Curriculum Vitae

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Education

PhD	Duke University	1968
A.B. with High Honors and Distinction	Wesleyan University	1963

Areas of Research

17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th Century

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Professor, Department of Political Science, 1981-present

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, 1975-1981

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 1968-1974

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

National Merit Scholar
Phi Betta Kappa
Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize, Conference for the Study of Political Thought, 2001
Rockefeller Foundation Humanities Fellowship, 1977-1978
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for Younger Humanists, 1974
Summer Research Award, Duke Research Council, 1971
Danforth Graduate Fellow, 1963-1968
Finalist for Rhodes Scholarship, 1963

Professional Service

Dept Officer

Acting Chairman, Department of Political Science, 1978-1979

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science, 1971-1974

Dept Committees

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2006 - present

Chair, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003-2004

Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 2002-2003

Chair, Ad-Hoc Committee on Malachi Hacohen Secondary Appointment, 2002-2003

A&S Council

Member, Arts and Sciences Council Curriculum Committee, 1999-2000

Member, Academic Council, 1996-1999, 2001-2003

Chairman, Faculty Affairs Committee, Arts and Science Council, 1994-1996

Chairman, Arts and Sciences Council, 1991-1993

University Committee

Member, Interdisciplinary Islamic Studies Search Committee, 2006 - present

Chair, University Recreation Facility Advisory Committee, 2000-present

Chair, Committee of Review for Director of Athletics, 2003

Chair, Committee of Review for Dean of the Divinity School, 2001

Member, University Recreation Facility Advisory Committee, 1999-present

Member, Executive Steering Committee, NCAA Certification Self-Study, 1996-1997

Faculty Representative, Alumni Association Board of Directors, 1991-1995

Founding Chairman, Arts and Sciences Council, 1991-1993

Member, Residential Life Task Force, 1989-1990

Chairman, Committee on the Senior Year, 1989-1990

Adviser, Trinity Scholars (N.C. merit scholarship), 1989-1992

Member, University Committee on Admissions and Financial Aid, 1988-1990

Member, President's Committee on Discrimination, 1988-1990

Chairman, Athletic Council, 1987-1996

Chairman, President's Committee on Residential Life, 1984-1986

Trustee, Ad hoc Committee on Student-Faculty Relations, 1983-1984

Member, Athletic Council, 1983-1996

Trustee, Student Affairs Committee, 1982-1985

Chairman, Curriculum Committee of the Undergraduate Faculty Council, 1976-1977

Faculty Fellow, Few Federation, 1974-1977

University Services

Associate Dean, Arts and Sciences and Trinity College, 1988-1990

Faculty Representative, ACC amd NCAA, 1987-1996

Other

Chair, Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize Committee, October 2008

Member, Professional Association Membership, present
   APSA, SPSA, American Society of Political and Legal Philosophy

Reviewer, Review for Journals, present
   APSA, Journal of Politics, Political Theory, Social Science Quarterly, Annals, Ethics, Review of Politics, Polity.

Reviewer, Manuscript Reviewer, present
   Harvard University Press, University of Chicago Press, Princeton University Press, Cornell University Press, University of North Carolina Press, Duke University Press, St. Martin's Press, Cambridge University Press, Yale University Press, University of Florida Press, Kansas University Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Westview Press, Univesity of Virginia Press, Northern Illinois University Press, Rowman and Littlefield Pubishers, Lexington Books.

Chair, Foundations of Political Theory Section selection Committee for Best First Book Award, 2001

Member, Executive Committee and Steering Committee, NCAA Certification Self-Study, 1996-1997

Co-editor, Board of Editors, The Responsive Community, 1993-present

Member, Board of Editors, The Responsive Community, 1990-93

President, Atlantic Coast Confernce, 1990-1991

Member, Conference for the Study of Poltiical Thought, David Spitz Prize Committee, 1989, 2007

Vice President, Atlantic Coast Conference, 1989-1990

Secretary-Treasurer, Atlantic Coast Conference, 1988-1989

Member, Board of Editors, Journal of Politics, 1977-79, 1981-84, 993-1996

Selected Recent Invited Talks

"Contemporary Theories of Liberalism", University of Rochester Symposium on Contemporary Liberal Theory, April 1987

