Office Address: 

Department of Political Science 

Davidson College 

Davidson, N.C. 28035

(704) 894-2393

Home Address:

PO Box 2057

Davidson, N.C. 28036 

(704) 895-6349

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

E. Craig Wall Jr. Distinguished Teaching Professor of Humanities, 

Davidson College, 1999-2001
 

Professor of Political Science and Humanities,

Davidson College, 1996-present.
 

Chair, Humanities Program, Davidson College, 1993-1996

Associate Professor of Political Science and Humanities,

Davidson College, 1988-1996.

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Humanities

Davidson College, 1985-1988.
 

Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Political Science and Humanities,

Davidson College, 1982-1985
 

EDUCATION  

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Ph.D., 1982, M.A., 1980, both in Political Science.

Universite de Dijon (non-degree study in French), 1976-1977.
 

State University of New York at Stony Brook, B.A. in Psychology, 1975.
 

COURSES TAUGHT

Political Theory: (Upper-level survey courses in Ancient and

Medieval; Modern; Contemporary Theory. Seminars in Marx; 20th

Century Marxism; Postmodernism; Welfare State and Justice;

Politics and Literature; Liberation Theology; Philosophical

Critiques of Religion; Affirmative Action)

Political Science: (Seminars in U.S. Foreign Policy towards

Central America; U.S. Foreign Policy towards Nicaragua;

Central American Politics)

Humanities: (Survey courses on Ancient Israel and Greece;

Christianity and Late Antiquity; Medieval Europe;

Renaissance and Reformation; The Enlightenment; Nineteenth

and Twentieth Century Cultures)
 

JOURNAL 

"Habermas and Religious Inclusion: Lessons from Kant's Moral Theology.

ARTICLES

Political Theory, October 1999, 27:634-666.

"Praxis, Hermeneutics and the Kingdom: Marx and Latin American

Liberation Theology." Rethinking Marxism, Winter 1992, 4:62-88.

"Totality, Realism and the Type: Lukacs' Later Literary

Criticism as Political Theory." The Philosophical Forum,

Summer 1990, 4:412-441.

"Capitalism and the Novel: Georg Lukacs on Modern Realism."

History of Political Thought, Winter 1988, 9:553-573.

"Reason, Nostalgia and Eschatology in the Critical Theory of Max Horkheimer." Journal of Politics, Winter 1985, 47:160-181.

"How Reasonable is Liberalism?" Politics and Policy, Spring 1984, 4:1-15.

"Indian Students' Perceptions of the Ideal Self, the Ideal

Leader, the Ideal Teacher, Indira Gandhi and the Business

Executive." With Peter F. Merenda and Jitendra Mohan.

Perceptual and Motor Skills, Spring 1975, 40:611-615.
 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

"The Humanities Program at Davidson College." In Alive at the Core: Exemplary Approaches to General Education in theHumanities. Michael Nelson, editor. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000. pp. 123-52.

Review of Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market and theGrundrisse by Thomas Kemple. American Political ScienceReview, 91 (March 1997), pp.171-73.

"The Contradictions of Central America." With R. David Kaylor.

The Davidson Journal, 3:22-28. Reprinted in When ChristiansMeet: Across North-South Barriers. Jack Nelson-Pallmayer et.al., editors. Centro Evangelico Latinoamericano de Destudios Pastorales, San Jose, Costa Rica, 1989.

"Technology and the Liberal Paradigm: A Reply to Cohen." In Technology and Freedom. Robert Maydole, editor. Davidson: Davidson College, 1985, pp.20-23.

"Postmodernism and Political Science." In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. Victor Taylor and Charles E. Winquist, editors. London and New York: Routledge. (forthcoming, October 2000)

CONFERENCE 

"Habermas and Religious Inclusion: Lessons from Kant's Moral

PAPERS  

Theology. 1999 Meeting of the Souther Political Science Association, Savannah, GA, November 3-6.

"The Humanities Program at Davidson College." Conference on Teaching the Humanities. Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, November 19-21, 1998.

"Pluralism, Religion and Public Accessibility." 1997 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Norfolk, VA.

"Liberal Neutrality and the Idea of the Reasonable: Is Rawls'Political Liberalism Fair to Religion?" 1997 Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Tucson, AZ.

"Liberal Neutrality, 'Public Reason' and Religion: Habermas Contra Rawls." 1997 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.

"The Reasonable, the Rational and the Valid: Habermas and Rawls on the Exercise of Practical Reason in Liberal Democracies." 1996 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association.

"A Discourse Theory of Justice: Juergen Habermas on the Democratic Constitutional State." 1994 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, N.Y.

