Curriculum Vitae

J. Peter Euben

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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

Areas of Research: Political Philosophy and Ethics

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

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
University of California Curriculum Fellowship
University of California Fellowship
University of California Fellowship
UCSC Junior Faculty Fellowship
Social Science Research Council Fellowship to University of London, 1966-1967
University of California Advanced Graduate Traveling Fellowship (declined), 1966-1967

Professional Service

DGS: Director of Graduate Studies, Politics Department, 1999-2002

A&S Council: Member, Academic Council, 2003-2004

University Committee: Chair, Senate Committee on Privilege and Tenure, 1994-1995; member, Academic Senate Advisory Committee, 1976-1979, 1982-1985, 1994; Chair, Senate Committee on Academic Freedom, 1990-1991; Chair, Committee on Sexual Harassment, 1983-1984; Chair, University-wide Subcommittee on Minority Admissions, 1976-1979; Chair, Academic Senate Library Committee, 1970-1972

University Services: Member, Committee on the Status of Women, 2003-2004; Representative, Board of Admissions and Relations with Schools, 1999-2002; Chair, Board of Studies in Politics, 1990-1992, 1995-1998; Vice Chair, Santa Cruz Division of the Academic Senate, 1983-1986

Other: Member, Editorial Board, Critical Horizins, 1999 - present; Editorial Board, Critical Horizons, 1999-present; Editorial Board, Polis, International Journal for the Study of Classical Political Thought, 1980-present; Member, Leo Strauss Award Committee, present; Membership in Professional Associations, present
American Political Science Association Conference for the Study of Political Thought POLIS American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy; Member, Spitz Prize Committee, 1993-1998; ACLS Review Panel, 1997-1999; Charlotte Newcombe Fellowship, 1990-1997; Woodrow Wilson Foundation Fellowship Panel, 1990-1997; Member, Leo Strauss Award Committee, APSA, 1993-1994; Chair, Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, 1993-1995; Book Review Editor, Political Theory, 1993-1999; Executive Commitee of the Editorial Board, Political Theory, 1992-1993; Santa Cruz Representative, Academic Assembly of the University of California, 1983-1986; Santa Cruz Representative, State-Wide Committee on Admissions and Relations with Schools, 1976-1979

Selected Recent Invited Talks: "The Ironies of Politics", Monash University, July 2004; "Theodicies of Corruption", Australian National University, July 2004; "Irony and Utopia", SUNY Purchase, February 2003; "Is More Less: Utopia, Rationality and Politics", University of Chicago, March 2003; "The Politics of Righteousness", Boston College, April 2003; "The Necessity of Utopia", University of Michigan, June 2001; "What's Funny About Politics?", Georgetown University, March 2001; "On The Responsibilities of Filmmakers", North Carolina School of the Arts, Keenan Center, November 2000; "Should Popular Culture Support Morality", Princeton University, April 2000; "Thinking about Multiculturalism", Rice University, March 2000; "Pyrrhic Victories in the Culture Wars", paper delivered to the National Association of Liberal Arts Colleges, March 1999; "The Practicality of Philosophy", Convocation Lecture, Willamette University, September 1999; "Comedic Experience and Democracy", Bucknell University, April 1998; "In Praise of Nostalgia", University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, November 1998; "Post-modern Education in a Multicultrual Society", Duke University, February 1998; "Reading Texts: Doing Politics", Univesity of California, Los Angeles, January 1998; "Greek Tragedy and the Discourse of Modernity", University of Chicago, 1997; "High and 'Low' Culture in Ancient and Modern Democracy", Northwestern University, February 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; "Antigone and the Discourse of Modernity", University of Bristol, February 1995; "Antigone and the Languages of Politics", University of Michigan, February 1995; "Antigone, Rawls and Habermas", Institute for Philosophy, Prague, May 1995; "Athenian Political Thought and the Habermas-Foucault Debate", Monash University, September 1995; "Greek Tragedy and Public Reason", University of Lancaster, February 1995; "Nationalism and Multiculturalism", University of Melbourne, September 1995; "Radical Democracy and Philosophy", Yale University, November 1995; "Sophocles and the Contest over Public Reason", Georgetown University, November 1995; "Taking It to the Streets: Radical Democracy and Radicalizing Theory", Institute of Philosophy, Prague, May 1994; "Its a Joke: Comedy, Political Theory and Democratic Politics", Princeton, 1993; "Multiculturalism and the Education of Democratic Citizens", Sarah Lawrence College, 1993; "Pedagogy and Politics", Columbia Teachers College, 1993; "Thinking Democratically", Rutgers University, 1993; "Educating Democracy", Columbia Faculty Seminar, 1992; "Hobbes and the Ontology of Liberalism", Juan March Institute, Madrid, Spain, December 1992; "Imploding the Canon: Greek Political Theory and Educational Controversy", Swarthmore College, 1992; "Political and Politicized Education in a Democratic Polity", Philosophy and Public Affairs Lecture, Princeton, 1992; "Canonizing Political Theory", University of Connecticut, 1991; "Greek Tragedy and American Film", Whitman College, 1991; "Political and Politicized Education", Wesleyan University, 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 Idea of Political Membership", Wesleyan University, April 1988; "The Politics of Classics", St. Joseph's University (Philadelphia), Convocation Lecture, October 1988; "Apologizing for the Iliad", Williams College, May 1985; "Political Theory and Machiavellian Dramaturgy", University of Minnesota, May 1985; "Professional Expertise and Democatic Practices", Hastings Institute, September 18, 1985; "Socrates, Achilles and Feminist Political Theory", University of Massachusetts, 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

