Curriculum Vitae Updated
Catherine Heldt Zuckert
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Education
B.A.
M.A.
Current Position
217
O'Shaughnessy Hall,
Notre
Tel: (574) 631-6620 (o), FAX (574) 631-8209
and
Editor-in-Chief of The Review of Politics
546 Flanner Hall,
Notre
Tel: (574) 631-6623, FAX (574) 631-1303
Other Relevant Experience
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Philosophy (Professor,
Associate, Assistant, Instructor),
Chairperson, 1985-88
Visiting Scholar, Liberty Fund, Inc.,
Visiting Professor of Political Science,
Distinguished Visiting Professor, Gender and Political Philosophy Program
Visiting Professor of Honors Education, University of Delaware, 1989-90.
Director, NEH Summer Seminar for Secondary School Teachers 1984, 1986.
Director, ACM/GLCA Newberry Library Seminar in the Humanities, 1982-83.
Assistant Professor of American Politics,
Visiting Associate Professor,
Lecturer in Marxism,
Lecturer in Constitutional Law,
Teaching Fields
Political philosophy, politics and literature
Courses Taught
History of Political Philosophy; Introduction to Political Philosophy; Ancient Political Philosophy; Modern Political Philosophy; Postmodern Political Thought; The Philosophical Foundations of Feminism; Sophistry, Philosophy and the Politics of Difference; Plato's Trilogy; Montesquieu; Nietzsche and Heidegger; Heidegger and Derrida; Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche; Marx and Marxism; The Problem of Education in a Liberal Democracy--Rousseau, Tocqueville and the American Pragmatists; The Socratic Turn; The New Science and Humanity; The Philosophy of Social Science; The Poetics of the Divine; American Political Thought; The Novel as a Form of American Political Thought; Tocqueville's Democracy in America; Liberal Democracy and Social Democracy; Introduction to American Government; Private Interests and Public Policy; Smith and Keynes; American Constitutional Law; Women and Law; Introduction to International Relations, Politics; Poetry and Philosophy in Ancient Greece; Plato’s Laws; The Problem of Socrates; Theories of War and Peace; Machiavelli’s Political Thought; Machiavelli and the Machiavellians.
Honors and Fellowships
Cornell: Dean's Scholar, Graduate with Distinction in All Subjects, Honors in Government,
Phi Beta Kappa (Jr.), Phi Kappa Phi, Mortarboard
Dissertation Fellow,
Post-Graduate: 1974-75 NEH Younger Humanist
1981 Woodrow Wilson Faculty Development
1987-88 NEH Fellowship for College Teachers
1989 Earhart Fellowship
1993 Visiting Scholar,
1991-94 Bradley Foundation Research Grant
1997-98 NEH Fellowship for College Teachers
1998 Earhart Fellowship
1998 Templeton Honor Roll
2007-08 NEH Fellowship for University Professors
2009 Visiting Scholar,
PUBLICATIONS
Books–Monographs (Refereed)
Plato’s Philosophers (
PLATO'S PHILOSOPHERS received the R. Hawkins Award for the Best Scholarly Book Published in 2009 (in any or all fields).
It also received an award for "Excellence in the Humanities", The Best Book Published in Philosophy, and Outstanding Academic Title, Choice, 2009.
Zuckert (
Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss and Derrida (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996), 351 pages.
Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form (Savage, Md: Rowman and Littlefield, 1990), 277 pages.
PSP Award for the
Most Outstanding Book Published in Religion and Philosophy in 1990 by
the Association of American Publishers
Books–Edited (Refereed)
Understanding the Political Spirit: Philosophical Reflections from Socrates to Nietzsche, editor and author of comprehensive introduction (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988),
203 pages.
Choice award--best books published
in political theory in 1989--American Library
Association
Co-edited
Special Issue of a Journal
Politics and Literature, co-editor with Michael Zuckert, special issue, Legal Studies Forum, Vol. 22, No. 4 (1998), 343 pages.
Refereed Articles
"Why Socrates and Thrasymachus Become Friends," Philosophy and Rhetoric 43, no. 2 (2010).
“The Stranger’s Political Science v. Socrates’ Political Art,” the online
Journal of the International Plato Symposium, Winter 2005.
“The Socratic Turn,” History of Political
Thought 25 (Summer 2004): 189-219.
