Michelle T. 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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