After four years serving as the Director of Undergraduate Studies for Political Science, I am very excited to take on a new challenge as the Associate Chair for Political Science. In this capacity, I’ll oversee the department’s long-range teaching plans at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as provide general support for the Chair and department administration.
Meanwhile, I will continue to co-direct (with Clarissa Hayward) the Workshop in Politics, Ethics, and Society. For more than twenty years, the Workshop has provided an interdisciplinary forum for scholars at Washington University and neighboring institutions to share their works-in-progress and receive rigorous and productive critical feedback. The Workshop series is generously supported by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, the Weidenbaum Center, and many departments and programs around campus. We are especially looking forward to expanding our partnership with the Law School this year as part of our plan to facilitate new and productive relationships across academic units.
And I am also thrilled to be chairing our first faculty search in many years for a new junior political theorist! Given the manifold new challenges and dilemmas we face with respect to democratic civic culture, the ethics of artificial intelligence, environmental justice, the morality of war and global cooperation, and so on, the demand for new scholarship in normative theory has never been greater. We look forward to helping the university build in these areas, so we can more robustly support important interdisciplinary projects such as the new Civil Society Initiative.
Meanwhile, I will continue to co-direct (with Clarissa Hayward) the Workshop in Politics, Ethics, and Society. For more than twenty years, the Workshop has provided an interdisciplinary forum for scholars at Washington University and neighboring institutions to share their works-in-progress and receive rigorous and productive critical feedback. The Workshop series is generously supported by the Dean of Arts and Sciences, the Weidenbaum Center, and many departments and programs around campus. We are especially looking forward to expanding our partnership with the Law School this year as part of our plan to facilitate new and productive relationships across academic units.
And I am also thrilled to be chairing our first faculty search in many years for a new junior political theorist! Given the manifold new challenges and dilemmas we face with respect to democratic civic culture, the ethics of artificial intelligence, environmental justice, the morality of war and global cooperation, and so on, the demand for new scholarship in normative theory has never been greater. We look forward to helping the university build in these areas, so we can more robustly support important interdisciplinary projects such as the new Civil Society Initiative.