CURRICULUM VITAE. Alexander C. Moon. Rochester, NY (607)

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Alexander C. Moon PERSONAL DATA Home Address: 94 Averill Avenue Rochester, NY (607) MANUSCRIPT My manuscript Making Liberals shows that, contrary to many of its critics and defenders, a concern for virtue is internal to liberal political theory. It argues that the liberal virtues can only be identified and defended on the basis of a foundation for liberal theory. Attempts to ground it in conceptions of the good, the norm of mutual respect, and Rawls s burdens of judgment fail. Political liberalism s claim to do without foundations altogether is incoherent. This manuscript grounds liberalism in practices of justification and shows how these require citizens to be autonomous, skeptical, alienated, and independent. Liberalism accommodates, and rightly so, a much narrower range of personality types and ways of life than its defenders claim. Chapters on family and welfare policy illustrate how this model of liberalism can determine what the virtues are and identify their practical-political implications. The manuscript contributes to debates about the liberal virtues, contemporary liberal theory, and the foundations of political theory. EDUCATION Ph.D. Department of Government, August 2005 Ithaca, New York Major: Political Theory Minor: Comparative Politics M.A. Department of Government, September 1995 Ithaca, NY

2 Department of Government, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN B.A. Yale University, May 1986 Yale Station New Haven, CT Major: Political Science, cum laude TEACHING AND RESEARCH FIELDS Contemporary and Canonical Political Theory Critical Theory and Classical Social Theory American Politics Liberalism and Religion Theory and Practice of Punishment Politics of Race and Ethnic Conflict TEACHING EXPERIENCE COURSES TAUGHT: Theory and Practice of Punishment Spring, , 11, Fall 13 Political Theory of Conservatism Fall 2005, 12, Spring 09 Radical Social Criticism: Rousseau, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Foucault Spring 2001, 03, 13 Contemporary Political Theory: Liberalism, Communitarianism, Postmodernism Fall 2000, 02, 04, 15, Spring 2008 Theory and Practice of Toleration Spring , Fall , 08, 10-12

3 Transitions to Modernity: Social Theory and the Persistence of Religion Fall 2001, 03, 08; Spring 2012 Moral Basis of Politics Spring 2010 Introduction to American Politics Fall , 09-11, 13-15, Spring , Race and U.S. Politics Spring 2005, 06, Fall 09 American Political Thought Spring, 2000, 02 Constitutional Law Fall 2007, Spring Environmental Politics and Policy Spring 2004, 10 Democracy and Diversity: Multiculturalism and its Critics Fall 2000, 02 Ideas and Ideologies Fall 2008, Spring 2009 Power: Class, Race, and Gender Fall 2000, Spring 2001 PAPERS PRESENTED AND PUBLICATIONS Making Liberals, revising and resubmitting manuscript to Cambridge University Press.

4 nd Rawls s difference principle, in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 2 ed. (New York: Gale-Thompson), The Place of Virtue in Liberal Politics, paper presented at New England Political Science Association s annual meeting, April, 2014 and at the Western Political Science Association s annual meeting, April The Epistemic Obligation to an Open Society, paper presented at Association for Political Theory s annual meeting, October, Political obligation and epistemic theories of democracy, paper presented at Midwest Political Science Association s annual meeting, April 2011 and at the New England Political Science Association s annual meeting, April Political liberalism and the puzzle of reasonable disagreement, paper presented at Association for Political Theory annual meeting, October 2009 and at the New England Political Science Association s annual meeting, April Democracy as a condition of individual rationality and political obligation, paper presented at Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, April Must we be reasonable? Respect, the desire to justify oneself, and caritas, Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, August Must liberals value respect and recognition? Paper presented at Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, April Is recognition what it seems? On the Distinction between Recognition and Respect, Paper presented at Northeast Political Science Association annual meeting, November Reasonable citizens must be alienated, Paper presented at the Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting, April, The comprehensiveness of political liberalism, Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, August The family as incubator of liberal virtues, Paper presented at Northeast Political Science Association annual meeting, November Why liberal citizens must be independent, Paper presented at New York Political Science Association annual meeting, May "The place of virtue in liberal politics," Paper presented at New York Political Science Association annual meeting, March 1997.

5 Book Review of Rethinking the Cold War, ed. Allen Hunter, and Universities and Empire, ed. Christopher Simpson. The Boston Book Review, v. 5, #2, March LANGUAGES First Language: English Reading Knowledge: French REFERENCES Dissertation Chair: Dr. Isaac Kramnick Dr. Theodore Lowi Government Department Government Department Ithaca, NY Ithaca, NY Dr. Henry Shue Dr. Nancy Hirschman Merton College School of Arts and Sciences Oxford OX1 4JD Political Science Department England, UK 217 Stiteler Hall University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA