Ellis
Sandoz
Hermann
Moyse Jr. Distinguished Professor of Political Science & Director
Eric
Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies
Louisiana
State University, 240 Stubbs Hall
Baton
Rouge, LA 70803-5466
Tel.:
AC 225 578-2552; 578-7888; FAX 225 578-4766
E-Mail:
esandoz@lsu.edu; http://www.ericvoegelin.org
Ellis Sandoz, the Hermann Moyse, Jr., Distinguished Professor of
Political Science at Louisiana State University and a former chairman of the
department, is Director of the Eric Voegelin Institute for American
Renaissance Studies, established in 1987 and devoted to research in political
philosophy and constitutionalism, publications, and conferences in these
fields. A native of Louisiana
whose family first came there from Switzerland in 1829, he is a United States
Marine Corps veteran (1953-56). He
was educated at LSU (B. A., 1951; M. A., 1953), the universities of North
Carolina, Georgetown, Heidelberg, and the University of Munich where he
completed his doctorate (Dr. oec. publ.) with Eric Voegelin in 1965,
the only American to do so. He
joined LSU's faculty in 1978.
Professor Sandoz is a specialist in the field of political philosophy
(American, European, and Russian), and he approaches problems of public policy
from that perspective. President
Ronald W. Reagan appointed him to the National Council on the Humanities in
1982 for a six-year term. The
Board of Foreign Scholarships in 1987 named him a Fulbright 40th Anniversary
Distinguished American Scholar to represent the United States in Italy and
lecture on the Constitution during the Bicentennial.
He founded and remains secretary of the Eric Voegelin Society.
Since the Velvet Revolution of 1989, he has addressed the Federal
Parliament of Czechoslovakia and conducted lectures and a series of
conferences on The Federalist Papers, and other aspects of the
Anglo-American constitutionalism and liberty and Western political philosophy,
for academic and political leaders in Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland;
for these and related educational activities in 1994 he was awarded the
University Medal and Rector's Certificate by Palacky University Olomouc, Czech
Republic; in 1995 Palacky University awarded Sandoz the degree Philosophiae
doctorem, Honoris causa. He presented a series of lectures on the thought
of Voegelin, ethics, and constitutionalism sponsored by the Graduate Program
of Ethics of the University of
Oslo and the Research Council of Norway in Trondheim in October 1995. He
lectures widely in the U. S. and Canada on the contemporary crisis of civic
consciousness, foundations of constitutionalism, and modern political
philosophy. He is the first
political scientist to be chosen LSU's Distinguished Research Master and
awarded the university's Gold Medal; and “in recognition of high attainments
in liberal scholarship,” in 1996 he became the first alumnus member of LSU’s
Phi Beta Kappa chapter. He was
elected president of the Philadelphia Society in April 2000. In November 2002
Sandoz delivered the commencement address and was awarded an honorary degree
of Doctor en Ciencias Políticas
by the University
Francisco Marroquín
in Guatemala. He delivered the John Witherspoon Lecture titled “Republicanism
and Religion: A Conspiracy of Faith and Reason” (Washington, D.C., April
2004); addressed University of Genoa conference on EU constitution-formation
(May 2004). He delivered the Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on Constitutionalism at
James Madison Center, Princeton University, in April, 2008.
Sandoz’s most recent publication is “The Philosopher’s Vocation:
The Voegelinian Paradigm” in Review of Politics 71:1, 1-14;
also two articles, published in Beijing and in Seoul on American politics in
2008, and two books: Republicanism, Religion and the Soul of America;
and Vol. 34 of Collected
Works, Auto-biogaphical Reflections (rev’d edn), Glosssary of Terms,
Cumulative Index, ed.
with introductions by Ellis Sandoz (both U. Mo. Press, 2006).
He has authored, coauthored or edited twenty books, including: The
Politics of Truth and other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic Consciousness
(U. Mo. Press, 1999); A Government of Laws: Political Theory, Religion
and the American Founding (LSU, pb. 1991; 2nd ed., U. Mo.
Press, 2001); Political Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730 to 1805
(Liberty Press, 1991; 2d ed., 2 vols., 1998); Eric Voegelin's Significance
for the Modern Mind (LSU, 1991); Published Essays, 1966-1985, vol.
12, The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin (LSU, 1991); Published
Essays, 1953-1965, ibid. (CW, vol. 11 [2000]); Published
Essays, 1940-1952, ibid. (CW, vol. 10 [2000]); and The Roots of
Liberty: Magna Carta, Ancient Constitution, and the Anglo-American Tradition
of Rule of Law (Missouri, 1993; 2d ed. Liberty Fund, 2008.)
He is a member of the Editorial Board and serves as General Editor of The
Collected Works of Eric Voegelin (LSU, 1989-1999;University of Missouri
Press, 1999-2006) 34 vols., and series editor for CW, vols. 19-26, History
of Political Ideas. Two earlier books were
reissued in new editions in 2000: Political Apocalypse: A Study of
Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor, 2d ed. rev. (Wilmington, Del.: ISI
Books); The Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction, 2d ed.
rev. (New Brunswick, N. J.: Transaction Pubs., Rutgers University); in
2004 a revised edition was published of
Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics and Gnosticism, ed. & introduction
by Ellis Sandoz ( ISI Books). His bio is published in Who’s Who In
America and in Who’s Who in the World (2008).
