Liberalism
Moral and Legal Status of Children
Civic Education
Educational Theory and Policy
Public Service and Policy

• School of Education
• Ethics in Society Program
• Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity
• Center for Social Innovation in the Graduate School of Business

• 2008 Phi Beta Kappa 2008 Undergraduate Teaching Award
• 2006-08 Stanford University UPS Endowment Award of $39,000 for project on “Equality or Adequacy in Education?”
• 2004-05 Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
• 2004-05 Visiting Fellowship offered at the Center on Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University (declined).
• 2002-2006  Selected for participation in the Young Faculty Leadership Forum, Harvard University, organized by Prof. Richard Light, JFK School.
• 2002-2004 National Academy of Education/Spencer Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow.
• 2001-2002 Stanford Humanities Center Faculty Fellowship.
• 2001 The Walter J. Gores Award. Stanford University's highest award for teaching.
• 1999 - 2000 The Associated Students of Stanford University Distinguished Teaching Award.
• 2000 Visiting Fellow at the International Center for Jefferson Studies, Charlottesville, VA.
• 1997 - 1998 The Gerald J. Lieberman Fellowship, one of nine fellowships awarded by Stanford University "in broad array of disciplines across all sevel of Stanford's Schools, designed to support the next generation of academic leaders."

Books

Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in Education, University of Chicago Press, 2002.

• Reviewed to date in New York Times, Perspectives on Politics, Ethics, Political
  Theory, Philosophy in Review, Theory and Research in Education, Journal of Philosophy
  of Education, Contemporary Sociology, Educational Policy, Times Educational
  Supplement.

Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can
Do About It, Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

• Authors: Stephen Macedo, Yvette Alex-Assensoh, Jeffrey M. Berry, Michael Brintnall,
  David E. Campbell, Luis Ricardo Fraga, William A. Galston, Christopher F. Karpowitz,
  Margaret Levi, Meira Levinson, Keena Lipsitz, Richard G. Niemi, Robert D. Putnam,
  Wendy M. Rahn, Rob Reich, Robert R. Rodgers, Todd Swanstrom, and Katherine
  Cramer Walsh
• Final report of the Standing Committee on Civic Education and Engagement of
  the American Political Science Association, of which I was a member between
  2002 and 2005. I contributed substantially to chapter 1, “Toward a Political
  Science of Citizenship” and chapter 4, “Associational Life and the Nonprofit and
  Philanthropic Sector.”

Toward a Humanist Justice: The Political Philosophy of Susan Moller Okin, Oxford
University Press, 2008.

• I co-edited (with Debra Satz) this volume of essays on the work of Susan Moller
  Okin. I am co-author of the introductory chapter on Okin’s work and the nature
  of the volume. Contributors: Nancy Rosenblum, Joshua Cohen, Elizabeth
  Wingrove, John Tomasi, David Miller, Molly Lynn Shanley, Cass Sunstein,
  Ayelet Shachar, Allison Jaggar, Chandran Kukathas, Robert Keohane, and Iris
  Marion Young.

