Daniel I. O’Neill
Professor
Department of Political Science
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117325
234 Anderson Hall
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7325
telephone: (352) 273-2386
E-mail: doneill@ufl.edu
Education:
University of California, Los Angeles, Ph.D. in Political Science, 1999; M.A. 1995
Cornell University, B.A. in Government, Distinction in All Subjects, 1989
Academic Appointments:
Professor, University of Florida (2019-); affiliate faculty, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
Associate Professor, University of Florida (2009-2019); affiliate faculty, Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
Assistant Professor, University of Florida (2003-2009)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University (2002-2003)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (2003)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, California State University, Los Angeles (2002)
Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles (2000-2002)
Research and Teaching Interests:
History of Political Thought, Empire, Political Ideologies, Conservatism, Feminism, Liberalism, Scottish Enlightenment, American Political Thought, Democratic Theory, Hermeneutics, Multiculturalism
Publications:
Books:
Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire (Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2016), Berkeley Series in British Studies
- Subject of an “Author Meets Critics” Panel at the 2017 APSA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
- Reviewed in: CHOICE, Perspectives on Politics (Critical Dialogue), Review of Politics, Political Science Reviewer (symposium), The Historical Journal (review essay), American Historical Review, Modern Intellectual History (review essay), Canadian Journal of History, Intellectual History Review, The European Legacy, Journal of British Studies, Breac: A Digital Journal of Irish Studies
The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007; paperback edition 2012)
- Reviewed in: Perspectives on Politics, History of Political Thought, European Journal of Political Theory (review essay), American Historical Review, Journal of British Studies, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Intellectual History Review, H-Net Online (Humanities and Social Sciences reviews)
Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman, co-edited with Mary Lyndon Shanley and Iris Marion Young (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008)
Terence Ball, Richard Dagger, and Daniel O’Neill, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, 11th edition (New York and London: Routledge, 2020); 10th edition (New York and London: Routledge, 2017); 9th edition (New York: Pearson, 2014)
Terence Ball, Richard Dagger, and Daniel O’Neill, eds., Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, 11th edition (New York and London: Routledge, 2020); 10th edition (New York and London: Routledge, 2017); 9th edition (New York: Pearson, 2014)
Peer Reviewed Articles, Invited Book Chapters, Scholarly Exchanges:
“The Rhetoric of Reason in Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Men,” in The Oxford Handbook of Rhetoric and Political Theory, ed. Keith Topper and Dilip Gaonkar (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190220945.013.21
“Burke, Cicero, and the Personalization of Imperial Injustice,” in The Ciceronian Tradition in Political Theory, ed. Daniel J. Kapust and Gary Remer (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2021), pp. 178-197
“Edmund Burke on Slavery and the Slave Trade: A Response to Gregory M. Collins,” Slavery & Abolition, Vol. 41, No. 4 (2020): 816-827
“The Scottish Enlightenment,” in The Wollstonecraftian Mind, ed. Sandrine Bergès, Eileen Hunt Botting, and Alan Coffee (London: Routledge, 2020), pp. 63-76.
Book Symposium on Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire, in the Political Science Reviewer, Vol. 42, No. 1 (2018): 254-294 (with reviews by Ross Carroll, Burke Hendrix, Onur Ulas Ince, Lida Maxwell, and Brandon Turner, and a response by the author); anonymously peer reviewed.
“Burke and Paine on the Origins of British Imperialism in India,” in Comparative Political Theory in Time and Place: Theory’s Landscapes, ed. Daniel J. Kapust and Helen Kinsella (New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2016), pp. 105-129 (pp. 107-117 reprinted from Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire)
“The Cambridge ‘School’ (or ‘Mentality’) of Interpretation” (co-authored with Ben J. Taylor), in Interpretation in Political Theory, ed. Clement Fatovic and Sean Walsh (New York and London: Routledge, 2016); pp. 47-70
“Burke and Wollstonecraft: Contesting the Nation,” in Home and Nation in British Literature from the English to the French Revolutions, ed. Tony Cousins and Geoffrey Payne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015); pp. 187-201
“Edmund Burke, the ‘Science of Man’, and Statesmanship,” in Scientific Statesmanship, Governance and the History of Political Philosophy, ed. Antis P. Loizides and Kyriakos N. Demetriou (New York: Routledge, 2015); pp. 174-192
“Revisiting the Middle Way: The Logic of the History of Ideas after More than a Decade,” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 73, No. 4 (2012): 583-592; lead article for a Symposium on “Assessing and Extending The Logic of the History of Ideas” (pp. 583-665).
