Curriculum
Vitae
January 2009
Department
of Political Science Telephone:
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University
of Florida thiele@polisci.ufl.edu
Gainesville,
Florida 32611-7325 www.clas.ufl.edu/users/thiele/
Education
Doctor
of Philosophy (June 1989)
Department
of Politics
Princeton
University, Princeton, New Jersey
Master
of Arts (June 1985)
Department
of Political Science
University
of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta
Bachelor
of Arts, Joint Honors (June 1982)
Departments
of Political Science and Philosophy
McGill
University, Montreal Quebec
Academic Appointments and Affiliations
Professor,
Department of Political Science, University of
Florida, 1998 -
Affiliate
Faculty Member, College of Natural Resources and the Environment, 1997-present
Associate
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, 1995 - 1998
Assistant
Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, 1991 - 1995
Assistant
Professor, Department of Political Science, Swarthmore College, 1989 - 1991
Administrative Experience
Faculty
Advisor, Minor in Sustainability Studies, 2008-
Graduate
Placement Director, Department of Political Science,
University of Florida, 2003-2004
Acting
Graduate Coordinator, Department of Political Science,
University of Florida, 2003.
Chair,
Department of Political Science, University of
Florida, 1997-2002
Graduate
Coordinator, Department of Political Science,
University of Florida, 1996-97
Honors
Advisor, Department of Political Science, University
of Florida, 1992-94
Grants, Fellowships and Scholarships
CLAS
Preliminary Study Grant, University of Florida, Co-PI,
2009
National
Science Foundation, Co-PI, 2008-2010
Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere, University
of Florida, 2006-2008
School
of Natural Resources and Environment, Seed Grant, University of Florida,
2006-2007
Humanities
Scholarship, University of Florida, 2006
College
of Natural Resources and Environment Research and Outreach Grant, 2003
Departmental
Research Award, University of Florida, 2003
Humanities
Scholarship, University of Florida, 2003
Bingham
Foundation Grant, 2002 (co-investigator)
Ford
Foundation/ Institute of International Education Individual Travel Grant, June
2001
Bingham
Foundation Grant, 2000 (co-investigator)
University
of Florida Opportunity Fund Grant, 2000 (co-investigator)
Department
of Political Science, University of Florida, Summer
Research Grant, 1997
Social
Science Research Council - MacArthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and
Security in a Changing
World,
1994-1996
Division of Sponsored Research, Graduate Assistantship Program,
University of Florida, 1994.
Division
of Sponsored Research, Research Development Award, University of Florida, 1993
Division
of Sponsored Research, New Faculty Research Support, University of Florida,
1991
Social
Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Postdoctoral Fellowship,
1991-1993
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 1991
National
Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Institute Grant, Santa Cruz, 1990
Joel
Dean Research Grant, Swarthmore College, 1990
Peter
Lewis Fund Research Award, Center for International Studies, Princeton, 1989
Full
Graduate Scholarship, Princeton University, 1985-89
Full
Graduate Scholarship, University of Calgary, 1982-85
Anderson
Scholar, awarded for outstanding teaching, September 2008
Certificate
of Commendation for Leadership in Service to Sustainability and to the
University of Florida,
presented by President Bernie Machen
and Chris Machen, September 2006.
Florida Best Practices Award, presented
by the Council for a Sustainable Florida, Tallahassee,
Florida,
June, 2006.
Received on behalf of the University of Florida Sustainability
Committee, Chair, Les
Thiele
2004-2006.
Heidegger,
Foucault and Political Judgment," nominated for the Burdette Prize for the
Best Paper
presented at American Political Science Association Annual
Meeting in 2000.
University
of Florida Research Foundation Professorship, 1997-1999
Nominated
for the Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award, University of Florida, 1997
Scarlet
Key Award, McGill University, 1982
Faculty
Scholar, McGill University, 1980-82
University
Scholar, McGill University, 1978-79
James
McGill Award, McGill University, 1978-79
President's
Award, University of Victoria, 1977-78
Publications
Books
The Heart of Judgment: Practical Wisdom,
Neuroscience, and Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2006.
Thinking
Politics: Perspectives in Ancient, Modern and Postmodern Political Theory, 2nd
edition. Chatham,
N.J.:
Chatham House/CQ Press, 2003. (Paperback.)