Publications

Books

1. T.A. Spragens, The Transformation and Decline of American Liberalism (2009), Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas.
2. T.A. Spragens, Civic Liberalism: Reflections on Our Democratic Ideals (1999), Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers (Winner of the 2001 Elaine and David Spitz Prize for "best English language work of its year on the subject of liberal and/or democratic theory, broadly defined.".).
3. T.A. Spragens, Reason and Democracy (1990), pp. xi-281, Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.
4. T.A. Spragens, The Irony of Liberal Reason (1981), pp. vii-443, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
5. T.A. Spragens, Understanding Political Theory (1976), pp. vii-155, New York: St. Martin's.
6. T.A. Spragens, The Dilemma of Contemporary Political Theory: Toward a Postbehavioral Science of Politics (1973), pp. ix-181, New York: Dunellen Co. (foreward by Morton A. Kaplan.).
7. T.A. Spragens, The Politics of Motion: The World of Thomas Hobbes (1973), pp. 224, Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky (Published in Great Britain by Croom-Helm, Ltd., with a foreword by Anthony Flew..).

Chapters in Books

1. T.A. Spragens, Beyond Bigotry and Nihilism: Moral Judgment in Pluralist Democracies, in Naming Evil, Judging Evil, edited by Ruth Grant (2006), University of Chicago Press.
2. T.A. Spragens, Theories of Justice, Rights, and Duties: Negotiating the Interface Between Normative and Empirical Theory, in Human Rights and Duties: Psychology's Contributions, the Law's Commentary, edited by Norman J. Finkel and Fathali M. Moghaddam (2005), Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
3. T.A. Spragens, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies, in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Amitai Etzioni, Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild (2004), Rowman and Littlefield (Lanham, Maryland).
4. T.A. Spragens, Between Bigotry and Nihilism: Moral Judgment in Pluralist Democracies, in Speak No Evil: Moral Judgment in the Modern Age, edited by Ruth Grant (forthcoming), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, Illinois).
5. T.A. Spragens, Legislating Morality in Liberal Democracies, in The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials, edited by Amitar Etzioni, Andrew Volmert, and Elanit Rothschild (2004), Lanham, Maryland: Rowan and Littlefield Publishers.
6. T.A. Spragens, Church and State in Liberal America: Locke and Tocqueville Revisited, in Politics, Reason, and the Human Good, edited by Robert P. Hunt (2003).
7. T.A. Spragens, Rationality in Liberal Politics, in Political Theory and Partisan Politics, edited by Adolf Gundersen and Ruth Shively (2000), Albany, N.Y: SUNY Press.
8. T.A. Spragens, Communitarian Liberalism, in New Communitarian Thinking, edited by Amitai Etzioni (1995), Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press.
9. T.A. Spragens, The Limitations of Libertarianism, Parts 1 and 2, in Responsive Community, vol. 2, Issues 1 and 2 (Winter 1991 and Spring 1992) (Reprinted in Terence Ball and Richard Dagger, eds., Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, 3rd edition (New York: Longman, 1999)..).
10. T.A. Spragens, Reconstructing Liberal Theory: Reason and Liberal Culture, in Liberals on Liberalism, edited by A. J. Damico (1986), Totowa, N.J.: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers.
11. T.A. Spragens, Justification, Practical Reason, and Political Theory, in Justification, vol. NOMOS no. XXVIII (1986), New York and London: New York University Press.
12. T.A. Spragens, David Hume's Experimental Science of Morals and the Natural Law Tradition, in The Ethical Bases of Political Life, edited by Francis Canavan (1983), Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press.

Journal Articles

1. T.A. Spragens, Democratic Reasonableness, Contemporary Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, vol. 11 no. 2 (June, 2008), pp. 193-214.
2. T.A. Spragens, Populist Perfectionism: The Other American Liberalism, Social Philosophy and Policy, vol. 24 no. 1 (Winter, 2007), pp. 141-163.
3. T.A. Spragens, Communitarianism: Epitaph for a Monument to a Successful Reminder, The Responsive Community, vol. 14 no. 2/3 (Spring/Summer 2004).
4. T.A. Spragens, Justice, Consensus, and Boundaries: Assessing Political Liberalism, Political Theory, vol. 31 no. 4 (August 2003).
5. T.A. Spragens, Is the Enlightenment Project Worth Saving?, Modern Age, vol. 43 no. 1 (Winter, 2001).
6. T.A. Spragens, The Bounds of Civic Morality, The Responsive Community, vol. 11 no. 4 (Fall, 2001), pp. 41-47.
7. T.A. Spragens, The Antinomies of Social Justice, The Review of Politics, vol. 55 no. 2 (Spring, 1993).
8. T.A. Spragens, The Politics of Inertia and Gravitation: The Function of Exemplar Paradigms in Social Theory, Polity (Spring, 1973).