Curriculum Vitae

Ruth W. Grant

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Education

PhD	University of Chicago	1984
M.A.	University of Chicago	1975
B.A. with honors	University of Chicago	1971

Areas of Research: Politics and Ethics, Early Modern Political Philosophy

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

Conferences Organized: Co-convenor and panelist, "Homo Politicus, Homo Economicus", April 2006; "Naming Evil, Judging Evil", Jan. 2005; Co-organizer with Philip Stewart, "Rousseau and the Ancients", 1999

Professional Service

DGS: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, January 1996-June 1997

Dept Committees: Member and Chair, Numerous departmental committee

Dept Services: Committee to revise the Undergraduate Program, 2006 - present; Graduate Affairs Committee, 2006 - present; Theory Field Chair, 2006 - present; Chair, Mackowski Chair search committee, 2006 - present; Co-director, DIPE, 2001 - present; Faculty Brown Bags, co-convenor, December 2004; Political Theory field chair, December 2004; Director, Political Theory Colloquium, December 2004; Chair, Theory Field Group, 2002-2003; Co-convenor, Faculty Brown Bags, 2002-2003; Co-convenor, Political Theory Colloquium, 2002-2003

A&S Council: Member, Arts and Sciences Council, 1993-1994

University Committee: Kean Institute for Ethics, Strategic Planning Committee, 2006 - present; Member, Search Committee, Director, Kenan Institute for Ethics, 2006 - present; Co-director, Kenan Institute for Ethics Graduate Student Colloquium in Ethics, 2006 - present; Co-director, Program for the Study of Democracy, Institutions and Politcal Economy, 2001 - present; Executive Committee, Gerst Program in Political, Economic and Humanistic Studies, 1998 - present; Member, Appointments, Promotion and Tenure Committee, 2005-2008; Academic Council, December 2004; Chair, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Faculty Advisory Council, 2001 to the present; member, Kenan Institute for Ethics Advisory Board, 2001 to the present; Member, Subcommittee Designing Undergraduate Ethics Certificate Program, 2002-2003; Member, Academic Council, 7/1/2002-7/1/2003; Member, Elizabeth Kiss, Five Year Administrative Review Committee, 2002-2003; member, Associate Director Search Committee, KIE, 7/1/2001-7/1/2003; Chair, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Strategic Planning Committee, 2002-2003; Member, Executive Committee of the Graduate School, 1997-1999; Member, Kenan Ethics Program Steering Committee, 1997-1999; Member, Flas Awards Committee, 1996-1998; Member, Marshall Scholarship Committee, 1989, 1990, 1993

University Services: Chair, Kenan Institute for Ethics, Faculty Advisory Council, 2001 - present; Appointed Senior Fellow, Kenan Institute for Ethics, December 2006; Acting Director, Gerst Program in Political, Economic and Humanistic Studies, 2004-2005; Chair, Task Force on Minority Recruitment to the Graduate School, 1997

Special Projects: Organized seminar of 9 Duke faculty from different departments in a working group on evil and moral judgment, December 2004

Other: Associate Editor, Perspectives on Politics, 2005 - present; Editorial Board, Journal of Politics, 2005 - present; Executive Committee of the Editorial Board, American Political Science Review, 2004 - present; Reviewer, National Humanities Center, 1999 - present; Chair, Leo Strauss Award Committee of APSA, 2006
selects best dissertation in political theory; Member, Duke Election Study delegation to China, July 2005; Reviewer, Many scholarly journals and academic presses; reviewer/panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities; Member, Professional Societies
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy American Political Science Association Politics and Literature Section, APSA Rousseau Society of North America Society for Practical and Professional Ethics Conference for the Study of Political Thought; member, executive committee, APSR editorial board, 2004; Editorial Board, Journal of Politics, December 2004; member, APSR Editorial Board, 2001-present; Member, Best Paper Award Committee, SPSA, 1995; Member, Committee of Visitors, Political Science Program, 1994; Program Chair, Normative and Critical Theory Panels, SPSA, 1989

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

Publications

Books

Ruth W. Grant, Naming Evil, Judging Evil (2006), University of Chicago Press (with an introduction by Alasdair MacIntyre.).
R.W. Grant, Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau and the Ethics of Politics (1997), University of Chicago Press (Reprinted in paperback, 1999..).
R.W. Grant, John Locke's Liberalism (1987), University of Chicago Press (Reprinted in paperback.).

