(as of August 2011)
Ph.D. in Political Science, 2005
Dissertation: "Mimesis in Communicative Action: Habermas and the affective bond of understanding."
"Best Dissertation in Political Science Award" 2006 by the Western Political Science Association
M.A. in International Affairs
A.B. in Political Science
Mimesis and Reason: Habermas's Political Philosophy. SUNY Press, 2011.
Introduction to Political Values & Ideas
Contemporary Political Thought
Concepts of Power
Introduction to Political Theory
Modern Political Theory
Ancient Political Thought
Enlightenment
The Mind of Modernity
The Political Theory of Human Rights
American Political Theory
Modern European Political Thought
Introduction to Political Values & Ideas
Early Modern Political Thought
American Political Theory
Modern Political Thought
Introduction to Political Theory
Democracy & the Public Sphere
Core Curriculum: Inventing America
Western Political Thought: Hobbes to Foucault
Western Political Thought: Plato to Machiavelli
Introduction to Politics
Core Studies 3: People, Power & Politics. syllabus01; syllabus02
Modern Political Thoughtsyllabus
Contemporary Political Thoughtsyllabus
Modern Political Thoughtsyllabus
"The New Aestheticism." American Political Science Association. Seattle, WA: September 2011.
Political Theory Section Chair, Pacific Northwest Political Science Association. Spokane, WA: October, 2010.
"Democracy and the Crisis of Judgment." Western Political Science Association. San Francisco, CA: March 2010.
"Aesthetic Individuality and Democratic Practice." American Political Science Association. Boston, MA: September 2008.
"Time for Democracy, Potentially." Western Political Science Association. San Diego, CA: March 2008.
"The Feminization of Primitive Accumulation? Notes on Nancy Hartsock's reading of David Harvey's recent work." Western Political Science Association. Las Vegas, NV: March 2007.
"Neuropolitics and the Power of the Predisursive." Western Political Science Association. Albuquerque, NM: March 2006.
"The Experience of Communicative Action." American Political Science Association. Boston, MA: September 2002.
"The Mimetic Experience of Communicative Action." Western Political Science Association. Long Beach, CA: March 2002.
"J. Habermas and G.H. Mead: Mimesis and Communicative Action." Midwest Political Science Association. Chicago, IL: April 2000; and, Conference on 'Action and Identity,' organized by the Department of Philosophy, State University of New York at Stony Brook. Stony Brook, NY: March 2000.
"Platonic Mimesis in Communicative Action." American Political Science Association. Atlanta, GA: September 1999.
"Politics in Possession: Plato, Kojeve, Levinas." Illinois Political Science Association. Elgin, IL: October 1997.
Book review--Hugh Baxter, Habermas: The Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy. (Stanford Law Books). In preparation for Choice.
Book review--Michael Marder, Groundless Existence: The Political Ontology of Carl Schmitt (Continuum). Forthcoming in Choice.
Book review--Matthew G. Specter, Habermas: An Intellectual Biography. Cambridge University Press. In Choice, June 2011.
Book Review-- Peter Baehr, Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences. Stanford University Press. In Choice, January 2011.
Book review--John Protevi, Political Affect: Connecting the Social and the Somatic. Minnesota University Press. In Choice. June 2010.
Today's Manifesto. In Pipe-up Issue #6, Fall 2004.
In the next village over. In Pipe-up (1:5) Summer, 2003.
Village. With illustrations by Anjali Grant. On view at Knitting Factory, June 12, 2003, and June 13-19 at KOAP Gallery, curated by Expace Projects. New York City.
Today's Manifesto. In Pipe-up (1:3) May 10, 2003.
Book review--T.C. Boyle, The Tortilla Curtain. In The Stranger (10:34) May 10, 2001.
Book review--Henri Bergson, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic. In The Stranger (9:52) Sept.14, 2000.
"The Anxiety of Difficulty." In The Stranger Book Supplement (9:31) April 20, 2000.
Book review--J. Robert Janes, Salamander. In The Stranger (9:36) May 25, 2000.
Book review--Richard Rorty, Achieving Our Country. In The Stranger (9:31) April 20, 2000.
"Nation," "Coup d'état," "Kenneth Starr," and "Independent Counsel," in Microsoft's Encyclopedia Encarta 2000.
"The Sleeping City." In Arcade--The Journal of Architectural Design (co-authored with Anjali Grant). Summer 1999.
Book review--Lisa Lubasch, How Many More of Them are You? In The Stranger (9:4) October 14, 1999.
Book review--Penelope Fitzgerald, Human Voices. In The Stranger (8:45) July 29, 1999.
Book review--Fernando Pessoa, Always Astonished. In The Stranger (8:27) March 25, 1999.
Book review--Immanuel Wallerstein, Utopistics. In The Stranger Book Supplement (8:6) October 29, 1998.
"Coercion, Capital and the New World Chaos." Swords and Ploughshares, 1992.
American Political Science Association,
section: Foundations of Political Theory
Western Political Science Association
Association of Political Theory