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Steven Forde
Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science

Lincoln High School  © 2001 Lincoln High School, Lincoln Nebraska

Steven Forde, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Political Science
University of North Texas
Office: 146 Wooten Hall
Telephone: (940) 565-4999

STEVEN P. FORDE (Ph.D., 1984, University of Toronto, Associate Professor, Political Theory). Winner of the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Prize for the Best Dissertation in Political Theory (1986). Author of The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides, of articles in the American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics and International Studies Quarterly. Specializes in classical and American political thought and international ethics.

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Curriculum Vitae
Steven Forde

Fall 2000

Education
 

  Professional Experience
 

Memberships in Professional Organizations

American Political Science Association
Society for Greek Political Thought
National Association of Scholars
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Salvatori Fellow, Heritage Foundation

Awards and Honors

·         Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded December 1998 ($24,000).

·         Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, awarded December 1992 ($17,624).

·         One-year faculty fellowship award, John M. Olin foundation, 1989-90 ($42,437).

·         Junior Faculty Summer Research Grant, University of North Texas, summer 1989 ($3500).

·         Leo Strauss Prize, American Political Science Association (for best dissertation in Political Philosophy, 1986)

·         Killam Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Dalhousie University, 1984-85

·         Culpepper Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Dartmouth College, 1983-84

·         Summa Cum Laude graduation, Yale University, Spring 1976

·         Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, accepted junior year

Areas of Expertise

Political Philosophy (ancient to modern)
International Ethics
American Political Thought

PUBLICATIONS

I. Book

The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides (Cornell University Press, 1989)

II. Refereed Articles

American Journal of Political Science, April 2001: "Natural Law, Theology, and Morality in Locke."

American Political Science Review, September 1998: "Hugo Grotius on Ethics and War."

American Political Science Review, September 1997: "Gender and Justice in Plato."

International Studies Quarterly, June 1995: "International Realism and the Science of Politics: Thucydides, Machiavelli, and Neorealism."

Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Spring 1994: "The Comic Poet, the City, and the Gods: Dionysus' katabasis in the Frogs of Aristophanes."

American Political Science Review, June 1992: "Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography and the Education of America."

Journal of Politics, May 1992: "Varieties of Realism: Thucydides and Machiavelli."

American Political Science Review, June 1986: "Thucydides on the Causes of Athenian Imperialism."

III. Book Chapters

"Power and Morality in Thucydides," in Thucydides' Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession (Lowell S. Gustafson, ed., Louisiana State University Press, 2000).

"Ben Franklin, Hero," in The Noblest Minds: Fame, Honor, and the American Founding (Peter McNamara, ed., Rowman and Littlefield, 1999).

"Classical Realism," in Traditions of International Ethics (Terry Nardin and David Mapel, eds., Cambridge University Press, 1992). This was an invited contribution.

"Political Ambition in Thucydides and Plato: The Case of Alcibiades," in Politikos II: Educating the Ambitions (Leslie G. Rubin, ed., Duquesne University Press, 1992). This was an invited contribution.

Plato's Hipparchus, translation with notes, in The Roots of Political Philosophy (Cornell University Press, 1987). This was an invited contribution.

Plato's Alcibiades I, Introduction, in The Roots of Political Philosophy (Cornell University Press, 1987). This was an invited contribution.

IV. Selected Book Reviews

Review of International Relations and the Limits of Political Theory (by Howard Williams), in American Political Science Review, 1997.

Reviews of Sarakhsi-Hugo Grotius of the Muslims: The Doctrine of Juristic Preference and the Concepts of Treaties and Mutual Relations (by Husain Kassim), and of The Bill of Rights and Roman Law: A Comparative Study (by Joseph Plescia), in The Law and Politics Book Review (an electronic journal), June 1997.

Review of Rethinking Democratic Education: The Politics of Reform (by David M. Steiner: Johns Hopkins), in Journal of Politics, 1995.

Review of The Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America (by Eli Sagan: Basic Books), in Review of Politics, Summer 1992.

Review of Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People (by Josiah Ober: Princeton University Press), in Review of Politics, Fall 1990.

Review of The Trial of Socrates (by I.F. Stone: Little, Brown & Co.) in Ancient Philosophy 10, 1990.

V. Works in Progress or under review

"Benjamin Franklin's 'Machiavellian' Civic Virtue," delivered as paper at Annual meeting of American Political Science Association, and invited as chapter contribution to forthcoming volume on Machiavelli and the American Founding.

"Modern Virtues," a project looking at how and why modern moral philosophy made humanity and civility our central virtues, and the implications of that choice.

"Thucydides on Peace," paper delivered at University of Chicago, October 1999, under revision for publication as a journal article..

Invited Public Lectures (selected)

University of Chicago, October 1999 "Thucydides on Peace"
University of Toronto, October 1998, "The Modern Virtue of Civility."
University of Toronto, March 1997, "Benjamin Franklin's Modern Virtues."
Utah State University, November 1996, "Ben Franklin, Hero."
Boston College, September 1995, "Equality of the Sexes in Plato's Republic: The Price of Justice."

Selected Conference Papers

Southwest Social Science Convention, March 1999, "John Locke's Social Virtues."

International Studies Association, Toronto, March 1997 - "Hugo Grotius on the Ethics of War."

American Political Science Association, San Francisco, September 1996 - "Benjamin Franklin's 'Machiavellian' Civic Virtue" (poster presentation).

International Studies Association, Chicago, February 1995 -- "Thucydides on Peace."

Other Conference Appearances

Participant in Liberty Fund conference on "Liberty and Tyranny in Shakespeare," February 2000

Participant in Liberty Fund conference on "Liberty and Empire: on Thucydides' The Peloponnesian War," May 1998.

Organizer of and Participant in Liberty Fund conference on "Benjamin Franklin and the Virtues of Liberty," February 1998.

Participant in Liberty Fund conference on "Dante's Understanding of Liberty," June 1997.

Participant in Liberty Fund conference on "Liberty and a Free Society in the Thought of Montesquieu," April 1995.

Participant in Liberty Fund conference on "Liberty and Citizenship in Ancient Greece," October 1993.

Languages

French, Greek, German, working on Italian

Memberships

American Political Science Association
National Association of Scholars
Society for Greek Political Thought
Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs
Amnesty International
Common Cause
The Heritage Foundation
Phi Beta Kappa of North Texas (currently serving as President)
Kimball Art Museum
Dallas Museum of Art
Governor Stevenson Society (Chairman, 1998-9)