“The Sublime, the Beautiful, and the Political in Burke’s Work,” in The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry, ed. Michael Funk Deckard and Koen Vermeir (New York: Springer, 2012); pp. 193-221 (reprint of previously published material with minor additions)
“Rethinking Burke and India,” History of Political Thought, Vol. 30, No. 3 (2009): 492-523
“Introduction,” to Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman, co-authored with Mary Lyndon Shanley and Iris Marion Young (University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2008), pp. 1-14
“John Adams versus Mary Wollstonecraft on the French Revolution and Democracy,” Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 68, No. 3 (2007): 451-476
“A Tale of Two Indias: Burke and Mill on Empire and Slavery in the West Indies and America,” co-authored with Margaret Kohn, Political Theory, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2006): 192-228
“Burke on Democracy as the Death of Western Civilization,” Polity, Vol. 36, No.2 (2004): 201-225
“Shifting the Scottish Paradigm: The Discourse of Morals and Manners in Mary Wollstonecraft’s French Revolution,” History of Political Thought, Vol. 23, No. 1 (2002): 90-116
“Multicultural Liberals and the Rushdie Affair: A Critique of Kymlicka, Taylor, and Walzer,” The Review of Politics, Vol. 61, No. 2 (1999): 219-250
Editorial Introductions, Published Reports, Book Reviews, Encyclopedia Entries:
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Looking Backward, Looking Forward,” Perspectives on Politics 21, No. 3 (2023): 805-809
Michael Bernhard, Daniel I. O’Neill and Jennifer Boylan, “Report of the Editors of Perspectives on Politics to the American Political Science Association Council, 2022-2023,” Political Science Today 3, No.2 (2023): 53-57
Daniel I. O’Neill and Michael Bernhard, “Green Political Science,” Perspectives on Politics 21, No. 2 (2023): 413-417
Michael Bernhard, Karla Mundim, and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Latin America and Comparative Politics,” Perspectives on Politics 21, No. 1 (2023): 1-7
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Populism Revisited,” Perspectives on Politics 20, No. 3 (2022): 781-786
Review of P.J. Marshall, Edmund Burke and the British Empire in the West Indies: Wealth, Power, and Slavery, in Journal of Modern History, Vol. 94 No. 2 (2022): 441-443
Julia Lynch, Michael Bernhard, and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Pandemic Politics,” Perspectives on Politics 20, No. 2 (2022): 389-394
Michael Bernhard, Daniel I. O’Neill, and Jennifer Boylan, “Report of the Editors of Perspectives on Politics to the American Political Science Association Council, 2021-2022,” Political Science Today 2, No. 2 (2022): 44-49
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Goodbye to 1989 and All That,” Perspectives on Politics 20, No. 1 (2022): 1-7
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Race and Politics in America,” Perspectives on Politics 19, No. 4 (2021): 1053-1059
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Comparative Historical Analysis,” Perspectives on Politics 19, No. 3 (2021): 699-705
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “The Politics of Immigration,” Perspectives on Politics 19, No. 2 (2021): 351-355
Michael Bernhard, Daniel I. O’Neill, and Jennifer Boylan, “Perspectives on Politics Editors’ Report, 2020,” Political Science Today, 1, No. 2 (2021): 55-59
Michael Bernhard, and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Working Class Blues?” Perspectives on Politics 19, No. 1 (2021): 1-5
Joan Tronto, Michael Bernhard, and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Moving Beyond the Glass Ceiling?” Perspectives on Politics 18, No. 4 (2020): 1013-1015
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “The Uses of Violence,” Perspectives on Politics 18, No. 3 (2020): 701-704
Michael Bernhard, Daniel I. O’Neill, and Jennifer Boylan, “Perspectives on Politics Editors’ Report 2019,” PS: Political Science & Politics 53, No. 3 (2020): 603-607
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Whither America?” Perspectives on Politics 18, No. 2 (2020): 349-352
Samantha Majic, Daniel I. O’Neill, and Michael Bernhard, “Celebrity and Politics,” Perspectives on Politics 18, No. 1 (2020): 1-9
Daniel I. O’Neill and Michael Bernhard, “Perspectival Political Theory.” Perspectives on Politics 17, No. 4 (2019): 953-956
Michael Bernhard, Daniel I. O’Neill, and Jennifer Boylan, “Perspectives on Politics Editors’ Report 2018-2019,” PS: Political Science & Politics 52, No. 3 (2019): 588–92
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Trump: Causes and Consequences (the Sequel),” Perspectives on Politics 17, No. 3 (2019): 643-644
