POLITICAL SCIENCE

CURRICULUM VITAE

Ann C. Davies

Department of Political Science

Beloit College Beloit, WI 53511

(608) 363-2303

Email: daviesa@beloit.edu

Education

Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science, 1996

The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Dissertation: “The State in a ‘Stateless’ Society: The Ends and Powers of Government in the American Liberal Tradition”

Master of Arts in Political Science, 1991

The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Thesis: “Liberty and Virtue in the Thought of John Locke and James Harrington”

Bachelor of Arts with High Honors in Political Science, summa cum laude, 1987

Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio

Employment

Associate Professor of Political Science, 2003-Present at Beloit College
Courses:

American Political Thought

Autonomy, Responsibility and Privacy: Youth and Families in Public Law

Civil Rights in Uncivil Societies

Classical Concepts of Justice

Constitutional Law in the United States

Constitutionalism and National Security

U.S. Courts as Political Institutions

Introduction to U.S. National Government

Introduction to Political Thinking

Introduction to Politics

Modern Political Theory

Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1997-2003
Beloit College

Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, 1995-7 at Kenyon College
Courses:

The American Founding

Individual and Community

Liberal Democracy in America

Parties and Elections

The Quest for Justice: An Introduction to Politics

Preceptor and Teaching Assistant, 1991-3 at The University of Chicago
Courses:

Natural Right Theories

Political Economy

Senior Thesis Colloquium

Legislative Assistant, 1987-9 in the The United States House of Representatives

Subcommittee on Libraries and Memorials

Publications and Professional Activity

“In Law More than in Life? Liberalism, Reason and Religion in Public Schools.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs 9:3 (Fall 2006)

“Modernity and the State: Enlightenment, Liberalism and Political Development in the United States.” New Approaches to Comparative Politics: Insights from Political Theory. Ed. Jennifer Holmes. Lexington Books, 2003

“In Search of Community: Tocqueville, Dewey and Whitman on Democratic Poetry.” Judges and Seers. Ed. Christine Dunn Henderson. Lexington Books, 2001

Ordinary (In)justice: Anger as a Moral and Democratic Emotion.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. March 2007.

“The Human Mire: Anger and its Aftermath.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 2006

Program Committee. Association for Political Theory 2006 Annual Meeting.

Participant. “Faust.” Liberty Fund Conference. August 2005

“Hell’s Tides and ‘Geometric Precision’: Liberals’ Approach to Punishment.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. March 2005

Participant. “Liberty and Responsibility in Emerson’s Essays.” Liberty Fund Conference. December 2004

“The Laying on of Hands: Punishment in the Liberal State.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 2004

“Coercion, Obedience and Autonomy: The Case of Liberalism’s Enforcers.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association. March 2004

“Coercion, Obedience and Autonomy: The Case of Liberalism’s Enforcers.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. August 2003

“The Laying on of Hands: Punishment in the Liberal State.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. April 2003

Participant. “Plutarch’s Moralia.” Liberty Fund Conference. March 2003

Co-Creator and Coordinator. “Exploring Interdisciplinary Thought, Discourse and Communication.” Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Development Seminar. Beloit College. October 2002

Participant. “Individual Freedom in Robert Penn Warren’s All the King’s Men.” Liberty Fund Conference. September 2002

Pi Sigma Alpha Best Paper Award Committee. Southwestern Political Science Association. Fall 2002

“Coercion, Care and Due Process in the Juvenile Justice System.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. April 2002

“Parting in Law as in Life? Liberalism, Reason and Religion in Public Schools.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association. March 2002

Participant. “Individualism and Liberty in the Thought of Alexis de Tocqueville and James Bryce.” Liberty Fund Conference. January 2002

Participant. “Religion in the Political Thought of Edmund Burke and Groen Van Prinsterer.” Liberty Fund Conference. September 2001

“Coercion, Care and Due Process in the Juvenile Justice System.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 2001

Participant. “The Human and Physical Environments of Central Europe.” Associated Colleges of the Midwest Global Partners Project. Olomouc, Czech Republic. June 2001

“Tracing the Liberal Anatomy: Speech and Prayer in Public Schools.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. April 2001

Participant. “Environmental Stewardship.” Liberty Fund Conference. November 2000

“In Search of Community: Tocqueville, Dewey and Whitman on Democratic Poetry.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. April 2000

“‘Salutary Bondage’: The Role of Religion in Tocqueville’s Liberalism.” Paper presented at the Political Theory Workshop, University of Wisconsin-Madison. February 2000

Participant. Roundtable Discussion of James Ceaser’s Reconstructing America. Annual Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. November 1999

“The Personal as Political: Tocqueville, Dewey and Whitman on Democratic Poetry.” Paper
presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 1999

Participant. “Liberty in Shakespeare and Machiavelli.” Liberty Fund Conference. August 1999

“Re-Shaping the Psychic Landscape: Locke’s Theory of Toleration.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association. April 1999

“The Power of Liberalism: The Enlightenment and Political Development in the United States.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association. March 1999

Section Chair. Political Theory. Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association. March 1999

“Do We Really Want Mr. Smith to Go to Washington?” Presentation at Rock Valley Community College. March 1999

Participant. Roundtable Discussion of James P. Young’s Reconsidering American Liberalism: The Troubled Odyssey of the Liberal Idea. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. September 1998

