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Daniel I. O'Neill
Assistant Professor
Anderson Hall, Room 311
(352) 273-2386
doneill@polisci.ufl.edu

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Daniel I. O’Neill, PhD

Department of Political Science
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117325
234 Anderson Hall
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7325
telephone: (352)  273-2386

E-mail: doneill@polisci.ufl.edu

Academic Appointments: 

Assistant Professor, University of Florida (August 2003-present)
Visiting Assistant Professor, Pepperdine University (2002-2003)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Southern California (Spring 2003)
Adjunct Assistant Professor, California State Univ., Los Angeles (Fall 2002)
Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles (2000-2002)

University of California, Los Angeles
Ph.D. in Political Science, December 1999
M.A. in Political Science, December 1995

Cornell University
B.A. in Government, Distinction in All Subjects, May 1989

Teaching and Research Interests:             

Publications:             

Books:

The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007)

Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman, co-edited with Mary Lyndon Shanley and Iris Marion Young (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming 2008)

Peer Reviewed Articles:

“John Adams versus Mary Wollstonecraft on the French Revolution and Democracy” (Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 68, No. 3 [2007]: 451-476)

“A Tale of Two Indias: Burke and Mill on Empire and Slavery in the West Indies and America,” co-authored with Margaret Kohn (Political Theory, Vol. 34, No. 2 [2006]: 192-228)

“Burke on Democracy as the Death of Western Civilization” (Polity, Vol. 36, No.2 [2004]: 201-225)

“Shifting the Scottish Paradigm: The Discourse of Morals and Manners in Mary Wollstonecraft’s French Revolution” (History of Political Thought, Vol. 23, No. 1 [2002]: 90-116)

“Multicultural Liberals and the Rushdie Affair: A Critique of Kymlicka, Taylor, and Walzer” (The Review of Politics, Vol. 61, No. 2 [1999]: 219-250)

Other Publications:

"Empire," in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory (forthcoming, 5,000 words)

"Mary Wollstonecraft," in the SAGE Encyclopedia of Political Theory (forthcoming, 1,000 words)

Review of Feminist Interpretations of John Locke, ed. Nancy J. Hirschmann and Kirstie M. McClure (American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy, forthcoming)

“Introduction,” to Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman, co-authored with Mary Lyndon Shanley and Iris Marion Young (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, forthcoming 2008)

Review of Saba Bahar, Mary Wollstonecraft’s Social and Aesthetic Philosophy (History of Political Thought, Vol. 24, No. 2 [Summer 2003]: 362-364)

“Carole Pateman,” in American Political Scientists: A Dictionary, ed. Glenn H. Utter and Charles Lockhart (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002): 307-310

“The Value of Diversity,” Review of Bhikhu Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism (The Review of Politics, Vol. 63, No. 4 [Fall 2001]: 824-828)

Work in Progress:

"Burke and India: A Revisionist Reading" (article under review)

Burke and Empire: A Revisionist Reading (book project)


Honors/Awards:

University of Florida, Department of Political Science Research Grant (Summer 2007)

Nominated for a University of Florida College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Teaching Award (Fall 2006)

University of Florida, Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award (Summer 2006)

University of Florida, Department of Political Science Research Grant (Summer 2005)

University of Florida, Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Award (Summer 2004)

Faculty Appreciation Award for Teaching Excellence, 2002, Given by Pi Sigma Alpha, the National Political Science Honor Society (UCLA Chapter)

Western Political Science Association Best Dissertation of the Year, Runner-Up, 2000-2001 (All Fields of Political Science)

University of California Office of the President Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1998-1999

UCLA Department of Political Science:

    Graduate Studies Committee Fellowship, Winter 1998

    Graduate Studies Committee Fellowship, Fall 1997

    Graduate Studies Committee Fellowship, Winter 1997

Ph.D. Qualifying Paper II, Passed with Distinction, Winter 1995: “Multiculturalism, Cultural Rights, and the Failures of Recent Political Theory: Lessons from the Rushdie Affair”

Ph.D. Qualifying Paper I, Passed with Distinction, Winter 1994 “Perspectives on the ‘Will To Power’ and Friedrich Nietzsche’s ‘Ethical Sensibility’”

Teaching Experience:                           

University of Florida (2003-2008):

Undergraduate: Introduction to Political Theory, Great Political Thinkers I and Great Political Thinkers II, Problems of Democracy, Political Ideologies

Graduate: Politics and Theory (core graduate seminar), Interrogating the Roots of Liberalism, Liberalism & Its Critics, Modern Political Thought, Theory and Empire

Pepperdine University (2002-2003): American Government, American Political Thought, Contemporary American Ideologies, Ancient and Medieval Political Thought

California State University, Los Angeles (Fall 2002): Early Modern Political Thought

University of Southern California (Spring 2003): Contemporary American Ideologies 

University of California, Los Angeles (2000-2002):  Introduction to Political Theory, Ancient and Medieval Political Thought, Early Modern Political Thought, Late Modern and Contemporary Political Thought; Political Theory Seminars: The Scottish Enlightenment and the Roots of Liberalism, Reconsidering Conservatism and Feminism:  Burke and Wollstonecraft in Context

Conference Participation:

Section Chair, Political Theory (for the upcoming 2009 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA)

"Burke, Ireland, and the Political Theory of Empire" (Paper to be presented at the 2008 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA)

“John Adams versus Mary Wollstonecraft on the French Revolution and Democracy” (Paper presented at the 2007 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL)

“Burke on India: Prolegomenon to a Revisionist View” (Paper presented at the 2007 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV and the 2007 Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL)

“‘She is a most incongruous Creature’:  John Adams versus Mary Wollstonecraft on the French Revolution” (Paper presented at the 2006 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA)

“The Politics of Suffering,” Chair and Discussant (Panel at the 2006 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA)

Section Chair, Political Theory (2005 Florida Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Tallahassee, FL)

Invited Panelist, “Spectres and Monsters of Capital” (Panel at the 2005 Marxist Reading Group Conference, sponsored by the University of Florida English Department)

“A Tale of Two Indias: Burke and Mill on Empire and Slavery in the West Indies and America” (Paper presented at the 2005 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Oakland, CA)

“Exercising ‘Common Sense’:  Burke’s Judgment of the French Revolution” (Paper presented at the 2004 Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA)

“Are Women’s Rights Human Rights? Or, Burke and Wollstonecraft on Those ‘Other’ Rights of Man” (Paper presented at the 2002 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston, MA)    

“Theory and the Method of Mary Wollstonecraft’s Vindication of the Rights of Men” (Paper presented at the 2002 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Long Beach, CA)

“Premature Constitution: Wollstonecraft’s French Revolution” (Invited Paper presented for the Conference “Inside/Outside Constitutionalisms: Rights/Revolutions/Empires,” at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA, February, 2002)

“Burke, Wollstonecraft, and the Question of Rights” (Paper presented at the 2001 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA)          

“Burke on the Death of Western Civilization” (Paper presented at the 2001 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA)

“Shifting the Scottish Paradigm: The Discourse of Morals and Manners in Mary   Wollstonecraft’s French Revolution” (Paper presented at the 2000 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC)

Professional Associations:

American Political Science Association, Member
Western Political Science Association, Member
Southern Political Science Association, Member
Midwest Political Science Association, Member

Professional Service:                                 

Manuscript reviewer for American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Journal of the History of Ideas, Review of Politics, Canadian Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Thought, Penn State University Press

References:          

Available upon request