. 710-714
'Back to the Future: Marriage as Friendship in the thought of Mary Wollstonecraft'.
Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy. 14, 3, Summer 1999. pp. 78-95.
[co-authored with Fredrick Appel] 'Domesticating Nietzsche: A reply to Mark Warren’
Political Theory. Vol 27, No. 1. February, 1999 pp. 121-25
'Mediocrity versus Meritocracy: Nietzsche's (Mis)reading of Chamfort'. History of
Political Thought, Volume XIX, No. 3, Autumn 1998. pp. 457-483
'Nietzsche and the Invention of Invention' Journal of Nietzsche Studies. Issue 15. Spring
1998 pp. 1-14.
[co-authored with Fredrick Appel] 'Nietzsche and the Will to Politics'. Review of Politics.
Winter, 1998 (January, Vol. 60:1) pp. 83-114
'Odd Bedfellows: Nietzsche and Mill on Marriage' History of European Ideas, Vol. 23,
No 2-4, 1997. pp. 81-104
'More perspectives on communitarianism: A reply to Chandran Kukathas' Australian
Quarterly Winter 1997. Vol 69, No. 2 pp. 73-82
'A Critique of Lynch’s Locke' Political Theory Newsletter. March, 1997. Vol 8 No 2 pp.
11-14
'Beyond Misogyny and Metaphor: Women in Nietzsche's Middle Period', Journal of the
History of Philosophy (US). 34:2 April 1996 pp. 233-56
‘Crocodile Dundee or Davy Crockett? What Crocodile Dundee doesn't say about
Australia’ (with Jo Crawford) Journal of Popular Culture (US) XXIII:4 1990. pp. 155175. This was an expanded version of an article that appeared in Meanjin 46, 2. June
1987. pp. 145-52.
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'Caveat Emptor! The False Advertising of the New Right' The Australian Quarterly 59: 3
& 4 1987. pp. 290-296.
Chapters in Books
"Siblings under the Skin?: Charles Taylor on Believers and Sceptics in A Secular Age"
for Religion and Atheism: Beyond the Divide eds. Richard Norman and Tony Carroll.
Routledge, UK, 2016.
“Skilled Marksman and Strict Self-Examination: Nietzsche on La Rochefoucauld” in
Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Philosophy (ed.) Rebecca Bamford, 2015, Rowman and
Littlefield, pp. 13-32.
[co-authored with Naomi Choi] Entry on Charles Taylor, Encyclopedia of Political
Thought, edited by Michael Gibbon. 2015. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
“Are Women Human? Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of Rights for Women”, for the
Vindication of the Rights of Woman in the "Rethinking the Western Canon" series, Yale
University Press, 2014. Edited by Eileen Hunt Botting, pp. 229-245.
“Theorizing Secularity 3: Authenticity, Ontology, Fragilization ” in Aspiring to Fullness
in a Secular Age: Essays on Religion and Theology in the Work of Charles Taylor (eds.)
Carlos D. Colorado and Justin D. Klassen, University of Notre Dame Press. 2014, pp. 98124.
“Biography of a Bibliography: Three decades of feminist response to Rawls”, Editor’s
Introduction to Feminist Interpretations of Rawls, Penn State University Press Series ReReading the Canon, 2013, pp. 1-23
“Liberalism, Pluralism, Multiculturalism: Contemporary Debates”, Chapter 8 in Modern
Pluralism: Anglo-American Debates Since 1880, edited by Mark Bevir, Cambridge
University Press, New York, 2012, pp. 154-78.
“Human, All too Human: A Book for Free Spirits” in A Companion to Friedrich
Nietzsche: Life and Works (ed.) Paul Bishop, Camden House, New York, 2012, pp.114134.
“Another Philosopher-Citizen: The Political Philosophy of Charles Taylor”, Political
Philosophy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Catherine Zuckert, Cambridge UP. 2011,
pp. 264-277.
Translated into Arabic, 2014.
“A Secular Age: The Missing Question Mark” in The Taylor Effect: Responding to A
Secular Age, Cambridge Scholars, edited by Ian Leask, pp. 8-25. 2010.
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Entry on Nietzsche for The Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Sage Publications. 2010.
(This book received an "Outstanding Reference Source" award at the American Library
Association midwinter meeting, 2011.)