Chapters in Books

R.W. Grant, The Rousseauan Revolution and the Problem of Evil, in Naming Evil, Judging Evil, Ruth W. Grant ed. (2006), University of Chicago Press.
R.W. Grant, Is Humanistic Education Humanizing?, in Debating Moral Education, Peter Euben and Elizabeth Kiss, eds. (forthcoming), Duke University Press.
R.W. Grant, Ethics and Politics: Institutional Solutions and Their Limits, in Faces of Man: the Dr. Eric Williams Memorial Lectures 1993-2004, vol. 2 (2005), Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago.
R.W. Grant, Political Theory, Political Science and Politics, in What is Political Theory? (2004), Sage.
R.W. Grant, John Locke on Women and the Family, in John Locke, Two Treaties of Government and Letter Concerning Toleration, edited by Ian Shapiro (2003), Yale University Press.
R.W. Grant with Stephen Grant, The Madisonian Presidency, in The Presidency in the Constitutional Order, edited by J. Bessette and J. Tulis (1981), Louisiana State University Press.

Journal Articles

R.W. Grant, Passions and Interests Revisited: the Psychological Foundations of Economics and Politics, Public Choice (forthcoming).
R.W. Grant, Ethics and Incentives: A Political Approach, American Political Science Review (February, 2006).
R.W. Grant and R. Keohane, Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics, American Political Science Review (February, 2005) (Excerpt reprinted in William L. Richter and Frances Burke, Combating Corruption, Encouraging Ethics, 2nd ed. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006).).
R.W. Grant and Dr. Jeremy Sugarman, Ethics in Human Subjects Research: Do Incentives Matter?, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (December, 2004).
R.W. Grant, Political Theory, Political Science and Politics, Political Theory (August, 2002).
R.W. Grant, The Ethics of Incentives: Historical Origins and Contemporary Understandings", Economics and Philosophy (April, 2002).
R.W. Grant with Marion Orr, Language, Race and Politics: From 'Black' to 'African-American', Politics and Society, vol. 24 no. 2 (June, 1996) (Reprinted in Adalberto Aguirre, Jr. and David V. Baker eds. Sources: Notable Selections in Race and Ethnicity, 2nd ed. (Guilford, Conn.: Dushkin/McGraw-Hill, 1998)..).
R.W. Grant, The Ethics of Talk: Classroom Conversation and Democratic Politics, The Teachers College Record, vol. 97 no. 3 (Spring, 1996).
R.W. Grant, Integrity and Politics: an Alternative Reading of Rousseau, Political Theory (August, 1994).
R.W. Grant with John H. Aldrich, The Antifederalists, the First Congress and the First Parties, Journal of Politics (May, 1993).
R.W. Grant, "The Exclusionary Rule and the Meaning of Separation of Powers", Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy, vol. 14 no. 1 (Winter, 1991).
R.W. Grant, Locke's Political Anthropology and Lockean Individualism, Journal of Politics (February, 1988) (reprinted in John Locke: Critical Assessments, Richard Ashcraft ed., Vol. III, Routledge Press, 1991..).

Edited Volumes

Naming Evil, Judging Evil, edited by Ruth W. Grant with a forward by Alasdair MacIntyre (2006), University of Chicago Press.
Rousseau and the Ancients, in North American Society for the Study of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Philip Stewart (2001).
John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education and of the Conduct of the Understanding, edited by Ruth W. Grant and Nathan Tarcov (1996), Hackett Publishing (Reprinted edition, 1998..).

Book Reviews

Nomos XL: Integrity and Conscience, edited by Ian Shapiro and Robert Adams, American Political Science Review (September, 1999).
Michael Walzer, Interpretation and Social Criticism, Journal of Politics (February, 1988) (with Steven Kautz.).
Book Note: David Wootton, Divine Right and Democracy, Ethics (Fall, 1987).

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