“Plato’s
Laws: Postlude or Prelude to Socratic
Political Philosophy?” Journal of
Politics,
Vol. 66 (May 2004): 374-95.
“Who’s a Philosopher? Who’s a Sophist? The Stranger v. Socrates,” Review of Metaphysics 54
(September 2001): 65-97.
“Leadership–Natural
and Conventional–in Melville’s Benito Cereno,” Interpretation,
Vol. 26, No. 2 (Winter 1999): 239-55.
"Plato's
Parmenides–A Dramatic
"Why Political Scientists Want to Study Literature," PS: Political Science & Politics, Vol. XXVIII, No. 2 (June 1995): 189-90.
"The Postmodern Problem," Perspective, Vol. 24, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 87-94; reprinted in Gregory M. Scott, ed., Political Science: Foundations for a Fifth Millenium
(Prentice Hall, 1997) as the example of current writing in the sub-field of political theory.
"On the 'Rationality' of Rational Choice," Political Psychology, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1995: 179-98.
"The Politics of Derridean Deconstruction," Polity, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Spring 1991): 335-57.
"The
Political Roots of the
"Martin Heidegger: His Politics and His Philosophy," in Political Theory, Vol. 18, No. 1 (February 1990): 51-79.
"Nietzsche's Rereading of Plato," Political Theory, Vol. 13, No. 2 (May 1985): 213-38, reprinted in David W. Conway, ed., Critical Assessments: Friedrich Nietzsche (New York: Routledge, 1998), Vol. IV, pp. 382-404.
"Huck at 100,"
"Law and Nature in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," Proteus, Vol. 1 (Fall 1984): 27-35; reprinted in M. Thomas Inge, ed., Huck Finn among the Critics: A Centennial Selection (Frederick, MD: UPA, 1985), 231-46.
"Nietzsche on the Origin and Development of the Distinctively Human," Polity, Vol. 16, no. 1 (Fall 1983): 48-71.
"Reagan and that Unnamed Frenchman (De Tocqueville): On the Rationale for the New (Old) Federalism," Review of Politics, Vol. 43, No. 3 (July 1983): 421-42.
"Aristotle on the Limits and Satisfactions of Political Life," Interpretation, Vol. 11, no. 2 (May 1983): 185-206.
"On Reading Classic American Novelists as Political Thinkers," Journal of Politics, Vol. 43, no. 3 (August 1981): 683-706.
"Not by Preaching: Tocqueville on the Role of Religion in American Democracy," Review of Politics, Vol. 43, no. 2 (April 1981): 259-80.
"The Political Thought of Nathaniel Hawthorne," Polity, Vol. 13, no. 2 (Winter 1980): 163-83.
"American
Women and Democratic Morals: The
Bostonians," Feminist Studies,
Vol. 3, no. 3/4 (Spring-Summer 1976): 30-50, reprinted in David L. Schaefer, The New Egalitarianism (Kenninkat, 1979), and reprinted again in Nineteenth Century Literature Criticism,
vol. 180 (
"Nature, History and the Self: Friedrich Nietzsche's Untimely Considerations, in Nietzsche- Studien, Band 5 (1976): 55-82.
" '. . . and in its wake we followed,' The Political Thought of Mark Twain," with Michael Zuckert, Interpretation (Summer l972): 49-66.
Book Chapters–Refereed
“Becoming Socrates,” Re-Examining Socrates in the APOLOGY, ed. Patrician Fagan and
John Russon
(
“Leo Strauss: Jewish, Yes, but Heideggerian?” in Jewish Heideggerians, ed. Sam Fleischacker
(
“Fackenheim
and Strauss,” The Philosopher as Witness:
Fackenheim and Responses to the Holocaust,
ed. Michael Morgan and Ben Pollock (
“Tom Sawyer: Potential President?”
Democratic Literature, ed. Patrick Deneen and
Joseph
Romance (
“Why Tyranny Today?” Confronting Tyranny, ed. Toivo Koinvukoski and David Tabachnick
(
"On
the Politics of Gadamerian Hermeneutics," in
Bruce Krajewski, ed., Gadamieran Repercussions: Philosophical Hermeneutics Reconsidered (
the discussion of Gadamer in my Postmodern Platos, and there are two responses
to my critique of their arguments by Orozo and Waite in this volume.)
“New
Readings of Plato’s Republic,” in Ann
Michelini, ed., Plato
as Author (
Press, 2003), 345-69.
"Empirical Political Theory 1997--Who's Kissing Him/Her Now?" (with Michael Zuckert) in Kristen R. Monroe, ed., Contemporary Political Theory (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997): 143-65.
"Fortune
Is a Woman--But So Is Prudence:
Machiavelli's Clizia,"
Finding a New Feminism: Rethinking the Woman Question in
Liberal Democracy, Pamela Jensen, ed. (Rowman
& Littlefield, 1996): 23-37;
reprinted in Maria J Falco, Feminist Interpretations of Niccolo
Machiavelli
(
"The Novelist Who Corrupted American Mores," What Happened to Covenant in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Daniel Elazar (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 1994), 209-31.
"The Novel as a Form of American Political Thought," in Reading Political Stories: Representations of Politics in Novels and Pictures, ed. Maureen Whitebrook (Savage, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1992): 167-204.
"Political Sociology vs. Speculative Philosophy," in Ken Masugi, ed., Interpreting Tocqueville’s DEMOCRACY IN AMERICA (Savage, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield, 1991): 121-52.
"On the Theory of Political Economy: Is Liberalism Really Dead?" in Norman J. Vig and Steven Schier, The Political Economy of Western Democracies (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1985): 19-45.
Book Chapters–Invited
“Straussian
Approaches to Plato,” A Companion to
Plato, ed. Gerald A. Preuss (
“Hemingway
on Being in Our Time,” in Hemingway on
Politics and Rebellion, ed. Lauretta Frederking (
“Straussians,” (with
Michael Zuckert), International Encyclopedia of Political Science (
“The
Straussian Approach,”
George Klosko, forthcoming 2009.
“Strauss’s Plato,” in Michael A. Peters and Justin York, ed., Strauss and Education (Madison, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009 forthcoming); to be translated into Spanish for a collection of essays on Strauss’s readings of various philosophers to be edited by Claudia Hilb and published by Prometeo Editores, Guadalajara, Mexico.
“Strauss’s Return to Pre-modern Thought,” Cambridge Companion to Leo Strauss, ed. Steven
Smith (
“Twentieth
Century Revivals of Ancient Political Thought:
Hannah Arendt and Leo Strauss,” Blackwell
Companion to Ancient Political Thought, ed. Ryan Balot
(
“Practical
Plato,”
(
“The
Magnanimous Overman:
On Nietzsche’s Transformation Transformation
of Aristotle’s Greatness of Soul,” with Jeffrey Church, Magnanimity, ed. Carson Holloway
(
“Hermeneutics
in Practice: Gadamer on the Ancients,”
ed. Robert Dostal (
“Introduction,” Politics and Literature, special issue, Legal Studies Forum, Vol. 22, No. 4 (1998), 529-34.
"Why Political Scientists Study Fiction," The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 17, No. 26 (March 8, 1996): A48; reprinted in The Howard University Reader (McGraw Hill, 1997).
"Aristotle's Practical Political Science," Politikos II: Educating the Ambitious (Dusquesne University Press, 1992), 144-65.
"Religion
in
"On the Inevitable Growth of Big Government," in Jackson Barlow and John West, ed., The New Federalist Papers (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1989), 160-62.
"The
Political Lessons of Economic Life," in Mary P. Nichols, ed.,
496-507.
Newspaper Articles
“Strauss, father of the Right? Er,
wrong,” with Michael Zuckert, The Times Higher
Education
Supplement,
"Democracy
in
Syndicated,
published in The Cleveland Plain Dealer,
Congressional Testimony
"Possible Exceptions to the E. R. A.," testimony before
the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
Radio Interviews
Extension
720, WGN
Book Reviews
I do not have a record of all the reviews I have written for the American Political Science Review, Review of Politics, Constitutional Commentary, College Teaching, Political Theory, the Political Economy and the Good Society newsletter, Academic Questions, International Studies in Philosophy, Interpretation, and Ancient Philosophy.
Recent reviews include:
“Poetic Justice,” a review of Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War: Civil War Poems, by Herman Melville, ed. Richard H. Cox and Paul M. Dowling (Prometheus Books, 354 pages) in the Claremont Review of Books, Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 2003): 15-16.
