ALBERT WILLIAM DZUR
OFFICE
111 Williams Hall
Department of Political Science
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green, OH 43403 Tel: (419) 372-7270 Fax: (419) 372-8246 awdzur@bgsu.edu
ACADEMIC DEGREES
1997 Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(Political Science)
1993 M.A. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(Political Science)
1988 B.A. University of California, Santa Barbara
(Political Science, Summa Cum Laude and With Distinction in the Major) ACADEMIC POSITIONS
2012- Professor, Departments of Political Science and Philosophy, Bowling Green State University
2009-2012 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, Bowling Green State University (Joint Appointment with Political Science)
2006-2012 Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Bowling Green State University
2002-2006 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Bowling Green State University
2001-2002 Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Western Michigan University
1999-2001 Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Utah Policy Fellow, Center for Public Policy and Administration
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Political theory, with an emphasis on democratic theory. Particular interest in citizen
participation and power-sharing inside complex organizations in criminal justice, health care, mass media, and higher education.
AWARDS (recent)
Research Fellow, Scottish Centre for Crime and Justice Research, University of Edinburgh, 2009-present
Neil MacCormick Fellowship, University of Edinburgh Law School, 2009
Scholar in Residence Fellowship Award, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University, 2005
Senior Research Fellow, Social Philosophy & Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, 2004-present
Best Paper Award, 1999, American Political Science Association, Foundations of Political Theory
GRANTS (recent)
2011 Kettering Foundation grant for a multi-year study, “Democratic Practices of Professionals.”
2009 Kettering Foundation grant for “Democracy in Higher Education, an
Institutional Case Study,” a study of civic participation efforts at a leading institution. 2008 Bowling Green State University Research Incentive Grant.
2007 MacNeil/Lehrer Productions grant to convene and study a televised public forum, “Reflective Public Dialogues on Democracy and Higher Education.”
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Dzur, Albert W. 2012. Punishment, Participatory Democracy, and the Jury. New York: Oxford University Press.
Dzur, Albert W. 2008. Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the
Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice. University Park, PA: Penn
State University Press.
Journal Articles (refereed)
Dzur, Albert W. 2012. “Four Theses on Participatory Democracy: Toward the Rational Disorganization of Government Institutions.” Constellations 19: 305-324.
Dzur, Albert W. 2012. “Participatory Democracy and Criminal Justice.” Criminal Law and
Philosophy 6: 115-129.
Dzur, Albert W. 2011. “Restorative Justice and Democracy: Fostering Public
Accountability for Criminal Justice.” Contemporary Justice Review (Special Issue: 35th Anniversary of Restorative Justice): 1-15.
Dzur, Albert W. 2010. “The Myth of Penal Populism: Democracy, Citizen Participation, and American Hyper-Incarceration.” Journal of Speculative Philosophy 24 (Special Issue: Challenges to Democracy Today): 354-379.
Dzur, Albert W. 2010. “Democracy’s ‘Free School’: Tocqueville and Lieber on the Value of the Jury.” Political Theory 38: 603-630.
Dzur, Albert W. and Daniel Levin. 2007. “The Primacy of the Public: In Support of Bioethics Commissions as Deliberative Forums.” The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 17: 142.
Dzur, Albert W. and Rekha Mirchandani. 2007. “Punishment and Democracy: The Role of Public Deliberation.” Punishment & Society 9: 151-175.
Dzur, Albert W. and Daniel Levin. 2004. “The ‘Nation’s Conscience’: Assessing Bioethics Commissions as Public Forums.” The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 14: 333-360. Dzur, Albert W. and Susan M. Olson. 2004. “The Value of Community Participation in
Restorative Justice.” Journal of Social Philosophy 35: 91-107.
Olson, Susan M. and Albert W. Dzur. 2004. “Informal Justice Revisited: Restorative Justice and Democratic Professionalism.” Law and Society Review 38: 139-176.
Dzur, Albert W. 2003. “Civic Implications of Restorative Justice Theory: Citizen Participation and Criminal Justice Policy.” Policy Sciences 36: 279-306.
