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Michael
P. Zuckert
(BA, Cornell; Phd, Chicago, 1974) Nancy Reeves Dreux Professor; works
in political philosophy, American constitutional law and theory, and American
political thought. He has published Natural Rights and the New Republicanism(Princeton)
and The Natural Rights Republic (Notre Dame), which has been named
an Outstanding Book for 1997 by Choice Magazine,as well as many articles
on a variety of topics, including George Orwell, Plato's Apology,
Shakespeare, and contemporary liberal theory. He is currently completing
a book on the American founding, A System Without a Precedent, and
has been commissioned to write the volume on John Rawls for a new series
on Twentieth Century Political Philosophy. He co-authored and co-produced
the public radio series Mr. Adams and Mr. Jefferson: A Nine Part Drama
for the Radio, and was senior scholar for Liberty!, a six hour
public television series on the American Revolution. He has received grants
from NEH, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Earhart Foundation and NSF, and has
taught at Carleton College, Cornell University, Claremont Men's College,
Fordham University, the University of Minnesota, and the University of
Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Advising
specialties
Rhodes, Marshall, law school, public service
Stephen
Gersh
Primary teaching interests and primary research interests: Medieval philosophy,
later ancient philosophy, medieval literary theory, medieval musical theory.
Recent books: Concord in Discourse. Harmonics and Semiotics in Late
Medieval and Early Medieval Platonism, Berlin: De Gruyter 1998. Recent
honours: Solomon Katz Professor in the Humanities, University of Washington
2001.
