Faculty

Robb McDaniel, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Education | Courses | Publications | Email

Education

• A.B., Davidson College, 1990
• Ph.D., Vanderbilt University, 1998
• Fields: Political Theory, American Politics

Courses

• PS 2010: American Government Politics
• PS 4230: Classical Political Theory
• PS 4700: American Political Thought
• PS 4800: Senior Seminar
• PS 4920: Modern Political Theory

Publications

Articles

• "Pleasantville's Utopian Confusion." Film and History 32.1: 85-86. Spring 2002.
• "Garden-Variety Liberals: Discovering Eden in Levinas and Locke." Polity 34.2: 117-140. Winter 2001.
• "The Nature of Inequality: Uncovering the Modern in Leo Strauss’s Idealist Ethics." Political Theory 26.3: 317-345. June 1998.

Book Chapters

• "Geroge Orwell." In Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America.Ed. David Schulz and John Vile. M.E. Sharpe, 2004.
• "Herbert Marcuse." In Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America.Ed. David Schulz and John Vile. ME Sharpe, 2004.
• "Liberty vs. License." In Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America.Ed. David Schulz and John Vile. ME Sharpe, 2004.
• "The Putney Debates." In Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America.Ed. David Schulz and John Vile. ME Sharpe, 2004.
• "Robert R. Livingston, Jr." In Great American Judges: An Encyclopedia. Ed. John Vile. ABC-CLIO, 2003.
• "Patrick Henry." In Great American Lawyers: A Biographical Dictionary. Ed. John Vile. ABC-Clio, 2001.
• "The Illiberal Leo Strauss." In Community and Political Theory Today. Ed. Peter Augustine Lawler and Dale McConkey. Praeger, 1999.

Papers and Presentations

• Program Chair, Tennessee Political Science Associtation Annual Meeting, April 2003.
• "Democratic Radicalism in the Early American Republic." Presented at Sons of the American Revolution, Murfreesboro, TN, January 8, 2002.
• "Fear of Violent Debt: Levinas Contra Hobbes on Death and Politics." Presented at American Political Science Association Convention, August 2000.
• "Garden-Variety Liberals: Discovering Eden in Levinas and Locke." Presented at Midwest Political Science Association Convention, April 2000.
• Panelist, Roundtable on "Clinton Impeachment." Tennessee Political Science Association, April 1999.
• Discussent, "Global Community?" panel. Conference on Politics, Religion, and Community, Berry College, Rome, GA, March 1999.
• Discussant, "Bellah Revisited" panel. Conference on Communiterianism and Civil Society, Berry College, Rome, GA, October 1996.
• "Arisocratic Heirs: Radical Inequality in Leo Strauss's Economy of Intellect." Presented at American Political Science Associtation, August 1996.
• "Ethical Education in Hegel's Philosophy of Right." Presented at the Southern Political Science Association, April 1992.