Professor

Office: 1721 HW

Phone: 212-772-5671
Email:jwallach@hunter.cuny.edu

On Leave, Spring 2009

• History of Political Theory--especially ancient Greek
  
• Democratic Theory
• Human Rights
• Philosophy of the Social Sciences

• PolSc 112: Introduction to Political Theory
• PolSc 201: Ancient to Early Modern Political Thought
• PolSc 202: Modern Political Thought (1600-1900)
• PolSc 203: Political Theory since 1900
• PolSc 304.58: Democracy and Equal Opportunity
• PolSc 304.61: Plato and Democratic Theory
• PolSc 304.62: Aristotelian Political Science
• PolSc 304.69: Human Rights, Cultural Relativism and Politics
• PolSc 307: Democratic Theory
• PolSc 316: Political Theory of Human Rights

Education:
Ph.D., M.A., Princeton University
B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz

• "Platonic Laws, 'Ka-di Justice,' and the Rule of Law," in The Political Identity of the West, ed. Martin van Ackeren and Orrin Finn Summerell (Peter Lang, 2007), 77-94
  
• "Democracy in Ancient Greek Political Theory: 1906-2006," Polis, Vol. 23, No. 2 (2006), 350-67
  
• "Human Rights as an Ethics of Power, " in Human Rights in the 'War on Terror', ed. Richard A. Wilson (Cambridge, 2005)
• "R. L. Nettleship," "R. H. Crossman," "K. R. Popper" -- Intellectual biographies in
  Dictionary of British Classicists (London: Thoemmes Press, 2004)
  
• "American Constitutionalism and Democratic Virtue", Ratio Juris, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2002), 219-41
  
• "The Platonic Academy and Democracy," Polis, Vol. 19, Nos. 1-2 (2002), 7-28
• "The Platonic Political Art: A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy". (Penn State Press) 2001
• "Plato's Socratic Problem, and Ours," History of Political Thought, Vol. 18 (Autumn,1997), 377-98
• "Two Democracies and Virtue," in Euben, Wallach, Ober, eds., Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994), 319-40
  
• "Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy", co-edited, w/ J. Peter Euben and Josiah Ober (Cornell University Press). 1994
• "Contemporary Aristotelianism," Political Theory, Vol. 20, No. 4 (1992), 613-41
• "Socratic Citizenship," History of Political Thought, Vol. 9 (1988), 393-413
• "Liberals, Communitarians, and the Tasks of Political Theory," Political Theory, Vol. 15, No. 4 (November, 1987), 581-611

• "Smith, Strauss, and Platonic Liberalism," Political Theory, Vol. 29 (June, 2001), 424-29
• "Can Liberalism Be Virtuous?," Polity, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Fall, 2000), 163-74
• "After Politics," on A. MacIntyre, After Virtue: An Essay in Moral Theory," Telos, No. 57 (Fall, 1983), 233-40
• "Fearful Establishment," on S. Huntington, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony," democracy, Vol. 3 (1983), 117-128