MICHELLE T. CLARKE
Department of Government
Dartmouth College HB 6108
Hanover, NH
03755603-646-1352
Michelle.T.Clarke@dartmouth.edu
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, July 2015 – present Assistant Professor of Government at Dartmouth College, July 2007 – July 2015 Tenure clock stopped 2009-2010 and 2010-2011
RESEARCH AND TEACHING AREAS
Machiavelli, Roman Political Thought, Republicanism, Interpretive Methods EDUCATION
Yale University
Ph.D. in Political Science (distinction), December 2007 M.A., M.Phil. in Political Science, 2005
Exams: History of Political Thought (distinction), Contemporary Theory, American Politics Dissertation: Machiavelli’s Political Pluralism
Committee: Steven B. Smith (chair), Ian Shapiro, Bryan Garsten Tufts University
B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science, 2001 (summa cum laude) BOOKS AND ARTICLES
1. Michelle T. Clarke. Machiavelli’s Florentine Republic (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming)
2. Michelle T. Clarke. “Machiavelli and the Imagined Rome of Renaissance Humanism,” History of Political Thought 36, no 3 (2015): 452-470.
3. Michelle T. Clarke. “Doing Violence to the Roman Idea of Liberty? Freedom as Bodily Integrity in Roman Political Thought,” History of Political Thought 35, no. 2 (2014): 211 – 233. 4. Michelle T. Clarke. “The Mythologies of Contextualism: Method and Judgment in Skinner’s
Visions of Politics,” Political Studies 61, no. 4 (2013): 317-329.
5. Michelle T. Clarke. “The Virtues of Republican Citizenship in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy,” Journal of Politics 75, no. 2 (2013): 317 – 329.
6. Michelle T. Clarke. “Uprooting Nebuchadnezzar’s Tree: Bacon’s Criticism of Machiavellian Imperialism,” Political Research Quarterly 61, no. 3 (2008): 367 – 378.
7. Michelle T. Clarke. “On the Woman Question in Machiavelli,” Review of Politics 67, no. 2 (2005): 229 – 256.
OTHER REFEREED WORKS
8. Michelle T. Clarke. “Machiavelli’s Political Thought,” Oxford Bibliographies in Political Science, in press. With Vickie Sullivan.
BOOK REVIEWS
Michelle T. Clarke. Review of The Life of Roman Republicanism (by Joy Connolly), Perspectives on Politics 14, no. 1 (2016): 213-216.
Michelle T. Clarke. Review of The Heart of Rome: Ancient Rome’s Political Culture (by Jan H. Blits), Review of Politics 78, no. 1 (2016): 156-59.
Michelle T. Clarke. Review of Tyranny: A New Interpretation (by Waller R. Newell), Contemporary Political Theory, online 22 December 2015; doi: 10.1057/cpt.2015.65. Michelle T. Clarke. Review of Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory Under the English Republic (by Paul Rahe), Perspectives on Political Science 38, no. 2 (2009): 118-119.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Machiavelli and Livy, in progress.
“Machiavelli on the Gracchi: Liberty, Violence, and the Rule of Law,” in progress. “Machiavelli’s Virtuous Princes,” in progress.
WORKSHOPS AND INVITED TALKS
Roundtable on Alyssa Ardito’s Machiavelli and the Modern State - Yale University, May 2016
“Machiavelli’s Virtuous Princes”
- Dartmouth Medieval Studies Colloquium, April 2016
- Invited talk, Holy Cross Speaker Series: Republicanism, January 2016 - UCSD Political Theory Workshop, March 2015
- Georgetown Political Theory Workshop, November 2014
“Roman Republicanisms”
- Invited talk, Ancient Republics: An International Workshop, UW-Madison, April 2015 (second of three conferences on ancient republicanism hosted by Durham University, UW-Madison, and UCSD)
“After the Inundation: Machiavelli and the Making of the Modern World”
- Invited talk, UC Davis Speaker Series: Machiavelli and the Atlantic Republic Tradition, Revisited, January 2014
“Machiavelli: Moralist or a Realist?”