'Charles Taylor: Sources of the Self ' Chapter 13 in Central Works of Philosophy Volume
5: The Twentieth Century: Quine and After, edited by John Shand, Acumen Press, 2006,
pp. 268-290.
'The Primary Enemy? Monotheism and Pluralism’ in How Should We Talk About
Religion? (ed.) James Boyd White. University of Notre Dame Press, 2006, pp. 211-229.
Chapter on Rights in Political Concepts: a Reader and a Guide. Iain MacKenzie, (ed.)
Edinburgh University Press, 2005, pp. 109-126.
Entry for Charles Taylor, Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers, Thoemmes
Press, May 2005.
---- A revised and translated version of this appears as ‘Charles Taylor’ in Eskildsen,
Birgitte (Ed.) Slagmark: Tidsskrift for Idehistorie. Tema: Charles Taylor. Sommer, 2007.
Nr. 49, pp. 15-24.
“Timely Meditations in an Untimely Mode: The Thought of Charles Taylor”,
Contemporary Philosophy in Focus: Charles Taylor. Cambridge University Press, 2004.
pp. 1-28.
‘Circles, Ladders & Stars: Nietzsche on Friendship’ in The Challenge to Friendship in
Modernity, (eds.) P. King & Heather Devere. Reprint of article. 2000.
Invited Publications
“Freiheit – ein roter Faden im Werk von Charles Taylor”, Transit, Europaische Revue,
Heft 49, Grenzen der Toleranz / Charles Taylors Landkarte, pp.79-81 (translated by the
journal).
http://www.iwm.at/transit/heft-49-grenzen-der-toleranz-charles-taylors-landkarte/
“Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family: Twenty Five Years Later”, Hypatia, 31
(3) Summer 2016, pp. 636-7. (From APSA roundtable I initiated, chaired and then
ushered into publication.)
“Editor’s Introduction: Roundtable: Mark Redhead’s Reasoning with Who We Are:
Democratic Theory for a Not so Liberal Era”, Review of Politics, Vol. 77, 2015, pp. 63739.
“How to Live Together in Difference: Redhead on Taylor”, Review of Politics, Vol. 77,
2015, pp. 669-74.
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“Lumping It and Liking It: On reading the works of Nietzsche’s Middle Period”, Pli: The
Warwick Journal of Philosophy, ‘Nietzsche’s Free Spirit Works,’ Vol. 25, 2014, pp. 131152.
‘Plus ça Change: Charles Taylor on Accommodating Quebec’s Minority Cultures’,
Thesis Eleven, November 2009, Issue 99, pp. 71–92.
- German Translation ‘Der Weg des Bürgers. Charles Taylor über die Integration vol
kulturellen Minderhalten in Quebec’ in Wie Wollen wir leben? Das politische Denken
und Staatsverständnis von Charles Taylor, (ed.) Ulf Bohmann, Nomos, Baden-Baden,
2014, pp. 289-314.
‘Comparativists and Cosmopolitans: Conversations across Cultures’ in Revista de
Filosofia, 2008, 121, 40, January- April, pp. 45-63.
'Back to Baczko' (Review Article of Modern Social Imaginaries) by Charles Taylor for
European Journal of Political Theory, Vol. 5, No. 3, 2006, pp.355-364
'Charles Taylor as a Postliberal Theorist of Politics’, in Perspectives on the Philosophy of
Charles Taylor. Acta Philosophica Fennica. (eds.) Arto Laitinen and Nicholas H. Smith.
Helsinki: The Philosophical Society of Finland. Vol. 71. 2002, 149-160.
'The Articulated Life: An Interview with Charles Taylor’, Reason in Practice, Vol. 1, No.
3, 2001, pp. 3-9
'Reply to Beiner & Calhoun’ Contribution to a discussion of Charles Taylor’s Political
Thought. Cahiers du PEQ No. 19, June 2000, pp. 13-22.
'Communitarianism, Taylor-made. An Interview with Charles Taylor' Australian
Quarterly. Vol 68 No 1. 1996 pp. 1-10.