J.
Peter Euben, Platonic
Noise (Princeton:
“Plato’s Poetry,” review of Ramona Naddaff,
Exiling
the Poets: The Production of Censorship in Plato's
Republic (
Review of Catalin Partenie and Tom Rockmore, ed., Heidegger and Plato: Toward Dialogue, Northwestern University Press, 2005, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, on-line, February 2006.
Review of Gary Scott, ed., Philosophy in Dialogue: Plato’s Many Devices, Ancient Philosophy 28, no. 2 (Fall 2008).
Work in Progress
Machiavelli’s Politics— a book-length study emphasizing Machiavelli’s political analysis and
advice to
his readers rather than the moral “revolution” he attempted to effect in order
to achieve his political ends. In
contrast to Coby and in partial opposition to
Skinner, I argue that Machiavelli uses Rome to criticize Sparta as the model of
republican government, but that having displaced the classical “aristocratic”
notion of republicanism with a nascent model of checks and balances, he then
becomes critical of Roman practice as well.
Machiavelli explicitly recognizes that Roman conquests eventually
destroyed freedom not only in the rest of the world but also in
Dissertations:
Supervisor:
Andrew Hertzoff, PhD: “City, Soul and Speech in Plato’s Craylus.” Andrew received
tenure
German publisher has expressed interest in turning his dissertation
into a book.
Xavier Marquez, PhD: “Political Knowledge in Plato’s Statesman.” Xavier was a
Sorin
Postdoctoral Fellow at the
was awarded the Leo Strauss Prize for the Best
Dissertation Written in
Political Philosophy in 2004-06, by the American Political Science
Association,
and has received the equivalent of tenure at
Kevin Cherry, PhD: “Aristotle’s First Critique: The Eleatic Stranger and the
Politics.” Assistant Professor, St. Anselm’s College.
Jill Budny, Ph.D: “The Education of the Irrational in Plato’s Laws.” Jill is currently
a
postdoctoral teaching fellow at
Catherine Borck,
Ph.D: “Becoming
Friends in Speech and Deed: Socratic Friendship in
the Platonic Dialogues.” Catherine is currently a visiting assistant professor of
political science at
Rebecca McCumbers, ABD: “The
and Machiavelli.” Loescher Teaching Fellow at UND.
Elizabeth L’Arrivee, ABD: “Philosophy as a Way of Life.” Earhart Fellow UND
Alexander Duff, ABD: “The Paradox of Heideggerian Politics”
Committees: Jody Cockerill, PhD, “Polity and Cosmogony: A Study of Three Creation Myths,”
self-employed editor; Traci Levy, PhD, “Women and Welfare,” now an assistant professor on tenure track at Adelphi University; Heike Cheryl Schotten, PhD, “Nietzsche’s Psychology of the Body,” assistant professor, tenure track, at University of Massachusetts in Boston; Jarrett Carty, “Machiavelli, Luther, and the Reformation of Politics” holds a tenure-track position in the Honors Program at Concordia University, Montreal; Timothy Dale, “Democracy beyond Universalism: Identity, Accountability, and Agency in ‘Post-Subjective’ Political Thinking,” moved from a tenure-track position at the University of South Carolina, Spartansburg to another tenure track position at the University of Wisconsin, River Falls in 2007-08; Ana Quesada Samuels, ABD, “Montesquieu on Morality and Law,” works at the Witherspoon Foundation at Princeton University; Emma Cohen de Lara, PhD, “The Lawgiver and the Physician: A Model for Reading Plato’s Laws,” was a visiting assistant professor at the University of Vermont in 2007-08 and now holds a temporary position at a university in the Netherlands; Jeffrey Church, PhD: “The Problem of the Individual in Hegel and Nietzsche,” is a tenure track assistant professor of political science at the University of Houston; Sarah Houser, “Loving Pimlico: Patriotism in the Age of the Cosmopolis,” is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Notre Dame.
Other Professional Activities
Executive Council of the American Political Science Association, 2007-09. Chair: Elections
Committee, 2009-09.
Section
Head, Foundations of Political Theory (Ancient),
Editor-in-Chief, The Review of
Politics, 2004—
Editorial Board, Polis, 2005—
Editorial Board, Blackwell’s
Encyclopedia of Political Theory, for the Foundations of
Political Thought
Section of the American Political Science Association
Executive
Council,
Ethics Committee, APSA, 1999-2002
Distinguished
Woman Visitor,
Project Director, Ford Foundation Social Science Grant, Carleton College, 1990-92; Round II, 1993-97.