Articles in Refereed Journals and Books

• “The Relationship Between Autonomy and Having Choices” Revise and resubmit at
  Journal of Political Philosophy. [30 pages]
• “The State’s Obligation to Provide Education: Adequate Education or Equal
  Education?” under review. [41 pages]
• “How and Why to Support Common Schooling and Educational Choice at the Same
  Time,” Journal of Philosophy of Education Vol. XX (4) 2007.
  “On Regulating Homeschooling: A Reply to Glanzer,” Educational Theory, Vol. 58 (1)
  2008.
• “Common Schooling and Educational Choice as a Response to Pluralism,” lead essay in
  School Choice Policies and Outcomes: Philosophical and Empirical Perspectives on Limits to
  Choice in Liberal Democracies, Walter Feinberg and Christopher Lubienski, eds. (Albany,
  NY: SUNY Press, 2008). [31 pages]
• “When Adequate Isn’t: The Retreat From Equity in Educational Law and Policy and
  Why it Matters”, with William S. Koski. Emory Law Review, Vol. 56, No. 3, 2006.
• “Philanthropy and its Uneasy Relation to Equality,” in Taking Philanthropy Seriously:
  Beyond Noble Intentions to Responsible Giving, William Damon and Susan Verducci, eds.
  (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006): 33-49.
• “A Failure of Philanthropy: American Charity Shortchanges the Poor, and Public Policy
  is Partly to Blame,” Stanford Social Innovation Review, Winter 2005: 24-33.
• “Minors Within Minorities: A Problem for Liberal Multiculturalists”, in Minorities
  Within Minorities: Equality, Rights, and Diversity, Jeff Spinner-Halev and Avigail
  Eisenberg, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2005: 209-26.
• "A Liberal Democratic Approach to Language Justice," co-author with David Laitin, in
  Political Theory and Language Justice, Will Kymlicka and Alan Patten, eds., Oxford
  University Press, 2003: 80-104.
• "Multicultural Accommodations in Education," in Education and Citizenship in Liberal-
  Democratic Societies: Teaching for Cosmopolitan Values and Collective Identities, Walter
  Feinberg and Kevin McDonough, eds., Oxford University Press, 2003: 299-324.
• "Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority Over Education: The Case of
  Homeschooling," Political and Moral Education, NOMOS XLIII, Stephen Macedo and Yael
  Tamir, eds., New York: New York University Press, 2002: 275-313.
• "Opting Out of Education: Yoder, Mozert, and the Autonomy of Children," Educational
  Theory, Vol. 52, No. 4, Fall 2002: 445-61.
• "The Civic Perils of Homeschooling," Educational Leadership, April 2002: 56-9.
  (Translated into Georgian, and appearing in the Georgian Journal of American Studies,
  2005).
• “Families and Schools as Compensating Agents in Moral Development for a
  Multicultural Society,” with Susan Moller Okin, The Journal of Moral Education, Vol. 28,
  No. 3, 1999: 283-98.
  
• “Confusion About the Socratic Method: Socratic Paradoxes and Contemporary
  Invocations of Socrates,” in Philosophy of Education: 1998, Philosophy of Education
  Society, Urbana, IL.
• “The Paradoxes of Education in Rorty’s Liberal Utopia,” in Philosophy of Education: 1996,
  Philosophy of Education Society, Urbana, IL.
• “Re-Examining the Team A - Team B Exercise,” The International Journal of Intelligence
  and Counterintelligence, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1989: 387-403.
  
  

Review Essays and Book Reviews

• Review essay on Sigal Ben-Porath’s Citizenship Under Fire (Princeton: Princeton
  University Press, 2006), Journal of Philosophy of Education, Vol. 41 (1) 2007.
• Review essay on Amy Gutmann’s Identity in Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University
  Press, 2003), Theory and Research in Education, Vol. 5 (2) 2007: 241-51.
• Frederick Hess’s With the Best of Intentions: How Philanthropy is Reshaping K-12 Education
  (Cambridge: Harvard Education Press, 2005) in Teachers College Record, 2006.
• Stephen Macedo's Diversity and Distrust: Civic Education in a Multicultural Democracy
  (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999) in Philosophy in Review Vol. 20 (6)
  (December 2000): 430-1.

Work in Progress

• Ethics, Public Policy, and Philanthropy: The Normative Basis of Private Activity in the Public
  Interest, a book-length project.
  
• “Educational Authority and Children’s Rights,” an invited chapter for the Oxford
  Handbook of Philosophy of Education, Harvey Siegel, ed.

Miscellany

• Introduction to a special issue on equality and adequacy in education in the Journal of
  Educational Finance and Policy, Vol. 3, No. 4 (Fall 2008).
  