2/09
1.
General Personal and Professional Information
Education
and Degrees
Louisiana
State University (1947-1953):
B.A.,
History; philosophy and political science (1951)
M.A.,
Political Science: theory, public
law, public administration (1953).
Thesis:
"Myth and Society: A
Comparative and Critical Study of the Theories of Edward Burnett Tylor, Henri
and Henriette Frankfort, and Henri Bergson."
Pp. 111.
University
of North Carolina (summer, 1950)
Georgetown
University (1952-1953)
University
of Heidelberg (1956-1958)
University
of Munich (1958-1959; 1964-1965): Dr.
oec. publ., Magna cum laude: political
science (theory and comparative European); economic theory; economic history.
Dissertation:
"The Grand Inquisitor: A
Study in Political Apocalypse." Pp.
xi + 338 + xxvii.
Major
professor: Eric Voegelin (1965)
Palacky University Olomouc, Philosophiae doctorem, honoris causa (1995)
University Francisco Marroquín,
Doctor en Ciencias Políticas
(honorary, 2002)
Festschrift: Philosophy, Literature, and Politics: Essays Honoring
Ellis Sandoz, ed. Charles R. Embry and Barry Cooper (University of
Missouri Press, 2005)
Employment
U.S.
House of Representatives, Office of Overton Brooks, M.C. (1952-1953)
U.S.
Marine Corps (active duty 1953-1956; Hon. Discharge 1962):
infantry enlisted man and officer:
Pvt.-lst Lt., First Marine Division.
Shreveport
(La.) Journal
(1956-1958): published weekly
travel column "Southerner Abroad" (part-time).
Louisiana
Polytechnic Institute (1959-1968): Instructor
to Professor: Professor of International Studies, political science and
philosophy; Director of the Center for Comparative International Studies
(1966-1968).
East
Texas State University (1968-1978): Professor
and Head, Department of Political Science.
Louisiana
State University
(1978- ):
Professor of Political Science; Chairman (August 15, 1980-May 10,
1981).
Director,
Eric Voegelin Institute for American Renaissance Studies (1987- )
Herman Moyse Jr. Distinguished Professor Of Political Science (1998-)
Professional
Societies
American
Political Science Association (past Council Member)
Southern
Political Science Association (past Council Member)
Southwestern
Political & Social Science Associations (past President)
Philadelphia
Society (past President)
The Federalist Society
American Historical Association
Eric Voegelin Society (founder in 1985, Secretary since then) 24th
annual international meeting involving 10 panels and 65 scholars to be held in
Boston in Aug. 2008 as part of the APSA convention
2.
Publications
a. In Print
(1) Books
Political
Apocalypse: A Study of
Dostoevsky's Grand Inquisitor.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1971.
Pp. xviii + 263. 2nd ed. rev., ISI Pubs., 2000 (below).
Conceived
in Liberty: American Individual
Rights Today.
North Scituate, Mass.: Duxbury Press, 1978.
Pp. xi + 324.
A
Tide of Discontent: The 1980
Elections and Their Meaning.
Introduction and co-editor with Cecil V. Crabb, Jr.
Washington, D.C.: Congressional
Quarterly, Inc., 1981. Pp. xiv +
254.
The
Voegelinian Revolution: A
Biographical Introduction.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University, 1981. Pp. xiv + 271.
2nd ed. rev., Transaction Pubs. 2000 (below).
Eric
Voegelin's Thought: A Critical
Appraisal. Editor and
Introduction. Durham, N.C.: Duke
University Press, 1982. Pp. xv +
208.
Election
'84: Landslide Without A Mandate?
Introduction and co-editor with Cecil V. Crabb, Jr.
New York: New American
Library, 1985. Pp. 358.
Eric
Voegelin, Autobiographical Reflections.
Editor and Introduction. Baton Rouge:
Louisiana State University Press, 1989.
Pp. xiii + 123. (To be
re-issued as part of Collected
Works of Eric Voegelin, vol. XXXIV, at a later date.)
A
Government of Laws: Political
Theory, Religion and the American Founding.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1990. Pp. xiv +
259. Paperback edition 1991. 2nd. Ed. rev., University of Missouri
Press, 2001 (below).
Political
Sermons of the American Founding Era, 1730-1805.
Indianapolis: Liberty
Press,1991. Pp. xxxviii + 1,596.
(An edited collection of 55 sermons with introduction, biographies,
bibliographic note & annotation.)
Separate Index published 1996 ca. 100 pp.; 2d ed. rev.,
in 2 vols., 1998. Pp. vol.
I, xxxviii + 1,000; vol. II, 1001-1734.
Eric
Voegelin's Significance for the Modern Mind.
Editor and Introduction. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University
Press, 1991. Pp. xi + 214.
The
Roots of Liberty: Magna Carta,
Ancient Constitution, and the Anglo-American Tradition of Rule of Law.
Editor and
Introduction. Columbia &
London: University of Missouri Press, 1993.
Pp. 335.
The Politics of Truth and other Untimely Essays: The Crisis of Civic
Consciousness. Columbia &
London: University of Missouri Press, 1999.
Pp. xv + 235.
