B.A. Cornell University 1964

M.. University of Chicago 1967 Ph.D.

University of Chicago 1970

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Political Philosophy (Professor, Associate, Assistant,Instructor), Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, 1971-98;Chairperson, 1985-88.

Visiting Scholar, Liberty Fund, Inc., Indianapolis, IN 2003-04

Visiting Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Winter 1995.

Distinguished Visiting Professor, Gender and Political Philosophy Program Fordham University, Fall 1994, 1995.

Visiting Scholar, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University Fall 1993.

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, Cornell University, Summer 1981.

Visiting Associate Professor, Claremont Men's College, Claremont, CA, 1976-77.

Lecturer in Marxism, Harvey Mudd College, 1977.

Lecturer in Constitutional Law, St. Olaf College, 1972.

2007-08 Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write a book-length study of "Machiavelli's politics."

Cornell:  Dean's Scholar, Graduate with Distinction in All Subjects, Honors in Government, Phi Beta Kappa (Jr.), Phi Kappa Phi, Mortarboard.

Chicago:  Woodrow Wilson Fellow, Hillman Fellow, University Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Dissertation Fellow, University of Chicago Dissertation Fellow.

Section Head, Foundations of Political Theory (Ancient), Midwest PSA, 2007.

Editor-in-Chief, The Review of Politics, 2004—

Editorial Board, Polis, 2005—

Executive Council, Midwest Political Science Association 2002-05.

Easton Book Prize Committee, Foundations Section, American Political Science Association, 2003.

Ethics Committee, APSA, 1999-2002.

 Distinguished Woman Visitor, Notre Dame University, February 24-29, 1997.

Project Director, Ford Foundation Social Science Grant, Carleton College, 1990-2; 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–Beloit College (Winter 2005), University of Colorado (Fall 2002), Gustavus Adolphus (Spring 1998), Colgate University (February 1997), Bowdoin College (November 1995), Colorado College (March 1995), Kenyon College (October 1994), Connecticut College (November 1992), Smith College (April 1991).

Director, Colloquia on Faulkner's Go Down, Moses, Plato's Laws, Aristotle's Ethics, Technology and Liberty, Plato's Trilogy, Mark Twain, Liberty Fund, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2003, 2005.

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 Midwest Political Science Association Meetings, 1990.

APSA Selection Committee for the James Madison Award, 1990.

Editor, Interpretation, 1984–

Editorial Board, College Teaching, 1986–2000.

Minnesota Advisory Committee to the U. S. Civil Rights Commission  1985-88.

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, University of  Minnesota, 1987 .

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, St. Thomas College, St. Paul, MN, Summer 1987 .

Honors Examiner, Kenyon College, Spring 1985.

Consultant, Macalester College, Faculty Development Program, Winter 1984.

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.

Congressional Testimony

"Possible Exceptions to the E. R. A.," testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution of the Senate Judiciary Committee, August 7, 1984.