“To the Nth Degree: Political Science, Professionalism and the Liberal Arts.” Poster Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1998

“Reason, Revelation and Rights: A Return to Locke’s Theory of Toleration.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southwestern Political Science Association, March 1998

Booknote. Pierre Manent. Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy. Ethics 108, No. 2 (January 1998)

Participant. “Rationality and Quasi-Rationality.” Associated Colleges of the Midwest Faculty Development Seminar. The University of Chicago. November 1997

“The ‘True Grandeur’ of Liberal and Religious Sentiment in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1997

“The More Things Change . . . The American Liberal Tradition’s Encounters with Inequality, 1865-1866.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1996

“Empowering Limited Government: The Constitutional Debate of 1787-8.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 1995

Panel Discussant and Chair. Annual Meetings of the American Political Association, Association for Political Theory, Midwest Political Science Association, Southwest Political Science Association, Western Political Science Association, 1997-Present

Manuscript Reviewer,University of Chicago Press, 2006-Present

Manuscript Reviewer,Rowman and Littlefield, 2003-Present

Manuscript Review. American Political Science Review, 2007

Manuscript Reviewer. Political Theory, 2007

Manuscript Reviewer. Publius, 2006

The Journal of Politics. 2002, 2003

Honors Outside Examiner. Kenyon College. Department of Political Science. 1998, 2001, 2002

Awards and Fellowships

Beloit Jaycees

Teacher of the Month, April 2006

Beloit College

Underkofler Prize for Teaching Excellence, 2005

Keefer Grant, 2001
Traveled to Oxford, England to study the papers of John Locke, housed at the Bodleian Library.

American Political Science Association

Nominated for the William Anderson Award for best doctoral dissertation in the field of state and local politics, federalism, or intergovernmental relations, 1997

The University of Chicago

Mellon Foundation-University of Chicago Dissertation-Year Fellowship, 1994-5

The Grodzins Prize Lectureship, 1994
Course Title: Civil Society and the State in the American Liberal Tradition

Mellon Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship, 1993

Kenyon College

Phi Beta Kappa

John Chesnut Memorial Prize for Outstanding Work in Political Science, 1987

Diamond-Storing Prize for Excellence in the Study of American Politics, 1987

Senior Exercise Passed with Distinction

Community Service

Beloit College Committees

Academic Policy Committee, 2007

Chair, Strategic Planning Committee, 2006-Present

Physics Search Committee, 2006

North Central Association Accreditation Steering Committee, 2004-6

Search Committee for Vice President of Academic Affairs, 2004-5

Philosophy Search Committee, 2004-5

Beloit Fund Committee, 2004-Present

Faculty Status and Performance Committee, 2002-3

Faculty Representative, Alumni Advisory Board, 2001-5

Women’s Volleyball Coach Search Committee, 2002

Admissions and Financial Aid Committee, 2000-2

Strategic Planning Committee, 2000-2

Geology Search Committee, 2000-1

Academic Policy Committee, 1998-2000
Chair, Social Science Division, 1999-2000

Legal Professions Advisory Committee, 1998-2002, 2004-Present

Task Force on Diversity, 1998

Beloit College Activities

Co-Director, First-Year Initiatives Program, 2007-Present

Pre-Law Advisor, 1997-Present

Coordinator, Harry R. Davis Lecture, 1998-Present

Presidential Scholarship Interviewer, 1998-Present

Moderator, Panel on Immigration Reform, February 2007

Panelist. “Presidential Power and the 2006 Midterm Elections.” November 2006
Department Chair, 2005-6

Moral Values Lecture Series, “An Ethic of Responsibility,” September 2005

Coordinator, Constitution Day, 2005-6

Moderator, Mock Presidential Debates, September 2004

Faculty Forum, “In Law More than in Life? Liberalism, Reason and Religion in Public Schools,” October 2004

Coordinator, Annual Advising Meeting on Graduate School, 1997-2005
Chair, Legal Studies, 2000-3

Panelist. “A Constitutional Perspective on Affirmative Action in Higher Education.” November 2003

Panelist. “Confessions of a Liberal: Civil Liberties and the War against Terrorism.” September 2002

Mentor. Sanger Scholarship Program. Summer 2000, 2002, 2003

Mentor. McNair Scholarship Program. Summer 2002, Summer 2007

Participant. Interdisciplinary Studies Workshop. June 2000, 2002, 2003

Phi Beta Kappa Lecture. “Emerson’s American Scholar.” May 2003

Baccalaureate Address. “In the Mind’s Eye.” May 2002

Presentation. “Liberal Conscience and School Prayer.” Philosophy Colloquium. February 2002

Panelist. “The Owl of Minerva and September 11.” September 2001

Convocation Address. “The Nature of Quests.” August 2001

Panelist. “The Enforcement of Human Rights.” February 2001

Panelist. “And the Winner Is. . . ? Ongoing Analysis of the 2000 Presidential Elections.” November-December 2000

Panelist. “The Trials of Bill Bradley.” March 2000

Panelist. “Due Process and the Effective Death Penalty Act.” December 1999

Presentation. “Reinventing ‘Invent Yourself.’” Fall Faculty Conference. August 1999

Panelist. “Not Private, but Probably Not Impeachable.” December 1998

Presentation. “Do We Really Want Mr. Smith to Go to Washington?” November 1998

Editor, Political Science Newsletter, 1998-2000