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ACADEMIC DEGREES
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1988 – 93 |
Ph.D. in Politics, Princeton University, NJ, USA |
Thesis:
'Self-Ownership and Friendship: the Liberal Individualism of La Boétie, Overton and Stirner' |
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1988 – 90 |
M.A. in Politics, Princeton University, NJ, USA |
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1986 – 88 |
M.A. in Political Science, University of Calgary, AB,
Canada |
Thesis: 'Virtue
through Reason: Praxis not Poiesis, in
Aristotle, Machiavelli and Hobbes' |
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1982 – 86 |
B.A. Honors in Political Science, University of Calgary, AB,
Canada |
Thesis: 'On
Philosophy and History: Leo Strauss & Quentin Skinner' |
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
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Sep 1999 – present
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Associate Professor, Assistant Professor, Willamette University,
Dept of Politics |
Courses Taught: |
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Sep 1991 – Jan 1992 |
Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Dept
of Politics |
Politics 325:
Personal and Political Transformation, for Prof. Manfred Halpern, |
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Sep 1990 – Jan 1991 |
Teaching Assistant, Princeton University, Dept of
Politics |
Politics 303:
Ancient and Medieval Political Theory, for Prof. George Kateb, |
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May 1987 – Sep 1987 |
Research Assistant, University of Calgary, Dept
of Political Science |
Budget Project, for
Prof. Mark O. Dickerson |
PUBLICATIONS
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2008. |
“Review of Rudolf M. Dekker. Humour in the Dutch Culture of the Golden Age.”
Humor, 21, 2, pp.221-225. |
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2008. |
“‘To try things themselves’: Freedom of Expression
in a Democratic Multicultural Polity.” In Campus Conversations: The Role of Freedom
of Expression in a Multicultural and Democratic Society. (Ed.) Jenny Jopp. Salem, OR: Willamette University, pp.22-58. |
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2007. |
“‘A little discourse pro
& con’: Levelling laughter and its Puritan
criticism,” International Review of Social History. 52. Supplement S15,
pp.95-113. |
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2005. |
“Letting the Hydra Roam: Attending to
Diverse Forms of Diversity in Liberal Arts Education,” Chapter Two in Teaching Inclusively.
(Ed.) Mathew Ouellett. Stillwater, OK: New Forums Press, pp.21-33. |
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2003. |
and Linda Heuser.
‘Using Service-Learning in Death Education.’ Death Studies, 27, 10, pp.901-927. |
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2003. |
“Guerillas in our
midst.” Collegian, April 30, p.7. |
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2003. |
“Technology: the
Faculty Perspective.” The Scene: The
University Magazine for Willamette Alumni, Spring, pp.18-19. |
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2002. |
“Book review of
Murphy, Andrew. Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious
Dissent in Early Modern England and America.” History of Political Thought, 23, 4, pp.728-731. |
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2002. |
‘The Wonder Years of IT-Based Liberal
Arts Instruction: Notes from a Conference in 2000.’ Bits, Bytes & Nybbles, Fall, 1,
pp.4-5. |
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2002. |
‘‘We are in strange
hands, and things are come to a strange passe’:
Argument and Rhetoric Against Heresy in Thomas Edwards's Gangraena [1646],’ in Histories of Heresy in Early Modern Europe: For, Against, and Beyond Persecution and Toleration. (ed.)
