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Mary P. Nichols delivers “Friendship in Aristotle’s \u2018Ethics\u2019\u201d Feb. 27.<\/p><\/div>\n
Nichols served as professor of political science at Baylor from 2004 to 2017, was chair of the department 2004 to 2010, and held the role of graduate program director 2010 to 2012.<\/p>\n
She is author of numerous books including \u201cThucydides and the Pursuit of Freedom\u201d (Cornell University Press, 2015), and \u201cSocrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato\u2019s Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis\u201d (Cambridge University Press, 2009) and \u201cReconstructing Woody: Art, Love, and Life in the Films of Woody Allen\u201d (Rowman & Littlefield, 1992).<\/p>\n
Nichols has published articles in The American Political Science Review, The Review of Politics, and Perspectives on Political Science, and also serves on the editorial boards of these journals.<\/p>\n
She is a senior fellow at the Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (New York) and has taught at Fordham University, the University of Delaware and St. John’s College Annapolis.<\/p>\n
Nichols holds a doctorate from the University of Chicago, a master\u2019s from Kansas University and a bachelor\u2019s from Tulane University.<\/p>\n
The concluding Tocqueville Series lecture is set for Wednesday, April 10, at 5 p.m. in Watkins Room, Trone Student Center, where David Bromwich, Professor of English at Yale University, will present \u201cPower, Passion, and Mark Antony.\u201d<\/p>\n