I edited a version of Charles Taylor's 'The Stakes of Constitutional Reform' for William
Dodge ed. Boundaries of Identity: A Quebec Reader, Lester & Denys, Toronto, 1992
'Between Ourselves - an Inconclusion' in William Dodge ed. Boundaries of Identity: A
Quebec Reader, Lester & Denys, Toronto, 1992
‘Reading Between the Matrices: Conflicting Strategies in The Strategy of Conflict’ , York
Centre for International and Strategic Studies, Working Paper, 9, York University,
Toronto, 1991. (Available at www.yorku.ca/yciss)
Translation
(from French to English) Charles Taylor's 'The Stakes of Constitutional Reform' appears
in Reconciling the Solitudes, (ed.) Guy La Forest, McGill-Queens University Press,
Montreal 1993 pp. 140-54.
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Book Reviews (since 2000)
2015
How (Not) to be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor by James K.A. Smith,
The Los Angeles Review of Books.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/review/difficult-terrain-ahead-guiderecommended
2014
Dignity: Its History and Meaning by Michael Rosen for American
Political Thought, Fall 2014, pp. 368-70.
Republic of Women: Rethinking the Republic of Letters in the Seventeenth
Century by Carol Pal, Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 12, No. I, March, pp.
208-9.
Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy by Paul Raimond Daniels for Bryn
Mawr Classical Review.
http://www.bmcreview.org/2014/02/20140212.html
2013
Zoopolis: A Political Theory of Animal Rights by Sue Donaldson and Will
Kymlicka for Philosophy in Review.
Friendship: A Central Moral Value by Michael H. Mitias for AMITY The
Journal of Friendship Studies, Vol. 1, pp. 89-91
http://amityjournal.leeds.ac.uk/files/2013/11/AmityjournalfirstissueRA28.
09.13FINAL.pdf
2012
Review Article covering Brake, Elizabeth. Minimizing Marriage:
Marriage, Morality, and the Law; Overall, Christine. Why Have Children?
The Ethical Debate; and Ramaekers, Stefan, and Judith Suissa. The
Claims of Parenting: Reason, Responsibility and Society; for Philosophy
in Review. Vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 9-15.
The Impossibility of Perfection: Aristotle, Feminism, and the Complexities
of Ethics, by Michael Slote for Mind, pp. 11-15.
2011
Friedrich Nietzsche: A Philosophical Biography. Interpretation: A
Journal of Political Philosophy. Vol. 38. No. 2, Spring, pp. 171-5.
Nietzsche’s Gay Science: Dancing Coherence. Philosophy in Review. Vol.
31, No. 1, pp. 46-8.
Secularism and Freedom of Conscience, Notre Dame Philosophical
Review, December.
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2008
Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood. Perspectives on
Politics, Vol. 6, No. 4, December, pp. 823-824.
2007
Dialectics of the Self: Transcending Charles Taylor. Notre Dame
Philosophical Reviews. July 30, 2007
Shaping the Future: Nietzsche’s New Regime of the Soul and Its Ascetic
Practices. The Review of Politics, Vol. 69, 2007
2006
An Introduction to Political Theory
Political Studies Review, Vol. 4, No. 2, May, 2006, pp. 185-186.
2005
Rebel Writer: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightenment Politics
http://www.msu.edu/~hypatia/reviews/Gunther-Canada.htm
2004
Review of European Journal of Political Theory
Times Higher Education Supplement, 24.4.2004, p. 35
Willing and Nothingness: Schopenhauer as Nietzsche’s Educator
New Nietzsche Studies, Vols. 5: 3/4& 6:1/2, Winter 2003/ Spring 2004, pp.
220-224.
2001
Beyond the Persecuting Society (Journal of Religious History) Vol. 25,
No. 1, Feb. pp. 96-98
The Collected Works of Harriet Taylor Mill (Hypatia), Vol. 16. No. 1
Winter. pp. 94-98
Popular Works
Entry on Charles Taylor for Encyclopedia Britannica,
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/939950/Charles-Taylor
‘Humanism and Enchantment: Charles Taylor’s Gifford Lectures’, Literary Review of
Canada, Vol. 8, No. 2, March 2000, pp. 9-12.
‘Communitarianism’ Arena Magazine No. 26, Dec-Jan 1996/7.