The
Collected Works of Eric Voegelin,
editor of various volumes within this extensive series (34 volumes projected
for completion by 2006), member of Editorial Board, and General Editor
conducting publication of entire edition, initially by Louisiana State
University Press and since 1997 by the University of Missouri Press, primary
responsibility as follows:
Eric
Voegelin, Published Essays, 1966-1985.
Editor and Introduction. Baton
Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1990.
Pp. xxii + 416; volume XII of Collected Works.
Eric
Voegelin, Published Essays, 1953-1965. Editor and Introduction.
Columbia & London: University of Missouri Press, 2000.
Pp. ix + 273. Vol. XI of Collected
Works.
Eric
Voegelin, Published Essays, 1940-1952.
Editor and Introduction. Columbia
& London: University of Missouri Press, 2000. Pp. ix + 255.
Vol. X of Collected Works.
Eric
Voegelin, History of Political Ideas,“General Introduction to the
Series,” co-authored with Thomas A. Hollweck, vol. I, Hellenism, Rome,
and Christianity, ed. Athanasios Moulakis. Columbia: University of
Missouri Press, 1997. Vol. XIX
of Collected Works,
pp. 1-49.
Eric
Voegelin, Order and History, vol. 5.
Editor and Introduction. Columbia
and London:” University of Missouri Press, 2000. Pp. 150.
Vol. XVIII of Collected Works.
Eric
Voegelin, Autobiographical Reflections (rev. ed.) & Glossary of Terms
& Cumulative Index of the Edition, ed. with introductions by
Ellis Sandoz. Columbia &
London: University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp.542. Vol. XXXIV of Collected
Works.
Political Apocalypse: A Study of Dostoevsky’s Grand Inquisitor,
Second Edition Revised. Wilmington,
Del.: ISI Books, 2000. Pp. xx +
357.
The
Voegelinian Revolution: A Biographical Introduction, Second Edition
Revised. Piscataway, N.J.:
Transaction Publishers, Rutgers University, 2000.
Pp. xx + 299.
A
Government of Laws: Political theory, Religion and the American Founding,
Second Edition Revised. University of Missouri Press, 2001. Pp. xvi + 261.
Republicanism,
Religion and the Soul of America. Hb & pb editions. Columbia:
University of Missouri Press, 2006. Pp.
xv + 230.
(2) Chapters in books and articles
"The
Problem of Good and Evil in Dostoevsky's `Legend of the Grand
Inquisitor'," Proceedings, Louisiana Academy of Sciences 24
(1961), 126-34.
"Review
Note--Order and History," Social Research 28 (1961), 226-34.
"Voegelin's
Idea of Historical Form," Cross Currents 12 (1962), 41-63.
"Myth
and Society in the Philosophy of Bergson," Social Research 30
(1963), 171-202.
"Philosophical
Anthropology and Some Aspects of the Problem of Good and Evil in Dostoevsky's
'Legend of the Grand Inquisitor'," Review of Politics 26 (1964),
353-77.
"The
International Education Act: A
Prepared Statement." Hearings
Before the Subcommittee on Education of the Committee on Labor and Public
Welfare, U.S. Senate Document, 89th Congress, Aug. 17, 19, and Sept. 19,
1966 (Washington: GPO, 1966),
496-500.
"A
Further Critique of Gnosticism--Review Essay," National Review 21
(Jan. 14, 1969), 32-33.
"The
Science and Demonology of Politics," The Intercollegiate Review 5
(Winter, 1968-69), 117-23.
"Eric
Voegelin and the Nature of Philosophy," Modern Age 13 (1969),
152-68.
"Political
Obligation and the Brutish in Man," Review of Politics 33 (1971),
96-121.
"Total
Critique of Society - Review Essay," National Review (Aug. 10,
1971), 875-76.
"The
Foundations of Voegelin's Political Theory," Political Science
Reviewer l (1971), 30-73.
"The
Civil Theology of Liberal Democracy: Locke
and His Predecessors," Journal of Politics 34 (1972), 2-36.
"The
Philosophical Science of Politics Beyond Behavioralism," Chap. 14 in
George J. Graham, Jr., and George W. Carey, eds., The Post-Behavioral Era:
Perspectives on Political Science (New York:
David McKay Co., 1972), 284-304.
"Voegelin
Read Anew: Political Philosophy in
the Age of Ideology," Modern Age 17 (Summer, 1973), 257-63.
"CBTE
(Competency/Performance-Based Teacher Education):
The Nays of Texas," Phi Delta Kappan 55 (Jan. 1974),
304-306.
Review
of From Enlightenment to Revolution by Eric Voegelin, Western
Political Quarterly (Dec. 1975), 744-45.
Review
of Thomas Paine, The Rights of Man, Social Science Quarterly 57
(June 1976), 210-14. (Edition:
Robert B. Dishman, Burke and Paine [Scribner's, 1971]).
"More
CBE in Texas," Phi Delta Kappan 59 (Sept. 1977), 48.
"Philosophical
Dimensions of Dostoevsky's Politics," Journal of Politics 40 (Aug.
1978), 648-74.
Review
of Eric Voegelin, Anamnesis, tr. and ed. Gerhart Niemeyer, Review of
Politics 41 (Apr. 1979), 305-306.