Olson, Susan M. and Albert W. Dzur. 2003. “Reconstructing Professional Roles in Restorative
Justice Programs.” Utah Law Review 2003: 57-89. Dzur, Albert W. 2003. “Restorative Justice and Civic Accountability for Punishment.” Polity:
The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association 36: 3-22.
Dzur, Albert W. 2002. “Nationalism, Liberalism, and Democracy.” Political Research Quarterly 53: 191-211.
Dzur, Albert W. 2002. “Public Journalism and Deliberative Democracy.” Polity: The Journal of
the Northeastern Political Science Association 34: 313-336.
Dzur, Albert W. 2002. “Democratizing the Hospital: Deliberative Democratic Bioethics.”
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 27: 177-211.
Dzur, Albert W. and Alan Wertheimer. 2002. “Forgiveness and Public Deliberation: The Practice of Restorative Justice.” Criminal Justice Ethics 21: 3-20.
Dzur, Albert W. 1998. “Liberal Perfectionism and Democratic Participation.” Polity: The
Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association 30: 667-690.
Dzur, Albert W. 1998. “Function, Convention, and Policy: William Galston and the Redefinition of Liberal Purposes.” Public Affairs Quarterly 12: 101-117.
Dzur, Albert W. 1998. “Value Pluralism vs. Political Liberalism?” Social Theory and Practice 24: 375-392.
Book Chapters (refereed)
Dzur, Albert W. forthcoming. “Repellant Institutions and the Absentee Public: Catalyzing Responsibility for Punishment.” In Popular Punishment: On the Normative Significance
of Public Opinion for Penal Theory, eds. Jesper Ryberg and Julian Roberts. New York:
Oxford University Press.
Dzur, Albert W. 2011. “Moderating the Penal State through Citizen Participation: A Neo- Tocquevillian Perspective on Court Professionals and Juries in a Democracy.”
Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship, eds. Brian Danoff and Joseph
Hebert. Lanham: Lexington Books, 179-202.
Dzur, Albert W. 2010. “Democratizing Academic Professionalism Inside and Out.” New
Directions in Higher Education: Higher Education and Deliberative Democracy. San
Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 75-82.
Dzur, Albert W. and Matthew J. Burbank. 2001. “American Studies, Politics.” International
Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences. New York: Elsevier Science.
Essays, Book Reviews, Interviews
Dzur, Albert W. forthcoming. Review of Quentin Kidd, Civic Participation in America and John Gastil et al. The Jury and Democracy: How Jury Deliberation Promotes Civic
Engagement and Political Participation. Perspectives on Politics.
Dzur, Albert W. 2012. Review of Karen Tracy, Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent. Political Science Quarterly 127: 343-4.
Dzur, Albert W. 2011. “Why American Democracy Needs the Jury Trial.” Review essay on Robert P. Burns, The Death of the American Trial. Criminal Law and Philosophy 5: 87- 92.
Dzur, Albert W. 2010. “How Collaborative Governance Works.” Review essay on Carmen Sirianni, Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance.
National Civic Review 99: 44-47.
Dzur, Albert W. 2010. “Toward a Democratic University.” Review essay on Derek W. M. Barker and David W. Brown, A Different Kind of Politics: Readings on the Role of
Higher Education in Democracy, in Journal of Higher Education Outreach and
Engagement 14: 101-105.
Dzur, Albert W. 2009. “The Ethics and Politics of Professions.” Kettering Review (Winter): 57.
Dzur, Albert W. 2009. Review of Mark Button, Contract, Culture, and Citizenship. Reviewof
Metaphysics 62: 919-920.
Dzur, Albert W. 2009. “Public Scholarship: Academic Professionals Engaged in Democratic Work.” Interview in A Different Kind of Politics: Readings in the Role of Higher
Education in Democracy, eds. Derek W. M. Barker and David W. Brown. Dayton:
Kettering Foundation Press, 49-55.
Dzur, Albert W. 2007. Review of Michael D. Chan, Aristotle and Hamilton on Commerce and Statesmanship. Perspectives on Politics 5: 602-3.
