Stephen F. Schneck

Associate Professor & Chair Director

Department of Politics                                               Life Cycle Institute

The Catholic University of America The Catholic University of America

Washington, D. C. 20064                                          Washington, D. C. 20064

(202) 319-5128                                                           (202) 319-5999

schneck@cua.edu

Career:

1990-               Associate Professor, Catholic University of America

1992                Visiting Assc. Prof., Dept. of Government, University of Virginia

1991                Visiting Assc. Prof., Dept. of Government, University of Maryland

1984-1989       Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, Catholic University

1983-1984        Instructor, School of Public & Environmental Affairs,

Indiana University, South Bend

1982-1984       Lecturer, Freshmen Year of Studies, University of Notre Dame

Research Fields:

            Contemporary continental political theory, continental philosophy,

            German and French critical theory

Teaching Fields:

History of political thought, contemporary continental political thought, American

political thought, philosophy of the social sciences

Awards:

2002 Teacher of the Year, Catholic University

            1997 Teacher of the Year, Catholic University

            1995 Alpha Delta Gamma Teaching Award, Catholic University

            1991 Provost Award for Outstanding Teaching, Catholic University

            1989 Teacher of the Year, Catholic University

            1988 Book Award, Institute for Phenomenology & the Human Sciences

            1985 Society for Phenomenology & Existential Philosophy Dissertation Award

1983 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Research Fellowship

Education:       

Ph.D.               1984 University of Notre Dame, Department of Government       

M.A.                1981 University of Notre Dame, Department of Government

B.A.                 1976 Rockhurst University, Political Science & Philosophy

Languages:       

            German (fluent), French, Latin

Administrative Service:

            2005-               Director, Life Cycle Institute, Catholic University of America

            2005-               Senator, Academic Senate. Catholic University of America

            2004-               Chair, Department of Politics, Catholic University of America

            2004-6             Senate Budget Committee

            2004                SLIS Dean Search Committee

            2003                Theology & Religious Studies, Ad Hoc Senate Review Committee

            2002                Law School Dean Search Committee

            1998-2001       Chair, Department of Politics, Catholic University of America

1995-1998       Chair, Department of Politics, Catholic University of America

1990-1992       A&S Rep., Board of Trustees, Catholic University of America

1990-1992       Chairperson, Academic Freedom & Tenure Committee

1988                Acting Undergraduate Dean, Arts & Sciences, Catholic University

1988-1990       Senator, Academic Senate

Professional Service:

Board of Editors: Catholic University Press, 2002-2006      

Board of Editors: Polity 1994-1999

Reviewer:        APSR, Review of Politics, Human Studies, Political Theory, Sociological

Theory, Review of Metaphysics, Polity, University of Chicago Press,

University of Notre Dame Press, Cornell University Press,

University of Kansas Press, University of South Carolina Press

Member:         APSA, Foundations of Political Theory Group, Northeast Political

Science Association, Conference for the Study of Political Thought,

Midwest Political Science Association, Society for Phenomenology

& Existential Philosophy

Recent Public Lectures:

March 23, 2006          “The Catholic House Democrats’ Statement of Principles,” Center

for American Progress, Washington, DC

September 19, 2005    “The Genius of the People : Theoretical Origins of the U. S.

Constitution,” Inaugural Constitution Day Lecture, Catholic

University, Washington, DC

Winter-Spring 2005   “Religion and the American Framing: Original Divisions,” a series

of six lectures, Smithsonian Associates, Smithsonian Institute,

Washington, DC

Recent Professional Research Presentations:

May 17, 2006              “Thin Cosmopolis?  Critique and Reflections on Global Civil

Society,” FONDACA, Rome, Italy

January 8, 2006          “Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Vox Populi,” Regents College,

Oxford University

September 1, 2005      “Suffering and the Phenomenology of Subjectivity: Hegel’s

Phenomenology of Spirit and Camus’ The Plague” 2005  Annual

Meeting, American Political Science Association Conference,

Washington, DC

June 27, 2005              “Religion und die amerikanische Verfassung,“ Eichstätt Universität, 

Eichstätt (Bavaria)

Publications:

Books:

Letting Be: Fred Dallmayr’s Cosmopolitical Vision.   Editor.  (Notre Dame, Ind.:

University of Notre Dame Press, 2006)

Max Scheler's Acting Persons: New Perspectives.  Editor.  (Amsterdam: Rodopi

Press, 2002)       

Person & Polis: Max Scheler's Personalism as Political Theory.  (Albany, NY: SUNY

Press, 1988)                 

Journal Articles:        

            "Strauss and Aquinas: Nature and Political Theory,"

Currently under review at American Political Science Review.

