Teaching Experience

  • Chair of the Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, present position

  • Mildred Lane Kemper Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Wellesley College, present position
    Courses include Introduction to Political Science, Issues in Political Theory, Power and Politics, Feminist Political Theory, Islamic and Western Political Thought, Ancient and Medieval Political Theory, Modern Political Theory, and Contemporary Political Theory.

  • Assistant Professor, Department of Government and International Studies, University of South Carolina, Columbia. 1995-1997
    Undergraduate Courses and Graduate Seminars include Introduction to Political Theory, Ancient and Medieval Political Thought, Modern Political Theory, The Politics of  Fundamentalism, Politics and Ethics

 

Academic Awards

  • Frank L. Wilson Best APSA Paper Award for 2005, French Politics Group of the American Political Science Association

  • Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellowship, 2004-2005

  • Pinanski Teaching Prize, Wellesley College, May 2003

  • Andrew Mellon Senior Faculty Development Grant, Wellesley College, 2002

  • Foundations of Political Theory First Book Award, Honorable Mention: Enemy in the Mirror, American Political Science Association, 2000-2001

  • American Council of Learned Societies/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship, 2000-2001

  • Visiting Scholar Research Appointment, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 2000-2001

  • Excellence in Teaching Award, University of South Carolina Mortar Board (Honor Society), 1996

  • Research and Productive Scholarship Award, University of South Carolina, 1996

  • Princeton Wilson Fellowship, Princeton Society of Fellows of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton, 1993-95

  • Graduate Prize Fellowship, the University Center for Human Values, Princeton, 1992-93