Research Projects, Publications, and Professional Activities
For some years, I have been developing a book manuscript that investigates changing conceptions of resistance, identity, and politics in French and American thought from the early modern period to the present. The publications below focus on aspects of this larger research project, which I have tentatively entitled, "Raising Consciousness in an Age of Resistance and Liberation: French Résistance Discourse and the Recasting of the Political."
- Histories of Resistance, a special issue of Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques 35, no. 1 (Berghahn Journals, Winter 2009), for which I was guest editor and to which I contributed two articles:
“Introduction: Histories of Resistance,” 1-5; and
“Theory and Practice of Résistance in Early Modern France,” 52-71.
- “Frantz Fanon, the Resistance, and the Emergence of Identity Politics.” In The Color of Liberty: Histories of Race in France, ed. Tyler Stovall and Sue Peabody (Duke University Press, 2003), pp. 259-81.
I am continuing to work on papers and chapter drafts relating to this project. Some of the latter will draw on the more than a dozen conference papers I have given on aspects of the larger project.
CONTEMPORARY LIBERAL EDUCATION
As part of my work for the Beta of Colorado chapter of the national Phi Beta Kappa Society, I
also published “ How Can Liberal Education Engage ‘Things That Matter’?” in The Key Reporter (Phi Beta Kappa Society), 73, no. 1 (2008): 7, 11. The article explored the chapter's efforts to stimulate reflection across the disciplines about what Phi Beta Kappa termed, "Things That Matter." I expect over time to publish occasional articles on similar pedagogical topics.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
In 2000, with Emily Hauptmann of Western Michigan University, I co-founded the Association for Political Theory. APT was designed to bring together scholars of political philosophy, political theory, and related fields, mixing ranks and encouraging active participation and civil argument. Now, approximately ten years later, APT has a membership of over 1,000. In 2010, the Association will stage its eighth conference, which has become one of the premier meetings for scholars of political thought in North America. I served as Executive Co-Director of APT from 2000 to 2008 and Program Committee Co-Chair in 2003 and 2004. I continue to serve as Webmaster for the Association, whose online home is on the Colorado College server.
WEBSITES PUBLISHED
I also have developed and published two websites, one for the Association for Political Theory, and another for the Colorado College chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