Environmentalism
for a New Millennium: The Challenge of Coevolution (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1999).
(Hardcover;
paperback issued 2001.)
Selected
as finalist for Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving
World Order, May 2000.
Selected
for Niagara Book Prize Short List, 2000.
Thinking Politics: Perspectives in Ancient,
Modern and Postmodern Political Theory. Chatham, N.J.:
Chatham
House, 1997.
(Paperback.)
Selected
as candidate for Outstanding Academic Book in Political Science by
Choice, January 1998.
Timely
Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
(Simultaneous
hardcover and paperback.)
Portuguese
translation: Martin Heidegger e a Poltica Ps-moderna: Meditaes Sobre o Tempo.
Lisbon:
Instituto Piaget, 1998. (Paperback.)
Friedrich Nietzsche and the Politics of the
Soul: A Study of Heroic Individualism. Princeton: Princeton
University
Press, 1990.
(Simultaneous hardcover and paperback.)
Journal
Articles, Book Chapters, Encyclopedia Entries
Prometheus
Unbound, in After Environmentalism (Boston: MIT Press, 2008 (forthcoming).
Environmental
Accounting, in Oxford
Companion to Global Change, New York: Oxford University Press,
2008 (in press).
Environmental
Movements, in Oxford
Companion to Global Change, New York: Oxford University Press,
2008 (in press).
What
Nietzsche Means to Philosophers Today, Kritika &
Kontext, Vol. 12:35 (Winter,
2007), p. 12-35 (in
English
and Slovak translation).
Making
Intuition Matter,in
Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research,
and Method, ed.
Sanford F. Schram and Brian Caterino. New York: New York Universities
Press, 2006, p. 188-205.
Judging
Hannah Arendt, Political Theory, 33:706-714, October 2005.
Ontology
and Narrative, The Hedgehog Review, Volume 7, No. 2: 77-85, Summer
2005.
A
(Political) Philosopher by Any Other Name: The Roots of Heideggers Thought, Political
Theory,
32:570-579.
August 2004.
Nietzsche,
Irony and Democratic Politics, in Russian translation, in Nietzsche and Contemporary Western
Thought, ed. Viktor
Kaplun (Moscow: Letnii Sad,
2003), pp. 154-183. Originally
published in English
as Nietzsche, Irony and Democratic Politics, in Nietzsche and Modern European Thought,
Conference
Proceedings,
St. Petersburg: European University, 2001.
The
Ethics and Politics of Narrative: Heidegger + Foucault, in Foucault and Heidegger: Critical
Encounters, ed. Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg, Minneapolis: University of
Minnesota Press,
2003, pp. 206-234.
Sustainability
Task Force Final Report, co-authored monograh of the
University of Florida Sustainability
Task Force, April 2002, pp. 1-17 + i-lii.
Environmental
Accounting, Encyclopedia of Global
Change, New York: Oxford University Press,
2001, pp. 364-367.
Environmental
Movements, Encyclopedia of Global Change,
New York: Oxford University Press,
2001, pp. 386-391.
Limiting
Risks: Environmental Ethics as a Policy Primer," Policy Studies Journal,
28:3, 540-557,
2000.
"Common
Sense, Judgment and the Limits of Political Theory," Political Theory,
28:565-588, August 2000.
Learning
the Lesson of Interdependence," Politics and the Life Sciences, 18: 257-260, September 1999.
Evolutionary Narratives and Ecological
Ethics Political Theory 27:6-38, February 1999.
"Heidegger,
History, and Hermeneutics," Journal of Modern History, 69: 534-556,
September 1997.
Postmodernity and the Routinization
of Novelty: Heidegger on Boredom and Technology, Polity, 29:
489-517,
Summer 1997.
"Walden
Three: Postmodern Ecology and its Precursors," in Liberal Modernism and Democratic Individuality
(Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 147-172.
"Out
from the Shadows of God: Nietzschean Skepticism and
Political Practice," International Studies in
Philosophy
27/3:55-72, August 1995.
"Nature
and Freedom: A Heideggerian Critique of Biocentric and Sociocentric
Environmentalism,"
Environmental
Ethics 17: 171-190, Summer 1995.
