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Curriculum Vitae
Steven Forde
Spring 2014
Department of Political Science
University of North Texas
Denton, Texas 76203-5340
(940) 565-4999
FAX (940) 565-4818
[email protected]
Education
1984 PhD
1977 MA
1976 BA
Political Science (political philosophy)
Political Science (political philosophy)
Political Science (summa cum laude)
University of Toronto
University of Toronto
Yale University
Professional Experience
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Coeditor, American Political Science Review (one of a team of four
from the University of North Texas)
Professor
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
Associate Professor
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
Department Chair
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
Assistant Professor
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
Visiting Asst Prof
University of Oregon Eugene, OR
Visiting Asst Prof
Michigan State University
E Lansing, MI
Killam post-doc
Dalhousie University Halifax, Nova Scotia
Culpepper post-doc Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
Instructor
Michigan State University
E Lansing, MI
Areas of Expertise
Political Philosophy (ancient to modern)
International Ethics
American Political Thought
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Awards and Honors
Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities,
awarded December 1998 ($24,000).
Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities,
awarded December 1992 ($17,624).
One-year faculty fellowship award, John M. Olin foundation, 1989-90 ($42,437).
Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of North Texas, summer 1989
($3500).
Leo Strauss Prize, American Political Science Association (for best dissertation in
Political Philosophy, 1986)
Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University, 1984-85
Culpepper Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Dartmouth College, 1983-84
Summa Cum Laude graduation, Yale University, Spring 1976
Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, accepted junior year
PUBLICATIONS
I. BookS
John Locke: Modern Science and Modern Politics (Cambridge University Press,
forthcoming)
The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides
(Cornell University Press, 1989—a Chinese translation was published in 2012).
Leo Strauss course on Hugo Grotius, edited for University of Chicago (forthcoming
from the Leo Strauss Center at the University of Chicago, in either print or
electronic format).
II. Refereed Articles
Review of Politics, Fall 2011: “’Mixed Modes’ in John Locke’s Moral and Political
Philosophy.”
Review of Politics, Summer 2009: “The Charitable John Locke.”
Review of Politics, Spring 2006: “What Does Locke Expect Us to Know?”
International Studies Quarterly, March 2004: “Thucydides on Ripeness and Conflict
Resolution.”
American Journal of Political Science, April 2001: “Natural Law, Theology, and
Morality in Locke.”
American Political Science Review, September 1998: “Hugo Grotius on Ethics and
War.”
American Political Science Review, September 1997: “Gender and Justice in Plato.”
International Studies Quarterly, June 1995: “International Realism and the Science
of Politics: Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Neorealism.”
Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Spring 1994: “The Comic Poet, the
City, and the Gods: Dionysus’ katabasis in the Frogs of Aristophanes.”
American Political Science Review, June 1992: “Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography
and the Education of America.”
Journal of Politics, May 1992: “Varieties of Realism: Thucydides and Machiavelli.”
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American Political Science Review, June 1986: “Thucydides on the Causes of
Athenian Imperialism.”
III. Book Chapters
“The Classical Rationalism of Thucydides,” in Timothy Burns, ed., Recovering
Reason: Essays in Honor of Thomas L. Pangle. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books,
2010.
“Thucydides on Peace,” in David Clinton, ed., Realism in the Post-Cold War World.
Louisiana State University Press, 2007.
“Benjamin Franklin’s “Machiavellian” Civic Virtue,” in Paul Rahe, ed., Machiavelli’s
Liberal Republican Legacy. Cambridge University Press, 2006
“Benjamin Franklin: An American Model and a Model American,” in David Frost
and Jeffrey Sikkenga, eds., History of American Political Thought. Lexington
Books, 2003.
“Benjamin Franklin and the Theory of Social Compact,” in Ronald J. Pestritto and
Thomas G. West, eds., The American Founding and the Social Compact. New
York: Lexington Books, 2003.
“Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard’s Almanack,” in The Founders’ Almanac
(Matthew Spalding, ed., The Heritage Foundation, 2001).
“Power and Morality in Thucydides,” in Thucydides’ Theory of International
Relations: A Lasting Possession (Lowell S. Gustafson, ed., Louisiana State
University Press, 2000).
“Ben Franklin, Hero,” in The Noblest Minds: Fame, Honor, and the American
Founding (Peter McNamara, ed., Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).
“Classical Realism,” in Traditions of International Ethics (Terry Nardin and David
Mapel, eds., Cambridge University Press, 1992). This was an invited
contribution.
“Political Ambition in Thucydides and Plato: The Case of Alcibiades,” in Politikos II:
Educating the Ambitions (Leslie G. Rubin, ed., Duquesne University Press,
1992).
Plato's Hipparchus, translation with notes, in The Roots of Political Philosophy
(Cornell University Press, 1987).
Plato's Alcibiades I, Introduction, in Thomas L. Pangle, ed., The Roots of Political
Philosophy (Cornell University Press, 1987).
IV. Selected Book Reviews
Review of Benjamin Franklin Unmasked (Jerry Weinberger), in Review of Politics,
Fall 2006.
Review of Benjamin Franklin (Edmund Morgan), and Franklin: The Essential
Founding Father (James Srodes), in The Claremont Review of Books, Fall 2002.
Review of International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory (by Howard
Williams), in American Political Science Review, 1997.
Review of Rethinking Democratic Education: The Politics of Reform (by David M.
Steiner: Johns Hopkins), in Journal of Politics, 1995.
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V. Works in Progress or under review
Research on evolutionary psychology and its implications for political philosophy,
including issues of human rights.
Essay, “Alexis de Tocqueville’s Ancient Modern Liberty.”
Invited Public Lectures (selected)
University of Dallas, “Alexis de Tocqueville’s Ancient Modern Virtue,” Nov 8, 2013.
Texas A&M University, November 9, 2012, “Darwin and Political Theory.”
University of Dallas, “Alexis de Tocqueville’s Ancient Modern Virtue,” Oct 29, 2010.
Cambridge University, UK, Symposium presentation, “Thucydides among the
classics of international studies,” Dec 1, 2007
Ashland University (Ashland, OH), public lecture on Benjamin Franklin, September
26, 2003; daylong seminar on Franklin, September 27, 2003.
Selected Conference Papers
Midwest Political Science Association, April 2013, “Darwin and Political Theory.”
American Political Science Association, September 2010, “The Classical
Rationalism of Thucydides.”
American Political Science Association, September 2010, “Alexis de Tocqueville’s
Ancient Modern Liberty.”
American Political Science Association, September 2007, “The Liberal Morality of
Locke’s Essay Concerning Human Understanding.”
American Political Science Association, September 2006, “The Charitable John
Locke.”
Languages
French, Greek, German, some Italian
Memberships
American Political Science Association
Phi Beta Kappa
Society for Greek Political Thought
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