Dzur, Albert W. 2004. “Democratic Professionalism: Sharing Tasks and Legitimating
Authority.” The Good Society: The Journal of the Committee on the Political Economy of
the Good Society 13: 6-14.
Dzur, Albert W. 2002. Review of Fred M. Frohock, Public Reason: Mediated Authority in the
Liberal State. American Political Science Review 96: 181-182.
Dzur, Albert W. 2001. Review of Stephen L. Elkin and Karol Edward Soltan (eds): Citizen
Competence and Democratic Institutions. Journal of Politics 63: 656-659.
Reports
Dzur, Albert W. 2010. “The Next Steps in Going Public: Democratizing Civic Engagement at Universities.” Prepared for the Kettering Foundation.
Dzur, Albert W. and Rekha Mirchandani. 2008. “Evaluation Report: Dialogues on Democracy 2007.” Prepared for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions.
PAPERS READ TO PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
Invited Papers and Presentations
Dzur, Albert W. 2011. “Participatory Democracy and Criminal Justice.” Paper presented at the Workshop in Political Theory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Dzur, Albert W. 2011. “Participatory Democracy and Criminal Justice.” Paper presented at the Stirling Criminalization Conference, University of Stirling, Scotland.
Dzur, Albert W. 2011. “Public Engagement.” Roundtable presentation for the Centre for the Study of Democracy, Westminster University, London.
Dzur, Albert W. 2011. “Juries, Juries, Everywhere.” Paper presented at the Workshop on Scientific Authority within Democratic Societies, Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University of British Columbia.
Dzur, Albert W. 2011. “Theory for Practice in Democratic Management.” Roundtable presentation at the Kettering Foundation Democratic Theory Working Group.
Dzur, Albert W. 2011. “Criminal Process as Catalyst: Participation, Dialogue, and Dignity.” Paper presented at the Symposium on Human Dignity and Criminal Law, University of Minnesota Law School.
Dzur, Albert W. 2010. “New Themes and New Directions in Criminalization.” Roundtable presentation at the Criminalization Conference, Queens University, Kingston Ontario. Dzur, Albert W. 2010. “New Directions in Deliberative Democratic Theory.” Roundtable
presentation at the Kettering Foundation Workshop in Democratic Theory, Kettering, Ohio.
Dzur, Albert W. 2009. “Democratic Professionalism.” Research presentation, Kettering Foundation Dayton Days Research Session, Kettering, Ohio.
Dzur, Albert W. 2008. “Democratic Professionalism in the University.” Research presentation, Kettering Foundation, Kettering, Ohio.
Dzur, Albert W. 2007. “The Reflective Public Dialogue Project: Higher Education and
Democracy.” Research presentation given at the Kettering Foundation, Kettering Ohio. Dzur, Albert W. 2005. “Democratic Professionalism: Civic Task-Sharing in Domains of Hidden
Authority.” Research talk given for the Institute for the Study of Culture and Society, Bowling Green State University.
Dzur, Albert W. 2004. “Democratic Professionalism.” Research talk given at the Center for Democracy and Citizenship, University of Minnesota.
Dzur, Albert W. 2003. “Democratic Professionalism: Civic Participation in Domains of
Professional Authority.” Presented in the Department of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dzur, Albert W. 1999. “Assessing the Non-Deliberative: Contemporary Democratic Theory in Practice.” Commonwealth Humanities Working Paper, University of Kentucky.
Refereed Papers
Dzur, Albert W. 2009. “Democracy Inside and Out: The Jury and Public Deliberation.” Paper presented at Law and Society Association meetings, Denver.
Dzur, Albert W. and Rekha Mirchandani. 2008. “Democracy in the Court: Communicative Reason and Public Accountability for Punishment.” American Society of Criminology annual meetings, St. Louis.
Dzur, Albert W. 2006. “Democratic Power-Sharing in Professionalized Domains: The Fall and Rise of the Active Jury.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meetings, Philadelphia, PA.
Dzur, Albert W. 2006. “The Jury and Democratic Education: The Rise and Fall of the Active Jury.” Paper presented at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences association annual meetings, Baltimore, Md.