            “Religion and the American Framing,” Journal of Dharma (Spring 2006)

            “Kalaki da Sopeli,” Chveni Mtserloba  [in Georgian] (Spring  2006)

            "The End of History and the Human Sciences," International Journal

of Philosophy  (Summer 1997)       

            "New Readings of Tocqueville's America," Polity (Fall 1993)       

            "Habits of the Head: Tocqueville's America," Political Theory (Fall 1990)       

            "William Connolly's Post-Modern Liberalism," The Review of Politics

            (Spring 1989)       

            "Michel Foucault on power/discourse, theory and practice,"  Human Studies

(Summer 1987)

Book Chapters:         

“Tocqueville and the New Science of America,” in Civic Virtue and Civil Society,

ed. George McLean (Washington: RHVP, forthcoming 2006)

“The Political Theory of Fred Dallmayr: An Introduction,” in Letting Be, op. cit

"A Question of Space: Hanna Arendt & Max Scheler on the Person's Place,"     

in Max Scheler's Acting Persons, op cit.

“Introduction,” in Max Scheler’s Acting Persons, op. cit.

            "Rights vs. Natural Law: At Stake is the Political," in Rahim Nohabar, et al.,

            eds., Human Rights and Dialogue of Civilizations (Qom, Iran: Mofid

            University Press, 2002)

            "Political Parties & the Paradox of Citizenship," in John Green's and John

            White's The New Politics of Ideas (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001)       

"Three Models of Civic Virtue," in George McLean's Reflections on Civil Society

            (Washington, DC: UPA, 1999)       

            "Political Parties and Democracy's Citizens," in John Green's and John White's

The Politics of Ideas (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997)       

            "Scylla czy Charybda: Rozwazania nad dychotomia panstwo-spoleczenstwo," in Leon

Dyczewski's Prywatnosc i Zycie Publiczne w Nowoczesnym Spoleczenstwie

            (Lublin, Poland: KUL, 1994)       

            "Madison and the Idea of Nation," in Ghia Nodia's National Identity as an Issue

of Knowledge and Morality (Washington, DC: Paideia Publishers, 1994)

            "Max Scheler's Personalism and Bourgeois Liberalism," in The Place of the Person

in Social Life, edited by Paul Peachey, Vol. 6 of "Cultural Heritage and

Contemporary Political Change" (Leuven, Belgium: Council for Research in

Values and Philosophy, 1993)       

            "Scylla or Charybdis: Rethinking the State/Society Dichotomy," in Private and

            Public Social Inventions edited by George McLean  (Washington, DC: Council

for Research in Values and Philosophy, 1993)       

"City and Village," in Urbanization and Values, edited by John Kromkowski.

            (Washington, DC: University Press of America, 1991)       

            "Alfred Schutz and the Study of Politics," in Worldly Phenomenology, edited

by Lester Embree (Washington, DC: UPA, 1988)

Reviews and Similar Pieces:

            “Andrew M. Koch’s Knowledge and Social Construction,” in Perspectives on

Politics, Vol. 4, No. 1, March 2006

"Char Roone Miller's Taylored Citizenship," in American Political Science Review,

Fall 2002          

            "Francis Fukuyama's Great Disruption," in Review of Metaphysics, May 2000       

"Free Takes: Reinhardt's Tocqueville, Marx, and Arendt," in Theory & Event,

May, 1999       

            "Rousseau at the Millennium: Orwin & Tarcov's The Legacy of Rousseau, in

Review of Metaphysics, May 1998       

            "Sojourning in Syracuse: Roger Boesche's Theories of Tyranny: From Plato to

            Arendt," Review of Metaphysics, December 1996       

            "The Secret Utopia in Reason: Rolf Wiggershaus's The Frankfurt School: Its

History and Significance," in The Review of Politics, Winter 1996

            "Arnold Gehlen's Man," in New Vico Studies, Vol. 7, 1989

            "Peter Sederberg's Politics of Meaning," in American Political Science Review,

            December 1985               

            "Lezek Nowak's Property and Power," in American Political Science Review,

            December 1984

Non-Academic Publications:          

Italy in Transition: The Long Road from the First to the Second Republic. 

Co-editor (with Amb. Paolo Janni).  (Washington, D. C.: Council for Research in

Values and Philosophy, 1998.

            Eight reference articles in World Book Encyclopedia, published variously from

1999-2006.

Assorted op-ed and small opinion pieces in newspapers and magazines.