Prizes & Awards
2008
20052010
Faculty Fellowship, Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, The Murphy
Institute, New Orleans
John Cardinal O'Hara, C.S.C. Endowed Associate Professorship
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2004
Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship
British Academy Small Research Grant
University of Kent Social Science Faculty Small Research Grant
2001
Summer Fellowship, St Johns College Oxford
Small Research Grant, Faculty of Social Science, UKC
American Political Science Association Senior Scholar Travel Grant
1999-2000
Research fellowship, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
1999
Australian Research Council Small Grant (declined)
1996-1998
University of Western Australia Postdoctoral Fellowship
1995
McGill Governor General's Gold Medal (top PhD student in the Human
Sciences).
McGill CB Jenckes Prize (most outstanding PhD student in Social
Sciences & Humanities)
Dean's Honours List for PhD Dissertation.
1993
McGill Principal's Dissertation Fellowship
1992
McGill Women's Centennial Fellowship
1987-1992
Australian Commonwealth Postgraduate Scholarship
Conference Participation & Seminar Papers
(since 2000)
2016
Keynote Speaker, “Ethics and Ontology. The Moral Phenomenology of Charles Taylor”
conference in Antwerp, Belguim, June.
2014
Chair and Organizer of Roundtable on the 25th Anniversary of Justice, Gender and the
Family, APSA Annual Meeting, September
Panelists – Brooke Ackerly, Elizabeth Beaumont, Michaele Ferguson, Nancy Hirschman,
Joan Tronto.
2013
“Swanton and Nietzsche on Self-Love”
Conference on Nietzsche and Virtue Ethics,
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October, Guelph, Canada
Roundtable on The Return of Feminist Liberalism
Midwest Political Science Association Conference, April, Chicago
Other panelists - Charles Mills, Jill Locke, Monique Deveaux, Karie Cross
“Author-Meets-Critics Session for The Return of Feminist Liberalism,
Society for Applied Philosophy, American Philosophical Association Pacific Division
Meeting, March, San Francisco
Other panelists - Christie Hartley, Lori Watson, Charles Mills, Hugh LaFollette
2012
Participant in Roundtable on The Eyes of the People: Democracy in an Age of
Spectatorship Midwest Political Science Association, April
Chair of panel on Nietzsche and Schmidt, Midwest Political Science Association, April
Visiting Speaker, Department of Political Science, UNC, Chapel Hill, March
Visiting Speaker, Social and Political Thought Workshop, Vanderbilt, October
2011
‘Comprehensive Liberalism Revisited’, co-authored with Jeff Spinner-Halev, Association
for Political Theory, October.
‘Politics and the Internet’ Wednesday Luncheon, the Divinity School, University of
Chicago, May.
2010
Discussant on Panel, “Democratic Politics and the Problem of Judgment”, APSA Annual
Meeting, September.
Chair of Panel, “Feminist Interpretations of Rawls”, APSA Annual Meeting, September.
“A Secular Age: A Walking Tour”, After Secularism Conference, Paris, June.
Keynote Speaker at Conference on Martha Nussbaum, Cosmopolitanism and Global
Justice, May 6-7, University of Nottingham, England.
2009
‘The Challenges of Pluralism for Feminist Liberalism’ Conference on Modern Pluralism:
Anglo-American Debates since 1880, Berkeley University, October.
Keynote Speaker at Conference on Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age, Dublin, Ireland, June
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‘The Return of Feminist Liberalism’, Yale Political Theory Workshop, April.
2008
‘I have made this point before: Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age’, American Political
Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, August
‘So Polyphonous a Being: Friedrich Nietzsche in his Middle Period’ Conference on
‘Nietzsche and the Philosophical Life’, Texas Christian University, April.
2007
Respondent to Anthony Appiah, Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers,
Cosmopolitanism Conference, University of Notre Dame, September
Chair of Panel on 'Property and Justice'
American Philosophical Association, Chicago, April.
Chair of Panel on 'Varieties of Liberalism'
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April
2006
Presented paper on 'Rawls and Gender', Dept of Political Science, Indiana University,
Bloomington, November
2004
Participant in Roundtable discussion of The Logic of the History of Ideas by Mark Bevir,
Political Studies Association Conference.
2003
March. 'Is Liberalism Now an Essentially Contested Concept?’ Department of Politics,
Nottingham University and to York Political Theory Workshop, York University.
2002
July. Participant in Liberty Fund Summer Institute for 2.5 weeks at Jesus College,
Oxford.
May. Videoconference Research Seminar with the Philosophy Dept., University of Natal,
South Africa on Charles Taylor, monotheism and pluralism.