"Classical
and Christian Dimensions of American Political Thought," Modern Age
25 (Winter 1981), 14-25. Reprinted in George W. Carey and James V. Schall, Essays
on Christianity and Political Philosophy, (Lanham, Md.:
University Press of America, 1984), 55-77.
Review
of Thomas A. Spragens, Jr., The Irony of Liberal Reason (Chicago: U. Of
Chicago Press, 1981), in Social Science Quarterly, 64 (June 1983),
427-28.
"Power
and Spirit in the Founding: Thoughts
on the Genesis of Americanism," in Francis Canavan, ed., The Ethical
Dimension of Political Life: Essays
in Honor of John H. Hallowell (Durham, N.C.:
Duke University Press, 1983), 200-15, 267-70.
Reprinted in This World, No. 9 (Fall 1984), 66-77.
"Human
Nature, Politics, and Democracy: A
Recollection," lecture delivered in May, 1983 at Pontifical Catholic
University of Chile in Santiago; trans. as "Reflexiones sobre Naturaleza
Humana, Politica y Democracia," (with a Commentary by Mario Gongora), Revista
de Ciencia Politica 5 (No. 2, 1983), 95-116.
"American
Political Writing During the Founding Era by Charles S. Hyneman and Donald
S. Lutz: A Review Essay," Publius
14 (Fall 1984), 155-58.
"Law
and Revolution by Harold J. Berman: A
Review Essay," Louisiana Law Review 45 (May 1985), 1111-31.
"In
Memoriam Eric Voegelin," Southern Review 21 (April 1985), 372-75;
reprinted in Sequoia 29 (Spring, 1985), 94-96.
“Review:
Novus Ordo Seclorum: The
Intellectual Origins of the Constitution by Forrest McDonald,”
Journal of Politics 48 (Nov. 1986): 1099-1102.
"Introduction,"
to Eric Voegelin, In Search of Order, vol. 5 of Order and History
(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State
University Press, 1987), 1-12.
"The
New Face of the American Founding: A
Symposium," editor, introduction and conclusion, Social Science
Quarterly 68 (1987), 653-55; 724-44.
"The
Constitution and Civil Rights in the Founding," in To Secure the
Blessings of Liberty: First
Principles of the Constitution, vol.
I, Constitutionalism in America, ed. Sara Baumgartner Thurow (Lanham,
Md.: University Press of America,
1988), 172-88.
"Modernity's
Renaissance Origins," Review of Sacralizing the Sacred by Stephen
A. McKnight, Intercollegiate Review 24 (Spring 1989), 53-55.
"The
Invisible Veep," Review of The Body Politic by Victor Gold &
Lynne Cheney, Chronicles
of Culture, May 1989, 41.
"Hayek
and the Reductionist Fallacy," in Social Science Quarterly 71
(1990), 404-406.
"The
National Endowment for the Humanities and Political Science After 25
Years," PS: Political Science & Politics 23 (1990), 455-60.
"The Politics of Poetry," Modern Age 34 (Fall 1991),
16-23.
"The
Bill of Rights," The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World (NY:
Oxford Univ. Press, 1993; rev. 1998, 79-81.
"Medieval
Rationalism or Mystic Philosophy? Reflections
on the Correspondence Between Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin," Jewish
Political Studies Review [Jerusalem] 4 (Spring 1992), 111-32; also a
chapter in Faith and Political Philosophy, ed., trans.
& intro. Peter Emberley and Barry Cooper (University, PA: Penn State
Press, 1992), 299-321.
"Selección
de Escritos Filosófico-Políticos
de Eric Voegelin: Introduccion y Documento,"
Estudios Publicos 52 (Spring 1993), 373-431.
Centro de Estudios Publicos, Santiago, Chile.
"The
Philosophical Science of Politics," Discourse (Summer 1993), 3-9.
St. Lawrence Institute, Montreal. Reprint
with minor revisions of 1972 essay in Beyond Behavioralism, ed. Carey
and Graham.
"Prefazione"
in Eric Voegelin, Ordine e storia, vol. I, Israele e Rivelazione:
Introduzione, Mesopotamia e Egitto, a dura di Gian Franco Lami (Rome:
Memoria Edizioni, 1993), vii-xxiii.
"Bill
Corrington's Philosophical Quest," chap. in John William Corrington:
Southern Man of Letters, ed. with intro. by William Mills (Conway, Ark.:
University of Central Arkansas Press, 1994), 117-33.
"Foundations
of American Liberty and Rule of Law," Presidential Studies Quarterly
24 (Summer 1994), 605-617. The
1992 Distinguished Research Master Lecture at LSU; reprinted in Constitution
& Revolution aux États-Unis
d’Amérique
et en Europe (1776/1815),
ed. Roberto Martucci (Macerata: Laboratorio di storia costituzionale, 1995),
3-22.
"Philosophical
Foundations of Our Democratic Heritage: A Recollection," Presidential
Studies Quarterly 24 (Summer 1994), 669-73.
"Book
review: Beyond the New Right: Markets, Government and the Common
Environment by John Gray," Religion
& Liberty 4 (Sept./Oct. 1994), 10-11.
"Philosophical
and Religious Dimensions of the American Founding," The
Intercollegiate Review 30 (Spring 1995), 27-42.