- Invited talk, A Conference on the 500th Anniversary of the Writing of Niccolò Machiavelli’s Prince, Harvard University, September 2013
“Machiavelli on the Roman Tribunate”
- Invited talk, Machiavelli: Philosophy, Rhetoric, and History, Beinecke Library at Yale University, October 2008
“Power to the People? Machiavelli on Political Motivation and Civil Conflict” - Yale Political Philosophy Colloquium, November 2006
- Yale Political Theory Workshop, November 2006 “Machiavelli: The Professional”
- Whitney Humanities Center, Yale University, February 2006 - Yale Political Philosophy Colloquium, October 2005
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “Machiavelli’s Virtuous Princes”
- Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2014 - Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2015
“Rome, Real or Imagined? Machiavelli’s Rejoinder to Humanism in the Discourses on Livy” - Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2014
- American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2014 Roundtable on Waller Newell’s Tyranny: A New Interpretation
- Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2013 “Liberty as Civility: Machiavelli’s Vivere Civile and its Basis in Roman Political Thought”
- American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2013 “Machiavelli and the Roman Concept of Liberty”
- American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2012 “Machiavelli and the Agrarian Laws of Rome”
- American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2011 - Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, October 2011
- Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2010 “Friendship and Citizenship in Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy”
- American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, September 2010. - Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, October 2010
“The Duties of a Padrino: Patronage in Machiavelli’s Prince”
- New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2010 “Princely Ambition and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint”
- New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, May 2009 “The People and the Great in Machiavelli’s Political Thought”
- Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2008 “Machiavelli on the Partisanship of Intellectuals”
- American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2008 “Machiavelli on Reality”
- New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, May 2006 “History as Genre in Machiavelli’s Florentine Histories”
- New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2005
“Uprooting Nebuchadnezzar’s Tree: Francis Bacon’s Critique of Machiavellian Imperialism” - Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2004
- Northeastern Political Science Association Conference, November 2003
“On the Woman Question in Machiavelli”
- New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, May 2003 OTHER CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION
Participant, Conference on Grotius and Natural Law
– Liberty Fund, January 2016
Participant, Conference on Prudence and Practical Wisdom in Gracian and Schopenhauer
– Liberty Fund, October 2015
Discussant, Comparative Perspectives on ‘Advice for Rulers’
– American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2015 Discussant, Machiavelli, the Laws, and Liberty
– American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2015 Participant, Conference on Machiavelli and Erasmus
– Liberty Fund, August 2015
Participant, Conference on Seneca and Tyranny - Liberty Fund, March 2015
Participant, Conference on Adam Smith - Liberty Fund, August 2014
Participant, Conference on Academic Skepticism in Cicero and Montaigne - Liberty Fund, June 2013
Discussant, Political Ontologies
- New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, May 2013 Political Theory Section Chair
- 2013 Meeting of the New England Political Science Association
Discussant, Machiavelli and the Foundations of Representative Republican Government - American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2012 - Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2013 Participant, Conference on The History of Liberty According to Benedetto Croce
- Liberty Fund, October 2011
Participant, Conference on Tocqueville on Liberty and the Problems of Democracy - Liberty Fund, April 2011
Participant, Conference on Shakespeare and Machiavelli: Comedy and Statesmanship” - Liberty Fund, February 2011
Participant, Conference on Machiavelli’s Prince and the Politics of Modernity - Liberty Fund, September 2010
Conference Organizer: “The Ethics of Patriotism: Why Should We Be Patriots at All?” - Dartmouth College, November 2009
Discussant, Machiavelli and Democracy
Discussant, Nietzsche
- American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, August 2009 Discussant, Ancient Texts, Modern Theories
- Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2008 Discussant, Conflict and Strategy in Machiavelli’s Thought
- Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting, October 2008 Chair and Discussant, Constitutional Theory
- New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting, April 2008 Discussant, “Law and Innovation in Machiavelli’s Prince” by Nathan Tarcov
- Yale Political Theory Workshop, February 2005
Discussant, Proto-Liberalism: Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, and Adam Smith
- Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, November 2003 Discussant, “Machiavelli on Machiavelli: Political Reform, Philosophy, and the Florentine’s Place on the Mountaintop” by Vickie Sullivan
- Yale Political Theory Workshop, October 2003 MEDIA
Interviewed for “Machiavelli: The Prince of Paradox” on Ideas with Paul Kennedy, Canadian Public Broadcasting, 11/6/2013 (shortlisted for the New York Festival’s International Radio Competition)
GRANTS
Ethics Institute Grant from the Dewey Crawford ’63 Endowment Fund for Forums in Professional Ethics, 2009 - 2010
Rockefeller/McNulty Faculty Research Grant, 2009 - 2010 FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES
Elizabeth R. and Robert A. Jeffe 1972 Fellowship, 2015-2016 Junior Faculty Fellowship, Winter 2013
Walter and Constance Burke Junior Faculty Research Award, 2007 – present Leslie Center for the Humanities internal fellow, 2008 - 2009
Summer Institute Fellow, Jack Miller Center for the Study of the American Founding, 2008 Dissertation nominated by the Yale Department of Political Science for the Leo Strauss
Award, 2007
Dissertation awarded department and university distinction, 2007 GSA Conference Travel Fellowship, 2006
Graduate student fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center, 2005 - 2006 Leylan Prize Fellowship in the Social Sciences, 2005 - 2006
Graduate School Scholarship for Summer Study, 2004 and 2006 Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 2003 - 2004 and 2004 - 2005 Newhouse Foundation Fellowship, 2003-4
University Fellowship for Summer Language Study, 2002 and 2004 Yale University Graduate Fellowship, 2001 - 2005
Tufts University Class of 1942 Prize Scholarship, 2001
COURSES
Political Ideas
Democratic Theory Machiavelli
Classical Political Realism: Power and Statecraft in the Ancient World Ideology and Intellectuals
Against the Tide: Excellence in a Democratic Age Republicanism: An Alternative
The Political Philosophy of Nietzsche Government Honors Program
Womanhood and Democratic Citizenship (first-year seminar in WGST) Emergency Powers and States of Exception (independent study) Livy and Roman Republicanism (independent study)
Nietzsche (independent study)
Feminist Theory (independent study) Value Pluralism (independent study)
Totalitarianism (independent study)
The Ethics of Patriotism (independent study) Chinese Political Thought (independent study) OFFICES AND AFFILIATIONS
Executive Council for the New England Political Science Association (2013-15) American Political Science Association
Foundations of Political Theory (organized section) Association for Political Theory
Yale Elizabethan Club REVIEWER SERVICE
American Journal of Political Science American Political Science Review Journal of Politics
History of Political Thought Political Research Quarterly Political Studies
Review of Politics Polity
Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory Polity Press
Routledge Lexington Press
National Endowment for the Humanities
