Dr. Laurie M. Bagby 1409 Westwind Drive
Department of Political Science Manhattan, KS 66503
Kansas State University (913) 776-0235
Manhattan, KS 66502
(913) 532-0441
Education:
Ph.D., Northern Illinois University, Political Science, May,
1990
M.A., Northern Illinois University, Political Science, May, 1987
B.A., Northern Illinois University, Journalism, May, 1985
A.A., Black Hawk College, Journalism, May, 1983
Areas of Concentration:
Political Philosophy, International Relations, Philosophy and International Relations Theory
Dissertation: Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism.
Professional Experience:
Interim Director, Master of Arts/ M.A. with International Service Certificate, Department of Political Science, Kansas State University, 2004-2005.
Director, Certificate in the Study of Arts and Sciences Through Primary Texts, Fall 2001- This is a college wide program at Kansas State University.
Associate Professor, Kansas State University, Spring 1996- (Political Philosophy)
Assistant Professor, Kansas State University, Fall 1991-Spring 1996.
Assistant Professor, Radford University, August 1990-July 1991 (American Government and Political Philosophy)
Teaching Assistant, Northern Illinois University, 1989-90 (Taught American Foreign Policy and Problemsin International Relations)
Teaching Assistant, Northern Illinois University, 1987-88 (Taught Problems in International Relations)
Graduate Assistant, Northern Illinois University, 1986-1987 (Research)
Intern, Illinois State Archives, NIU Regional Depository, 1985-86
Publications
Books:
Thomas Hobbes: Turning Point for Honor, under contract with Lextington Books, a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield, 2008 or 2009.
Hobbes's Leviathan, London: Continuum International Publishing, 2007.
Political Thought: A Guide to the Classics, Wadsworth/International Thompson Publishing Company, 2002. This is a single authored text, thoroughly and anonymously peer reviewed for historical and theoretical content and analysis as well as composition. It contains extensive original analysis of the featured texts.
Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1993.
Book Chapters:
"Democracy and Empire: The Case of Athens." Forthcoming chapter in a book entitled Reflections on Empire: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics, edited by David Tabachnick, University of Toronto Press. Book has been accepted by the press, but chapters will be sent out for external peer review. Publication is slated for 2008.
“Hobbesian Realism–An Answer to the ‘Dogmatici’," in The Realist Tradition and Contemporary International Relations, ed. David Clinton, Louisiana State University Press, 2007, pp. 96-116.
“Fathers of International Relations? Thucydides as a Model for the Twenty-First Century,” in Thucydides’ Theory of International Relations: A Lasting Possession, Edited by Lowell S. Gustafson, Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2000.
"Thucydidean Realism: Between Athens and Melos," in
Benjamin Frankel, ed., Roots of Realism: Philosophical and Historical
Dimensions, London: Frank Cass, 1996. This is one volume of a two volume
set, including essays by authors distinguished in the fields of political
thought and international relations.
Articles:
"The American Founding, American Government Textbooks, and Civic Education,” with Jim Franke, Journal of Political Science Education, Vol. 1, No. 2 (May/August) 2005, pp. 249-271.
'Mathematici’ v. ‘Dogmatici’: Understanding the Realist Project Through Hobbes.” Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Spring 2002), pp. 281-297.
“Escape From Politics: Philosophic Foundations of Public Administration,” Management Decision, Fall, 2001. Co-authored with Prof. Jim Franke.
“Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations: A Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium,” Ethics and International Affairs: Report from the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Spring 1998, pp. 3-5, 14.
“The Fiftieth Anniversary of Hans Morgenthau’s Politics
Among Nations:
Rediscovering the Father of Realism,” Carnegie Council’s Ethics
and International Affairs Newsletter, Summer, 1998.
"Socrates' 'True Orator': Free Speech in Plato's Gorgias," Proteus: A Journal of Ideas--"Freedom of Expression," (Fall 1997), pp. 25-27.
"Thucydidean Realism: Between Athens and Melos," Security Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Winter 1995-96).
"The Question of Jung and Racism Reconsidered," The
Psychohistory Review, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Spring
1995), pp. 283-298.
