Department of Political Science, Davidson College, Davidson, NC 28036

Office: 704-894-2454/Home: 704-892-4938/Fax: 704-892-2005

e-mail: peahrensdorf@davidson.edu
 

Curriculum Vitae, March 27, 2000
 

BIRTHDATE: January 30, 1958
 

BIRTHPLACE: Manila, Philippines
 

EDUCATION:

Ph.D., University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, December 1989.
 

Thesis: "Socrates' Defense of the Philosophic Life in Plato's Phaedo."
 

Fundamentals (Doctoral Qualifying Examinations) passed with Distinction, September 1983.
 

B.A. Summa Cum Laude, Yale University, Department of Political Science, May 1980.
 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

Associate Professor of Political Science and Humanities, Adjunct Professor of Classics, Davidson College, 1995-
 

Assistant Professor of Political Science and Humanities, Davidson College, 1989-1995.
 

Visiting Instructor of Political Science, Kenyon College, 1986-89.
 

Lecturer, University of Chicago, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, 1983-85.

PUBLICATIONS /BOOKS:

Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace, co-authored with Thomas L. Pangle, University Press of Kansas, May 1999.
 

The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy:An Interpretation of Plato's Phaedo, State University of New York Press, 1995.
 

PUBLICATIONS/ARTICLES AND ESSAYS:

"The Fear of Death and the Longing for Immortality: Hobbes and Thucydides on Human Nature and the Problem of Anarchy," American Political Science Review, Fall 2000.
 

"Thucydides' Realistic Critique of Realism," Polity, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 1997, pp. 231-265.
 

"The Question of Historical Context and the Study of Plato," Polity, Vol. 27, No. 1, Fall 1994, pp. 113-135.
 

"Allan Bloom: September 14, 1930--October 7, 1992," The Political Science Reviewer 22 (1993), pp. 11-15.
 

"Socrates' Understanding of the Problem of Religion and Politics," in Religion and Politics, edited by F. Baumann and K. Jensen (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1989), pp. 94-109.
 

BOOK REVIEWS:

Review of Plato's Statesman: The Web of Politics by Stanley Rosen, Journal of Politics, Vol. 58, No. 4, November 1996, pp. 1241-43.
 

Review of The War Lover: A Study of Plato's Republic by Leon Harold Craig, American Political Science Review, Vol. 89, No. 2, June 1995, p. 482.

PAPERS:

"The Heroism of Plato's Socrates," delivered at the University of Chicago John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy Conference on "Heroes and Heroism," May 18, 1990.
 

"Socrates' Defense of Political Philosophy in the Phaedo" (revised), delivered at the SPSA Annual Meeting, November 4, 1988.
 

"Socrates' Defense of Political Philosophy in the Phaedo," delivered at the IPSA World Congress, September 1, 1988.
 

"Socrates and the Impiety Charge: the Conflict between Religion and Political Philosophy," delivered at the NPSA Annual Meeting, November 13, 1987.
 

"Socrates' Understanding of the Problem of Religion and Politics," delivered at the APSA Annual Meeting, August 28, 1986.
 

HONORS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS:

Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace named an "Outstanding Academic Title" of 1999 by Choice Magazine (a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association), November 1999.
 

Fulbright Scholar Award, Council for International Exchange of Scholars, March 1999. (Lecturing and Research Award at the Universidad del CEMA in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March-July 2000)
 

Recipient of Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant, Summer 1998.
 

Recipient of Earhart Foundation Fellowship Research Grant, Summer 1993.
 

Recipient of John M. Olin Foundation Faculty Fellowship, 1991-92.
 

Junior Fellow, John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy, 1984-85.
 

Searle Fellow, 1980-83.
 

Prize for the best senior thesis in political philosophy, May 1980.
 

Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, December 1979.
 

Hart Lyman Prize, ranking prize of the Junior Class, May 1979.
 

Daniel Tyler, Jr. Prize for the best sophomore political science major, May 1978.
 

Francis E. Riggs Prize for the best student in Directed Studies (Freshman Honors Program), May 1977.
 

LANGUAGES:

Spanish, French, Ancient Greek.
 

TEACHING INTERESTS

Classical and Modern Political Theory, Contemporary Political Ideologies, American Political Thought, Religion and Politics, Theories of International Relations.