Education
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Ph.D. |
1988 |
Government |
Harvard University |
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M.A. |
1982 |
Government |
Harvard University |
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B.A. |
1980 |
Political Philosophy |
Oberlin College |
Major Publications
Algernon Sidney and the Republican Heritage in England and America (Princeton University Press, 1991)
"'A Way of Settlement': The Levellers, Monopolies, and the Public Interest," History of Political Thought 14 (Autumn 1993): 381-420
"Monopolizing Faith: The Levellers, Rights, and Religious Toleration," in Early Modern Scepticism and the Origins of Toleration, ed. Alan Levine (Rowman and Littlefield, 1999)
A Nation Transformed: England After the Restoration, edited with Steve Pincus (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics and Virtue, Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
Work in Progress
Benjamin Franklin and the Politics of Improvement
"Lives, Lawes, and Liberties": The Levellers and Modern Democracy
Honors and Awards
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2004 |
Visiting Research Scholar, American Philosophical Society |
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2003 |
Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Comparative Immigration Studies |
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1999 |
Distinguished Visiting Professor of Early Modern Studies, Claremont Graduate University |
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1993-94 |
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow, The University Center for Human Values, Princeton University |
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1992 |
Foundations of Political Theory Book Award, American Political Science Association |
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1990 |
Leo Strauss Award for best doctoral dissertation in political philosophy, American Political Science Association |
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1990 |
Chancellor's Summer Faculty Fellowship, University of California |
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1988-89 |
Mellon Fellow in the Society of Fellows and Lecturer in Political Science, Columbia University |
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1988 |
Delancey K. Jay Prize for best doctoral dissertation in History, Political Science and Economics, Harvard University |
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1986-87 |
Knox Traveling Fellowship for Dissertation Research in England |
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1986 |
Center for European Studies Summer Travel Grant for Dissertation Research in England |
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1985 |
Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning |
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1980 |
High Honors at Graduate, Oberlin College |
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1980 |
Phi Beta Kappa, Oberlin College |
Teaching and Employment
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1996- |
Associate Professor | Department of Political Science | University of California, San Diego |
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1989-96 |
Assistant Professor | Department of Political Science | University of California, San Diego |
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1988-89 |
Mellon Fellow / Lecturer | Department of Political Science | Columbia University |
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1982-86 |
Teaching Assistant | Department of Government | Harvard University |
Related Professional Experience
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1995-98 |
Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, UCSD |
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1989-96 |
Managing Editor, Political Theory |
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1986-88 |
Rapporteur, Boston Conference on Political and Social Thought |
