GENEVIEVE ROUSSELIERE
[email protected]
www.rousseliere.com
702 Lorillard Court, # E312
Madison, WI 53703
(609) 751-1867
Department of Political Science
110 North Hall
1050 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, The University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Fall 2015-current
Collegiate Assistant Professor and Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Social Sciences Division,
University of Chicago, 2011-2015
EDUCATION
Princeton University
PhD, Politics, 2011
Dissertation: “Freedom and the State in the Age of Market Economy: French
Republicanism from Montesquieu to Tocqueville”
Committee: Philip Pettit (Chair), Alan Patten, Alan Ryan, Nadia Urbinati, Anna Stilz
MA Politics, 2008
Université Paris I -Panthéon-Sorbonne
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
Agrégée de philosophie [Post-Master's title conferred upon completion of the highest national
competitive certification in philosophy], 2002
MA Philosophy summa cum laude, 2001
BA (Hon.), Philosophy
PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS IN PROGRESS
Books
Republicanism and the Future of Democracy (under review with Cambridge University
Press)
An edited volume (with Yiftah Elazar, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem) on
republican democracy
Sharing Freedom. Republican Democracy from Rousseau to Durkheim (under
consideration at Yale University Press)
A book-length manuscript on the construction of republican democracy in French
political thought
Rousseau’s Economies (in preparation)
A book-length manuscript on Rousseau’s economic thought and its political
implications
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Peer-Reviewed Articles
“Rousseau on Freedom in Commercial Society,” American Journal of Political Science
60 (2): 352-63, April 2016.
“On Political Responsibility in Post-Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant’s Debate
on Lying”, European Journal of Political Theory, forthcoming 2016, online publication
June 2015.
“Rousseau’s Theory of Value and the Case of Women” (Under review)
Chapters in Edited Volumes
“Audi Alteram Partem: Rhetoric and Republican Political Thought,” in The Oxford
Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory, ed. Keith Topper and Dilip Gaonkar, Oxford
University Press, forthcoming 2016.
“Sur la Neutralité Libérale/ On Liberal Neutrality,” ed. R. Merrill and G. Rousselière,
Les Ateliers de l'Ethique, la Revue du CREUM, Université de Montréal, volume 4, n.2
summer 2009.
“Rousseau’s Political Economy”, in The Rousseauan Mind, eds. Eve Grace and
Christopher Kelly, Routledge (in progress).
Book reviews
“The power of political economy. Review of Sophus A. Reinert’s Translating Empire:
Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy,” The Review of Politics, vol. 74, n.3,
Summer 2012, pp. 530-533.
Review of Jeremy Jennings’s Revolution and the Republic, History of Political Thought,
volume 14, n. 2, 2013.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Areas of research: modern European social and political thought; history of political
economy; republicanism, liberalism and democratic theory
Areas of teaching interest: history of political thought (ancient, modern, contemporary);
contemporary political theory
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Princeton Graduate Fellowship, 2006-2011
Laurance S. Rockefeller Graduate Prize Fellow, 2009-2010
Princeton Center for Human Values grant, summers 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies grant, 2007, 2008, 2010
Stafford funding recipient, 2009, 2010, 2011
Princeton Merit Prize, 2006
Research grant, Maison Française d’Oxford, Oxford, May 2006
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Recipient, Tocqueville Grant, Funded research stay at Harvard University, Spring 2004
Visiting Fellow, Northwestern University, 2001-2002
Recipient, European Union grant (Erasmus), 2000
Research Fellowship and Teaching Assistantship at Université Paris I, 2003-2006
MA Fellowship of the French Government, 2001
Fellow, Ecole Normale Supérieure, 1997-2001
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Assistant Professor, The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2015-Current
“French Political Thought from Rousseau to Durkheim”, Graduate Seminar
Collegiate Assistant Professor, The University of Chicago, 2011-2015
“Power, Identity, Resistance”: a yearlong introduction to social and political philosophy
Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, 2007-2010
“Introduction to Political Theory” (Professor Alan Ryan)
“Ethics and Public Policy” (Professor Stephen Macedo)
“Introduction to Political Theory” (Professor Maurizio Viroli)
Lecturer, Université Paris I, 2003-2006
“What is Democracy?” Freshman seminar in political philosophy
“Locke's Two Treatises on Government”, Freshman seminar in political philosophy
“The Concept of Legitimacy” Freshman seminar in political philosophy
“What is Evil?” Freshman seminar in ethics
“Moral Dilemmas” Freshman seminar in ethics
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED TALKS
“Montesquieu and Rousseau on the Possibility of a Large and Commercial Republic”,
APSA annual meeting, September 2016
“Rousseau’s Theory of Value and the Case of Women”, Invited Talk, Georgetown, Nov.
