JONATHAN D. MARKS
Office: Ursinus College, Dept. of Politics
Bomberger 209
Collegeville, PA 19426
(610)409-3000 X2597
Home: 255 Park Avenue
Collegeville, PA 19426
(610)489-1255
jmarks@ursinus.edu
EMPLOYMENT
Associate Professor of Politics, Ursinus College, Fall 2006Associate Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Carthage College, Summer 2006
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Philosophy, Carthage College, 2002-2006
Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Theory and Constitutional Democracy, James Madison College
Michigan State University, 1999-2002
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Michigan State University, 1998-99
Lecturer, Social Sciences Collegiate Division, University of Chicago, Winter, 1997, Spring, 1998.
EDUCATION
The University of Chicago
Committee on Social Thought
The College
1991-1997
1987-1991
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
(Social Thought): Fall, 1997
(Social Thought): Fall, 1994
(Philosophy): Spring, 1991
BOOK AND REFEREED ARTICLES
“The Divine Instinct? Rousseau and Conscience.” Review of Politics, November 2006.
Perfection and Disharmony in the Thought of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Cambridge University Press, June 2005
“Misreading One’s Sources: Charles Taylor’s Rousseau.” American Journal of Political Science, January 2005
“Who Lost Nature? Rousseau and Rousseauism. Polity, Summer 2002
“Rousseau, Michael Sandel, and the Politics of Transparency.” Polity, Summer 2001
“The Savage Pattern: The Unity of Rousseau’s Thought Revisited.” Polity, Summer 1998
OTHER PUBLICATIONS AND REVIEWS
Review of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius by Leo Damrosch. Claremont Institute “web exclusive.” June 2006
“Moral Dialogue in the Thought of Amitai Etzioni.” Featured Essay. The Good Society, 2005
Review of The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments by Gertrude Himmelfarb. Azure:
Ideas for the Jewish Nation, Summer 2005
Review of Reconsidering the Souls of Black Folk: Thoughts on the Groundbreaking Classic Work of W.E.B. Du Bois
by Stanley Crouch and Playthell Benjamin. Claremont Review of Books, Spring 2004
“Virtue, Self-Interest, and The Common Good: A Dialogue on Communitarianism and Classical Liberalism.” With
Amitai Etzioni. Responsive Community, Summer 2003. Reprinted in Communitarianism: Beyond the Essentials.
Edited by Amitai Etzioni, Drew Volmert, and Elaine Rothschild. Rowman and Littlefield, October 2004
“W.E.B. Du Bois.” In History of American Political Thought, Edited by Bryan-Paul Frost and Jeffrey Sikkenga.
Lexington Books, 2003
“Republicanism.” In Political Theories for Students. The Gale Group, 2002
Review of Autonomy and Order: A Communitarian Anthology edited by Edward Lehman. The Responsive Community,
Summer 2002
Review of The Monochrome Society by Amitai Etzioni. The Responsive Community, Spring 2001
Review of The Nobel Prize: A History of Genius, Controversy, and Prestige by Burton Feldman. Commentary, Feburary
2001.
Review of The Death of Character: Moral Education in a World Without Good and Evil by James Davison Hunter. The
Weekly Standard, October 30, 2000
Review of The Genesis of Justice: Ten Stories of Biblical Injustice That Led to the Ten Commandments and Modern Law
by Alan Dershowitz. Commentary, September 2000.
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WORK IN PROGRESS OR ON REVIEW
“Rousseau’s Discriminating Defense of Compassion.” Revise and resubmit at the American Political Science Review.
“Locke, Rousseau, and Character Education”
COURSES TAUGHT
University of Chicago
Classics of Social and Political Thought
Michigan State University /James Madison College
American Political Thought
Classical Republicanism
Constitutionalism and Democracy
Radical Challenges to Liberal Democracy
Beyond Liberal Democracy? New Directions in Political Theory
Tocqueville and Tocquevillianism
Introduction to Public Affairs II
Contemporary Developments in American Politics
Carthage College
Introduction to Political Theory
African-American Social and Political Thought
Philosophy and Literature
Introduction to Philosophy
Art of Thinking
Foundations of Western Thought: Renaissance and Modern
Foundations of American Thought
American Government
Ursinus
American Political Thought
Common Intellectual Experience
HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS
Earhart Fellowship, Summer 2005. $10,000 for paper on “Rousseau and Compassion”
Faculty Development Grant, Carthage, Summer 2004, for Paper on Tocqueville and Etzioni
Faculty Development Grant, Carthage, Summer 2003, for paper on the new communitarianism
Earhart Fellowship, Summer 2003. $10,000 for paper on Taylor and Rousseau.
