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Curriculum Vitae

Ruth W. Grant

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Dept of Philosophy
Duke University
201 West Duke Building
Box 90743
Durham, NC 27708-0743

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Education

PhD University of Chicago 1984

M.A. University of Chicago 1975

B.A. with honors University of Chicago 1971

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University: Appointed Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, 2006-present

: Professor, Department of Philosophy, 2004 - present

: Professor, Department of Political Science, 2001-present

: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, 1994-2001

: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 1986-1994

University of Chicago

Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, Winter 1985, Fall-Spring 1982-1983,

Fall and Winter 1979-1981, Winter 1977

Loyola University of Chicago: Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Fall Semester, 1975-1976

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions: Provost's Common Fund Award, Duke University, 2006
Provost's Common Fund Award, Duke University, 2003
"New Beginnings" Fellowship, Duke University, 2002-2003
Dr. Eric Williams Annual Memorial Lecture, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, May 2002
Jessie Ball duPont Grant, National Humanities Center, June 2001
Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, Duke University, November, 2001
Templeton Foundation Grant, Templeton, 2000
National Humanities Center Research Fellowship, National Humanities Center, 1999-2000
Ford Foundation Course Development grant, Ford Foundation, 1998
Book Award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy
David and Janet Brooks College Distinguished Teaching Award, 1997-1998
Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991-1992
Arts and Sciences Council Research Grants, Duke University, 1988-1994, 1997
American Council of Learned Societies, Research Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the PhD, 1986-1987
Leo Strauss Award, American Political Science Association

Selected Recent Invited Talks: Passions and Interests Revisited, Political Theory Colloquium, Harvard University, November 2006; The Ethics of Incentives: a Political Approach, Riker Speaker Series, University of Rochester, March, 2006; The Rousseauan Revolution and the Problem of Evil, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, March, 2006; The Ethics of Incentives: A Political Approach, Richarch Sinopoli Memorial Lecture, University of California at Davis, May, 2004; Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics, NYU School of Law, February, 2004; Liberalism Against Patriarchalism: John Locke on Women and the Family, Olin Center Lecture Series, University of Chicago, January 17, 2004; The Ethics of Incentives: A Political Approach, University of Chicago, January 16, 2004; "John Locke on Women and the Family", Duke University, October 2003; "Ethics and Politics: Institutional Solutions and Their Limits", Dr. Eric Williams Annual Memorial Lecture, Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago, May 2002; "Power and Influence: the Ethics of Incentives" and "Machiavelli's Puzzles", Carleton College, Northfield MN, October 2002; "The Ethics of Incentives: Historical Origins and Contemporary Understandings", Triangle Area History Seminar, February 2002; "The Ethics of Incentives: Context and Meaning", Political Theory Colloquium and Center for Human Values, Princeton University, April 2000; "The Ethics of Incentives: Framing the Issue", National Institute of Health, Biomedical Ethics Research Division, January 2000; "The Ethics of Incentives: Framing the Issue", Templeton Freedom Project, Duke University, 1999; "Machiavelli and the Necessity of Hypocrisy", Political Theory workshop, University of Chicago, 1998; Book prize address, Hypocrisy and Integrity, Fifteenth International Social Philosophy Conference, North American Society for Social Philosophy, 1998; "The Ethics of Talk: Classroom Conversation and Democratic Politics", St. John's College, Annapolis, MD, September 15, 1995; "The Ethics of Talk", Colloquium on the Ethics of Everyday Life, New York, April 1994; "Preliminary Thoughts on Hypocrisy and Idealism in Politics", University of Chicago, 1989

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