|  Ernest
J. Walters, Jr. Lecture Series in Political Thought
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Dr.
Susan Collins |
Dr.
Susan Collins
“Modern
Problems, Ancient Solutions?”
Location: Shaw Hall, Younts Conference Center
March 27, 2008
Susan D. Collins
is associate professor of political science and of the Honors College
at the University of Houston. Before joining the faculty at the
University of Houston, she taught at Southern Illinois University
and spent two years developing over thirty interdisciplinary conferences
under the auspices of the Liberty Fund. Professor Collins received
her A.B. and M.A. from the University of Alberta and Ph.D. from
Boston College.
Professor Collins
is the author of ten articles, book chapters and essays dealing
especially with the tradition of classical political thought and
its bearing on modern politics. Her work has appeared in the American
Journal of Political Science, American Political Science Review,
Journal of Politics, Perspectives on Politics, Polis, Review of
Politics, and Presidential Studies Quarterly, among
others.
Her well-received
first book, Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship,
was published by Cambridge University Press in 2006. She has also
co-edited Action and Contemplation: Studies in the Moral and
Political Thought of Aristotle with Robert C. Bartlett (State
University of New York Press, 1999), and co-authored a Translation
with Notes and Interpretative Essay entitled, Empire and the
Ends of Politics: Plato’s Menexenus and Pericles’ Funeral
Oration with Devin Stauffer (Focus Philosophic Library, 1999).
She is currently
working on her second book, The Ancient Regime, as well
as developing a new translation and accompanying interpretive essay
of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics (with Robert C.
Bartlett), which is under contract with the University of Chicago
Press.
In addition
to giving numerous invited lectures, activity in a number of professional
organizations, and extensive participation in national and international
colloquia, Professor Collins has been the recipient of a number
of grants and fellowships from a variety of granting agencies, including
the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the
Earhart Foundation, the John M. Olin Center, and the Bradley Foundation.
She has won awards for excellence in teaching at both Boston College
and the University of Houston.
(l-r) Amy Walters, Susan Collins
& Terry Walters |
Ty Tessitore, Professor of Political Science at Furman introducing
Dr. Collins |
Dr. Collins addressing faculty, staff, students and community
members |
Dr. Collins |
Dr. Collins |
Dr. Collins |
(l-r) Dr. Ty Tessitore, Dr. Brent Nelson, Chair of the Department
of Political Science and Susan Collins |
Dr. Collins continuing the discussion with guests after the
address |
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