• “Equality and Adequacy in the State’s Provision of Education: Mapping the Conceptual
  Landscape”, a report prepared for Getting Down to Facts, a research project released in
  March 2007 consisting of more than 20 studies designed to provide California’s citizens
  with comprehensive information about the status of the state’s school finance and
  governance systems. For more information, see:
  http://irepp.stanford.edu/projects/cafinance.htm
  
• “Philanthropy and Its Uneasy Relation to Equality,” Philosophy and Public Policy
  Quarterly, Vol. 26 (3/4) (2006), published by the Institute for Philosophy and Public
  Policy at the University of Maryland.
  
• “Service Learning and Multiple Models of Engaged Citizenship”, Boston University
  Journal of Education, Vol. 186 (1) 2005: 23-28.
  
• “Editor’s Introduction” for a special issue of Theory and Research in Education on the
  work of Susan Moller Okin, Vol. 4, No. 1, 2006: 7-8. [I was guest editor for this issue.]
  
• “Why Homeschooling Should Be Regulated,” in Homeschooling in Full View: A Reader,
  Bruce S. Cooper, ed. (Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing, 2005): 109-120.
  
• “Hope House Scholars: The Universal Reach of the Liberal Arts” an essay with Debra
  Satz, Dissent, Winter 2004: 72-5.
  
• “A Brief Response to Papers by David Laitin and François Grin,” in Cultural Diversity
  versus Economic Solidarity, Philippe Van Parijs ed., Brussels: Deboeck Université,
  
• "Francqui Scientific Library", 2004: 211-12.
  "Common Schooling and Educational Choice", an entry in A Companion to the Philosophy
  of Education, Randall Curren, ed., Blackwell Publishers, 2003: 430-442.
  
• “Liberal Pluralism? A Response to Richard Shweder”, in Philosophy of Education: 2003,
  Philosophy of Education Society, Urbana, IL: 74-5.
  
• “The Socratic Method: What it is and How to Use it in the Classroom”, a lecture
  delivered in 2003 at the Center for Teaching and Learning, Stanford University, as part
  of its Award Winning Teachers on Teaching Lecture series. A version of this lecture is
  available at: http://ctl.stanford.edu/Newsletter/socratic_method.pdf
  
• An entry on Rainer Maria Rilke’s “Archaic Torso of Apollo” in Teaching With Fire: Poetry
  That Sustains the Courage to Teach, Sam M. Intrator and Megan Scribner, eds., (San
  Francisco: Jossey Bass, 2003): 146-7.
  
• “Revitalizing the Ecosystem for Youth: A New Perspective for School Reform,” with
  Michael Timpane, Phi Delta Kappan., February 1997: 464-70.

Selected Presentations/Lectures

     American Political Science Association Meetings

• “The Shift from Equality to Adequacy in American School Reform,” presented at a panel on
  Dilemmas of Democratic Equality at the Annual American Political Science Association meeting,
  Chicago, September 2007.
  
• “Toward a Political Theory of Philanthropy,” presented at a panel on New Approaches to the
  Public/Private Distinction at the Annual American Political Science Association meeting,
  Chicago, September 2007.
  
• “Autonomy and the Having of Choices,” presented at a panel on Liberalism and Autonomy at
  the Annual American Political Science Association meeting, Washington D.C., September 2005.
  
• “Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation and What We Can
  Do About It,” presentation of the final report (issued as a book from Brookings Institution Press)
  of the APSA Standing Committee on Civic Education and Engagement, of which I am a member.
  Annual American Political Science Association meeting, Washington D.C., September 2005.
  
• “Democracy at Risk: Toward a Political Science of Citizenship”, a panel discussion to comment
  on the final draft report of the APSA Standing Committee on Civic Education and Engagement,
  of which I am a member. Annual American Political Science Association meeting, Chicago,
  September, 2004
  
• “Remembering Susan Moller Okin,” presented at a panel in the memory of Susan Moller Okin at
  the annual American Political Science Association meeting, Chicago, September, 2004.
  
