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Monday, February 8th, 2010
The Tocqueville Forum at Georgetown University is pleased to announce that Sarah Houser was selected, among the many excellent applicants, for the 2010-2011 Post-Doctoral Fellowship. The courses Houser will teach remains to be announced.

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Sarah Houser’s primary area of concentration is Political Theory with a secondary concentration in American politics. She is particularly interested in the question of nature of the political community and the obligations of citizenship in a contemporary context. She completed and defended her dissertation, entitled Loving Pimlico: Patriotism in the Age of the Cosmopolis, and directed by Michael Zuckert, in August 2009. In her dissertation Houser examines the cosmopolitan critique of patriotism in the work of Martha Nussbaum and the concept of “constitutional patriotism,” first proposed by Jürgen Habermas and popular among theorists of the European Union, as well as a positive theory of patriotism based upon a Thomistic and Aristotelian understanding of friendship.
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Jack Miller Center Post-Doctoral Fellowships
Tags: Citizenship, civic education, Cosmopolitanism, Jack Miller Center, Jürgen Habermas, Martha Nussbaum, Sarah Houser, Tocqueville Forum
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Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
The Department emphasizes the study of political thought and statesmanship through the use of primary sources and the great texts of political thought.
Tags: Ashland University, David Foster, Liberal Arts, Peter Schramm, Political Science, tenure track
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2010
The Villanova Center for Liberal Education seeks scholars in the Humanities to apply for the Lawrence C. Gallen, OSA, Post-doctoral Teaching Fellowship, starting in the Fall Semester 2010.
Tags: Academic Jobs, Villanaova
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
The American university is suffering from a deep-seated institutional crisis that has grown rapidly more dire since the 1970s.
Tags: Academic Job Market, Academic Opportunity, Higher Education, Jessica Loudis, Louis Menand
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
While the graduate students here talked strategy and hoped to pick up leads on positions or how to make themselves more marketable, many professors were talking about whether doctoral programs should change — both in light of the tight job market and out of larger concerns about graduate education.
Tags: Academic History, Academic Job Market, History Job Market
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
The Jack Miller Center will convene our annual Summer Institute, June 14-26, in Charlottesvill, VA. Co-hosted by the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia, this year’s Summer Institute will bring together some of the nation’s leading junior scholars.
Tags: civic education, Jack Miller Center, Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy, University of Virginia
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Monday, December 28th, 2009
The Program in Democracy and Citizenship and the Political Science Department at Emory University invite applications for the Jack Miller Center Post-Doctoral Fellowship in American Political Thought for the 2010-2011 academic year. The Miller Fellow will teach three courses focusing on the American political tradition over two semesters. In addition, the Fellow will be expected [...]
Tags: Emory University, Jack Miller Center, Political Science
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Thursday, December 10th, 2009
The Department of Political Science invites applications for up to five limited-term appointments in the following subfields: Canadian politics and public administration and international relations; ability to teach political theory or comparative politics will be an asset.
Tags: Concordia University, Political Science, Public administration, Social Sciences
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Monday, November 23rd, 2009
Berry College will hold a one day conference on the general topic of “Teaching American Politics.”
Possible themes include:
* Relationship between Civic Education and Liberal Education
* Use of Literature and Film
* The Heroic Approach (Washington, Lincoln, MLK)
* Friendly Foreign Critics (Tocqueville, Chesterton)
* Teaching Technologies
* The Constitution and Constitutional Law.
Tags: Berry College, Peter Lawler, Political Science Conference, teaching
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