APSA Selection Committee for the Leo Strauss Prize for the Best Dissertation Written in Political Philosophy, 1985; Chair 1996.
External
Department Review Committees–
Director, Colloquia on Faulkner's Go Down, Moses, Plato's Laws, Aristotle's Ethics, Technology and Liberty, Plato's Trilogy, Nature and Nurture in Mark Twain’s Novels, Freedom and Empire in Herodotus’ History, War & Peace in Aristophanes’ Comedies, Tocqueville’s Voyages, The Crisis of Modern Times, Liberty Fund, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009.
Editorial Board, American Journal of Political Science, 1996-97
Editorial Board, Polity, 1992-98.
Advisory Board, Review of Politics, 1990-98
Board of Editors, PS, 1992-94
Seminar
Director (with Michael Zuckert), "Politics and the Arts," Minnesota
Humanities Commission Institute for the Advancement
of Teaching, Fall 1993
Organizer, "Politics and Literature," unaffiliated group, APSA, 1992; Organized Section, 1993--
Panelist--Consultant NEH 1976-present; Standing Panel, Education Division, 1988-91
Section
Head for Political Theory for the
APSA Selection Committee for the James Madison Award, 1990
Editor, Interpretation, 1984–
Editorial Board, College Teaching, 1986–2000
Facilitator, "Bridging the Gap: Scholar to Teacher, Teacher to Student," Bush Foundation Inter-collegiate Faculty Seminar, Spring 1988
Evaluator for North Central Association of Colleges, 1986--
Advanced Placement Workshop Leader, College Board (American Government), 1986-88
Workshop
Leader, Summer Humanities Institute,
Consultant, Ford Foundation, "Dean's Grants in Literary and the Liberal Arts," "Improving Social Science Education" 1987, 1988
Director
(with Michael Zuckert), Faculty Development Workshop,
Honors
Examiner,
Consultant,
Reader for the American Political Science Review, Polity, Western Political Quarterly, American Politics Quarterly, Political Theory, Interpretation, College Teaching, Review of Politics, Journal of Politics, American Journal o f Political Science, Polis, Foucault Studies, History of Political Thought, University of Chicago Press, SUNY University Press, D. C. Heath, University of Kentucky Press, University of Oklahoma Press, University of Wisconsin Press, Cornell University Press, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press.
Recent and Upcoming Lectures
“Two Platonic Paradigms of Philosophy: Socrates and Timaeus,” Keynote Address, Ancient
Philosophy Society 10th
Annual Meeting,
“On the Implications of Human Mortality: Legislation, Education, and Philosophy in Plato’s
Laws,”
Workshop on Plato’s Laws, Department
of Philosophy,
March 2009.
“Plato’s Philosophers: On the Coherence of the Dialogues,” Political Theory Workshops
at
University of Wisconsin at
University,
“Strauss’s Plato,”
Department of Political Science,
“Philosophy as a Way of Life: Hadot, Foucault, Strauss” Conference on the History of Ethics,
Department of Philosophy,
“Platonic Dramatology,”
“The Philosophical Politics
of Leo Strauss,”
“Musings on Mortality,” Endowed Lecture, Department of Philosophy and
Religion, University
of
Workshop on Politics and Literature, 3 lectures for an Institute for High School History
Teachers,
“Socratic
Statesmanship,”
“Socrates’
Understanding of Friendship,” Political Theory
Department of Political Science, March 2004.
“Why Study Strauss?”
“Leo
Strauss as a Postmodern Political Thinker,”
8, 2003.
“Up
from the Underground: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man,” for Gerst conference on “
“Socrates–Revisited,
Reinterpreted, Revived?”
“Tom
Sawyer: Potential President,”
“Freedom
and Responsibility in the Novels of Mark Twain,”
“Socrates’
Becoming,” Department of Philosophy,
“Cooper v. Cather,” Sinopoli Memorial Lecture in American Political Thought, Department of Political Science, University of California at Davis, March 14, 2000
“Postmodernity v. Modernity: The Case of Richard Rorty,” Department of Political Science,