Michael Bernhard, and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Trump: Causes and Consequences,” Perspectives on Politics 17, No. 2 (2019): 317-324
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Issues in Qualitative Research,” Perspectives on Politics 17, No. 1 (2019): 1-3
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Digital Politics,” Perspectives on Politics 16, No. 4 (2018): 915-917
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “The Persistence of Authoritarianism,” Perspectives on Politics 16, No. 3 (2018): 595-598
Michael Bernhard, Daniel I. O’Neill, and Jennifer Boylan, “Perspectives on Politics Editors’ Report 2017-2018,” PS: Political Science and Politics 51, No. 2 (2018): 473–77.
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “The New (ab)Normal in American Politics,” Perspectives on Politics 16, No. 2 (2018): 307-310
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “The Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion,” Perspectives on Politics 16, No. 1 (2018): 1–4
Michael Bernhard and Daniel I. O’Neill, “Our Editorial Vision.” Perspectives on Politics 15, No. 4 (2017): 947–950
“Critical Dialogue” between Daniel O’Neill, Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire and Keally McBride, Mr. Mothercountry: The Man Who Made the Rule of Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), in Perspectives on Politics 15, No. 3 (2017): 841-846; commissioned by Jeffrey Isaac
“Edmund Burke,” for the Encyclopedia of Political Thought, ed. Michael T. Gibbons (London: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014); pp. 400-409
“The Political Theory of Carole Pateman,” co-authored with John Medearis and Anne Phillips, PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. 43, Issue 4 (2010): 813-819
“Whither Democracy?” Political Theory 38, No. 4 (2010): 564-575 (Review Essay)
Review of Thomas McCarthy, Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development and Karuna Mantena, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends of Liberal Imperialism, in Perspectives on Politics 8, No. 4 (2010): 1215-1217
“Empire,” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010); Vol. I, pp. 417-423
“Mary Wollstonecraft” in The SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory, ed. Mark Bevir (Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2010); Vol. III, pp. 1425-1427
Review of Feminist Interpretations of John Locke, ed. Nancy J. Hirschmann and Kirstie M. McClure, in American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy 8, No. 2 (Spring 2009): 20-22.
Review of Saba Bahar, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Social and Aesthetic Philosophy, in History of Political Thought 24, No. 2 (Summer 2003): 362-364
“Carole Pateman,” in American Political Scientists: A Dictionary, ed. Glenn H. Utter and Charles Lockhart (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002), pp. 307-310
“The Value of Diversity,” Review of Bhikhu Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism, in The Review of Politics 63, No. 4 (Fall 2001): 824-828
Conference Participation, Invited Papers, and Invited Talks:
Co-Chair, Perspectives on Politics Editorial Board Meeting (2022 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montréal, Canada)
Discussant, “Privilege, Freedom, and Revolution: Wollstonecraft as a Political Thinker” (2022 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Montréal, Canada)
Co-Chair, Perspectives on Politics Editorial Board Meeting (2021 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Seattle, WA)
Co-Chair, Perspectives on Politics Editorial Board Meeting (2020 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Virtual Meeting due to COVID-19)
Co-Chair, Perspectives on Politics Editorial Board Meeting (2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC)
Invited Participant, “How to Get Published” (with Michael Bernhard), The Methods Café (2019 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC)
Invited Panelist, “Author Meets Critics” panel on Daniel J. Kapust’s, Flattery and the History of Political Thought (2019 Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Austin, TX)
Organizer and Chair, “What Can Political Theorists Tell Us About the Trump Presidency?” (2018 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA)
Invited Participant, “How to Get Published,” (with Michael Bernhard), The Methods Café (2018 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA)
“Author Meets Critics” panel on Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire (2017 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA).