"Truth
and the Experience of Epoch in History: A Voegelinian Perspective,"
Modern Age 38 (Fall 1995), 7-21.
“The
Crisis of Civic Consciousness: Nihilism and Political Science as Resistance,”
Political Science Reviewer 25 (1996), 22-42.
"Religious
Liberty and Religion In the American Founding Revisited," chap. 9, in Religious
Liberty in Western Thought, ed. Cole Durham and Noel B. Reynolds (Atlanta:
Scholars Press, 1996), 189-233..
Introduction”
to Eric Voegelin, Science, Politics and Gnosticism: Two Essays (1968;
rpt. Washington, D. C.: Regnery Pub. Co., Gateway Editions, 1997), vii-xvii.
“Voegelin’s
Philosophy of History and Human Affairs: With Particular Attention to Israel
and Revelation and Its Systematic Importance,” Canadian Journal of
Political Science, 31:1 (March 1998):61-90.
Reprinted in Voegelin’s “Israel and Revelation”:An
Interdisciplinary Debate and Anthology, ed. William M. Thompson and David
L. Morse (Milwaukee, Wis.: Marquette University Press, 2000), Chap. 3.
“The
Western Predicament–A Voegelinian Perspective on Modernity” in Politik
und Politeia: Formen und Probleme politischer Ordnung, Festgabe für
Jürgen
Gebhardt zum 65. Geburtstag, ed.
Wolfgang Leidhold (Würzburg:
Koenigshausen & Neumann Verlag, 2000), 549-61.
“Book
review: John Ehrenberg, Civil Society: the Critical History of an Idea,”
in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 8 (Fall 2001/2002),
324-27.
“Republicanism and Religion: A Conspiracy of Faith and Reason,”
Witherspoon Lecture, delivered on Capitol Hill in Washington, D. C., April
2004; revised version delivered at the University of Genoa, May, 2004,
published in Italian translation, trans. Karina Livagna, in Culture
costituzionali a confronto, ed. Fernanda Mazzanti Pepe (Genoa: NAME
Edizioni, 2005).
“The United States in the World Arena,” Modern Age 49/1
(Winter 2007), 82-85.
“The American Difference” Intercollegiate Studies Review 42/1
(Spring 2007), --
“Religion and Politics in the American Founding,” Regent
University Law Review (delivered
April 13, 2007): 20:1 (2007-2008): 17-30
“Republicanism and Religion: Some Contextual Considerations,” Regent
University Law Review 20:1 (2007-2008): 57-100 (reprint from 2006 book).
Papers recently published in translation:
Korean: “The United States Seen in 2006: Can She Assume the
Cost?” Freedom Review (Jayu Gongnon), May 2006, pp. 60-65; “Freeman,
Free Government, nd Its Philosophical Discourse: The Spirit of Freedom in
America, Part 1,” Freedom Review (Jayu Gongnon), (April 2008), ppp.
75-79; “Liberty and Freedom in America: The Foundation of the Nation and Its
Ambition, Part 2,” Freedom Review (Jayu Gong Gognon), May 2008, pp.
85-89.
Chinese: “The 2008 US Presidential Election,” Global
Entrepreneur (Beijing, [Sept.] 2008 issue 19), No. 166, p. 55; “The
American Difference,” www.tianya.cn;
author’s profile: Ellis Sandoz, http://cache.tianya.cn/publicforum/content/no01/1/302936.shtml;
“Introduction to Eric Voegelin, Autobiographical Reflections: Voegelin
as a Teacher,” http://www.zhongguosixiang.com;
also at http://www.zhongguosixiang.com/thread-3956-1-1.html
“The Philosopher’s Vocation: The Voegelinian Paradigm” Review
of Politics 71:1 (Feb. 2009): 1-14.
3.
Papers presented at Professional Meetings and Activities, Conferences.
Note:
I have not kept all the titles since I attended my first APSA meeting in 1960;
records happily incomplete!
On program of American Political Science Association (APSA)
Annual Meetings, 1962, 1963, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1983,
1984, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2006.
2007, 2008.
Eric Voegelin Society program convener and participant every
year since 1985, in conjunction with APSA meetings.
The 22nd annual international meeting of the Eric Voegelin
Society was held in Philadelphia, Aug. 30- Sept.3, 2006: 10 panels, ca. 60
participants and audience of 300. 23rd international
meeting with 10 panels in
Chicago, Aug. 30-Sept. 1, 2007; similarly in Boston, 2008; 25th
annual meeting to beheld
in Toronto with 13 panels, 2009
On
program of Southern Political Science Association, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1973,
1974, 1977, 1981, 1984.
On
program of Southwestern Political Science Association, 1969, 1970, 1973, 1974,
1975, 1976, 1982, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1996.
On program of American Historical Association, New York City,1990: “The
Meaning of the Bill of Rights.”
Paper,
Danforth Foundation Seminar on Order and Chaos, at Emory University, Atlanta,
Georgia (April, 1967).
Panelist,
Voegelin Symposium, University of Notre Dame, (April, 1971).
"Dostoevsky
and Political Theory," a paper presented to Annual Meeting of the
Philadelphia Society in Chicago (April, 1972).