• “Comment on Amy Gutmann’s Identity in Democracy,” presented at a panel on Gutmann’s book
  at the annual American Political Science Association meeting, Chicago, September, 2004. (Other
  panelists included Amy Gutmann, Ian Shapiro, Robert Post, Corey Brettschneider, and Pamela
  Conover.)
  
• “Minors Within Minorities,” presented at the annual American Political Science Association
  meeting, Philadelphia, August, 2003. (I was panel organizer, recruiting Daniel Weinstock, Sigal
  Ben-Porath, Amy Gutmann, and William Galston to participate.)
  
• “Civic Engagement and the Nonprofit, Voluntary, and Philanthropic Sectors,” a panel discussion
  at the annual American Political Science Association meeting, Philadelphia, August, 2003. This
  presentation was part of the APSA Standing Committee on Civic Education and Engagement, of
  which I was a member.
  
• “A Liberal Democratic Approach to Language Justice,” presented at the annual American
  Political Science Association meeting, Boston, September, 2002. (I was panel organizer, recruiting
  Daniel Weinstock, Joseph Carens, Alan Patten, and Nancy Rosenblum to participate.)
  
• "Service, Citizenship, and Politics: A Plea for Plurality", presented at the annual American
  Political Science Association meeting, San Francisco, September, 2001.
  
• "The Limits of Parental Authority Over Education: The Case of Homeschooling," presented at the
  annual American Political Science Association meeting, San Francisco, September, 2001. (I was
  panel organizer, recruiting Meira Levinson, Shelley Burtt, and Amy Gutmann to participate.)
  
• "Liberalism, Civic Education, and Autonomy," presented at the annual American Political Science
  Association meeting, Atlanta, September, 1999.

     Invited Presentations and Lectures

• "Ethics, Public Policy, and Philanthropy", invited presentation to a joint meeting of the Legal
  Theory and Tax Policy Workshops, UCLA Law School, March 8, 2007.
• Invited to present the 2006-07 Francis Villemain Distinguished Lecture on Democracy and the
  Moral Life, to be delivered at San Jose State University in February 2007.
• “The State’s Obligation to Provide Education: Equality or Adequacy?”, invited presentation at the
  Center on Ethics, University of Toronto, to be delivered in December 2007.
• “Charity and Public Policy”, a presentation at the annual meeting of the National Association of
  Attorneys General and the National Association of State Charity Officials, Nashville, TN, October
  2007.
• Invited to present at a conference honoring the 60th anniversary of Directed Studies at Yale
  University, the Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, October 2007.
• “Pluralism and School Choice,” an invited paper delivered at a conference on Pluralism,
  Washington University in St. Louis, April 2006.
  
• “Pluralism and School Choice,” an invited paper delivered at a conference on School Choice,
  University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, April 2006.
• “Equality or Adequacy of Education: The State’s Obligations in a post-Rodriguez World,”
  presented at the Rethinking Rodriguez Workshop at Boalt Law School, UC Berkeley, April 2006.
  
• “A Political Theory of Philanthropy: The Role of the State in Charitable and Philanthropic
  Giving," a presentation at the Foundation Impact Research Group, Sanford Institute of Public
  Policy, Duke University, November 2005.
  
• “Adequacy and Equity: Conceptual Issues in School Finance Reform,” invited comments at a
  conference on Adequacy Lawsuits in Education, Harvard University, October 2005.
  
• “When Adequate Isn’t: The Retreat From Equity in Educational Law and Policy and Why it
  Matters,” a presentation at the BAFFLE faculty group (Bay Area Forum for Law and Ethics), UC
  Berkeley, October 2005.
  
• “Ethics, Public Policy, and Philanthropy,” a presentation to the Steinhardt School of Education,
  New York University, September 2005.
  
• “Philanthropy and its Uneasy Relation to Equality” a lecture to the Center for Democracy and the
  Third Sector at Georgetown University, April 2005.
• “Beyond Abuse and Negligence: Intervening in Families on Behalf of Children,” a lecture at the
  Poynter Center on Ethics at Indiana University, Bloomington, April 2005.
  