John Christian Laursen. New York: Palgrave,
pp.11-32. |
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1999. |
‘‘Woe unto you that laugh now!’: Humor and Toleration in Overton and Shaftesbury,’ in
J.C. Laursen (ed.), Religious Toleration: 'The Variety of Rites'
from Cyrus to Defoe. New York:
St. Martin's Press, pp.147-172. |
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1999. |
‘Dialogic Ethics and the Virtue of Humor.’ Journal of Political Philosophy, 7, 4, pp.378-403. |
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1995. |
‘Book review of Loyseau, Charles. A Treatise of Orders and Plain
Dignities.’ History of Political
Thought, 16, 2, pp.289-291. |
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1990. |
‘‘In a Crazy Time the Crazy Come Out
Well': Machiavelli and the Cosmology of His Day.’ History of Political Thought, 11, 2, pp.213-39. |
PAPERS & INVITED PARTICIPATION
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18-22 Nov 2009 |
‘Canada.net: Teaching American Students
about Canada Using the Internet.’ ACSUS, San Diego, CA |
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Roundtable
on Teaching Canada: Canadian Studies in the New Millennium, ACSUS, San
Diego, CA |
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Roundtable
on Teaching Canada: Canadian Studies in a Smaller
Setting, ACSUS, San Diego, CA |
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16 Oct 2009 |
‘Creating new university courses on Canada,’
at ‘ICSI IMPACTS,’ ICSI Conference & Reunion, Seattle, WA |
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12-14 Jan 2009 |
Demonstrator Model, |
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3 Nov 2008 |
Rabbit-Proof Fence Film Discussion |
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9 Oct 2008 |
‘The ironic speech situation: deliberative
democracy and humor.’ Rhetorical Citizenship and Public Deliberation,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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30 Aug 2008 |
‘Cannibalism, the
amusing difference, and thinking nakedly.’ American Political Science
Association, Boston MA. |
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7-11 July 2008 |
‘Is Thomas Hobbes
really a theorist of superiority humor?’ |
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24-26 April 2008 |
Discussant for
‘Policy-making: Representation, Rights, and Foreign Relations’ Panel |
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1-3 June 2007 |
Invited Participant in ‘The Role of
Comedy in a Free Society.’ Liberty
Fund Colloquium, Montreal, QC, Canada. |
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13 April 2007 |
‘Support our Tropes: Deliberative
Democracy and Ironic Speech.’ Western Social Science Association – Canadian
Studies/Political Science, Calgary, AB, Canada. |
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13 April 2007 |
‘The Nature and Origins of the
Australian Sense of Humor.’ Western Social Science Association – New Zealand
and Australia Studies, Calgary, AB, Canada. |
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18-21 Jan 2007 |
Invited Participant in ‘Liberty,
Commerce, and Character in Hume’s Essays.’
Liberty Fund Colloquium, Pasadena, CA. |
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21 Oct 2006 |
“Pitiful, funny,
and surprising’: The Tale of Er
as comic iconoclasm.’ Pacific Northwest Political Science Association, Bend,
Or. |
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3 July 2006 |
‘‘The
haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy’: Puritan objections to
humor.’ The 18th
International ISHS Humor Conference. The Danish University of Education,
Copenhagen, Denmark. |
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1 July 2006 |
‘The Ironic Speech
Situation: discursive democracy, citizenship, and humor.’ Citizenship(s) –
International Congress on Discourses and Practices. Fernando Pessoa
University, Porto, Portugal. |
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25 Mar 2006 |
‘‘There never was a
greater generation of scoffers at Religion’: Thomas Hobbes and the humor of
the Leviathan.’ International
Hobbes Association, American Philosophical Association - Pacific Division.
Portland OR. |
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7 Oct 2005 |
‘Deliberative
Democracy and Comic Voice.’ Social Theory, Politics and the Arts 2005,
University of Oregon, Eugene OR. |
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19 Mar 2005 |
‘Stooping to
Conquer’ or ‘Speaking mirth to power’: the status of political humor.’
Western Political Science Association, Oakland CA. |
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6 Nov 2004 |
‘Stooping to
Conquer’ or ‘Speaking mirth to power’: the status of political humor.’ Pacific
Northwest Political Science Association, Portland OR. |
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17 June 2004 |
‘Testing the
'Amusing Difference': Montaigne and the Ethics of his Comic Style.’
International Society for Humor Studies, Dijon, France. |
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18 Sept 2003 |
‘Shock and Awe: or
Machiavelli's theory of politics as comedy.’ Faculty Colloquium, Department
of Political Science, U. of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia. |
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3 July 2003 |
‘Departing the
text: Machiavelli on politics and humor.’ Australasian Centre for Italian
Studies Conference on ‘Italians and Their Others: Representations, identities
and exchanges at home and abroad,’ University of Western Australia, Perth,
WA, Australia. |
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7 May 2003 |
‘Thucydides and
War.’ Willamette U First-Year Seminar Workshop, Salem, OR. |
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5 Apr 2003 |
‘Death on the Web:
teaching a case-based ethics and public policy course using IT and the
Internet.’ Wise Uses of Technology: Social Science & Language Arts Spring
Faculty Conference, University of Portland, Portland, OR. |
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14 Jan 2003 |
‘The Laughter of Machiavelli: Humor
and Power Politics.’ Hawaii International Conference on the Arts and
Humanities, Waikiki, HI. |
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8 Jan 2003 |
With Catherine Collins, ‘Is There
Room in Liberal Arts for Information Technology?: A
Report on the On-going Efforts to Integrate Technology into the Required
Freshman Program at Willamette University.’ Hawaii International Conference
on Education, Waikiki, HI. |
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7 Dec 2002 |
‘Conversation with Senior Liberal Arts
Faculty.’ American Council of Learned Societies. New York, NY. |
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18 Oct 2002 |
‘The Birth of the Modern Nation State
and Crowd Control: Reading the Frontispiece of Hobbes Leviathan (1651).’ Pacific North Western Political Science Association,
Bellevue, WA. |
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4 July 2002 |
‘Laughing at Miss Fortuna: Machiavelli and derision of
state.’ International Society for Humor Studies, Forli, Italy. |
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15 Mar 2001 |
‘Locke, Stock, and Barrel:
The Illiberalism of Lockean
Politics.’ Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV. |
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15 Mar 2001 |
‘Sex, Lies, and
Heresy: The Early-Modern Origins of the Liberal Public-Private Distinction.’