Dzur, Albert W. and Rekha Mirchandani. 2004. “Punishment and Democracy.” Paper presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association annual meetings, Chicago, Il.
Dzur, Albert W. 2003. “Professionals vs. Democracy? Reexamining the Critique of Technocratic Expertise.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual
meetings, Philadelphia, PA.
Dzur, Albert W. 2003. “Professionals vs. Democracy: The Critique of Technocratic Expertise.” Paper presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association annual meetings, Chicago, IL.
Dzur, Albert W. 2002. “Civic Participation in Professional Domains.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meetings, Boston, MA.
Dzur, Albert W. 2002. “Restorative Justice and Democratic Participation.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meetings, Boston, MA.
Dzur, Albert W. 2002. “True Restorative Justice: Citizen Participation and Criminal Justice Policy.” Paper presented at the Law and Society Annual Meetings, Vancouver, B.C. Dzur, Albert W. 2002. “Sharing Authority: Democratic Professionalism in Civic Life.” Paper
Dzur, Albert W. and Susan M. Olson. 2001. “Constructing Community: Restorative Justice in Theory and Practice.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Olson, Susan M. and Albert W. Dzur. 2001. “Reconstructing Professional Roles in Restorative Justice Programs.” Paper presented at the Law & Society annual meeting, Budapest. Levin, Daniel and Albert W. Dzur. 2001. “A Game of Circles: Negotiated Rulemaking as
Democratic Deliberation.” Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Dzur, Albert W. and Daniel Levin. 2001. “Bringing the Audience Backstage: Doing Bioethics in Public.” Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Las Vegas, NV.
Dzur, Albert W. 2000. “Bioethics as Public Moral Discourse.” Paper presented at the Interdisciplinary Conference on Moral Norms and Public Discourse, Albion College, Albion, MI.
Dzur, Albert W. 2000. “Democratizing the Hospital: Deliberative Democratic Bioethics.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Washington D.C.
Burbank, Matthew J. and Albert W. Dzur. 2000. “Why Deliberate? Disentangling the Effects of Deliberation and Information in Deliberative Polls.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Washington D.C.
Dzur, Albert W. 2000. “Democratizing the Professions: Political Theory and Applied Ethics.” Paper presented at the Inaugural Conference of the International Social Theory
Consortium, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Dzur, Albert W. and Alan Wertheimer. 2000. “Forgiveness and Public Deliberation: Restorative Justice in Practice.” Paper presented at the Tanner Humanities Center Conference on Forgiveness, Salt Lake City, UT.
Dzur, Albert W. 2000. “Democratizing the Hospital: Deliberative Democratic Bioethics.” Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, San Jose, CA.
Dzur, Albert W. 1999. “Deliberative Democratic Theory in Practice: The Case of Public Journalism.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Atlanta, GA.
Dzur, Albert W. 1999. “Public Journalism and Deliberative Democracy.” Paper presented at the Midwestern Political Science Association annual meeting, Chicago, IL.
Dzur, Albert W. 1998. “Liberal-Democratic Nationalism?” Paper presented at the Conference on Nation Theory, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
Dzur, Albert W. and Stephen T. Leonard. 1998. “The Academic Revival of Republicanism.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Boston, MA.
Dzur, Albert W. 1998. “Comprehensive Liberal Politics and the Fact of Pluralism.” Paper presented at the American Political Science Association annual meeting, Boston, MA. Mirchandani, Rekha and Albert W. Dzur. 1998. “Research Methods on the Theoretical Frontier:
Tensions in Conceptual Innovation and Application.” Paper presented at the American Sociological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Dzur, Albert W. 1997. “Two Concepts of Pluralism: Creativity and Conventionalism.” Paper presented at the Southern Political Science Association annual meeting, Norfolk, VA. Dzur, Albert W. 1997. “Deliberative Institutions and Equality.” Paper presented at the American
Political Science Association annual meeting, Washington D.C.
