Kenneth M. DeLuca Box 847 Hampden-Sydney College Hampden-Sydney, VA 23943 434-223-6233(w) email: kdeluca@hsc.edu 1527 Floyd Avenue Richmond, VA 23220 804-421-1754(h)/ 434-603-0001(c) Professional Employment Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia 2001 to present. Promoted to Adjunct Associate Professor Spring, 2009. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts Academic year, 2000-2001. Instructor, Department of Politics, Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts - Academic years, 1997-1998, 1999-2000. Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, Fordham University, Bronx, New York - Spring & Fall, 1994. Research Assistant, The George C. Marshall Institute, Washington, D.C., Summer, 1993. High School Teacher, Economics, History, Math, Cardinal Hayes High School, Bronx, New York,1989-1991. Bond Trader and Analyst, Merrill Lynch & Co., Manhattan, New York, 1985-1989. Committee Work and Academic Service at Hampden-Sydney College Academic Advisor to Freshman and Sophomores, 2002 - present. Academic Advisor the GVFA major, 2003 - present. Western Culture Program Assessment Analyst 2004 2011. Faculty Representative of I.S.S. - the Hampden-Sydney chapter of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006-2008 International Studies Committee member, 2004-2005. Organizer of a 3 day symposium and a companion 1 credit course entitled Democracies at War: Athens and America, at Hampden- Sydney College, October, 2003. Recruited presenters from Yale, Boston University, and the University of Toronto. Keynote Speaker: Secretary Lawrence Eagleburger. Education Ph.D., Fordham University, Political Philosophy, Spring, 2000 Thesis: Aristophanes' Democratic Theory Committee Chair: Mary Nichols 1
Minor Fields: American Politics, Political Economy M.A., Fordham University, 1992 A.B., University of Chicago, Economics, 1984 Foreign Languages: Classical Greek, Latin, French, German, Italian Fellowships/Grants Summer Fellowship from Hampden-Sydney College, 2011 Summer Fellowship from Hampden-Sydney College, 2010 Summer Fellowship from Hampden-Sydney College, 2009 Summer Fellowship from Hampden-Sydney College, 2008 Summer Fellowship from Hampden-Sydney College, 2007 Summer Fellowship from Hampden-Sydney College, 2006 Summer Fellowship from Hampden-Sydney College, 2005 Summer Fellowship from Hampden-Sydney College, 2004 Summer Fellowship from Hampden-Sydney College, 2003 Earhart Research Grant, 2001-2002 Olin Dissertation Fellowship, 1996-1997 Earhart Fellowship, 1995-1996 Earhart Fellowship, 1994-1995 Presidential Scholarship and Research Assistantship, Fordham University, 1991-1993 Publications Aristophanes Herodotean Inquiry: the Meaning of Athenian Imperialism in the Birds, in The Political Theory of Aristophanes: Explorations in Poetic Wisdom, ed., B.P. Frost and J.M. Hire, Albany, New York: SUNY Press, Expected,2013. Aristophanes Male and Female Revolutions, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2005. The Argument of Casablanca and the Meaning of the Third Rick, in Political Philosophy Comes to Rick s, ed., James Pontuso, Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2005. Spielberg s Deus ex Machina: Saving Private Ryan, in Poroi (July, 2005). Review of Thick Moralities, Thin Politics: Social Integration Across Communities of Belief, by Benjamin Gregg, in Perspectives on Political Science (Summer, 2003). Participation at Professional Meetings And Public Lectures Machiavelli s Re-founding of Political Philosophy: On The Prince, paper prepared for the meeting of the Northeastern 2
Political Science Association, Boston, MA., November, 2012. Discussant and Chair of a panel entitled, Themes in Medieval Political Thought: Faith and the Polity, at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA., November, 2012. Putting Together Courage and Moderation in Plato and Shakespeare, paper prepared for the meeting of the American Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA., September, 2012. Aristophanes Herodotean Inquiry: The Meaning of Athenian Imperialism in the Birds, paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL., April, 2012. Sophocles and Machiavelli on the Limits of Virtue, paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September, 2011. On the Problem of The Tempest: The Problem of Political Philosophy, paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September, 2010. Considerations on Rousseau s Considérations sur le gouvernement de Pologne et sur sa réformation projetée, paper presented at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA., November, 2007. The Deconstruction of Tereus: An Introduction to Aristophanes Birds, paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL., September, 2007. Participant in a Liberty Fund Colloquium entitled, Aristophanes on Democracy and Freedom, in Tampa Bay, Fl., January, 2006. Discussant on a panel entitled, Politics and Philosophy in Plato, at the meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, Atlanta, GA., January, 2006. The Problem of Werther: An analysis of the 1 st Letter, paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL., April, 2005. Is Socrates Lysis Friend?, paper presented at the meeting of the Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA., January, 2005. The Tragedy and Comedy of Thucydides Pericles, paper presented at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA., November, 2004. Chair and discussant on a panel entitled, The Political and the Individual in Mill, Rousseau, and Montaigne, at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA., November, 2004. The Merchant of Venice and the Problem of the Soul, paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL., September, 2004. Spielberg s Deus ex Machina: Saving Private Ryan, paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science 3
Association, Chicago, IL., April, 2004. Chair of a panel entitled, "Reading America", at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA., November, 2003. The Romanticism of Political Philosophy, paper presented at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA., November, 2003. Oedipus Socrates Complex, paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA., August, 2003. Liberalism and Mill s Idea of Socrates : A Reading of Mill s On Liberty, paper presented at the meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL., April, 2003. The Endless Beginning and Beginningless End of Machiavelli s The Prince, lecture delivered at Hampden-Sydney College sponsored by the Longwood College and H-SC Society for the Study of Medieval and Renaissance Literature, February, 2003. Augustine s Second Sailing: A Study of Book I of Augustine s Confessions, paper presented at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Providence, RI., November, 2002. Locke s Noble Lie and Sophocles Ignoble Truth: A Reading of Locke s Two Treatises of Government and Sophocles Antigone, paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA., September, 2002. Machiavelli: The Misunderstood Ancient The Socratic Roots of Machiavelli s The Prince, paper presented at the meeting of the New York State Political Science Association, Lewiston, N.Y., April, 2002. "Aristophanes' Bipolar Representation of Democracy", paper presented at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, Mass., November, 1998. "The Corruptive Power of Democratic Eros: An Analysis of Aristophanes' Knights", paper presented at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., September, 1997. Discussant on a panel on "Human Knowledge and Political Life," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September, 1996. Discussant on a panel on "Statesmanship in Plato and Aristotle," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September, 1995. Discussant on a panel on "Virtue(s) for Ancients and (Post-) Moderns," at the meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, September, 1994. "Aristophanes' Assemblywomen: Democracy Forewarned," paper presented at the meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Newark, New Jersey, November, 1993. Courses taught 4
Western Culture I: Beginning to 900 C.E. Western Culture II: High Middle Ages to the French Revolution Western Culture III: 1800 to the Present Empire in Theory and Practice On Plato s Republic Aeschylus Oresteia Introduction to Political Philosophy Democracy: Ancient and Modern Liberalism and Its Critics Politics and Economics Politics and History Gender and Political Theory Political Theory and Movies Art and Politics I: Classical Athens to High Renaissance Art and Politics II: Romanticism to the Present Political Issues for Americans Modern States American Political Thought Classical Political Philosophy Early Modern Political Philosophy Late Modern Political Philosophy Introduction to American Government The American Founding Topics in Politics The Senior Seminar 5
The Longing for Greatness Political Philosophy in Herodotus 6