Western Political Science Association, Las Vegas, NV. |
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24-28 Jul 2000 |
‘The Ridiculous in
Plato's Republic, or a funny thing
happened on the way back from the Piraeus: The Tale of Er.’
International Society for Humor Studies, Kansai University, Osaka, Japan. |
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27-8 Apr 2000 |
Invited Participant
in ‘Questioning Values, Defending Values.’ 10th Anniversary Symposium of the
University Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton NJ. |
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11 Apr 2000 |
Roundtable
Discussant with Arthur L. Caplan on ‘The Frontiers
of Biomedicine.’ Willamette University, Salem OR. |
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24 Mar 2000 |
‘Just Talking,
Talking Justice, and Talking in Jest: Plato's Republic and Dialogic Ethics.’ Western Political Science
Association, San Jose, CA. |
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17 Mar 2000 |
‘‘We are in strange
hands, and things are come to a strange passe’:
Thomas Edwards' Gangraena
(1646) and related work.’ Histories of Heresy 1640-1800, William Clark
Library, UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies, Los Angeles, CA. |
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20 Mar 1998 |
Chair, Panel: ‘Gandhi's Legacy
Examined.’ Western Political Science Association, Los Angeles, CA. |
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19 Mar 1998 |
‘Winstanley and Dispossessed Individualism: Teaching
Subjects in Seventeenth-Century England.’ Western Political Science
Association, Los Angeles, CA. |
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8-11 Jan 1998 |
Invited Participant
in ‘Liberty and Toleration in the Thought of Locke and Bayle.’ Liberty Fund
International Conference, Seattle, WA. |
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29 Aug 1997 |
‘Trading Punches
for Punch-Lines: Dialogic Ethics and the Virtue of
Humor.’ American Political Science Association, Washington DC. |
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28 Aug 1997 |
‘Thomas Hobbes and
Civil War Radicalism.’ American Political Science Association, Washington DC. |
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13 May 1997 |
‘Being Odd or
Getting Even: Liberal Communitarianism and the
English 'Revolution'.’ Political Science Colloquium, U. of Hawaii at Manoa, HI. |
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24 Apr 1997 |
Invited Participant
in ‘Early Theories and Practices of Toleration in Comparative Perspective.’ UC
International Faculty Seminar, UC Riverside, CA. |
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13 Mar 1997 |
‘Communitarian
Politics and the Limitations of the Strange: lessons from the English
'Revolution'.’ Western Political Science Association, Tucson, AZ. |
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13 Mar 1997 |
Chair, Panel: ‘Rousseau
Revived.’ Western Political Science Assoc., Tucson, AZ. |
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16 Mar 1996 |
‘A Funny Thing
Didn't Happen on the Way to Liberalism: The Virtue of Humor,.’
Western Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA. |
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20 Oct 1995 |
‘Life, Levity, and
the Pursuit of Happiness: Liberalism and the Indispensability of Humor.’