"The Psychology of Religion, Ideology, and State Power,"
History of European Ideas, Vol. 20, Nos. 1-2,
pp. 511-516, 1995.
"The Use and Abuse of Thucydides in International Relations," International Organization, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Winter 1994), pp. 131-153.
"Carl Jung's Answer to Modern Man," a long analytical essay on Jung's understanding of ideology and religion, in The Political Science Reviewer, Vol. 22, (Spring 1993), pp. 327-369.
"Operation Desert Storm and the Just War Debate,"
Vera Lex, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 1991),
pp. 22-23.
"Rethinking the Diodotean Argument," Interpretation:
a Journal of Political Philosophy, Vol. 18, No. 1
(Fall 1990), pp. 53-62.
Book Reviews and Bibliographic Entries:
Review of Stefano Bolognini's Like Wind, Like Wave: Fables from the Land of the Repressed, trans. Malcolm Garfield, in The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, Vol. 13, No. 1, forthcoming 2008.
Review of Carolyn Dewald's "Thucydides' War Narrative: A Structural Study (Berkely, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press, 2005), forthcoming in The Review of Politics, 2007.
“Thomas Hobbes,” in Dictionary of British Classicists 1500-1960, Thoemmes Press, London, 2004.
“Taming Rabid Masculinity,” a review of Michael
S. Kochin’s book, Gender and Rhetoric in Plato’s Political Thought.
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), in The Review of Politics,
Summer, 2003, pp. 464-466.
"The Rhetorical Voice of Psychoanalysis," a book review for The
European Legacy, (October 2000).
“Defense of a Life Worth Living,” a review of Pangle
and Ahrensdorf’s Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power
and Peace, featured on the journal cover in The Review of Politics,
Vol. 62, No. 3, (Spring 2000), pp. 636-640.
“The Constricted Vision,” a review of Gregory Crane’s Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity, University of California Press, 1998. Published in The Review of Politics, Vol. 61, No. 2 (Spring, 1999), pp. 365-367.
“History Through Art,” a book review of Herodotus and the Origins of the Political Community: Arion's Leap." Published in The Review of Politics, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 937-939.
“Psychoanalysis and Gender: An Introductory Reader by Rosalind Minsky,” in The European Legacy, (October 1997).
"Balance of Power," in Marsha and Linda Frey, eds.,
A Dictionary of the Treaties of the War of the
Spanish Succession, 1702-1714. Westport, CT: Greenwood Praeger, 1995.
"The Humanity of a True Realist," a review of Clifford Orwin's The Humanity of Thucydides, Princeton University Press, 1994, appeared in the Review of Politics, Vol. 57, No. 2, Spring 1995: 342-344.
"Montaigne's Political Philosophy," a book review
for Vera Lex, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Winter/Spring 1992),
pp. 31-33.
Work in Progress:
I am currently working on a book, Thomas Hobbes: Turning Point for Honor, to be published by Lexington Books, a subsidiary of Rowman & Littlefield.
"Hobbes and Honor Reconsidered," currently under review at The Review of Politics.
Presentations and Panels:
"Thomas Hobbes and Honor," to be presented at the Southwest Political Science Association's annual meeting, March 12-15, 2008, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
"K-State's Primary Texts Certificate and Online Delivery With Core Texts," presented to the Association of Core Texts and Courses annual meeting, Holiday Inn, Merchandise Mart, Chicago, April 8, 2006.
"The Bill of Rights: The Origins of Natural Law," and "The Federalists, Anti-Federalists, and the Bill of Rights," two one-hour presentations to high school teachers (in-service), K-State Student Union, auspices of The Bill of Rights Institute, October 26, 2005.
"Hobbes's Universal Man and Gentleman," presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 2, 2005.
Co-Author with Jim Franke, “The American Founding, American Government Textbooks, and Civic Education,” for the 2004 Conference on Civic Education Research, Reno Hilton Hotel, Reno Nevada, September 26-28, 2004.
Chair and discussant, “Why Community is Important,” for the 10th annual meeting of the Association for Core Texts and Courses, April 18, 2004, Irving, TX.