March. 'What is Postliberalism?’ Department of Politics, Reading University.
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2001
September. 'Charles Taylor as a Postliberal Theorist of Politics’, Perspectives on the
Philosophy of Charles Taylor Conference. Helsinki.
---Commentator on panel on 'Justice, Peace and National Interest’, European Consortium
for Political Research Conference.
April. 'Monotheism and the Good(s): Charles Taylor vs Stuart Hampshire’, Political
Studies Association Annual Conference, Manchester.
2000
August. ‘By Circuitous Paths: Nietzsche’s Ethic of Care of the Self’. Panel on 'Another
Nietzsche Morality and Politics in Nietzsche’s Middle Period’ American Political
Science Association, Washington DC. I was also the chair of the panel.
June. Two week seminar on `How to Talk About Religion in Academic Disciplines’ at
the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana.
March. ‘Up Close and Personal: English-Australian Women Talk about Citizenship’
School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study,
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate Courses
Introduction to Philosophy
Introduction to Political Theory
Politics, Democracy and the State
What is Friendship? Questions and Answers, Old and New
Feminist Contributions to Political Theory
Theories of Human Rights
Rights, Freedoms and Individualism: Debates within Contemporary Liberalism
Political Philosophy: Who Should Rule?
What is Liberalism? Hobbes to Rorty.
Nietzsche and Beyond: the origins of postmodernism
Politics and the Internet
The Better Angels of our Nature?
Political Philosophy (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Mill)
The Justice Seminar (co-taught with Paul Weithman in 2015 and Mary Keys in 2016)
Graduate Courses
Problems in Democracy.
Education in Philosophical Thought
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Nietzsche
Landmarks in Contemporary Political Theory
The Political Philosophy of Charles Taylor
Varieties of Liberalism (Directed Reading)
Environmental Political Thought (Directed Reading)
Supervision
Undergraduate
Senior Thesis Advisor for Michael Redding, AY 07-08
Capstone Essay, Gender Studies, Jennifer Gast Fall 2011
Senior Thesis Advisor for Lindsay Dun, AY 13-14
Winner of
- 2013-2014 Genevieve D. Willis Senior Thesis Prize Competition in Gender
Studies;
- Guillermo O’Donnell Award for the best Senior Thesis in Comparative
Politics
Summer 2016 – supervisor for Daniel Loesing’s summer research project on Liberalism
and Multiculturalism
Graduate
External Supervisor of the PhD dissertation by Helen O’Grady on `The Politics of
Therapy: Michel Foucault, Narrative Therapy, Women and Self-Policing’, Awarded 2001
Member of PhD committee of several Kent students.
Member of PhD committee for Tim Dale and Jarret Carty in Spring, 2006; Jeremy Johns
in Fall 2007; Jeff Church Spring 2008; Krista Duttenhaver, Spring 2010; David
McPherson (Philosophy, Marquette University) – Spring 2013; Kyle Beam – Spring
2016; Madeline Cronin – Summer 2016.
Continuing
Cameron O’Bannon; Vince Bagnulo; Karie Cross;
Member of PhD oral committee for two students in Philosophy Department – Brad
Thames, Brian Pilkington.
Member of PhD examining committee for Daniel Hicks, Philosophy Department.
Member of Dissertation Proposal committee for Jordan Rodgers, Philosophy Department.
External Member of Dissertation Proposal Committee for Ashley Drake, Comparative
Human Development, University of Chicago.
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Research Mentor for Visiting International Students:
Spring – Summer 2010, Ching-Pey Lin, PhD student funded by the Taiwanese National
Research Council to study with me on the basis of my expertise on Charles Taylor. PhD
has been completed.
Fall 2012, Paul Barry, PhD student funded by LaTrobe University, Australia, to study
with me on the basis of my expertise on Charles Taylor. After Barry returned to
Australia, I became an Associate Supervisor. PhD has been completed.
Spring - Summer 2015, Doris Ospina Muñoz, PhD student and Profesora Titular funded
by Universidad de Antioquia-Colombia to study with me on the basis of my expertise on
Charles Taylor.
