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Expertise
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Work
Work
The Best Kind of College: An Insiders' Guide to America's Small Liberal Arts Colleges, edited with Susan McWilliams (SUNY Press, forthcoming 2015)
Too Young to Run? A Proposal for an Age Amendment to the U.S. Constitution (Penn State University Press, 2012)
A Political Companion to Walt Whitman, editor (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2011)
America Goes to College: Political Theory for the Liberal Arts (State University of New York Press, 2002)
Political Theory for Mortals: Shades of Justice, Images of Death (Cornell University Press, 1996)
The Politics of Irony: Essays in Self-Betrayal, edited with Daniel W. Conway (St. Martin's/MacMillan, 1992)
Political Returns: Irony in Politics and Theory from Plato to the Antinuclear Movement (Westview Press, 1990)
Selected Films
Appeared in This American Gothic, a feature documentary directed by Sasha Waters Freyer.
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Education
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Awards & Honors
Awards & Honors
American Political Science Association Distinguished Teaching Award, 2013 (first discipline-wide teaching award bestowed by the APSA)
Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Professor for Distinguished Teaching, Center for Human Values, Princeton University, 2010-11
Sidney Hook Memorial Award (awarded by the national Phi Beta Kappa Society every three years to one person in the country, recognizing “national distinction by a single scholar in each of three endeavors—scholarship, undergraduate teaching and leadership in the cause of liberal arts)
Pomona College, Wig Distinguished Professorship Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1994 & 1999
Pomona College, Graves Award in the Humanities, 1998
Danforth Fellow, 1980-1984
Summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, Amherst College, 1980