• “Private Giving to Public Schools (and some larger questions about tax concessions for charitable
  giving), a lecture to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University – Purdue University,
  Indianapolis, April 2005.
  
• “Private Giving to Public Schools: Educational, Philanthropic, Political, and Ethical Dilemmas,”
  invited keynote address at the Graduate Student Conference of Philosophy of Education,
  Teachers College, Columbia University, April 1, 2005.
  
• “A Political Theory of Philanthropy: The Normative Basis of Private Activity in the Public
  Interest,” a presentation to the Brown University Political Theory workshop, November 2003.
  
• “Democracy, Schooling, and Globalization,” a presentation at the Kahn Institute at Smith College,
  November 2003.
  
• “Private Giving to Public Schools: A Devil’s Bargain?”, presented at the Spencer
  Foundation/National Academy of Education annual meeting, Harvard University, October 2003.
  
• “Many Civic Educations,” a lecture delivered at the Travers Ethics Conference on Education,
  Citizenship, and Public Accountability, at University of California at Berkeley, April 25, 2003
  
• Participation in a Liberty Fund colloquium on “Children, Responsibility, and Liberty,” La Jolla,
  CA, February 2003.
  
• “Author Meets Critics”, a panel devoted to my book, Bridging Liberalism and Multiculturalism in
  American Education, at the Philosophy of Education Society Annual Meeting, Miami, March 31,
  2003.
  
• “A Brief Response to Papers by David Laitin and Francois Grin,” at the Francqui Prize
  Conference on Cultural Diversity versus Economic Solidarity, organized by Philippe van Parijs,
  Brussels, Belgium, February 2003.
  
• “Minors Within Minorities”, a presentation at the Minorities Within Minorities Conference,
  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, October 3-6, 2002.
  
• "The Hidden Educational Boom: Homeschooling and its ethical implications", a presentation at
  the Young Faculty Leaders Forum, Harvard University, September 27-28, 2002.
  
• “Health Care and Adolescent Decision-Making,” a paper delivered to the Biomedical Ethics
  Working Group on The Moral Status of the Child, Yale University, April 2002.
  
• "Ethical Questions about Education: Public, Private, and Homeschooling," a lecture delivered as
  part of the Applied Ethics Lecture and Workshop Series at the University of Arkansas at Little
  Rock, March 2002.
  
• "Moral Status of Children in Liberal Societies,” a presentation at New York University's School of
  Education, February 2002.
  
• "Homeschooling and Parental Authority over Education", presented at the annual meeting of the
  Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain, Oxford University, April 2001.
  
• "Testing the Boundaries of Parental Authority Over Education: The Case of Homeschooling,"
  presented at a conference on the Philosophy and History of the Discipline of Education,
  University of Leuven, Belgium, October 2000.
  
• "Multicultural Accommodations in Education," presented at the Collective Identities and
  Cosmopolitan Values conference at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, June 2000.
  
• "Homeschooling and Civic Education," presented at the Fostering Youth's Civic Engagement and
  Participation in Free and Democratic Societies conference at Brown University, June 2000.
  
• “How Not To Teach Moral Relativism,” presented at a conference on Moral Education in a
  Diverse Society, Duke University, April 1999.
  
• “Confusion About the Socratic Method: Socratic Paradoxes and Contemporary Invocations of
  Socrates,” presented as a feature plenary session at the annual Philosophy of Education meeting,
  Boston, March 1998.
  
• “Liberalism, Multiculturalism, and Civic Education,” presented to the Education department at
  Brown University, February 1998.
  
• “Does Teaching for Tolerance and Autonomy Constrain Diversity?” presented at a conference on
  Moral Education in a Diverse Society, Duke University, February 1998.
  