Summer 2016 – Directed Individual Study with Justin Brophy on Charles Taylor
Administrative Experience / Service
(since 2000)
NOTRE DAME
Departmental
2016-17
Individual Promotion Committee for Eileen Botting
2015-16
Individual Promotion Committee for Tanisha Fazal,
2014-15
Executive Committee
2013-14 On leave
2012-13
Interim Chair, Political Science Department
2011-12
Member of Committee on Appointments and Promotions
Chair of Ad Hoc Committee writing section on future of department for departmental
review
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2010-11
Latin American Politics Search Committee (open rank; up to three positions)
2009-10
Graduate Admissions Committee, Spring 2010
On Leave (Fall 09)
2008-09
On Leave
2007-08
- Member of Committee on Appointments and Promotions
- Member of Undergraduate Policy Committee
- Member of Search Committee, American Politics
- Chair, Political Theory Subfield
2006-07
- Member of Committee on Appointments and Promotions
2005-06
- Member of Mission & Diversity Committee
- Member of Graduate Admissions Committee
College
2014-15
Social Sciences Representative on Gender Studies Steering Committee
2013-14
Member at Large for Sociology CAP
Nanovic Graduate Dissertation Fellowship Committee
2011-12
Nanovic Institute for European Studies Faculty Committee
2007-08
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Director, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
Gender Studies Executive Committee
Teachers as Scholars Program
Ad Hoc appeals Committee for Graduate School
2006-07
Acting Director, Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts
Co-chair, Nanovic Institute, Film Series Committee
2005-06
Arts & Letters College Council
Kaneb Teaching Award Committee
Gender Studies Senior Thesis Prize Committee
University
Summer 2014 – Summer 2017
Interim Director,
Kroc Institute of International Peace Studies
Keough School of Global Affairs Leadership Council (ex officio)
2015 -16
Development Ethics Search Committee
Spring 2014
Director of University Seminars
2014-15
Global Gateway Faculty Advisory Committee
2013-14
Search Committee for new director of Center for Civil and Human Rights
Search Committee for new director of Kroc Institute
Consultative Committee for School of International Affairs
2011-12
Mentor in Building Bridges Multiculturalism Program
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2010-11
Speaker at Feminist Voice Panel, November
2007-08
Editorial Board Member, Notre Dame Press
Residential Scholars Programme
2006-07
First Year of Studies Orientation
Mentor in Building Bridges Multiculturalism Program
UKC
Faculty Representative on University Working Group on Institutional Audit
Faculty Representative on University Committee on Introduction of Personal
Development Profiles
Chief Examiner, Part II
Director of Student Support and Guidance (Senior Tutor)
Director of Graduate Studies
Chairperson of Staff-Student Liaison Committee
Director of BA in Politics
Departmental Equality and Diversity Representative
Member of search committee for job in Japanese Politics, 2001 and 2003
Member of search committee for job in European Politics, 2003.
Member of search committee for job in European IR, 2004
Non-departmental member of search committee for job in Sociology, 2003.
Departmental mentor for two new staff members.
PGCHE mentor for new member of staff
Departmental Representative at Chaucer College
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Professional Activities
(since 2000)
Continuing
(since 2014) Consultant, Feminist Studies
2014 - 2016
Book Review Editor, The Review of Politics
2016
Reviewer for
Flanders Research Foundation, Oxford University Press, Rowman and Littlefield
International;
Journal of Philosophical Research; Constellations; Journal of Social Philosophy; Ethical
Perspectives; PS: Political Science and Politics; Res Publica; South African Journal of
Philosophy; The Southern Journal of Philosophy;
Program Committee for FEMMSS (Feminist Epistemologies, Methodologies,
Metaphysics and Science Studies;
Jury member for dissertation defense by Michiel Meijer, University of Antwerp;
Promotion to Full Professor for two candidates;
2015
Chair of the APSA Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy
Committee;
External Examiner for PhD Dissertation, McGill University
Reviewer for
British Journal for the History of Philosophy; Journal of Value Inquiry, Journal of
Applied Philosophy, American Journal of Political Science, History of Political Thought;
American Political Thought; European Journal of Political Theory; Ethics and the
Environment; Review of Politics (x 2); American Political Science Review; Routledge;
Journal of Social Philosophy; Social Theory and Practice;
2014
Reviewer for
Israel Science Foundation; Research Foundation Flanders; Rowman and Littlefield; also
Puff for Rowman and Littlefield; Oxford University Press.