“Meet the (New) Editors of Perspectives on Politics” (panel at the 2017 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA)
Presenter on the conference-themed roundtable, “Ain’t I Legit? Wollstonecraft and the Problem of Political Exclusion” (part of “WOLLAPALOOZA! Making the Wollstonecraftian Mind” mini-conference at the 2017 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA)
Discussant, “Reason, Passion, Wrath: New Work on Wollstonecraft” (part of “WOLLAPALOOZA! Making the Wollstonecraftian Mind” mini-conference at the 2017 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA).
“Burke, Wollstonecraft, and Paine on the Meaning of the French Revolution” (Invited talk given at Iona College, NY, March 10, 2016)
“Burke and Paine on the Origins of British Imperialism in India” (Paper presented at the 2015 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA)
Discussant, “Gender and the History of Political Thought” (Panel at the 2015 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA)
“Contesting the Homeland: Burke and Wollstonecraft” (Paper presented at the 2014 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA)
“The Cambridge School(s) of Interpretation: An Overview and User’s Guide,” co-authored with Ben Taylor (Paper presented at the 2014 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA)
“Edmund Burke, Comparative Political Theory, and Empire: A Cautionary Tale for Historians of Political Thought” (Invited paper given at the conference Theory’s Landscapes: Movements, Memories, and Moments, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 2013)
“Mary Wollstonecraft and Democracy” (Invited paper presented at the Mary Wollstonecraft: Legacies conference, sponsored by the Center for Women’s Studies and Gender Research, University of Florida, February 2012)
“Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire” (Paper presented at the 2011 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA)
“Edmund Burke, Ireland, and the Conservative Logic of Empire” (Invited talk given at Cornell University’s Political Theory Workshop, November 2010)
“Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire” (Invited talk given at The Georgia Ethics and Political Philosophy Workshop, University of Georgia, May 2010)
Participant in Workshop on “Decolonization and the Franchise,” University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, April 17-18, 2009.
Section Chair, Political Theory (2009 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA)
Chair and Discussant, “Political Philosophy as Dialogue, Comedy, Tragedy, and Perversion” (Panel at the 2009 Southern Political Science Association Annua Meeting, New Orleans, LA)
Chair and Discussant, “Reconsidering Rousseau” (Panel at the 2009 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA)
“Burke, Ireland, and the Political Theory of Empire” (Paper presented at the 2008 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA)
Discussant, “Islam in Europe” (Center for European Studies, University of Florida, 2008)
“John Adams versus Mary Wollstonecraft on the French Revolution and Democracy” (Paper presented at the 2007 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL)
“Burke on India: Prolegomenon to a Revisionist View” (Paper presented at the 2007 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV and the 2007 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL)
“‘She is a most incongruous Creature’: John Adams versus Mary Wollstonecraft on the French Revolution” (Paper presented at the 2006 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA)
Chair and Discussant, “The Politics of Suffering” (Panel at the 2006 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA)
Section Chair, Political Theory (2005 Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, FL)
Invited Panelist, “Spectres and Monsters of Capital” (Panel at the 2005 Marxist Reading Group Conference, sponsored by the University of Florida English Department)
“A Tale of Two Indias: Burke and Mill on Empire and Slavery in the West Indies and America” (Paper presented at the 2005 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA)
“Exercising ‘Common Sense’: Burke’s Judgment of the French Revolution” (Paper presented at the 2004 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA)
“Are Women’s Rights Human Rights? Or, Burke and Wollstonecraft on Those ‘Other’ Rights of Man” (Paper presented at the 2002 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA)
“Theory and the ‘Method’ of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men” (Paper presented at the 2002 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA)