Political Science/Philosophy Colloquia, U. of Wash., Seattle, WA. |
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14 Oct 1995 |
‘The Uses of
Political Theory: Traveling Roads not Taken.’ Homecoming Weekend Mini-Session,
Alumni Relations, Willamette U., Salem, OR. |
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6 Jun 1995 |
‘Liberalism &
the Propriety of Self-Ownership.’ Canadian Political Science Association,
Montréal, QC, Canada. |
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13 Jun 1994 |
‘Modernity, Liberalism,
and their Late-Modern Critique: Max Stirner's Ego.’ Canadian Political Science
Association, Calgary, AB, Canada. |
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12 Jun 1994 |
Discussant, Panel: ‘Postmodern(isms).’ Canadian Political Science
Association, U. of Calgary, AB, Canada. |
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26 Feb 1994 |
‘Science as Source
in the History of Western Political Thought.’ Oregon Academy of Science,
Corvallis, OR. |
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4 Sept 1993 |
‘Self-Ownership and
the Language of Liberal Individualism in Seventeenth-Century England.’ American
Political Science Association, Washington DC. |
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13 Nov 1992 |
‘The Rebellious
Roots of Liberalism: Étienne de La Boétie on Tyranny.’ Northeastern Political Science
Association, Providence, RI. |
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5 Sep 1992 |
‘The Irrationality of
the Tyrannical State: Étienne de La Boétie on Voluntary Servitude.’ American Political
Science Association, Chicago, IL. |
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31 May 1992 |
‘The Origins of
Liberalism: the Place of Étienne de La Boétie.’ Canadian Political Science Association,
Charlottetown, PEI, Canada. |
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8 Mar 1990 |
‘A Plea for
Toleration in Matters Historical: The Case of Niccolò
Machiavelli.’ City U. of NY Political Science Conference: Historical
Perspectives on Politics, New York, NY. |
BOOK/ARTICLE MANUSCRIPT REVIEWS
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American Political Science Review |
GRANTS & AWARDS
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2008 – 09 |
Government of Canada
Canadian Studies Program Enhancement Grant: $6000 |
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2008 – 09 |
Sabbatical Leave:
full release at 75% salary |
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2008 – 09 |
Willamette
University
Center for Ancient Studies & Archaeology Faculty Fellowship: $4000 |
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2007 – 08 |
Government of Canada Canadian Studies
Program Enhancement Grant: $4000 |
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2006 – 07 |
Government of Canada Canadian Studies
Program Enhancement Grant: $4000 |
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2006 |
Jerry E. Hudson Award for Excellence
in Teaching |
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2005 |
Willamette University W.M. Keck
Foundation Grant for Professional Enhancement |
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2005 |
Willamette University Atkinson Fund
Faculty Development (Research) Award: $2500 |
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2002 – 03 |
Department of Education PT3/Oregon
Technology in Education Network (OTEN) Consortium sub-grant as Social Studies
Lead Faculty Member: $3500 + $1000. |
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2001 – 02 |
Willamette University Faculty
Achievement Award for excellence in teaching and service. |
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2001 |
National Endowment
for the Humanities Fellowship Award: |
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2000 – 01 |
Sabbatical Leave:
full release at 75% salary |
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2000 |
Willamette University
Hewlett Fund Information Technology Development Award: $1300 |
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2000 |
Willamette
University Atkinson Fund Faculty Development (Research) Award: $2500 |
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1999 – 00 |
Willamette University
Center for the Humanities Resident Fellow: 1/3rd release |
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1999 |
Willamette
University Atkinson Fund Faculty Development (Research) Award: $2500 |
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1999 |
Willamette
University Hewlett Fund 'Mortality Cluster' Development Award: $1000 |
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1998 |
Oregon Campus
Compact/Oregon Community Foundation Mini-Grant: Service Learning Course
Development: $1500 |
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1998 |
Willamette
University Mortar Board Professor of the Year |
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1997 |
Willamette University
Hewlett Fund 'Mortality Cluster' Development Award: $1500 |
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1995 |
Oregon Council of
Humanities Summer Research Grant: $2000 |
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1995 – 96 |
Willamette
University Atkinson Fund Faculty Development (Research) Award: $1500 |
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1994 – 95 |
Willamette
University Merit Award for Superior Teaching |
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1992 – 93 |
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship |
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1992 – 93 |
Graduate Fellow,
Rockefeller College, Princeton University |
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1991 – 92 |
Princeton University
Center for Human Values Prize Fellowship |
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1988 – 92 |
Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada Award |
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1988 – 89 |
Program in
Political Philosophy Merit Award, Princeton University |
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1986 – 88 |