Roundtable participant at weekend colloquium, “Empire, Democracy and Liberty in Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War,” October 2-5, 2003, Lone Mountain Guest Ranch, Big Sky, Montana. Leading Scholar: Michael Zuckert, Political Thought, Notre Dame.
Chair, discussant and presenter for panel, “Women and Justice in Modern Political Thought,” Southwest Political Science Association annual meeting, April 16-20, San Antonio, TX.
Presented paper, “Burke on Women and Chivalry”for panel, “Women and Justice in Modern Political Thought,” Southwest Political Science Association annual meeting, April 16-20, San Antonio, TX.
Roundtable participant at weekend colloquium, “Republican Liberty in Machiavelli’s Discourses,” San Antonio, TX, February 14-17, 2002. Liberty Fund. Leading Scholars: Prof. Nathan Tarcov, Political Thought, University of Chicago, Prof. Michael Zuckert, Political Thought, Notre Dame.
Roundtable participant at two week long colloquium, “Shakespeare and Hume: English Liberty in the Cradle,” Big Sky, Montana, July 17-August 2, 2001. Liberty Fund. Leading scholars: Prof. John Danford, Dept. of Political Science, Loyola University, Prof. John Alvis, Dept. of English, University of Dallas, Prof. David Womersley, Jesus College, Oxford University, and Prof. Paul Cantor, Dept. of English, U. Virginia.
Chair and Discussant, “Christianity and Liberalism,” a panel for the Southwestern Political Science Association Annual meeting in March, 2001.
“Liberalism’s New Religion: A Critique of Communitarianism,”
was presented at the Southwest Political
Science Association meeting in San Antonio, April, 1999.
Roundtable participant at two day-long sessions of the Carnegie Council’s Fiftieth Anniversary Symposium of Hans Morgenthau’s Politics Among Nations, New York, March 26 and 27, 1998.
"Hobbes and the Modern Politicization of Religion" was presented at the Southwest Political Science Association meeting in New Orleans, March, 1997.
"Hobbes' Law of Nations," was presented at the meeting
of the International Studies Association,
San Diego, April 19.
Discussant on a panel on Theory and International Relations
at the meeting of the International Studies
Association, San Diego, April 19.
"Fathers of International Relations? Thucydides as a Model
for the Twenty-First Century," presented
at the annual International Studies Association conference in Chicago, February
25, 1995.
Discussant on a panel entitled "Thucydides as Anti-Realist,"
at the annual International Studies
Association conference in Chicago, February 24, 1995.
Invitation to present on Thucydides and the theory of realism
at the Miller Center, University of Virginia,
October, 1994. Declined due to lack of funding.
"Jung's Nietzsche: Rediscovering the Soul," presented
at the Southwestern Social Science Association's
annual meeting in San Antonio, April 2, 1994.
Served as discussant for a panel on Hans Morgenthau and realism
in international relations at the Midwest
Political Science Association's annual meeting in Chicago, April 16, 1994.
"Jung's Nietzsche" presented at the Southwest Political
Science Association annual meeting, March
30-April 2, 1994.
Chair and discussant for panel on "International Relations
Theory" at the Northeast Political Science
Association annual meeting, Newark, New Jersey, November 11, 1993.
Jung's Theory and Charges of Anti-Semitism," presented
at the Northeast Political Science Association
annual meeting, Newark, New Jersey, November 13, 1993.
"The Psychology of Religion, Ideology, and State Power,"
at the Third International Conference of
the International Society for the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), 24-29 August
1992, in Aalborg, Denmark.
Discussant for a panel on ancient political thought at the Midwest
Political Science Association Annual
Convention, Chicago, April 10, 1992.
Discussant for a panel on Graduate Studies in Political Science
at the Midwest Political Science Students'
Convention, Washburn University, Topeka KS, March 28, 1992.
"The Role of Hubris in Thucydides' History," a paper
presented for the panel "Politics and Human
Nature: the View from Antiquity," at the Midwest Political Science Association
Annual Convention, Chicago, April 18, 1991.
Curricular Initiatives
I and the Primary Texts Certificate Advisory Committee prepared a proposal for a new interdisciplinary and team-taught course which would serve as a core course for the Primary Texts program. We presented this proposal to Dr. Glenn Swogger for his consideration. After receiving a pledge from Glenn and Claire Swogger to donate $11,000 per year to the newly established Swogger Fund for the Primary Texts Certificate, I and the Advisory Committee drafted a course proposal and curricular change, which would establish the new course under a DAS designation and would change the Primary Texts Certificate requirements to include this new course.
Chair of Steering Committee for proposing a Certificate in the Study of Arts and Sciences Through Primary Texts, Spring 2000–current. Formed committee which generated proposal. Extensive outreach to departments in the College of Arts and Sciences and to individual professors interested in participating in the program, which was approved by the Faculty Senate in April 2001. I was named director of the program in the Fall of 2001.
Current University Committees/Service
Chair, Primary Texts Certificate Committee
Member, KSU Rhodes Scholarship Committee
Member, KSU Marshall Scholarship Committee
Member, General Grievance Board
Member, O'Bannon Scholarship Committee
Member, Phi Kappa Phi Graduate/Internship/Study Abroad Committee
Chair, Faculty Evaluation Committee
Previous University Service:
Nominator, Conoco Graduate Faculty Award and University Distinguished
Professor. (Dale Herspring)
Member, Gender Equity Subcommittee, 2000-2001.
Member, KSU Distinguished Lecturers Committee, 2000-2001
Nominator, Conoco Graduate Faculty Award. (Dr. Marsha Frey, received, 2000)
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Course and Curriculum Committee, two
terms prior to 2000.
Fellowships, Grants and Awards
Gift of $11,000 and pledge of annual gift of $11,000 to support a newly established interdisciplinary and team-taught course for the Primary Texts Certificate program, 2007.
Nominated by Commissioner Gail Heriot for membership on the Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 2007. Nomination pending.
Grant to improve graduate program's website, K-State Graduate School, $750, Fall, 2005.
Partner in FIPSE “Teaching American History Grant,” for 1 million dollars to implement a curriculum in Kansas City public schools. Ken Holland, principle investigator.
Honorary Member, Golden Key, initiated Spring 2001.
Grant, Earhart Foundation, $16,958, for start up of the Certificate in the Study of Arts and Sciences Through Primary Texts, Spring, 2001.
Member, Phi Kappa Phi, Spring 2000.
William L. Stamey Undergraduate Teaching Award, University-wide, KSU, May 2000.
Salvatori Fellow, 1994-1996, including monetary support for attending ten-day colloquium on the Founding in June, 1994, and for attending a national leadership conference in 1995.
William L. Stamey Undergraduate Teaching Award, University-wide, KSU, May 1994.
Outstanding Faculty Member Award, KSU Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils, 1994.
Nominated for the Conoco Outstanding Teaching Award, KSU, May 1994.
William L. Stamey Undergraduate Teaching Award, KSU, May 1993.
University Sponsored Research Grant, for "Studies in the Political Thought of C.G. Jung." Funds to purchase Jung's Collected Works. Received full funding.
Nominated for the Conoco Outstanding Teaching Award, May 1993. Nominated by students.
Institute for Social and Behavioral Research Fellowship, for the preparation of a grant proposal, KSU, summer of 1993.
Faculty Development Award, funding for delivery of paper (above) on C.G. Jung, Aalborg, Denmark, August 25, 1992.
Choice Outstanding Academic Title: Thucydides, Hobbes, and the Interpretation of Realism.
Grant, H.B. Earhart Foundation, to support research on Jung's treatment of religion and ideology, Summer 1992.
Gerald Maryanov Fellow, upon graduation, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University, May, 1990.
Fellowship, H.B. Earhart Foundation, to support one year of dissertation research, 1988-89.
Grant, from the Atlantic Council of the United States for visit
to NATO headquarters, Brussels, and participation in Italian International
NATO Seminar, May 1988, Latina, Italy.
Memberships
American Political Science Association.
Association of Core Texts and Courses (ACTC).
Center for the Study of Great Ideas.
Society for Greek Political Thought
Member, Kansas Advisory Council, The Bill of Rights Institute.