Title:	Research Professor of Political Science and Classical Studies
Office Location:	319 Perkins Lib
Office Phone:	(919) 660-4367
Email Address:	euben@duke.edu
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• PhD University of California, Berkeley, 1968
• Ph.D. London School of Economics, 1968
• Masters University of California, Berkeley, 1964
• Bachelor of Arts (with honors) Swarthmore College, 1961
• Bachelor of Arts Exeter College, Oxford, 1961

Research Interests:

PETER EUBEN (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Research Professor of Political Science and the Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics. He specializes in ancient, modern, and contemporary political thought; literature and politics; political education; democratic culture and politics; and the politics of morality. He is the author of The Tragedy of Political Theory, Corrupting Youth, and Platonic Noise, editor of Political Theory and Greek Tragedy, and co-editor of Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy. He has published articles in numerous journals including The American Political Science Review, and Political Theory. He has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research council, the National Humanities Foundation, and was a Laurence Rockefeller Fellow at the Princeton Center for the Study of Human Values. He has also won five teaching awards. He is presently working on a book entitled, The Necessities of Utopia and the Prospects for Rationality.

1. J.P. Euben. "The Uses of Classical Political Theory in Contemporary America." Historically Speaking   (March, 2005). (plus responses to my critics)
2. J.P. Euben. "Pure Corruption." Private and Public Corruption. Edited by Herfferman and Klein.  Roman & Littlefield (2004).
3. J.P. Euben. "Platonic Noise." Political Theory   (Winter, 2003).
4. J.P. Euben. "Arendt as Political Educator." Arendt and Education. Edited by M. Gordon.  Roman & Littlefield (2003).