Publications

Books

J.P. Euben, Platonic Noise: Essays on the Modernity of Classical Political Thought (2001), Princeton: Princeton University Press.
J.P. Euben, Corrupting Youth: Political Education and Democratic Culture (1997), Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy, edited by Peter Euben, Josiah Ober and John Wallach--introduction co-author and chapter author) (1994), Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
J.P. Euben, The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken (1990), Princeton University Press.
Greek Tragedy and Political Theory, edited by Peter Euben Ieditor and author) (1986), University of California Press, Berkeley.

Chapters in Books

J.P. Euben, Theodicies of Corruption, in Literature and Politics, edited by Goi and Dolan (forthcoming), Roman & Littlefield.
J.P. Euben, Arendt as Political Educator, in Arendt and Education, edited by M. Gordon (forthcoming), Roman & Littlefield.
J.P. Euben, The Polis, Globalization and the Politics of Space, in Political Visions, edited by Botwinick and Connelly (2001), Princeton University Press.
J.P. Euben, Aristophanes in America, in Citizenship and Public Space, edited by Tracy Strong (2001), University of Minnesota Press.
J.P. Euben, Hannah Arendt's Hellenism, in Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt, edited by Dana Villa (1999).
J.P. Euben, The Politics of Nostalgia and Theories of Loss, in Vocations of Political Theory (1999), University of Minnesota Press.
J.P. Euben, Oedipean Complexities and Political Science: Tragedy and the Search for Knowledge, in Contemporary Empirical Political Theory: Essays in Honor of David Easton, edited by Kristen Monroe (1997), University of California Press, Berkeley.
J.P. Euben, Taking It to the Streets: Radical Democracy and Radicalizing Theory, in Radical Democracy: Identity, Citizenship, and the State, edited by David Trend (1996), pp. 62-77, Routledge Press, New York.
J.P. Euben, Reading Democracy: Socratic Dialogues and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens, in Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern, edited by Josiah Ober and Charles Hedrick (1996), pp. 327-359, Princeton University Press, Princeton.
J.P. Euben, Introduction, in The Contemporary Significance of Athenian Democracy, edited by Euben, Ober and Wallach (1994), pp. 1-26, Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
J.P. Euben, Democracy and Political Theory, in The Contemporary Significance of Athenian Democracy, edited by Euben, Ober and Wallach (1994), pp. 198-223, Cornell University Press, Ithaca.
J.P. Euben, Corruption, in Political Theory and Conceptual Change, edited by Ball, Hanson and Farr (1989), pp. 220-246, Cambridge University Press.
J.P. Euben, Introduction, in Greek Tragedy and Political Theory (1988), pp. 1-41, University of California Press.
J.P. Euben, Political Corruption and the Orestes, in Political Theory and Greek Tragedy (1988), pp. 222-250, University of California Press, Berkeley.
J.P. Euben, Disciplinary Professionalism-Response to Weaver and Hahn, in Against the Current: Reform and Experimentation in Higher Education, edited by Richard Jones and Barbara Leign Smith (1984), Schenkman Publishing Company, Cambridge.
J.P. Euben, Political Equality and the Greek Polis, in Liberalism and the Modern Polity, edited by McGrath (1978), pp. 207-229, Marcel Dekker, Boston.
J.P. Euben, Thought and Action in Thucydides, in Political Theory and Praxis: New Perspectives, edited by T. Ball (1977), pp. 28-57, University of Minnesota Press.
J.P. Euben, Political Science and Political Silence, in Power and Community, edited by Green and Levinson (1971), pp. 1-57, Random House.