Dzur, Albert W. 1997. “Function and Convention in William Galston’s Political Theory.” Paper presented at the Western Political Science Association annual meeting, Tucson, AZ. Dzur, Albert W. 1994. “AIDS and Political Obligation: Justifying a Duty to Treat.” Paper
presented at the Law and Society annual meeting, Phoenix, AZ. TEACHING
Undergraduate Courses
American Government American Political Thought
Democracy and the Citizen (Service/Engagement Class) Social and Political Philosophy
Western Political Thought I.
Graduate Courses
Classical Political Thought Democratic Political Theory History of Political Philosophy Public Administration Ethics
SERVICE
Department
Interim Director of Graduate Studies, 2012- Undergraduate Advisor, Fall 2006-2009 Graduate Committee, Fall 2005-2007; 2010- Undergraduate Committee, Fall 2002-2009
Barrell Scholarship Committee, Fall 2002-Fall 2006; 2010-
Library Representative and Library Committee, Fall 2002-Spring 2005 Public Administration Search Committee, 2002-2003, 2003-2004 Chair, Public Law Search Committee, 2006; 2010
College
Chair Elect, Arts and Sciences Council, 2005-2006, Chair, 2006-2007, Member, 2007-8 Member, Stuart Givens Fellowship Committee, 2005-2009
Member, Bowling Green Experience Advisory Committee, Spring 2004-2007
Member, Director Search Committee, Bowling Green Experience, Fall 2004-Spring 2005 Facilitator, Faculty Workshops, Bowling Green Experience, Spring/Summer 2004-2005 Member, Service Learning Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, 2004-2005
Member, Office of Service Learning Initiatives Search Committee, Summer 2004
University
Co-Director, Symposium on Political Thought (year-long faculty seminars), 2004-present Co-Director, Renewing Public Trust in Higher Education project, 2006-2007
Member, Institute for the Study of Culture and Society Advisory Board, 2006-2009 Member, Martin Luther King Legacy Committee, 2006-2007
Founding Chair, Scholars At Risk Committee, 2006 Member, Sky Bank Lectureship Committee, 2006-2007 Member, University Planning Council, 2006-2007
Member, President’s Standards Committee for the Scholarship of Engagement, Summer 2005 Member, Faculty Senate, Spring 2004-Fall 2006
Member, Journey Towards Democracy Project Team, BGSU Faculty Senate, 2003-2004 Member of Organizing Committee and Conference Moderator, “Conference on Education for
Democracy,” Bowling Green State University, 2004
Moderator, Social Philosophy and Policy Center Conferences, 2002-present
Discussant, Social Philosophy and Policy Center/Department of History Conference,
Professional
Ad Hoc Reviewer: American Journal of Political Science
Governance Journal of Politics
Law & Society Review Milbank Quarterly
Political Studies Political Theory
Polity Punishment & Society
Social Theory & Practice Theoretical Criminology
Co-Chair (with Elizabeth Coleman), “Beyond the Timid University: Rethinking Academic Professionalism to Renew the Democratic Potential of College Campuses,” Higher Education and Deliberative Democracy conference, University of New Hampshire, 2009. Chair and discussant on the panel, “Making Up Publics,” American Political Science Association
annual meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2006.
Panelist on the roundtable, “What is Ethics, What Good is It, and How Do We Know It?” Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences annual meeting, Baltimore, MD, 2006. Discussant on the panel, “Constitutional Matters,” Midwestern Political Science Association
annual meeting, 2004.
Discussant on the panel, “Liberal Challenges.” Midwestern Political Science Association annual meeting, 2003.
Panel Chair, “Religion and Neutrality in Comparative Perspective.” Midwestern Political Science Association annual meeting, 2002.
Discussant on the panel “Language, Reality, and Democracy.” American Political Science Association annual meeting, 2001.
Panel Organizer and Chair, “Political Theory and Applied Ethics.” Western Political Science Association annual meeting, 2000.
Panel Organizer, “Power, Choice, and the Medical Profession: Political Theory and Applied Ethics.” American Political Science Association annual meeting, 2000.
Discussant on the panel “Forms and Problems of Liberalism.” Midwestern Political Science Association annual meeting, 1999.
Community
Member, Medical Ethics Committee, Wood County Hospital, 2007-present Member, Board of Directors, Montessori School of Bowling Green, 2006-2008