Member,
Program Committee, APSA (1970-1971).
Member,
Executive Council, SWPSA (1970-1972).
Vice-President
and Program Chairman, SWPSA (1972-1973); President-elect, SWPSA (1973-1974);
President (1974-1975).
Rutgers,
the State University of New Jersey: Conference
on Politics and Literature. Delivered
paper, "Dostoevsky's Politics," April 1, 1977.
Member,
Council, American Political Science Association (1977-79).
Florida
State University, Conference on Ideas of Order in Literature & Film
(January, 1979), panelist.
Georgetown
University Conference on Christianity and Politics (delivered paper), April,
1980.
Member,
Executive Council, Southern Political Science Association (1982-1985).
Principal
lecturer in "Seminar on Democratic Theory," Pontifical Catholic
University, Santiago, Chile, May 1-5, 1983.
Liberty
Fund Conferences:
participant in Indianapolis (1982), Williamsburg (1983), San José,
Costa Rica (1985),* Boston (1982,1985), Mount Vernon (1986), Houston (1986),
Philadelphia (1987),* New Orleans (1987),* Houston (1988), Chicago (1988),
Windsor Castle, England (1988),* Indianapolis (1988), Dallas (1989), New
Orleans (1989),* Charleston (1989), Newport Beach, Calif. (1990), Houston
(1990), Houston (1990)*, Santa Fe (1991), Richmond (1991), Grand Rapids
(1991), Minneapolis (1991), Indianapolis (1991), Indianapolis (1991).
Subsequent to 1991 not listed. *
= organized and directed conference.
Note: I have participated in ca. 85 LF conferences [22 as director]
to date, listing available on request, most recently co-directing “Political
Liberty in Islamic Thought” (Savannah, June 2002), and directing “Liberty
in George Santayana’s Dominations and Powers” (Houston, Aug. 2002);
directing “Jean Bodin, Toleration, and Religious Liberty” (Kananaskis,
Alberta, June 2004); directing, “The Great Awakening, Religion, and the Rise
of American Liberty,” (Savannah, Nov. 2005).
Participation in other conferences is ongoing: see selected listings
below.
Elected
vice-president and president-elect of the Southwestern Social Science
Association in March, 1985; president in 1987-1988.
Read
paper entitled "The Constitution and Civil Rights in the Founding"
at Constitutionalism in America Conference, University of Dallas, Oct. 19,
1985. Subsequently published.
Organized
The Eric Voegelin Society and was elected its secretary at the
inaugural meeting in August 1985, details under APSA participation.
Participant
& presenter, Claremont Institute Bicentennial Conference, "Novus
Ordo Seclorum," Feb. 20-22, 1986, Claremont California.
Panelist
& presenter, Mont Pelerin Society Regional Meeting, (Sept. 1987),
Indianapolis
Panelist
& presenter, University of
Texas School of Law's national conference on academic freedom, Austin (Oct.
1987)
Conference
Director & participant, "The Significance of Eric Voegelin for the
Modern Mind," Liberty Fund Symposium, New Orleans
(Oct. 1987)
Conference
Director and participant, "Magna Carta and Ancient Constitution:
Medieval & Renaissance Roots of American Liberty," Liberty Fund
Symposium, Windsor Castle, England (June 1988)
Lecturer,
the U.S. Constitution, Leadership Center of the Americas (Jan. 1989)
Conference
Director, "Liberty, Modernity, and Order:
Eric Voegelin's New Science of Politics," Liberty Fund
Colloquium, New Orleans (May 25-28, 1989)
Panelist
& presenter, "The Ambiguous Legacy of the Enlightenment,"
Claremont Institute, California, Jan. 25-27, 1990
Conference
Director, "Human Nature as Revealed in the Poetry and Music of the Psalms,"
Liberty Fund Colloquium, Houston, TX, (June
14-17, 1990)
"Bill
of Rights: Original Understanding and Current Application,"
Roundtable Comments presented to the American Historical Association
Annual Meeting, New York City,
Dec. 1990.
Conference
Director: "Anglo-American Liberty, Constitutionalism & Free
Government:A Workshop on The Federalist Papers," conducted by the
Eric Voegelin Institute under contract to the United States Information Agency
(USIA) at Chudobin Castle, Moravia, CSFR, and hosted by Palacky University
Olomouc, May 29-June 1, 1991.
Participant
& presenter, Conference on Prospects for Democracy in Eastern Europe,
University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, June 9-12, 1991.
Lecture,
“Bicentennial of the Bill of Rights,” auspices of Commission on the
Bicentennial of the Constitution, Southwest Texas State University, San
Marcos, June 27, 1991.
Paper,
"Reflections on Liberty & Rule of Law in Czechoslovakia and in Other
Countries of Central & Eastern Europe," America's Bill of Rights
After 200 years, jointly sponsored by the Center for the Study of the
Presidency & the Organization of American Historians, Richmond, Nov. 1-3,
1991.
Conference
Director: "Anglo-American Liberty, Constitutionalism, & Free
Government: John Locke and the Foundations of Modern Democracy," Eric
Voegelin Inst. & Jan Hus Foundation, Palacky U., Olomouc, Czech., July
1-4, 1992.