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Review of Politics (x4), British Journal for the History of Philosophy; Constellations;
American Political Thought; Social Theory and Practice; Politics, Religion & Ideology;
Sophia; Journal of Value Inquiry; Res Publica; Hypatia; History of Political Thought;
2008-14 Associate Editor, The Review of Politics
2013
Section Chair for Political Philosophy: Approaches and Themes for 2013 Midwest
Political Science Association Annual Meeting (cont.)
Reviewer for
Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press;
Hypatia; Review of Politics (x4); Politics, Groups and Identities; Feminist Studies (x2);
Social Theory and Practice; Political Studies; Public Affairs Quarterly; History of
Political Thought; Sophia; Constellations; Journal of Nietzsche Studies; Journal of
Politics;
External Examiner for PhD Dissertation, University of Guelph (October)
2003-2013 Manager of Electronic Bibliography of works by and about Charles Taylor.
2012
Section Chair for Political Philosophy: Approaches and Themes for 2013 Midwest
Political Science Association Annual Meeting.
Reviewer for
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada;
The European Research Council;
Research Foundation Flanders;
Edinburgh University Press;
Review of Politics (x5); Hypatia; Social Theory and Practice; Environmental Philosophy;
Journal of Politics; Journal of Homosexuality; Journal of Nietzsche Studies;
2011
Co-organizer (with Eileen Botting) of Notre Dame’s hosting of Association for Political
Theory Annual Meeting in Fall 2011
Reviewer for Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy; Feminist Theory; Political
Theory; Review of Politics (x2); Constellations; Encyclopedia of Political Thought;
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy; History of Political
Thought;
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External Examiner for PhD Dissertation, University of South Australia (August)
2010
Tenure Review for a large public research university (March)
External Examiner for PhD Dissertation, University of South Australia (May)
Reviewer for European Journal of Political Theory; Southern Journal of Philosophy;
History of Political Thought (x2); Ethical Theory and Moral Practice; Review of Politics
(x3); American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly; Human Studies; Constellations;
Political Research Quarterly; Political Theory; Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist
Philosophy.
Radio Interview about Nietzsche for The Philosophers’ Zone, Australian Broadcasting
Company, May.
2009
Reviewer for The Review of Politics x 3; Polity; The Journal of Nietzsche Studies; Social
Theory and Practice;
Reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies Andrew W. Mellon Foundation /
ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program - Dissertation Completion Fellowships;
Tenure Review a small liberal arts college;
Tenure Review for a large, public research university.
Radio Interview about Charles Taylor and A Secular Age for Encounters, Australian
Broadcasting Company, June.
2008
Reviewer for Princeton University Press, Critical Review of International Social and
Political Philosophy, Asian Women; New Political Science; Review of Politics x 3;
Hypatia; Religion and Literature; History of Political Thought; Journal of Political
Philosophy; Global Society;
Reviewer for American Council of Learned Societies Andrew W. Mellon Foundation /
ACLS Early Career Fellowship Program - Dissertation Completion Fellowships
2007
Reviewer for American Journal of Political Science, Review of Politics (x4), Critical
Inquiry, Inquiry, History of Political Thought, Political Theory
2006
Reviewer for Harvard University Press, Contemporary Political Theory, Review of
Politics, American Council of Learned Societies Andrew W. Mellon Foundation / ACLS
Early Career Fellowship Program - Dissertation Completion Fellowships
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2005
Reviewer for Review of Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, Political Theory, South
African Journal of Philosophy, Critical Review of International Social and Political
Philosophy, Inquiry, Adam Smith Review
2004
Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, UK, Political Studies, Critical Review of
International Social and Political Philosophy, Inquiry, Contemporary Political Theory,
Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, Hypatia, Political Theory
2003
Reviewer for Cambridge University Press, New York, Review of Politics; History of
Political Thought, American Political Science Review
Opponent for PhD, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Senior Research Scholar on the History of Care Project, Georgetown University.
2002
Reviewer for Blackwell Publishing, USA, Global Society, The Journal of Political
Philosophy, History of Political Thought, Political Theory, Review of Politics, Journal of
Canadian Studies, Political Studies
2001
Reviewer for Political Studies, American Political Science Review, History of Political
Thought
2000
Reviewer for The Review of Politics, Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy