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Curriculum Vitae 
J. Peter Euben
319 Perkins Lib
Durham, NC 27708
+1 919 660 4367 (office)
euben@duke.edu (email)

Education:

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

Professional Experience / Employment History

    Duke University
        Research Professor, Political Science, 2002-present
    Adjunct Professor of Classical Studies, and Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics
    Wesleyan University
        Ford Professor, 1988-1989
    University of California, Santa Cruz
        Professor, 1978-2002
        Member, Committee on Classics, 1977-2002
        Member, Graduate Faculty in the History of Consciousness, 1976-2002
    (Chair, 1977-1978)
        Member, Graduate Faculty of Sociology, 1976-1978
        Associate Professor of Politics, 1972-1978
        Assistant Professor of Politics, 1967-1972

Visiting Positions

    Professor, University of California, San Diego, Spring 1997
    Professor, University of California, Berkeley, Spring 1996
    Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1986
    Professor, Haverford College, 1980

Publications

   Books

J.P. Euben. Platonic Noise: Essays on the Modernity of Classical Political Thought.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, (2001).
J.P. Euben. Corrupting Youth: Political Education and Democratic Culture.  Princeton: Princeton University Press, (1997).
 Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy.  edited by Peter Euben, Josiah Ober and John Wallach--introduction co-author and chapter author) Cornell University Press, Ithaca, .
J.P. Euben. The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken.  Princeton University Press, (1990).
 Greek Tragedy and Political Theory.  edited by Peter Euben Ieditor and author) University of California Press, Berkeley, .

   Papers Published

J.P. Euben. "The Uses of Classical Political Theory in Contemporary America." Historically Speaking   (March, 2005). (plus responses to my critics)
J.P. Euben. "Theodicies of Corruption." Literature and Politics. Edited by Goi and Dolan.  Roman & Littlefield (forthcoming).
J.P. Euben. "Pure Corruption." Private and Public Corruption. Edited by Herfferman and Klein.  Roman & Littlefield (2004).
J.P. Euben. "Platonic Noise." Political Theory   (Winter, 2003).
J.P. Euben. "Arendt as Political Educator." Arendt and Education. Edited by M. Gordon.  Roman & Littlefield (forthcoming).
J.P. Euben with Karen Bassi. "Introducation, "Declassifying Hellenism."   vol. parallax 29  (October-December 2003).
J.P. Euben. "Final Lecture." P.S.   (Fall, 2002).
J.P. Euben. "Critical Patriotism." Academe   (September/October 2002).
J.P. Euben. "The Polis, Globalization and the Politics of Space." Political Visions. Edited by Botwinick and Connelly.  Princeton University Press .
J.P. Euben. "Aristophanes in America." Citizenship and Public Space. Edited by Tracy Strong.  University of Minnesota Press .
J.P. Euben. "Dissenting with Ober (review essay)." Polis   .
J.P. Euben. "Reforming the Liberal Arts." Civic Arts Review  vol. 13 no. 2,  (Summer/Fall 2000).
J.P. Euben. "Reforming the Liberal Arts." Critics Art Review  vol. 13 no. 2,  (Summer/Fall 2000).
J.P. Euben. "Hannah Arendt's Hellenism." Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt. Edited by Dana Villa.   .
J.P. Euben. "The Politics of Nostalgia and Theories of Loss." Vocations of Political Theory  University of Minnesota Press .
J.P. Euben. "On the Uses and Disadvantages of Hellenic States for Political and Social Life." Polis  vol. 15   45-74.
J.P. Euben. "Oedipean Complexities and Political Science: Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge." Contemporary Empirical Political Theory: Essays in Honor of David Easton. Edited by Kristen Monroe.  University of California Press, Berkeley .
J.P. Euben. "When There are Gray Skies: Aristophanes' Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens." South Atlantic Quarterly   .
J.P. Euben. "Taking It to the Streets: Radical Democracy and Radicalizing Theory." Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship, and the State. Edited by David Trend.  Routledge Press, New York  62-77.
J.P. Euben. "Reading Democracy: Socratic Dialogues and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens." Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern. Edited by Josiah Ober and Charles Hedrick.  Princeton University Press, Princeton  327-359.
J.P. Euben. "The Debate Over the Can(n)on." Civic Arts Review  vol. 7 no. 1,   4-15.
J.P. Euben. "Introduction." The Contemporary Significance of Athenian Democracy. Edited by Euben, Ober and Wallach.  Cornell University Press, Ithaca  1-26.
J.P. Euben. "Democracy and Political Theory." The Contemporary Significance of Athenian Democracy. Edited by Euben, Ober and Wallach.  Cornell University Press, Ithaca  198-223.
J.P. Euben. "Democracy Ancient and Modern." Political Science  vol. 26 no. 3,   478-481.
J.P. Euben. "How to Study Ancient Moral and Political Philosophy." Polis  vol. 11 no. 1,   3-27.
J.P. Euben. "Socrates in America." Salmagundi  vol. 92   211-225.
J.P. Euben. "Democracy in America: Bringing It All Back Home." Tikkun  vol. 5 no. 6,   13-16, 101-106.
J.P. Euben. "Corruption." Political Theory and Conceptual Change. Edited by Ball, Hanson and Farr.  Cambridge University Press  220-246.
J.P. Euben. "Introduction." Greek Tragedy and Political Theory  University of California Press (1988) 1-41.
J.P. Euben. "Political Corruption and the Orestes." Political Theory and Greek Tragedy  University of California Press, Berkeley (1988) 222-250.
J.P. Euben. "The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory." Political Theory  vol. 14 no. 3,   359-390.
J.P. Euben. "Disciplinary Professionalism-Response to Weaver and Hahn." Against the Current: Reform and Experimentation in Higher Education. Edited by Richard Jones and Barbara Leign Smith.  Schenkman Publishing Company, Cambridge .
J.P. Euben. "Justice and the Oresteia." The American Political Science Review  vol. 76   22-23.
J.P. Euben. "Philosophy and the Professions." Democracy  vol. 1 no. 2,   112-127.
J.P. Euben. "Philosophy and Politics in Plato's Crito." Political Theory  vol. 6 no. 2,   149-172.
J.P. Euben. "On Political Corruption." The Antioch Review    103-118.
J.P. Euben. "Political Equality and the Greek Polis." Liberalism and the Modern Polity. Edited by McGrath.  Marcel Dekker, Boston  207-229.
J.P. Euben. "Thought and Action in Thucydides." Political Theory and Praxis: New Perspectives. Edited by T. Ball.  University of Minnesota Press  28-57.
J.P. Euben. "Walzer's Obligations." Philosophy and Public Affairs   .
J.P. Euben. "Relevance and Deauthorization in America's Polity." The Massachusetts Review    409-420.
J.P. Euben. "Political Science and Political Silence." Power and Community. Edited by Green and Levinson.  Random House  1-57.

   Papers In Preparation

   Other

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1998

Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Award, 1993

Laurence Rockefeller Fellow in the Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 1992-1993

Social Sciences Division Distinguished Teaching Award, 1992

Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1991

Nominee for Professor of the Year in the C.A.S.E. Program, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1989

Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1981-1982

University of California Curriculum Grant, 0 1978

University of California Curriculum Fellowship, 0 1976

University of California Fellowship, 0 1976

University of California Fellowship, 0 1974

UCSC Junior Faculty Fellowship, 0 1969

Social Science Research Council Fellowship to University of London, 1966-1967

University of California Advanced Graduate Traveling Fellowship (declined), 1966-1967

Professional Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

"Theodicies of Corruption", Australian National University, July 2004
"The Ironies of Politics", Monash University, July 2004
"The Politics of Righteousness", Boston College, April 2003
"Is More Less: Utopia, Rationality and Politics", University of Chicago, March 2003
"Irony and Utopia", SUNY Purchase, February 2003
"The Necessity of Utopia", University of Michigan, June 2001
"What's Funny About Politics?", Georgetown University, March 2001
"Thinking about Multiculturalism", Rice University, March 2000
"Should Popular Culture Support Morality", Princeton University, April 2000
"On The Responsibilities of Filmmakers", North Carolina School of the Arts, Keenan Center, November 2000
"The Practicality of Philosophy", Convocation Lecture, Willamette University, September 1999
"Pyrrhic Victories in the Culture Wars", paper delivered to the National Association of Liberal Arts Colleges, March 1999
"In Praise of Nostalgia", University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, November 1998
"Comedic Experience and Democracy", Bucknell University, April 1998
"Post-modern Education in a Multicultrual Society", Duke University, February 1998
"Reading Texts: Doing Politics", Univesity of California, Los Angeles, January 1998
"High and 'Low' Culture in Ancient and Modern Democracy", Northwestern University, February 1997
"Greek Tragedy and the Discourse of Modernity", University of Chicago, 1997
"Aristophanes, Ralph Kramden and Horatio Alger as an Unholy Trinity", University of Maryland, November 1996
"Liberal Education and Democracy", Princeton University (part of the 200-year anniversary celebration), October 1996
"Sophocles and the Contest over Public Reason", Georgetown University, November 1995
"Nationalism and Multiculturalism", University of Melbourne, September 1995
"Athenian Political Thought and the Habermas-Foucault Debate", Monash University, September 1995
"Radical Democracy and Philosophy", Yale University, November 1995
"Antigone, Rawls and Habermas", Institute for Philosophy, Prague, May 1995
"Greek Tragedy and Public Reason", University of Lancaster, February 1995
"Antigone and the Languages of Politics", University of Michigan, February 1995
"Antigone and the Discourse of Modernity", University of Bristol, February 1995
"Taking It to the Streets: Radical Democracy and Radicalizing Theory", Institute of Philosophy, Prague, May 1994
"Multiculturalism and the Education of Democratic Citizens", Sarah Lawrence College, 1993
"Its a Joke: Comedy, Political Theory and Democratic Politics", Princeton, 1993
"Pedagogy and Politics", Columbia Teachers College, 1993
"Thinking Democratically", Rutgers University, 1993
"Hobbes and the Ontology of Liberalism", Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain, December 1992
"Political and Politicized Education in a Democratic Polity", Philosophy and Public Affairs Lecture, Princeton, 1992
"Imploding the Canon: Greek Political Theory and Educational Controversy", Swarthmore College, 1992
"Educating Democracy", Columbia Faculty Seminar, 1992
"Political and Politicized Education", Wesleyan University, 1991
"Canonizing Political Theory", University of Connecticut, 1991
"Greek Tragedy and American Film", Whitman College, 1991
"Political Education in a 'Democratic' Polity", Williams College, 1991
"Professing Professionalism", Ford Lecture, Bryn Mawr College, May 1989
"The Trials of Socrates", Princeton University, April 1989
"The Idea of a Public Intellectual", Wesleyan University, November 1988
"The Politics of Classics", St. Joseph's University (Philadelphia), Convocation Lecture, October 1988
"The Idea of Political Membership", Wesleyan University, April 1988
"Professional Expertise and Democatic Practices", Hastings Institute, September 18, 1985
"Socrates, Achilles and Feminist Political Theory", University of Massachusetts, May 1985
"Apologizing for the Iliad", Williams College, May 1985
"Political Theory and Machiavellian Dramaturgy", University of Minnesota, May 1985
"Achilles and Socrates", Whitman College, November 1984
"Heroism and Anti-Heroism in Political Theory", Reed College, 1984
"Political Theory as a Paradoxical Activity", Columbia University, 1983
  Meetings:
"Hannah Arendt at Colonus", paper delivered to International Symposium on Sophocles, University of Chicago, April 1999
"Aristophanes in America: The Politics of Humor", paper presented to the Seminar on Ancient Athenian Democracy and Modern Western Democracies, The Parliamentary Commission on Democracy, Stockholm, September 1999
  Conferences:
"War Words and Words of War", APSA, September 2004
"The Politics of Literature", APSA, September 2003
"Political Education and a Democratic Curriculum", Spencer Foundation Conference on Education in a Democratic Society, Chicago, 1998
"War and Democracy", Woodrow Wilson Conference on War in Comparative Perspective, May 1995
"American Education and Hellenic Romanticism", International Conference on Ancient and Contemporary Hellenism, Ohio State University, February 1995
"Classical Political Thought and Contemporary American Education:, Keynote Lecture, Democracy Ancient Modern Conference, Washington, D.C., April 1993
"Greek Law and Greek Politics", Conference on the Study of Comparative Law and Politics, Stanford University, April 1990

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