"Habermas and Communitarianism: Some Recent Developments." 1993 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah GA.

"Habermas, Postmodernism and the Welfare State." 1993 Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Pasadena, CA.

"Praxis, Hermeneutics, Ecclesiology: The Struggle for Church in Nicaragua." 1989 Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA.

"Praxis, Hermeneutics and the Kingdom: Thoughts on Marx and Liberation Theology." 1987 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Charlotte, NC.

"Revolution and the Novel: Georg Lukacs and Modern Realism." 1987 Meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Charlotte, NC.

"Nostalgia and Eschatology in the Critical Theory of Max Horkheimer." 1983 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Birmingham, AL.

"The Convergence of Conservative and Radical Critiques of Liberal Rationality." 1983 Meeting of the North Carolina Political Science Association. (Winner,"Best Paper Award")
 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 Manuscript Reviewer, American Journal of Political Science, The Journal of Politics, Political Research Quarterly, University of Minnesota Press.

Panel Chair, "The Politics of Postmodernism." 1999 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah, GA. Roundtable Discussant, "Broadening the Interdisciplinary Humanities Course." Conference on Teaching the Humanities, Rhodes College, Memphis, TN. November 19-21, 1998. 

Panel Discussant, "Contemporary Liberalism and Its Critics." 1997 Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL.

Panel Chair, "Habermas: Further Critical Debates." 1996 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA.

Panel Chair and Discussant, "Feminist Strategies and the Struggle or Women's Emancipation." 1996 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association

Participant, "Marxism in the New World Order." International Conference sponsored by the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Nov.12-14,1992.

Discussant, Panel on "Marxism and Culture." 1988 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA.

Section Organizer, Panels on "Contemporary Issues In Marxist Theory." 1987 Meeting of the North American Society for Social Philosophy, Charlotte, NC.

Discussant, Panel on "Contemporary Political Theory." 1985 Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Nashville, TN.

Participant, Sloan Foundation Workshop in the New Liberal Arts, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, August 4-16.

Discussant, Sloan Foundation Symposium on Technology and Freedom." Davidson College, Davidson, NC, March 29-30.

Discussant, Panel on "Epistemology and Politics." 1984 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Savannah GA.

Discussant, Panel on "Challenges to Liberalism." 1984 Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Sacramento, CA.

Discussant, National Security Seminar of the National Strategy Information Center, The University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, February 15-16.

GRANTS AND LEAVES

 Davidson Faculty Research Grant (Frankfurt), Summer 1993.

Davidson Faculty Research Grant (Budapest), Summer 1991.

Dean Rusk Program Travel Grant (Nicaragua and Guatemala), May 14-29, 1990. 

Dean Rusk Program Travel Grant (Nicaragua, Guatemala and

Costa Rica), February 21-March 6, 1988. 

Pew Foundation Grant for Interdisciplinary Course Development, Summer 1988. 

Davidson Faculty Research Grant (Louvain, Paris), Summer 1988.

Dean Rusk Program Travel Grant (El Salvador), November 16-24, 1987.

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant for Inter-disciplinary Study (Fall Term Leave), 1986.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant for Interdisciplinary Course Development (Winter Term Leave), 1986-1987.

National Endowment for the Humanities Travel to Collections

Grant (Frankfurt), Summer 1986.

Davidson Faculty Research Grant (Frankfurt and Munich), Summer 1986.

Davidson Faculty Research Grant (Frankfurt and Paris), Summer 1983.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Grant (Frankfurt and Paris), Summer 1982.

COLLEGE SERVICE

Educational Policy Committee, 1999- 

Chair, Humanities Program, 1993 - 1996

Second Year Program Director, Humanities Program, 1990-1993

Humanities Task Force, Fall 1997

Humanities Steering Committee, 1982-83

Professional Affairs Committee, 1994 -- 1997

Institutional Review Board, 1994 -- 1995

Public Lectures Committee, 1993-94

Advisory Council on Personnel, Finance and Administration, 1990-1992.

Educational Policy Committee, 1987-1990

Pre-Law Committee, 1982-1989; Chair, 1986-1989

Review Board, 1987-1990

Library Committee, 1982-1985

Director, Davidson In Washington Program (1986, 1992)

Co-Director, Central America Travel Seminar, 1988, 1990

Co-Founder and Organizer, Faculty Reading Group, 1991-1993 Director, Senior Theses

Departmental and Freshmen Advising
 

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Political Science Association

Southern Political Science Association

Western Political Science Association

Midwest Political Science Association