Conference
Director: "Anglo-American Liberty, Constitutionalism & Free
Government: A Workshop on The Federalist Papers," Eric Voegelin
Inst., Jagiellonian Foundation & Kosziusko Foundation, Jagiellonian U.,
Krakow, Poland, July 7-10, 1992.
"Foundations
of American Constitutionalism," lecture and Workshop conducted at
Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas, Oct. 16, 1992.
"Foundations
of the American Political System as Viewed in an Interdependent World,"
remarks delivered at the Center for the Study of the Presidency, 23rd Annual
Leadership Conference, New York City, Oct. 25, 1992.
"The
Future of Liberal Democracy." Paper
presented at 1993 APSA meeting, Washington, D. C., Sept. 1993.
"Philosophical
Foundations of American Democracy." Paper,
Annual Leadership Conference, Center for the Study of the Presidency,
Indianapolis, Oct., 1993.
"Religion
and the Constitution." Lecture
and workshop for secondary school teachers and others, organized by Boston
University's National Center for America's Founding Documents, conducted in
Waco, Texas, Nov. 1993.
“Do
We Have a Constitution?” panelist & presenter, Philadelphia Society
spring meeting, Chicago, April 1996.
“Voegelin’s
Philosophy of History and Human Affairs,” paper presented at the APSA &
12th Annual Eric Voegelin Society Meeting, San Francisco, Aug. 1996.
“The
Western Predicament: A Voegelinian Report on the 21st Century,”
Philadelphia Society spring meeting, Philadelphia,
April, 1999
“The
United States in the World Arena 2006.”
Philadelphia Society national meeting, Philadelphia, April 2006
“So
What’s the Difference? The
English Constitution and the American Revolution.”
Philadelphia Society’s regional meeting.
Pittsburgh, PA, Oct. 2006
“The
Philosopher’s Vocation: The Voegelinian Pradigm,” APSA, Chicago, Eric
Voegelin Society (forthcoming in Review of Politics [special issue],
71:1 ( Feb. 2009): 1-14.
4.
Awards, Prizes & Lectureships.
Germanistic Society of America Fellow, 1964-1965.
Listed
in Who's Who in the South and Southwest (22nd ed.); Outstanding
Educators of America; Dictionary of International Biography; Personalities
of the South; Contemporary Authors; Two Thousand Men of
Achievement - 1972 (London); American Men & Women of Science
(11th, 12th, & 13th eds.); The International Authors and Writers Who's
Who (12th Ed.)--and thereafter; Who’s Who In America (2006
edition), Who’s Whno in the World (2008)
H.B.
Earhart Fellow, 1964-1965.
Fulbright
Scholar (Germany) 1964-1965.
Fulbright
Achievement Certificate Award, 1965.
Sponsor
in Fellowship Programs of the Relm and Earhart Foundations of Ann Arbor,
Michigan (1966- ).
Board
of Directors, Louisiana Partners of the Alliance (1966-1968).
Member,
Louisiana Committee on State Fulbright Scholarships (1967-1968).
Partners
of the Alliance Appreciation Certificate, USAID, Department of State, 1970.
Visiting
Scholar, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace (Summers, 1970 and
1973).
Member,
Woodrow Wilson Book Award Committee, APSA (1973-74).
National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Grant, 1976-78; Study of the
Political Theory of Eric Voegelin.
Member,
APSA Leo Strauss Award Committee (1979-80).
Member,
Committee on the Future of the Southern Political Science Association
(1979-81).
Member,
National Council on the Humanities:
appointed by President Ronald W. Reagan on May 19, confirmed by the
U.S. Senate, sworn in on July 29, 1982, for a term of office that expired in
December 1988.
Lecturer,
John Carter Brown Library's 44th Annual Meeting,
"Reflections on the American Founding:
The Religious Dimension," Brown University, Providence, R. I., May
1, 1987
Fellow,
Henry E. Huntington Library (1986-87), San Marino, California.
Fulbright
40th Anniversary Distinguished American Scholar,
Board of Foreign Scholarships & USIA; lectured throughout Italy (Naples,
Palermo, Messina, Trieste, Milan, Bologna, Rome) on U.S. Constitution as part
of Bicentennial celebration, May 1987.
Chair
and consultant, Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program, Social Sciences Com., U.S.
Dept. of Education; Member, National Interdisciplinary Committee, Washington,
D. C. (final selection: April
1988)
Member of Advisory Board, Foundation for Faith in Search of
Understanding (1987- )
Consultant
to the University of Virginia regarding the program in political theory in the
Woodrow Wilson Department of Government & Foreign Affairs (Dec. 1988)
Address:
"Eric Voegelin's Significance for the Modern Mind," Federal
Parliament, National Assembly of
Czechoslovakia (CSFR), Prague, Czech., May
28, 1991.
Principal
Lecture: "Truth and the Experience of Epoch in History," Prague
Colloquium on Political Philosophy, East West Security Studies Institute (NYC)
& Center for Theoretical Studies, Charles University, Prague, Czech.,
Sept. 25-27, 1992. (Published in
1995 in Modern Age.)
"Eric
Voegelin's Philosophy: Rethinking the Renaissance."
Invited Lecture at St.Lawrence Institute & McGill U., Montreal,
Quebec, Canada, Feb. 1993.
