MICHELLE T. CLARKE Department of Government Dartmouth College HB 6108 Hanover, NH 03755 603-646-1352 Michelle.T.Clarke@dartmouth.edu ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, July 2015 present Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, July 2007 July 2015 Tenure clock stopped 2009-2010 and 2010-2011 RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS Machiavelli, Roman Political Thought, Republicanism, Interpretive Methods EDUCATION Yale University Ph.D. in Political Science (distinction), December 2007 M.A., M.Phil. in Political Science, 2005 Exams: History of Political Thought (distinction), Contemporary Theory, American Politics Dissertation: Machiavelli s Political Pluralism Committee: Steven B. Smith (chair), Ian Shapiro, Bryan Garsten Tufts University B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, 2001 (summa cum laude) BOOKS AND ARTICLES 1. Michelle T. Clarke. Machiavelli s Florentine Republic (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) 2. Michelle T. Clarke. Machiavelli and the Imagined Rome of Renaissance Humanism, History of Political Thought 36, no 3 (2015): 452-470. 3. Michelle T. Clarke. Doing Violence to the Roman Idea of Liberty? Freedom as Bodily Integrity in Roman Political Thought, History of Political Thought 35, no. 2 (2014): 211 233. 4. Michelle T. Clarke. The Mythologies of Contextualism: Method and Judgment in Skinner s Visions of Politics, Political Studies 61, no. 4 (2013): 317-329. 5. Michelle T. Clarke. The Virtues of Republican Citizenship in Machiavelli s Discourses on Livy, Journal of Politics 75, no. 2 (2013): 317 329. 6. Michelle T. Clarke. Uprooting Nebuchadnezzar s Tree: Bacon s Criticism of Machiavellian Imperialism, Political Research Quarterly 61, no. 3 (2008): 367 378. 7. Michelle T. Clarke. On the Woman Question in Machiavelli, Review of Politics 67, no. 2 (2005): 229 256. 1
OTHER REFEREED WORKS 8. Michelle T. Clarke. Machiavelli s Political Thought, Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, in press. With Vickie Sullivan. BOOK REVIEWS Michelle T. Clarke. Review of The Life of Roman Republicanism (by Joy Connolly), Perspectives on Politics 14, no. 1 (2016): 213-216. Michelle T. Clarke. Review of The Heart of Rome: Ancient Rome s Political Culture (by Jan H. Blits), Review of Politics 78, no. 1 (2016): 156-59. Michelle T. Clarke. Review of Tyranny: A New Interpretation (by Waller R. Newell), Contemporary Political Theory, online 22 December 2015; doi: 10.1057/cpt.2015.65. Michelle T. Clarke. Review of Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic (by Paul Rahe), Perspectives on Political Science 38, no. 2 (2009): 118-119. WORK IN PROGRESS Machiavelli and Livy, in progress. Machiavelli on the Gracchi: Liberty, Violence, and the Rule of Law, in progress. Machiavelli s Virtuous Princes, in progress. WORKSHOPS AND INVITED TALKS Roundtable on Alyssa Ardito s Machiavelli and the Modern State - Yale University, May 2016 Machiavelli s Virtuous Princes - Dartmouth Medieval Studies Colloquium, April 2016 - Invited talk, Holy Cross Speaker Series: Republicanism, January 2016 - UCSD Political Theory Workshop, March 2015 - Georgetown Political Theory Workshop, November 2014 Roman Republicanisms - Invited talk, Ancient Republics: An International Workshop, UW-Madison, April 2015 (second of three conferences on ancient republicanism hosted by Durham University, UW-Madison, and UCSD) After the Inundation: Machiavelli and the Making of the Modern World - Invited talk, UC Davis Speaker Series: Machiavelli and the Atlantic Republic Tradition, Revisited, January 2014 Machiavelli: Moralist or a Realist? - Invited talk, A Conference on the 500 th Anniversary of the Writing of Niccolò Machiavelli s Prince, Harvard University, September 2013 Machiavelli on the Roman Tribunate - Invited talk, Machiavelli: Philosophy, Rhetoric, and History, Beinecke Library at Yale University, October 2008 2
Power to the People? Machiavelli on Political Motivation and Civil Conflict - Yale Political Philosophy Colloquium, November 2006 - Yale Political Theory Workshop, November 2006 Machiavelli: The Professional - Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, February 2006 - Yale Political Philosophy Colloquium, October 2005 CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Machiavelli s Virtuous Princes - Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2014 - Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2015 Rome, Real or Imagined? Machiavelli s Rejoinder to Humanism in the Discourses on Livy - Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2014 - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2014 Roundtable on Waller Newell s Tyranny: A New Interpretation - Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2013 Liberty as Civility: Machiavelli s Vivere Civile and its Basis in Roman Political Thought - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2013 Machiavelli and the Roman Concept of Liberty - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2012 Machiavelli and the Agrarian Laws of Rome - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2011 - Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, October 2011 - Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2010 Friendship and Citizenship in Machiavelli s Discourses on Livy - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2010. - Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, October 2010 The Duties of a Padrino: Patronage in Machiavelli s Prince - New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2010 Princely Ambition and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint - New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, May 2009 The People and the Great in Machiavelli s Political Thought - Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2008 Machiavelli on the Partisanship of Intellectuals - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2008 Machiavelli on Reality - New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, May 2006 History as Genre in Machiavelli s Florentine Histories - New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2005 Uprooting Nebuchadnezzar s Tree: Francis Bacon s Critique of Machiavellian Imperialism - Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2004 Lincoln s Two Lectures on Discoveries and Inventions 3
- Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2003 On the Woman Question in Machiavelli - New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, May 2003 OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Participant, Conference on Grotius and Natural Law Liberty Fund, January 2016 Participant, Conference on Prudence and Practical Wisdom in Gracian and Schopenhauer Liberty Fund, October 2015 Discussant, Comparative Perspectives on Advice for Rulers American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2015 Discussant, Machiavelli, the Laws, and Liberty American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2015 Participant, Conference on Machiavelli and Erasmus Liberty Fund, August 2015 Participant, Conference on Seneca and Tyranny - Liberty Fund, March 2015 Participant, Conference on Adam Smith - Liberty Fund, August 2014 Participant, Conference on Academic Skepticism in Cicero and Montaigne - Liberty Fund, June 2013 Discussant, Political Ontologies - New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, May 2013 Political Theory Section Chair - 2013 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association Discussant, Machiavelli and the Foundations of Representative Republican Government - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2012 - Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2013 Participant, Conference on The History of Liberty According to Benedetto Croce - Liberty Fund, October 2011 Participant, Conference on Tocqueville on Liberty and the Problems of Democracy - Liberty Fund, April 2011 Participant, Conference on Shakespeare and Machiavelli: Comedy and Statesmanship - Liberty Fund, February 2011 Participant, Conference on Machiavelli s Prince and the Politics of Modernity - Liberty Fund, September 2010 Conference Organizer: The Ethics of Patriotism: Why Should We Be Patriots at All? - Dartmouth College, November 2009 Discussant, Machiavelli and Democracy - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2009 4
Discussant, Nietzsche - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2009 Discussant, Ancient Texts, Modern Theories - Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2008 Discussant, Conflict and Strategy in Machiavelli s Thought - Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, October 2008 Chair and Discussant, Constitutional Theory - New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2008 Discussant, Law and Innovation in Machiavelli s Prince by Nathan Tarcov - Yale Political Theory Workshop, February 2005 Discussant, Proto-Liberalism: Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and Adam Smith - Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2003 Discussant, Machiavelli on Machiavelli: Political Reform, Philosophy, and the Florentine s Place on the Mountaintop by Vickie Sullivan - Yale Political Theory Workshop, October 2003 MEDIA Interviewed for Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox on Ideas with Paul Kennedy, Canadian Public Broadcasting, 11/6/2013 (shortlisted for the New York Festival s International Radio Competition) GRANTS Ethics Institute Grant from the Dewey Crawford 63 Endowment Fund for Forums in Professional Ethics, 2009-2010 Rockefeller/McNulty Faculty Research Grant, 2009-2010 FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES Elizabeth R. and Robert A. Jeffe 1972 Fellowship, 2015-2016 Junior Faculty Fellowship, Winter 2013 Walter and Constance Burke Junior Faculty Research Award, 2007 present Leslie Center for the Humanities internal fellow, 2008-2009 Summer Institute Fellow, Jack Miller Center for the Study of the American Founding, 2008 Dissertation nominated by the Yale Department of Political Science for the Leo Strauss Award, 2007 Dissertation awarded department and university distinction, 2007 GSA Conference Travel Fellowship, 2006 Graduate student fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center, 2005-2006 Leylan Prize Fellowship in the Social Sciences, 2005-2006 Graduate School Scholarship for Summer Study, 2004 and 2006 Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 Newhouse Foundation Fellowship, 2003-4 University Fellowship for Summer Language Study, 2002 and 2004 Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 2001-2005 Tufts University Class of 1942 Prize Scholarship, 2001 Tufts University Philosophy Exchange Scholarship (with the Philosophy Department of the University College of London), 1998-1999 5
COURSES Political Ideas Democratic Theory Machiavelli Classical Political Realism: Power and Statecraft in the Ancient World Ideology and Intellectuals Against the Tide: Excellence in a Democratic Age Republicanism: An Alternative The Political Philosophy of Nietzsche Government Honors Program Womanhood and Democratic Citizenship (first-year seminar in WGST) Emergency Powers and States of Exception (independent study) Livy and Roman Republicanism (independent study) Nietzsche (independent study) Feminist Theory (independent study) Value Pluralism (independent study) Totalitarianism (independent study) The Ethics of Patriotism (independent study) Chinese Political Thought (independent study) OFFICES AND AFFILIATIONS Executive Council for the New England Political Science Association (2013-15) American Political Science Association Foundations of Political Theory (organized section) Association for Political Theory Yale Elizabethan Club REVIEWER SERVICE American Journal of Political Science American Political Science Review Journal of Politics History of Political Thought Political Research Quarterly Political Studies Review of Politics Polity Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory Polity Press Routledge Lexington Press National Endowment for the Humanities 6