-Reprinted
as a journal article in Hungarian translation, Termszet
s szabadsg, Liget, 10:8-18,
October
1996.
-Reprinted
as a book chapter in Hungarian translation, "Termszet
s szabadsg," in Termszet s
szabadsg, ed. Lanyi Andras (Budapest: Osiris Kiado, 2000), 125-141.
Twilight
of Modernity: Nietzsche, Heidegger and Politics. Political Theory 22: 468-490,
August 1994.
"Heidegger
on Freedom: Political not Metaphysical." American Political Science
Review 88: 278-291, June 1994.
"Making
Democracy Safe for the World: Social Movements and Global Politics." Alternatives
18:273-305,
Summer
1993.
"Reading
Nietzsche and Foucault: A Hermeneutics of Suspicion?" American
Political Science Review 85:
584-591,
June 1991.
"Love
and Judgement: Nietzsche's Dilemma." Nietzsche-Studien Band/Volume 20:88-108, 1991.
"The
Agony of Politics: The Nietzschean Roots of
Foucault's Thought." American Political Science Review
84:907-925,
September 1990.
"Nietzsche's
Politics." Interpretation 17:275-290,
Winter 1989-90.
"Foucault's
Triple Murder and the Modern Development of Power." Canadian Journal of
Political Science
19:243-260,
June 1986.
Book
Reviews
Nihilism and Emancipation. By Gianni Vattimo.
Perspectives on Politics, 6:168-170, March 2008.
The Poetics of Political Thinking. By Davide Panagia. Theory
and Event,
Vol. 10:4, 2007.
www.press.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/
The Nature of Political Theory. By Andrew
Vincent. Perspectives on Politics, 3:625-26, September,
2005.
Neuropolitics: Thinking, Culture, Speed. By William E. Connolly. Political Theory
33:137-39, February 2005.
Feminist
Interpretations of Martin Heidegger, eds. Nancy J.
Holland and Patricia Huntington, Canadian
Journal of Political Science, December 2003, 1114-1115.
From Noose to Needle: Capital Punishment and
the Late Liberal State.By
Timothy V. Karufman-
Osborne. Perspectives
on Politics, 1:4: 763-64,
December 2003.
Politics out of History. By Wendy
Brown, American Political Science Review, 96:398-399, June 2002.
Making
Social Science Matter: Why social inquiry fails and how it can succeed again. By Bent
Flyvbjerg, Journal
of Politics, 64:1, 274-276, February 2002.
Negotiating Postmodernism. By Wayne Gabardi. American
Political Science Review, 95:978-979,
December 2001.
Ecological Utopias: Envisioning the
Sustainable Society by Marius de Geus, Conservation
Ecology
4(1): 18: http://www.consecol.org/vol4/iss1/art18,
June 2000.
The Ethics of Consumption: The Good Life,
Justice, and Global Stewardship, edited by David A. Crocker
and Toby
Linden., American Political Science Review, 94:167-68, March 2000.
Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy,
and Culture by
Timothy Luke, American Political
Science
Review,
92:689-691, September 1998.
Cheating
Doom: Evil and the Fine Art of Cultural Containment, a review of What Evil Means to Us by
C.
Fred Alford, Theory and Event: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_&_event/v002/2.3r_thiele.html,
July
1998.
Heideggers Political Thinking by James
F. Ward, Ethics, 107:191, October, 1996.
Nietzsche:
The Ethics of an Immoralist by Peter Berkowitz, Journal of the History of the Behavioral
Sciences 32:244-46,
July 1996.
Martin Heidegger: Politics, Art and
Technology, edited by Karsten Harries and Jamme Christoph, American
Political
Science Review 89:742-43,
September 1995.
An Introduction to Nietzsche as Political
Thinker, by Keith Ansell-Pierson, and Nietzsche, Genealogy,
Morality, edited by
Richard Schacht, German Politics and Society 13:148-152, Spring 1995.
From
Outrage to Action: The Politics of Grass-Roots Dissent by Laura Woliver, and Restoring Real
Representation by Robert
Grady, Journal of Politics 56:1150-1154,
November 1994.