LSU’s
1992-93 Distinguished Research Master Award & University Gold Medal,
March 1993
"Foundations
of American Liberty and Constitutionalism."
Invited lecture and conference keynote, Univ. of Macerata, Macerta,
Italy, March 1993. Revised version
repeated as LSU's 1992-93 Distinguished Research Master Lecture.
(Published by Presidential Studies Quarterly ([Summer 1994]).
"Religious
Dimensions of the American Founding."
Invited lecture and seminar at the Institute of World Politics,
Washington, D. C., June 1993.
"Fundamentals
of American Constitutionalism and Modern Democracy."
Two invited lectures and a seminar, University of Calgary, Calgary,
Alberta, Canada, Sept./Oct. 1993.
"Eric
Voegelin's Philosophy of History and Consciousness."
Invited lecture, a seminar, and a public lecture, Saint Thomas More
College, Merrimack, New Hampshire, Oct. 1993.
"Philosophical Foundations of American Liberty and
Constitutionalism: The Federalists."
Invited
lectures and seminars, sponsored by the Jan Hus Educational Foundation and by
Civic Institute, in Prague and Brno (Czech Republic) and in Bratislava,
Slovakia, Dec. 1993.
"The Declaration of Independence and America's Medieval
Constitutional Heritage." Invited lectures and seminars conducted at
Catholic University of America (Washington, D. C.) and Loyola College of
Maryland (Baltimore), Feb. 1994.
"Religion and Politics in America."
Invited lecture and seminar for Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
at Southeastern Louisiana University, March
1994.
“Education
and the American Founding: Religion, Classics, and Law,” invited lecture at
Heritage Foundation, Leadership Conference, Washington, D. C.,
March 1995
“Anglo-American
Constitutionalism and the Crisis of Civic Consciousness,” invited lectures
delivered at U. of Portland, U. of Washington in Seattle, Western Washington
State U. (Bellingham), April 1995.
University
Gold Metal & Rector’s Certificate, Palacky University Olomouc, Czech
Republic, June 1993
Doctor
of Philosophy honoris causa,
honoraray degree awarded by Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic,
May 17, 1995
“Constitutionalism
and Human Nature,” invited lecture at University of Alberta, Edmonton, Sept.
1995.
“Eric
Voegelin and the Nature of Modernity,” Seminar & Lecture Series,
Norwegian Research Council & University of Oslo, Oslo and Trondheim,
Norway, Oct. 1995.
“Covenant
and the Crisis of Community,” invited consultation, Theological Faculty,
University of Tübingen,
Germany (Oct. 1995)
“Origins
of Constitutionalism” and “Gnosticism and the Nature of Modernity,”
invited lectures at the U. S. Coast Guard Academy and at Connecticut College,
New London, CT, March 1996
“Religious
Aspects of the American Founding” and “Eric Voegelin: Biography and
Philosophy,” invited lectures at the University of Tulsa and University of
Oklahoma, April 1996.
Phi
Beta Kappa: initiated as the first alumnus member of the LSU Chapter, April
28, 1996
“Foundations of Liberty and Rule of Law,” invited 3-lecture series
at Intercollegiate Studies Institute annual Leadership Conference, Indiana
University, Aug. 1996.
“Elements of Anglo-American Constitutionalism,” Symposium and
Inaugural Lecture, John M. Olin Distinguished Lecture Series in
Constitutionalism, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Sept. 1996.
“The Common Sense Enlightenment and the American Founding,” 18th
Century Society of Canada, University of Saskatchewan, October, 1998.
President, the Philadelphia Society, elected in Chicago at the national
meeting in April 2000.
Invited Lectures: “Education of the American Founding Fathers” and
“Religious Liberty under the Constitution,” Hillsdale College, Hillsdale,
Mich., March 2001.
Invited Lectures: “Education and the American Founding” and “Terrorism
and the Use of the U. S. Military in Domestic Law Enforcement: The Posse
Comitatus Act of 1878" Southwest Texas State University, San Marcos,
April 2002
Invited Lectures: “The Free Man and Free Government in Political
Philosophy,” Earhart Foundation fellows conference (Savannah, Feb. 2008);
Alpheus T. Mason Lecture on
Constitutionalism, James Madison Center, Princeton University (April 2008):
“Free Man and Free Government in Political Philosophy.”
5.
Contributions to Refereed Publications.
Member, Board of
Editors, The Political Science Reviewer (1970-).
Member, Editorial
Board, Modern Age (1971-).
Member, Board of
Editors, Journal of Politics (1975-1995).
Consultant, Fellowship
Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities (1977-80).
Member, Editorial
Board, Interpretation (1980-).
Member, Editorial Board, This World (1981-1990).
Member, Editorial Board, Social Science Quarterly (1986-1993).
Editorial
Board and a general editor, The Collected Works of Eric Voegelin,
34 vols., 1988-2009: details under publications.
Manuscript referee for a number of university presses, including LSU, Missouri, Kansas, Illinois, Southern Illinois, Notre Dame, Catholic UP, and Liberty Fund Press; article referee for all of the above periodicals plus The American Political Science Review, Review of Politics, Southeastern Political Journal, New England Journal of Political Science, William and Mary Quarterly, etc. Rev’d 2/2009