Ralph Steinhauer Award of Distinction |
UNIVERSITY COMMITTEE & SELECT COMMUNITY SERVICE
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2007 – 08 |
Chair, Dept of
Politics, WU |
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2007 – 08 |
Writing Committee |
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2007 – 08 |
Diversity Advisor |
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2005 – 07 |
Chair, Academic
Programs Committee, WU |
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2004 – 05 |
2005 Award
Committee, American Political Science Association Leo Strauss prize for the
best dissertation in the field of political philosophy |
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2004 – 05 |
Chair, Dept of
Politics, WU |
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2004 – 05 |
National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowships Political Science peer review panel |
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2002 – 04 |
Member of the
Multicultural Center Advisory Board of Chemeketa
Community College, Salem OR |
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2001 – 03 |
Chair, Dept of
Politics, WU |
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2001 – 05 |
Academic Programs
Committee, WU |
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1999 – 00 |
Chair, WU College
of Liberal Arts Long-Range Planning Committee |
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1999 – 00 |
Academic Programs
Committee, WU |
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1997 – 99 |
General Education
Implementation Committee, WU |
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1995 – 96 |
Student Activities Committee,
WU |
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1994 – 96 |
Working Group on
General Education, WU |
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
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12-14 Jan 2009 |
Project Bamboo
Technology in Humanities Workshop, Tucson, AZ |
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16-18 Oct 2008 |
Project Bamboo Technology
in Humanities Workshop, San Francisco, CA |
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27 Aug 2008 |
Canada and the US,
APSA Short Course, Boston MA |
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21-26 July 2008 |
CONNECT Canadian
Studies Seminar, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. |
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15-17 May 2008 |
Project Bamboo Technology
in Humanities Workshop, Chicago, IL |
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10-22 July, 2007 |
International
Canadian Studies Institute, Alberta, Canada. |
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22 May
2007 |
Digital Asset Management, WITS
Workshop, Willamette University. |
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21 May
2007 |
‘Project Management in a Liberal Arts
College,’ NITLE Workshop, Willamette University. |
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15 May
2007 |
Film Study Workshop, Willamette
University. |
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7-10
Feb 2006 |
Northwest Council for Computer
Education (NCCE), Portland, OR. |
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9-11
Jan 2006 |
National Institute for Technology in Liberal
Education iGIS Workshop, Willamette University,
Salem OR. |
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1-5 Aug 2005 |
Final Cut Pro: Intermediate and
Advanced Video Editing, Pacific NorthWest College
of Art, Portland OR. |
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25-29 July 2005 |
Digital Video and Filmmaking for Teachers,
Pacific NorthWest College of Art, Portland OR. |
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25-30 Jun 2005 |
‘Digital Video.’ National Institute
for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE),
ACS Tech Center, Southwestern University, Georgetown TX. |
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26-29 Jan
2005 |
WU Team Participant
in AAC&U’s 2005 Annual Meeting, “Liberal
Education and the New Academy: Raising Expectations, Keeping Promises,” San
Francisco CA. |
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18-21 May
2004 |
WITS Faculty
Multimedia Camp, Willamette University, Salem OR. |
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July-Dec 2003 |
Visiting Faculty Academic
Director, WU Study Abroad Program at University of Western Australia, Perth,
Australia. |
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5 Apr 2003 |
“Wise Uses of
Technology: Social Science & Language Arts Spring Faculty Conference,” U.
of Portland, Portland OR. |
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8 Jan 2003 |
“Hawaii International
Conference on Education,” Waikiki, HI. |
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28 Sept 2002 |
"Wise Uses of
Technology in the Classroom," George Fox University, Tigard OR. |
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21 Sept 2002 |
"Uses of PDA's
in the classroom," U.of Portland, Portland OR. |
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2-21 Jun 2001 |
WU Team Participant
in "Worldviews Travel Program," Greece. |
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13-23 Jul
2000 |
WU Team Participant
in "Boundaries and Borderlands III," Association of American
Colleges and Universities' Curriculum and Faculty Development Project, Brown University,
Providence RI. |
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5-7 May 2000 |
"New
Information Technologies and Liberal Education," Center for
Collaborative Learning and Communication, Furman University, Greenville SC. |
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17-21 Jun
1998 |
4th Annual National
Gathering of the Invisible College (formerly Campus Compact Project on
Integrating Service in Academic Study), Portland State University, Portland
OR. |
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Sep-Dec 1997 |
Visiting Faculty
Academic Director, American Heritage Association, Independent Liberal Arts
Colleges Association, London, UK |