Political Science

Teaching

• Paper Guidelines
• Paper Rubric

• PS 206-Introduction to Political Thought
• PS 361-Classical Political Thought
• PS 362-Modern Political Thought
• PS 363-Gender and Race in American Political Thought
• PS 365-American Political Thought
• PS 399-Current Problems in Politics: Global Political Theory
• PS 469/569-Seminar in Political Theory (WIC)

Research Interests

• Political theory
• Theories of justice and democracy
• Domestic and global inequality
• Race and ethnicity
• Environmental political theory

Curriculum Vitae

Academia.edu Web Page

Brief Vita

BOOKS

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

• "A Liberal Defense of Black Nationalism." American Political Science Review, vol. 104, no. 3, August 2010, pp. 467-481.
• "Same-Sex Marriage and the Regulation of Language" (with Andrew Stivers). Politics, Philosophy and Economics, vol. 6, no. 2, June 2007, pp.237-53.
• "Reconsidering the Case for Black Reparations." In Reparations: Interdisciplinary Inquiries, ed. Jon Miller and Rahul Kumar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007: 114-29.
• "'A Lousy Empirical Scientist:' Reconsidering Hume's Racism." In Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy, ed. Andrew Valls. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005: pp, 127-49.
• "Racial Justice as Transitional Justice." Polity, vol. 36, no. 1, October 2003, pp. 665-83.
• "The Broken Promise of Racial Integration." NOMOS XLIII: Moral and Political Education, ed. Stephen Macedo and Yael Tamir. New York: New York University Press, 2002, pp. 456-74.
• "Can Terrorism Be Justified?" In Ethics in International Affairs: Theories and Cases, ed. Andrew Valls. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000, pp. 65-79.
• "The Libertarian Case for Affirmative Action." Social Theory and Practice, vol. 25, no. 2, Summer 1999, pp. 299-323.
• "Self-Development and the Liberal State: The Cases of John Stuart Mill and Wilhelm von Humboldt." The Review of Politics, vol. 61, no. 2, Spring 1999, pp. 251-74.