CSPT News & Reviews
Book Reviews: Click on the link for the CSPT reviews of books in the field of political thought and history. Chapter News: Click on the link for latest reports on CSPT activities and opportunities in Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States. Prizes and Awards: The 2003 Spitz Prize has been awarded to Mark Warren for Democracy and Association (Princeton University Press, 2001). This book offers the first systematic assessment of what associations do and don't do for democracy. Mark Warren explains how and when associational life expands the domain, inclusiveness, and authenticity of democracy. He looks at which associations are most likely to foster individuals' capacities for democratic citizenship, provoke political debate, open existing institutions, guide market activities, or bring democratic decision-making to new venues. Eldon Eisenach has just been made chair of the First Book Prize Committee for the Foundations of Political Theory section of the APSA. The prize is awarded to a first book in political theory published in the year 2001 by someone who received the Ph.D. or equivalent degree within the last ten years. The four most recent winners were Sara Monoson, Plato's Democratic Entanglements; Alan Patten, Hegel's Idea of Freedom; C. Bradley Thompson, John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty; and Melissa Williams, Voice, Trust, and Memory. Please let Eisenach or the other members of the prize committee know of any outstanding books in political theory published this calender year. The prize will be awarded at the 2002 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Boston. The other two members of the committee are Jane Bennett of Goucher College (jbennett@goucher.edu) and Leslie Thiele of the University of Florida (thiele@polisci.ufl.edu). Further material on this and other theory prizes is available on the Foundations web site www.political-theory.org. On April 19, the Political Science Department at the University of Rochester will award the William H. Riker Prize in Political Science for 2002 to Norman J. Schofield, William Taussig Professor of Political Economy, Washington University in St. Louis. Prof. Schofield has devoted his career to using mathematical models to shed new light on questions of democracy and political economy. After receiving the award, Prof. Schofield will give a public lecture in the Welles-Brown Room, Rush Rhees Library, at 3:30. A reception will follow. For more information, contact Jim Johnson at 585-275-0622 or jjsn@mail.rochester.edu. Details of Spitz Prize winners and nomination procedures may be found here.Call for papers: Click here for full details of journals currently soliciting. |
Announcements: A conference on Machiavelli Revisited: New Approaches to his Political Theory will be held on October 24, 2003, at Columbia University. Those presenting papers include Pasquale Pasquino (CNRS Institut Jean Nicod), Sharon Lloyd (University of Southern California), Stephen Holmes (NYU School of Law), and Carlo Ginzburg (UCLA). Richard Tuck will give a concluding speech. For more information contact David Freedberg, Director, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America: freedberg@columbia.edu. A Symposium on Classical, Hellenistic, and Late Antique Texts in the Eighteenth Century will be held at the Kellogg Conference Center, Columbia University, September 18-20, 2003. This interdisciplinary conference will be organized around a series of roundtable discussions, so as to encourage conversation and interaction among the presenters and the audience. For more information, click here. Stephen White, formerly of Virginia Tech, has accepted a position as a Professor in the Department of Government and Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia. Stephen is author of many books, most recently, Sustaining Affirmation: The Strengths of Weak Ontology in Contemporary Political Theory (Princeton University Press, 2000). He is editor of Political Theory, and with his move, the journal will be based at the University of Virginia. Patricia Nordeen, who is ABD at Yale University, will be Assistant Editor of Political Theory for the next two years and will teach in the Department of Government at Virginia. Lawrie Balfour has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Virginia. She had been teaching at Babson College. Her PhD is from Princeton; she is author of The Evidence of Things Not Said: James Baldwin and the Promise of American Democracy (Cornell University Press,2001) as well as articles on race and democratic theory. Fonna Dubin, PhD University of Chicago, has accepted a position as Assistant Professor at Virginia Tech, where she had been teaching the past two years as Assistant Editor of Political Theory. William Winstead, who recently completed his PhD at the University of Massachussets, Amherst, has accepted a three year position in the Political Science Department and Honors Program at George Washington University. His dissertation is entitled: "Nietzsche's Imperatives: Political Foundations and the Search for Justice in the Era of the Reichsgrundung." Lyman Tower Sargent spent the Winter term in New Zealand working with Dr. Lucy Sargisson of Nottingham University (UK) on a study of New Zealand intentional communities. Joel Olson, who has recently completed a dissertation on "The Democratic Problem of the White Citizen" at the University of Minnesota, has been named Visiting Assistant Professor in political theory, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Arizona State University-West. Professor Xu Youyu will be visiting the University of Reading Politics Department as a British Academy KC Wong Fellow for five months beginning November 2001. Dissertations: Below are details of some recently accepted dissertations: The Empire of the Human Soul: Machiavelli and Montesquieu on Republican Government. James Loucks, Toronto [Supervisor: Alkis Kontos] |
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