Bowdoin College government and social sciences professor Jean Yarbrough will open the Tocqueville Program lecture series Wednesday, Feb. 1, at 5 p.m. in Johns Hall 101 on the Furman University campus.<\/p>\n
Her talk, \u201cTocqueville on the Needs of the Soul,\u201d is free and open to the public. Her lecture is the first of the three-part Tocqueville series, \u201cTocqueville and the American Republic.\u201d All lectures in the series are part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n
Yarbrough is Professor of Government and the Gary M. Pendy, Sr. Professor of Social Sciences at Bowdoin College (Brunswick, Maine), where she teaches political philosophy and American political thought.<\/p>\n
She has twice received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. She serves on the editorial boards of The Review of Politics <\/em>and Polity<\/em>, and is former president of the New England Political Science Association (2005).<\/p>\n Yarbrough is the author and editor of numerous books, articles and essays on American political thought, public policy, and political philosophy including American Virtues: Thomas Jefferson on the Character of a Free People<\/em> (Kansas, 1998), and The Essential Jefferson<\/em> (Hackett, 2006).\u00a0 Her most recent book, Theodore Roosevelt and the American Political Tradition<\/em> (Kansas, 2013), won the Richard E. Neustadt Award, a prize given annually by the American Political Science Association for the best book on the presidency.<\/p>\n She holds a bachelor\u2019s from Cedar Crest College (Allentown, Penn.), and master\u2019s and doctorate degrees from the New School for Social Research (New York City).<\/p>\n Upcoming Tocqueville lectures include:<\/p>\n Wednesday, March 22 <\/strong>\u2013 Joshua Mitchell, Georgetown University, \u201cWhy the State Grows Ever-Stronger,\u201d 5 p.m., Johns Hall 101<\/p>\n Wednesday, April 5<\/strong> \u2013 Aurelian Craiutu, Indiana University Bloomington, \u201cModeration: A Virtue for Our Times,\u201d 5 p.m., Johns Hall 101<\/p>\n