2015
“The French Model of Republican Democracy,” APSA annual meeting (San Francisco
2015)
“Rousseau on the Value of Women,” APSA annual meeting (San Francisco 2015)
“On Principles and Responsibility in Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant’s Debate
on Lying,” Seminar in Political Thought (University of Cambridge, 2015)
“Rousseau’s Theory of Economic Independence,” APSA annual meeting (Washington
DC 2014)
“Rousseau on Independence in Commercial Society,” Liberty, Domination and
Democracy Conference, Yale University (April 2014)
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“On Principles and Responsibility in Revolutionary Times: Kant and Constant’s Debate
on Lying,” Political Theory Workshop, University of Chicago (February 2014)
“Rousseau’s Critique of Political Economy,” APSA annual meeting (Chicago, August
2013)
“Republican Freedom and Social Justice,” APSA annual meeting (Chicago, August 2013)
“ Rousseau on poverty and freedom,” MPSA annual meeting (Chicago, May 2013)
“A French Republican Perspective on Inequality: Rousseau and his Critics,” Weissbourd
Conference, The University of Chicago (Chicago, May 2012)
"Benjamin Constant and the birth of modern freedom," The Society of Fellows at the
University of Chicago (Chicago, January 2012)
"Tocqueville and the Social Question: a Republican Response to Hard Times?" APSA
annual meeting(Washington, DC, September 2010)
"Freedom and Republicanism: the Internal Critique of Louis Blanc," MPSA annual
meeting (Chicago, May 2010)
“Freedom, Labor and the Republic: Tocqueville and Blanc on the potentialities of
Republican freedom,” Association for Political Theory (College Station, Texas, Nov.
2009)
“A Case for Economic Democracy: John Stuart Mill and the development of
individuality,” Harvard Graduate Student Conference in Political Theory (Sept. 2008)
LANGUAGES
French, German, Latin, Ancient Greek
SERVICE AND AFFILIATIONS
Weissbourd Co-Chair at the Society of Fellows, the University of Chicago. In charge of
the organization of a lecture series and two conferences.
Discussant, Colloquium on the Neutrality of the State (Montreal, 2008); Princeton
University Graduate Student Conference in Political Theory (Princeton, 2009; 2010);
Workshop on Political Moderation (Princeton, 2011), MPSA 2015, 2016, APSA 2016
Panel co-organizer and co-chair, “Pettit’s On the People’s Terms: Non-Domination and
the Power of the People”, APSA, August 2013
Co-organizer, (with Roberto Merrill and Daniel Weinstock), International colloquium on
the Neutrality of the State, Université de Montréal and McGill University (May 2008)
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Co-organizer, Graduate Student Research Seminar in Political Philosophy hosted by the
Department of philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (2003-5)
Teaching Training Program (three year program leading to Teaching Certification)
(Université Paris I)
Editorial Board member of the collection in Ethics and Political Theory, L’avocat du
diable at Herman Press, Paris (www.lavocatdudiable.googlepages.com)
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
American Political Science Association
American Philosophical Association
REFERENCES
Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and the University
Center for Human Values, Department of Politics and Philosophy, Princeton University.
[email protected], (609) 258.4759
Alan Patten, Professor of Politics, Princeton University.
[email protected], (609) 258.6831
Nadia Urbinati, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory and Hellenic
Studies, Columbia University.
[email protected], (212) 854-3977
Alan Ryan, Professor of Politics (emeritus), Oxford University
[email protected]
Anna Stilz, Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University.
[email protected], (609) 258.7475
Jennifer Pitts, Associate Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago.
[email protected], (773) 702.8868
Gary Herrigel, Professor of Political Science, The University of Chicago.
[email protected], (773) 702.8067
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