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Michelle T. Clarke

Clarke

Assistant Professor of Government
Silsby 210
Michelle.T.Clarke@dartmouth.edu

B.A., Philosophy and Political Science, Tufts University
M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D., Political Science, Yale University




Recent Publications and Working Papers:

  • "The Mythologies of Contextualism," revise and resubmit
  • "Uprooting Nebuchadnezzar's Tree:  Bacon's Criticism of Machiavellian Imperialism," Political Research Quarterly (Sept. 2008)
  • "On the Woman Question in Machiavelli," Review of Politics (Spring 2005)
  • "Citizen Machiavelli?  Reassessing Machiavelli's Experience of Politics as Secretary of the Florentine Republic," working paper
  • "Machiavelli and the Gracchi: Liberty, Violence, and the Rule of Law," working paper
  • "Fides and Republican Citizenship in Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy," working paper

Prizes and Fellowships:

  • Walter and Constance Burke Junior Faculty Research Grant, 2007-present
  • Rockefeller/McNulty Faculty Research Grant, 2008-2009
  • Dewey Crawford '63 Endowment Fund for Forums in Professional Ethics, 2008-2009
  • Dissertation awarded Departmental and University Distinction, 2007-2008
  • Leylan Prize Fellowship in the Social Sciences, 2005-2006
  • Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 2003-2005
  • Newhouse Foundation Fellowship, 2003-2004

Research Interests:

  • Machiavelli
  • Republicanism, ancient and modern
  • Women and gender in the history of political thought
  • Approaches to textual interpretation

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Last Updated: 11/22/10