“Premature Constitution: Wollstonecraft’s French Revolution” (Invited Paper presented for the Conference “Inside/Outside Constitutionalisms: Rights/Revolutions/Empires,” at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2002)
“Burke, Wollstonecraft, and the Question of Rights” (Paper presented at the 2001 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA)
“Burke on the Death of Western Civilization” (Paper presented at the 2001 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA)
“Shifting the Scottish Paradigm: The Discourse of Morals and Manners in Mary Wollstonecraft’s French Revolution” (Paper presented at the 2000 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC)
External Grants:
American Political Science Association (2017-2021), subvention to co-edit Perspectives on Politics), $959,000 (Co-PI); extended through May 2023 (additional $402,963). Total: $1,361,963
Honors and Awards:
UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Student Council Teaching Award for Social Sciences (2016-2017)
UF Term Professorship (2016-2019)
University of Florida, Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award (Summer 2015)
College of Liberal Arts yearlong sabbatical (2013)
Department of Political Science Advisory Board Professor of the Year (2012)
Waldo W. Neikirk Term Professor (2011-2012)
University of Florida, Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award (Summer 2011)
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences “Teacher of the Year” Award (2009-2010)
University of Florida, Department of Political Science Research Grant (Summer 2007)
University of Florida, Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award (Summer 2006)
University of Florida, Department of Political Science Research Grant (Summer 2005)
University of Florida, Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award (Summer 2004)
Faculty Appreciation Award for Teaching Excellence, 2002, Given by Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society (UCLA Chapter)
Western Political Science Association Best Dissertation of the Year, Runner-Up, 2000-2001 (All Fields of Political Science)
University of California Office of the President Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1998-1999
Teaching Experience:
University of Florida (2003-2024):
Undergraduate: Introduction to Political Theory, Great Political Thinkers I and Great Political Thinkers II, Problems of Democracy, Political Ideologies, American Political Thought, What is the Good Life?
Graduate: Politics and Theory (core graduate seminar), Interrogating the Roots of Liberalism, Liberalism & Its Critics, Modern Political Thought, Political Theory and Empire, American Political Thought, Contemporary Political Theory
Pepperdine University (2002-2003): American Political Thought, Contemporary American Ideologies, American Government, Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
California State University, Los Angeles (Fall 2002): Early Modern Political Thought
University of Southern California (Spring 2003): Contemporary American Ideologies
University of California, Los Angeles (2000-2002): Introduction to Political Theory, Ancient and Medieval Political Thought, Early Modern Political Thought, Late Modern and Contemporary Political Thought; The Scottish Enlightenment and the Roots of Liberalism, Reconsidering Conservatism and Feminism: Burke and Wollstonecraft in Context
Service to the Profession:
Associate Editor (for Political Theory) and Book Review Editor, Perspectives on Politics (2017-2023).
Invited, commissioned, and edited reviews of over 2,000 books across all fields of political science.
Reviewed and wrote all decision letters for roughly 500 article manuscripts in political theory.
Manuscript reviewer for: American Political Science Review, Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Journal of the History of Ideas, Polity, Review of Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Theory, The Historical Journal, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Journal of International Political Theory, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Law and History Review, Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, Penn State University Press, Polity Press, Pearson Longman Publishers
Service to the University and College:
UF Quest Curriculum Committee, Spring 2018
Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award Committee, 2015-2016
University Writing Program Director’s Search Committee, 2011-2012; 2012-2013
“Teacher of the Year” Award Committee, 2010
Dean’s University Writing Program Task Force, Appointed Member, Spring 2010
Faculty Senate, Elected Member, 2009-2010, 2008-2009, 2007-2008
UF Community Campaign, Faculty Representative, 2005-2006