Political Theory and the Displacement of
Politics by Bonnie Honig, American Political
Science Review
88:214-215,
March 1994.
Nietzsche
and the Politics of Aristocratic Radicalism by Bruce Detwiler,
Journal of the History of
Philosophy
30:623-625,
October 1992.
Identity\Difference: Democratic Negotiations
of Political Paradox, by William Connolly, American Political
Science
Review
86:777-778, September,1992.
Nietzsche's Enticing Psychology of Power, by
Jacob Golomb, Journal of the History of the
Behavioral
Sciences 28:289-290, July
1992.
Nietzsche's New Seas, edited by Michael
Gillespie and Tracy Strong, and Nietzsche
and Political Thought, by
Mark Warren, American Political
Science Review 86:212-13, March 1992.
Major Works In Progress
You Can Never Do Just One Thing:
Connections, Community and Unintended Consequences
Going
Glocal: Citizenship, Ecology, Interdependency,
presented at the University of Toronto, Department of
Political
Science Lecture Series, February, 2008.
Leadership
and Judgment presented at the Oxford Strategic Leadership and Stimulus Programmes,
Oxford
University, November 2008.
The
Power of Narrative, presented at the Oxford Strategic Leadership and Stimulus Programmes,
Oxford
University, November 2008.
You
can never do just one thing: What ecology can teach us about social justice,
keynote speech at the Social
Justice
and Diversity Colloquium, Hamilton College, September 2007.
The
Education of Eros: Aristotle and Neuroscience, presented to the Philosophy
Colloquium, University of
South
Florida, Tampa, February 2007.
Must
Political Theory Be Utopian, presented at the Political Theory Colloquium,
Texas A&M
University,
College Station, Texas, February 2005.
The
Rhizomatic Caress of William Connolly, presented at
the Weak Ontology and the Affirmation of
Moral and Political Life conference,
Northwestern University, March 2004.
Learning
to Think Sustainably, presented at the United Nations University for Peace,
San Jose,
Costa
Rica, September 2003.
Challenges
to Sustainable Development, presented at the Academic Council of the United
Nations System
Workshop
on Strategies for Sustainable Resource Development, Windhoek, Namibia, August
2002.
Sustainability
and Acadamia: The Promise and Pitfalls of
Environmental Education, Social
Science
and Humanities Lecture, presented at the Center For Environmental Science,Policy &
Ethics,
Bucknell University, October 2001.
Nietzsche,
Irony and Democratic Politics, presented at the Conference on Nietzsche and
European
Thought,
The European University at St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia, June 2001.
The
Future of the Social Sciences, presented to the Faculty of Social Sciences,
University of Victoria,
Victoria,
Canada, April 2001.
"Moderate
Justice," presented at the Political Theory Workshop, University of
Chicago, Chicago,
May
1999.
Evolutionary
Narratives and Ecological Ethics presented at the Political Theory Colloquium,
Yale
University,
New Haven, December 1997.
Taking
Risks: Ethics, the Environment and Uncertainty, presented at the Conference on
Uncertainty and
the Environment, Twente, The
Netherlands, November 1997.
The
Historical Heidegger and Heideggerian History,
presented at the 2nd Annual Conference of
Epistemology
and Philosophy, Instituto Piaget, Viseu,
Portugal, November 1997.
Environmentalism
in the 21st Century presented at the Social Science Research Council-MacArthur
Foundation conference, Oxford, U.K., May 1996.
On
the Relationship between Philosophy and Politics, presented at the Princeton Political
Philosophy
Colloquium,
Princeton, November 1995.
"Nietzsche
and the Justification for Democratic Political Practice," presented at the
International
Conference
on Nietzsche and the Coming Millennium," Fiesole, Italy, July 1994.
New
Social Movements: Peace, Ecology and Global Politics, presented at the Social
Science Research
Council-MacArthur Foundation conference, Buenos Aires, May 1994.
"Out
from the Shadows of God," presented at the American Philosophical
Association Annual Meeting,
Atlanta,
December 1993.
"Environmentalism
and the Limits of Liberalism," presented at the Conference on
Environmental
Challenges
and the Global South: UNCED and Beyond, Washington, D.C., April 1992.