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Executive Committee

  • David Armitage, Harvard University, Co-chair
  • Kirstie McClure, UCLA, Co-chair
  • John McCormick, University of Chicago, Co-chair
  • David Johnston, Columbia University
  • Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University
  • Sharon Krause, Brown University
  • Chandran Kukathas, University of Utah
  • David Lieberman, Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley
  • Patchen Markell, University of Chicago
  • Jennifer Pitts, University of Chicago
  • Elizabeth Wingrove, University of Michigan

Founding Members

  • Louis James Moore, Concordia University
  • J.G.A. Pocock, Johns Hopkins University (emeritus)
  • Melvin Richter, City University of New York (emeritus)
  • Lyman Tower Sargent, University of Missouri - St. Louis

Members at Large

  • Australia, Conal Condren (New South Wales) Richard Mulgan (ANU)
  • Canada, Douglas Long (Ontario) James Moore (Concordia) Anthony Parel (Calgary) Greg Pyrcz (Acadia)
  • England, Terrell Carver (Bristol) Istvan Hont (Cambridge) Preston King (Lancaster) Kenneth Minogue (LSE) Geraint Parry (Manchester) Fred Rosen (University College) Alan Ryan (Oxford)
  • Germany, Henning Ottmann (Munich) Karl Graf Ballestrem (Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett) Volker Gerhardt (Humboldt, Berlin)
  • Netherlands, Percy Lehning (Erasmus)
  • New Zealand, M.M. Goldsmith (Victoria) Andrew Sharp (Auckland)
  • USA, Terence Ball (Arizona State) Benjamin Barber (Rutgers) Seyla Benhabib (Harvard) Jean Cohen (Columbia) Lawrence Dickey (Wisconsin-Madison) Richard Flathman (John Hopkins) Alan Gilbert (Denver) Stephen Holmes (Chicago) Thomas Horne (Tulsa) Alan Houston (UC San Diego) John Christian Laursen (UC Riverside) Michael MacPherson (Williams) David Mapel (Colorado) J. Donald Moon (Wesleyan) Michael Mosher (Tulsa) Julie Mostov (Drexel) J.G.A. Pocock (John Hopkins) Melvin Richter (CUNY) Nancy Rosenblum (Brown) Lyman T. Sargent (U. of Missouri, St. Louis) Rogers Smith (Yale) Tracy Strong (UC San Diego) Susan Tannenbaum (CUNY) Richard Teichgraeber (Tulane)

Ex-Officio Members

  • Mary Dietz, editor, Political Theory
  • Iain Hamsher-Monk, editor, History of Political Thought
  • Arthur Kroker, editor, The Canadian Journal of Political and Social Theory

Spitz Prize Committee

  • Joshua Dienstag, Department of Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951472, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1472
  • Professor Colin Bird, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, P.O. Box 400787, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4787
  • Professor Bryan Garsten, Department of Political Science, Yale University, P.O. Box 208301, New Haven, CT 06520-8301

Area Convenors and Other Contacts

Australia

  • Sydney, Chandran Kukathas, Dept. of Political Science, Australian Defence Force Academy, Campbell 2600 ACT
  • Melbourne, Harry Redner, Dept. of Political Science, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168 Fax: 61-3-990-54007

Canada

  • Greg Pyrcz, Dept. of Political Science, Box 253, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia B0P 1X0
  • James Moore, Dept. of Political Science, Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke Street, West Montreal, Québec H4X 1P6 Fax: 514-481-6822
  • Stephen Newman, Dept. of Political Science, York University, 4700 Keele Street, North York, Ontario M3J 1P3
  • Shadia Drury, Dept. of Political Science, 2500 University Drive NW, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4

Germany

  • Norbert Herold, Philosophisches Seminar der Universitaet Muenster, Domplatz 23, D-48143 Muenster

India

  • Thomas Pantham, Dept. of Political Science, Maharaja Sayajirao, University of Baroda, Vadodara 390 002, Gujarat

Israel

  • Efraim Podoksik, Department of Political Science, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905 Israel

Japan

  • Shin Chiba, Dept. of Social Sciences, International Christian University, 3-10-2, Osawa, Mitaka-shi Tokyo 181-0015

Netherlands

  • Percy Lehning, Erasmus University, PO Box 1378, 3000 DR Rotterdam

New Zealand

  • Maurice Goldsmith, Dept. of Philosophy, Victoria University of Wellington, P.O. Box 600, Wellington; Mark Francis, Dept. of Political Science, University of Canterbury, Christchurch Fax: 64-3-364-2999

Switzerland

  • Etienne Hofmann, Institut des recherches Interdisciplinaires, Université de Lausanne, BFSH 2 Dorigny CH-1015 Lausanne

United Kingdom

  • Lancaster, Preston King, Politics Department, University of Lancaster, Lancaster LA1 4YL
  • Manchester, Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves, Dept. of Government, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL
  • Western Britain, Richard Bellamy, Dept. of Politics, University of Reading, PO Box 218, Whiteknights, Reading, Berkshire RG6 2AA; Terrell Carver, Dept. of Politics, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 ITU
  • Swansea, Samuel A. Chambers, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Department of Politics and IR, Swansea University, Singleton Park, Swansea SA2 8PP

United States

  • Baltimore/Washington D.C., Richard Flathman, Dept. of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218
  • Boston, James Schmidt, University Professors Program, Boston University, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215; Knud Haakonssen Philosophy Dept. Boston University 745 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA 02215
  • Cactus, Richard Dagger, Terence Ball
  • California, Paul Thomas/Shannon Stimson, Dept. of Political Science, U. of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1950; Sharon Snowiss, Political Studies, Pitzer College, Claremont, CA 91711
  • Indian Territory, Eldon J. Eisenach/Michael Mosher, Dept. of Political Science, University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, OK 74104-3189
  • Lone Star, JS Maloy, Dept. of Political Science, Oklahoma State Univeristy, Main Hall 2218, 700 North Greenwood, Tulsa, OK 74106
  • Maryland, Ronald Terchek, Dept. of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-8821
  • Minnesota/Dakotas, Mary Dietz Dept of Political Science University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN 55455
  • New York, Nadia Urbinati, Dept. of Political Science, Columbia University, 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY 10027
  • Ohio, Curtis Johnson, Dept. of Political Science, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR 97219
  • Rocky Mountains, Steven McCarl, Dept. of Political Science, University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208-0203
  • St. Louis, Lyman Tower Sargent, Dept. of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 8001 Natural Bridge Road, St. Louis, MO 63121-4499
  • Virginia, George Klosko, Dept. of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903; Stephen White, Dept. of Political Science, 531 Major Williams Hall Virginia Tech Blacksburg, VA 24061
  • Walt Whitman Center, Benjamin Barber, Hickman Hall, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903 Fax: 908-932-1922

To make any additions or corrections, please contact Ian Storey

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