Placement News

Once again, we have attempted to collect accurate information about placements in political theory the previous year. All schools that advertised positions in the APSA Placement Newsletter were contacted by e-mail about the results of their searches. This year, approximately 65 jobs were advertised. We received responses in regard to some 35 of these.

Since this is only slightly more than half of the schools contacted, if you have information about positions not reported in this newsletter, please send this to George Klosko, at gk@virginia.edu. If sufficient additional information is received, an updated version of this newsletter will be sent out.

Responses are generally edited slightly, for uniformity, and compiled as accurately as possible, given our limited resources. The results are as follows.

Once again, about 65 positions were advertised.

Positions filled

California State University - Fullerton

California State University - Fullerton hired Mark Redhead as an Assistant Professor. He is a graduate of the New School for Social Research and was most recently at Oregon State University. His dissertation dealt with Charles Taylor. He is the author of a book on Taylor and several articles.

California State University - Los Angeles

California State University - Los Angeles hired Michael McLendon as an assistant professor. He is from the University of Texas at Austin.

University of Chicago

No hire made for the position at this time, although there are still deliberations about one candidate.

Concord College

Sally Howard Campbell was hired as an Assistant Professor of Political Science, for a tenure track position. Her PhD is from the University of Houston, December 2001; her dissertation: "Rousseau's Transformation of the Concept of Alienation."

DePaul University

Norman Finkelstein was hired as an Assistant Professor.

University of Florida

The University of Florida has hired Daniel O'Neill, as an Assistant Professor, starting in Fall 2003. Professor O'Neill specializes in Anglo-American Political Theory, and completed his dissertation, "A Revolution in Morals and Manners: The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate," in 1999 at the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Carole Pateman. He is presently Visiting Instructor at Pepperdine University.

George Washington University

Steven Kelts, from the Stanford University Political Science Department, was hired as director of the "Politics and Values" program. He will also be a member of the political science department and teach political theory courses. His dissertation was entitled "Moralized Selves: Liberty and Self-Government in the Multicultural State."

University of Georgia

Keith Dougherty was hired as a formal theorist. He received his Ph.D. in 1997 from Maryland and has been teaching at Florida International University. He published Collective Action under the Articles of Confederation (Cambridge 2001) as well as articles in various journals.

London School of Economics

London School of Economics has hired Katrin Flikschuh to teach political theory.

Marquette University

Dr. Ruth Groff was hired as Visiting Assistant Professor.

McGill University

Arash Abizadeh (Ph.D., Harvard) was hired as an assistant professor. He had been teaching at Wesleyan University.

The Tomlinson Chair in Political Theory and Philosophy was not filled.

Mississippi University for Women

Jack Miller has been hired for a tenure-track position in political science/philosophy. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Washington; his rank will be assistant professor, and he will begin teaching in August 2003.

Moravian College

Moravian College hired Khristina Haddad. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Michigan (expected 9/03) Certificate in Women's Studies, University of Michigan in 2003. Her dissertation: "A Conceptual Guide to the Political Present: Political Order's Temporal Logic in Augustine, Hobbes, Diderot and Arendt."

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill hired Georg Vanberg at the assistant professor level, for a position in Formal Theory. He is from the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (PhD, University of Rochester)

Northern Arizona University

The department hired Joel Olson as an Assistant Professor in a tenure-track position. He received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Minnesota in 2001, and his dissertation was "The Democratic Problem of the White Citizen." In the 2002-2003 academic year, Dr. Olson was a residential faculty at Estrella Mountain College (Arizona).

University of Notre Dame

Notre Dame hired Gerry Mackie (Ph.D., Chicago 2000) as an Assistant Professor. He will begin at Notre Dame in the fall (2003), and is presently a Research Fellow in the Social and Political Theory Group, Institute for Advanced Studies, the Australian National University. His publications include the forthcoming book, Democracy Defended (Cambridge University Press), which will be the focus of a Roundtable at the 2003 APSA Meetings in Philadelphia.

University of Northern Iowa

Anna Kogl (PhD from the U. of Maryland) was hired at the assistant professor level.

Ohio University

The Department of Political Science and the Women's Studies Program at Ohio University hired Judith Grant at the rank of Associate Professor with tenure in Political Science. She will begin at OU in Fall 2003 and was previously Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Southern California.

University of Pennsylvania

The advertisement of the University of Pennsylvania was a cross-listing to the Penn Initiative in Political Science, which sought people with interests corresponding to five themes that cut across conventional subfields. A political theorist was not hired under the Initiative this year, but the search is continuing into next year, and it is possible that a theorist will emerge before it ends.

Princeton University

Sankar Muthu was hired as an Assistant Professor of Politics. He had previously taught at the New School.

Reed College

Reed College made an appointment at the assistant professor level.

University of Rochester

The University of Rochester made no hire this year in positive political theory, and plans to search again next year.

Saint Joseph's University

Susan P. Liebell was hired at the rank of Assistant Professor. Her PhD is from the University of Chicago. 2001. Her dissertation is "Environmental Liberalism: The Values and Mechanisms of a Principled Political Theory."

Southwest Missouri State University

Southwest Missouri State University hired Denise Dutton who is currently finishing her dissertation at Princeton University. She will be an assistant professor on a tenure track position.

Stanford University

As of September1, James Fishkin will hold the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication and be Professor of Political Science. He will also be Director of Stanford's new Center for Deliberative Democracy. His work will focus on deliberative democracy, and it will combine normative theory and empirical issues.

Tulane University

As of the end of May, Tulane had an offer pending to a candidate for an advertised, tenure-track position in political theory. Tulane has also budgeted for and is looking for a 1-year visitor to teach survey courses in political thought, plus contemporary political theory, for 2003-2004.

West Texas A & M University

West Texas A&M University hired Marlene Karen Sokolon for its political theory/philosophy position., at the assistant professor level. She will receive her doctorate from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, in August. Her dissertation was entitled "Political Emotions: Aristotle and the Symphony of Reason and Emotion." The dissertation was defended and accepted in April.

Western Washington University

Western Washington University appointed Vicki Hseuh at the assistant professor level. Her Ph.D., is expected from Johns Hopkins University; her dissertation is "Disrupting the Empire of Uniformity: Cultural Negotiation and the Emergence of Modern Constitutionalism." She is currently Visiting Instructor, at Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Eric MacGilvray was hired as an assistant professor. He is a 1999 Ph.D. from Chicago. His dissertation title was: "The Task Before Us: Pragmatism and Political Justification." Since 1999 he has been the William Rainey Harper Assistant Professor in the College at the University of Chicago.

Positions not filled

The following schools reported that positions were either withdrawn or not filled:

California State University - San Bernardino

Calvin College

City College of the City University of New York

University of Southern Indiana

Harvard School of Public Health (This position is reported to be not really in Political Theory.)

George Klosko, Newsletter Editor
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