Journal Articles

J.P. Euben, The Uses of Classical Political Theory in Contemporary America, Historically Speaking (March, 2005) (plus responses to my critics.).
J.P. Euben, Pure Corruption, in Private and Public Corruption, edited by Herfferman and Klein (2004), Roman & Littlefield.
J.P. Euben, Platonic Noise, Political Theory (Winter, 2003).
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, Dissenting with Ober (review essay), Polis (Winter, 2000).
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, On the Uses and Disadvantages of Hellenic States for Political and Social Life, Polis, vol. 15 (1998), pp. 45-74.
J.P. Euben, When There are Gray Skies: Aristophanes' Clouds and the Political Education of Democratic Citizens, South Atlantic Quarterly (Fall, 1996).
J.P. Euben, The Debate Over the Can(n)on, Civic Arts Review, vol. 7 no. 1 (Winter, 1994), pp. 4-15.
J.P. Euben, Democracy Ancient and Modern, Political Science, vol. 26 no. 3 (Summer, 1993), pp. 478-481.
J.P. Euben, How to Study Ancient Moral and Political Philosophy, Polis, vol. 11 no. 1 (1992), pp. 3-27.
J.P. Euben, Socrates in America, Salmagundi, vol. 92 (Fall, 1991), pp. 211-225.
J.P. Euben, Democracy in America: Bringing It All Back Home, Tikkun, vol. 5 no. 6 (November, 1990), pp. 13-16, 101-106.
J.P. Euben, The Battle of Salamis and the Origins of Political Theory, Political Theory, vol. 14 no. 3 (August, 1986), pp. 359-390.
J.P. Euben, Justice and the Oresteia, The American Political Science Review, vol. 76 (March, 1982), pp. 22-23.
J.P. Euben, Philosophy and the Professions, Democracy, vol. 1 no. 2 (April, 1981), pp. 112-127.
J.P. Euben, Philosophy and Politics in Plato's Crito, Political Theory, vol. 6 no. 2 (May, 1978), pp. 149-172.
J.P. Euben, On Political Corruption, The Antioch Review (1978), pp. 103-118.
J.P. Euben, Walzer's Obligations, Philosophy and Public Affairs (Summer, 1972).
J.P. Euben, Relevance and Deauthorization in America's Polity, The Massachusetts Review (Summer, 1972), pp. 409-420.

Papers In Preparation

J.P. Euben, The Butler Did It, in Speak No Evil: Moral Judgment in the Modern Age, edited by R. Grant (work in progress), University of Chicago Press.
J.P. Euben, The Necessity of Utopia (under contract), Roman & Littlefield.
J.P. Euben, Political Theory and Popular Culture, edited by with Griel Marcus (edited volume).
J.P. Euben, Man's Fate and the Human Condition: Malraux and Arendt on Political Action and Resistance (in progress).

Other

J.P. Euben, Cultural Wars All Over, USA Today The Magazine (2005).
Meier, The Greek Discovery of Politics, Political Theory, vol. 20 no. 1 (1992), pp. 152-157.
Steven Forde, The Ambition of Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thycydides, Journal of Politics, vol. 52 no. 3 (Fall, 1990), pp. 996-1000.
J.P. Euben, The Tragedy of Political Theory: The Road Not Taken (1990), Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Walzer, The Company of Critics, New York Times Book Review (January 8, 1989), pp. 8.
Sinclair, Democracy and Participation in Athens, American Political Science Review, vol. 83 (1989), pp. 608-610.
Connor, Thycydides, Political Theory (February, 1986), pp. 140-144.
Wood, Class Ideology and Ancient Political Theory, Political Theory, vol. 8 no. 2 (May, 1980), pp. 244-249.
Nisbet, Twilight of Authority, Political Theory, vol. 5 no. 1 (1977), pp. 119-124.
Bernstein, Praxis and Action, Political Theory, vol. 2 no. 1 (1974), pp. 108-113.

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