  

Professional Service

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Editorial/Review Board

• The Journal of Philosophy of Education (North American Reviews Editor, 2002 – 2005)
  
• Theory and Research in Education
  
• Educational Theory
  

Manuscript Reviewer

• Princeton University Press
  
• Yale University Press
  
• Palgrave MacMillan
  
• Longman Publishers
  
• Lexington Books
  
• Routledge
  
• Ethics
  
• Political Theory
  
• Ethics and Economics
  
• Canadian Journal of Philosophy
  
• PS: Political Science & Politics
  
• Perspectives in Politics
  
• Politics, Philosophy & Economics
  
• Social Theory and Practice
  
• Educational Policy

Committee Membership

• Stanford University Strategic Advisory Group on Recruitment and Retention of
  Diverse Faculty, 2007.
• American Political Science Association, Member of the Standing Committee on
  Civic Education and Engagement, 2002-2005.
  
• Philosophy of Education Society Annual Program Committee, 2005-06
  
• Faculty Steering Committee, Program in Ethics in Society at Stanford (1998-
  present)
  
• Faculty Steering Committee, American Studies Program at Stanford
  
• Faculty Steering Committee, Center for Research on Philanthropy and Civil
  Society
  
• Faculty Steering Committee, the John Gardner Center for Youth and Their
  Communities

Service

• Director of Undergraduate Studies, Dept. of Political Science (2006-08)
  
• Curriculum Committee, Dept. of Political Science (2005-08)
  
• Multiple Search Committees, Dept. of Political Science
• Graduate Admissions Committee, Dept. of Political Science (2000-01, 2001-02)

Grant/Fellowship Reviewer

• Spencer Foundation (Reviewed fellowship applications, 2004 and 2005).
• Stanford Humanities Center (Reviewed fellowship applications, 2002-2006)
  
  
  

Teaching

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Assistant Professor, Political Science, Ethics in Society, and Education

• Political Science 35Q: Food and Politics
  
• IHUM 63: Freedom, Equality, Difference
• Political Science 137/337: Justice at Home and Abroad: Civil Rights in the 21st Century
  
• Political Science 334: Workshop on Philanthropy and Civil Society
  
• Political Science 53N: Plato and Aristotle on Justice
  
• Political Science 131: Children’s Citizenship (Cross listed in Education, American Studies,
  Program in Human Biology, Program in Ethics in Society)
  
• Political Science 133: Ethics and Politics of Public Service (Cross listed in American Studies,
  Program in Ethics in Society, Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Urban Studies, Human
  Biology, Public Policy)
  
• Political Science 231S: Contemporary Theories of Justice
  
• Political Science 236: Theories of Civil Society and the Nonprofit Sector
  
• Ethics in Society 190: Honors Seminar

Founder and Co-Director, Stanford Summer Philosophy Discovery Institute

• Created and co-direct a residential summer philosophy program for high school students. 1999-present. (not active in summers 2005-06).  Provides high school students an introduction to philosophy with the long-run goal of increasing enrollment, especially minority enrollment, in college-level philosophy courses.  Institute attracted applicants from across the United States and from Canada, Europe, and Asia in its first year; it has quadrupled in size since 2000, and now enrolls 100 students.
  
  • Wrote and secured a 10K grant from the Hewlett Foundation in 2000, and a 15K grant in 2001.
  

Co-Founder and Instructor, Hope House Scholars Program. 2001-present.

• Designed and helped to implement a new program to provide Humanities courses to low income
  members of the communities surrounding Stanford. Course began at Hope House, a residential
  substance abuse facility for women in Redwood City, CA, in April 2001.

Sixth Grade Teacher, Rusk Elementary School, Houston, TX 1992 - 1994

 

Professional Affiliations

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The American Educational Research Association (AERA)
The American Political Science Association (APSA)
The Association for Practical and Professional Ethics (APPE)
The American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy (ASPLP)
Philosophy of Education Society (PES)
Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB)
Board Service: KIPP Heartwood School, San Jose, CA (2007 – present)
Board Service: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (2007 – present)