UF Community Campaign, Faculty Representative 2004-2005
UF Community Campaign, Faculty Representative, 2003-2004
CLAS Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award Committee, Member, 2004-2005; 2015-2016
Service to the Department:
Departmental Governance:
Associate Chair, 2011-2012, 2010-2011
Chair’s Advisory Committee (CAC), Elected Member, 2018-2019
Chair’s Advisory Committee (CAC), Elected Member, 2016-2017
Chair’s Advisory Committee (CAC), Elected Member, 2015-2016
Chair’s Advisory Committee (CAC), Elected Member, Chair, 2014-2015
Chair’s Advisory Committee (CAC), Elected Member, 2008-2009
Chair’s Advisory Committee (CAC), Elected Member, 2007-2008
Other Departmental Service:
Best Graduate Teacher Award Committee, Chair (Spring 2023)
Best Graduate Teacher Award Committee, Chair (Spring 2022)
Graduate Stipends and Admissions Committee, Member (2021-2022)
Faculty Mentor for Cristian Pérez Muñoz, 2021-
Faculty Mentor for Paul Gutierrez, 2020-2023
Best Graduate Student Teacher Award Committee (Fall 2020)
Political Theory Search Committee (Fall 2019)
Public Policy Search Committee (Fall 2019)
Tenure and Promotion Committee, Fall 2019 (Michael McDonald)
Merit Committee, Elected Member, 2017-2019; Chair (2019)
CLAS Dissertation Fellowship Committee (Fall 2018)
Political Theory Field Committee, Member, Fall 2017-
Faculty Mentor for Steven Klein, 2017-2020
Tenure and Promotion Committee, Fall 2017 (Zach Selden)
Chair Search Committee, Elected Member, 2016-2017
Political Theory Search Committee, Member, 2016-2017
Best Undergraduate Paper Award Committee, Chair, 2015-2016
Merit Committee, Elected Member, 2013-2015; Chair (2015)
Institute for Qualitative Methods Research Committee, Chair (2015)
Graduate Stipends and Admissions Committee, Member, 2013-2014
Political Theory Field Committee, Chair (Fall 2011-Spring 2017)
Merit Committee, Elected Member, 2009-2011
Strategic Planning Committee, Member, 2009-2010
Graduate Stipends and Admissions Committee, Member, 2009-2010
Chair Search Committee, Elected Member, 2009-2010
Political Theory Search Committee, Member, Fall 2008
Undergraduate Advisor, 2008-2009
Political Theory Field Committee, Chair (Spring 2007-Spring 2010)
Political Theory Field Committee, Member, Fall 2003-Fall 2006
Graduate Stipends and Recruitment Committee, Member, Spring 2008
Best Graduate Paper Committee, Member, 2008
Market Equity Review Committee, Elected Member, Spring 2007
Best Graduate Student Teacher Committee, Member, Spring 2006
Judicial Politics Search Committee, Member, Fall 2005
Peer Teaching Review Committee, Member, Spring 2005
Undergraduate Program Committee, Member, Fall 2005
Best Undergraduate Paper Committee, Member, Spring 2005
Undergraduate Advisor, 2004-2005
Dissertation Fellowship Committee, Member, Spring 2004
Best Graduate Paper Committee, Member, Spring 2004
Graduate Student Mentoring:
Nicholas Dzoba (Chair of Ph.D. Committee). Dissertation: “The Forgotten Executive: An Exploration of the U.S. President as an Agent of Republican Freedom” (2024).
Alec Dinnin (Chair of Ph.D. Committee). Dissertation: “Democracy and Disorientation: José Ortega y Gasset’s Post-Imperial Liberalism” (2020). Currently: Postdoctoral Associate, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Lorna Bracewell (Chair of Ph.D. Committee). Dissertation: “Beyond Barnard: Feminism, Liberalism, and the Sex Wars” (2016). Currently: Associate Professor of Professor of Political Science, Flagler College; formerly: Associate Professor, University of Nebraska-Kearney (Tenure-Track). Bracewell’s Signs article drawn from her dissertation, “Beyond Barnard: Liberalism, Antipornography Feminism, and the Sex Wars,” won the APSA’s 2017 Okin-Young Award for the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year.
Dustin Fridkin (Chair of Ph.D. Committee). Dissertation: “Apprehensions of Democracy in Antebellum American Political Thought: Calhoun, Emerson, Douglass, and Whitman” (2016). Currently: Santa Fe College, Gainesville, FL (Tenure).
Karla Mundim (Co-Chair of Ph.D. Committee). Dissertation: “Legacies of Resistance: A Long-Range Approach to Indigenous Movement Convergence in the Andes” (2023). Currently: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at John Jay College, New York.
Currently Chair of 1 Ph.D. Committee (Yuanxin Wang)
Have served or am currently serving on 80 MA and Ph.D. committees within the Department of Political Science, across all fields.
External member of 4 Ph.D. committees at UF (3 in history, 1 in religion)
Member of 1 terminal MA committee in Latin American Studies
Professional Associations:
Member: American Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, Southern Political Science Association
References:
Available Upon Request