Communitarian Network Grant, Summer 2003. $3000 for work on the “new communitarianism.”
Gerst Fellowship at Duke University offered fro 2000-01. Declined.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Symposium on Science, Reason and Democracy, Michigan State, 1998-99.
Salvatori Fellowship
1998
Bradley Fellowship
1996-98
Earhart Fellowship
1995-96
Century Fellowship
1991-94
Olin Fellowship
1990-96
Distinction on Ph. D. Qualifying Examination, Committee on Social Thought, Fall, 1994.
Student Marshal (top 2% of class), June 1991.
General Honors in the College and Special Honors in the Philosophy Department.
Phi Beta Kappa.
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LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Rousseau ‘s Politics of Compassion.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association (Philadelphia, September 2006). Earlier versions presented for Carthage College’s Clausen Center for World
Business (March 2006), the annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association (Atlanta, January 2006), and Carthage
College’s Board of Trustees (May 2005)
“Jean-Jacques Rousseau.” Interview for the “Morning Show,” WGTD (Kenosha National Public Radio
Affiliate), March 2006
“Our Bodies, Our Selves? Rousseau, Taylor, and the Sentiment of Existence. Presented for Ursinus College’s,
Department of Politics (November 2006) and Miami University, Ohio’s Department of Political Science, March 2005
Invited chair and discussant for panel on communitarian social theory at the Communitarian Summit (Washington D.C., July
2004)
Chair and discussant for panel on liberalism, postmodernity, and the modern novel at the annual meeting of the American
Political Science Association (Chicago, September 2002)
Lunchtime dialogue with Amitai Etzioni on Rousseau, liberalism and communitarianism for the Communitarian Network,
Washington D.C., June 2002
“W.E.B. Du Bois and Leadership.” American Political Science Assn. Meeting, San Francisco, August 2001
“Wild Citizens: The Preservation of the Man of Nature in Rousseau’s Political Thought.” Department of Government, University of
Texas at Austin, January 23, 2001. Revised version of talk delivered for the Department of Government at Harvard University
on January 5, 1999 and for the Department of Political Science at Yale University in April 1998. First version delivered at
Southern Political Science Association meeting in November 1997
“Rousseau and Conscience.” American Political Science Assn. Meeting, Atlanta, August, 2000
“Rousseau, Sandel, and the Politics of Transparency.” Department of Political Science, Emory University, Spring 2000
Also delivered at University of California at Davis, Winter, 1999. Expanded version of talk delivered at the Southwest Political
Science Association meeting, San Antonio, March 1999
“Charles Taylor and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Identity, Authenticity and Community.” American Political Science Assn. Meeting,
Atlanta, August, 1999
“Rousseau and Community.” Southern Political Science Assn. Meeting, Atlanta, October 29, 1998
“Rousseau’s Unscientific Investigation of Nature. New England Political Science Assn. Meeting, May 1998
“Humanistic Demons: The Bhagavadgita and Western Tolerance.” University of Chicago, Social Thought Colloquium, Autumn
1993
SERVICE
Carthage College
Chair, Department of Philosophy, 2004-2005
Heritage Oversight Committee, Member and Secretary, 2004-2006
Member of Search Committee for Public Law Position, 2004-2005
OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Participant in Earhart Foundation Conference on Liberty and the Founding, November 2005
Participant in Liberty Fund Colloquium on Montesquieu, Shakespeare, Tocqueville, Adams, and Jefferson, July 2001.
Participant in Liberty Fund Colloquium, “Liberty and the Founder’s Constitution.” July 2000.
Participant in Liberty Fund Colloquium, “Liberty and Tryanny in Machiavelli’s Prince.” November 1999
Manuscript reviewer, Journal of Politics, American Political Science Review, Polity, Cambridge Review of International
Affairs, Pennsylvania State University Press.
Participant in Liberty Fund Colloquium, “Liberty and Western Literature.” August 1999.
Participant in Liberty Fund Colloquium, “Character Formation in Liberal Society” on Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning
Education and On the Conduct of the Human Understanding. May 1999.
Salvatori Fellowship, 1998. Participant in colloquium on American Political Thought.
Editorial Assistant to Professor David Gitomer in this preparation of a new Bhagavadgita translation for the University of Chicago
Press. 1993-96
Assisted David Gitomer in preparing the article “Social Justice and ‘Virtuous Roots’: An Indologist Looks at the Debate on
Aristotelian Anthropology and Essentialism.” Modern Philology, Supplement, May 1993