Carole Pateman

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I have become the official nominee as President-Elect of the American Political Science Association. The elections take place at the annual meeting in Toronto, 3-6 September 2009. The President-elect will hold office during 2009-10 and assume office as President of the Association during 2010-11.

In 2008 a book of essays about my work, The Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman, was published by Penn State Press. The book is edited by Mary Shanley, Iris Young and Daniel O'Neill; I contributed an “Afterword", in which I discuss the main themes of the volume and democratic theory.

My new book, written with Charles Mills, is Contract and Domination, published by Polity Press in 2007. Papers about the book, presented at a workshop in Oxford in 2008, with replies by myself and Charles Mills, can be found in the Journal of Political Ideologies, vol. 13, 3, 2008. We have participated in other discussions of our book in Cardiff, Orebro and San Francisco.

In January 2007 “The Political Science 400: A 20-Year Update” appeared in PS (a publication of the American Political Science Association: http//www.apsanet.org). The update identified the most cited scholars working in US political science graduate departments by cohort. I was ranked 4th in the top 25 of my cohort (1970-74), 3rd in the top 20 in Political Theory, and 4th in the top 40 women scholars. There are few scholars in the listings who, like myself, obtained their doctorates outside the USA.

My period as Research Professor at the School of European Studies, Cardiff University (2006-08) has ended. Before I returned to California I presented a talk at the plenary session of the 12th International Conference of the Basic Income Earth Network held in Dublin in June 2008. The text of my talk can be found via www.basicincomeireland.com.

Since 2006 I have been a consultant editor for the online journal Basic Income Studies http://www.bepress.com/bis/

A recent interview in the Italian journal Cosmopolis is available at http://www.cosmopolisonline.it/20070705/ pateman.html.

I continue as Series Editor of The Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics: see http://www.ethikon.org/ for information about the Ethikon Institute and the books published in the Series. Our most recent book is the Globalization Of Ethics: Religious And Secular Perspectives Eds. William M. Sullivan and Will Kymlicka, Cambridge University Press (forthcoming).

Left: A photo taken for my induction into the British Academy. Above: Receiving my hat and sword in Helsinki Right: It is easy to go to Italy from Cardiff

	I was born in the village of Maresfield in Sussex, England. I attended the village school and was a beneficiary of the great British reforms of the 1940s when I passed the "11 plus" examination and was able to go on to an academic education at the Lewes County Grammar School for Girls. However, I left school at age sixteen, with eight “O levels”, and worked at a series of low-grade clerical jobs before being accepted, in 1963, at Ruskin College, an independent adult education school in Oxford for working class students with no formal educational requirements. I studied economics, politics, history and sociology. During that period, many Ruskin students sat for the Oxford University Post-Graduate Diploma in Political Science and Economics; I was the only woman who sat for the examination (in 1965) and obtained a distinction. I won a place at Oxford University (at Lady Margaret Hall, then a women's college), and read Politics, Philosophy and Economics (PPE) for my BA and stayed at Oxford for my D. Phil.
My career since then has been international; I have taught on three continents. From 1991-94 I was the first woman President of the International Political Science Association. In 1988-89 I was the inaugural holder of the Kirsten Hesselgren Professorship of the Swedish Council for Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and from 1993-2000 I was an Adjunct Professor at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University. Among my public lectures are the Jefferson Memorial Lectures, UC Berkeley (1985), the Sir Douglas Robb Lectures, the Auckland University, New Zealand (1993), the John Rees Memorial Lecture, the University of Wales (1995), and the Gunnar Myrdal Lecture, Stockholm University, Sweden (1996). I hold honorary doctorates from the Australian National University, the National University of Ireland and Helsinki University. I am a fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences (1980), the American Academy for Arts and Sciences (1996)and the British Academy (2007). I joined the Department of Political Science at the University of California in Los Angeles in January 1990 and during 2006-08 I was Research Professor at Cardiff University, UK.
Curriculum Vitae (highlights) My students at UCLA	Receiving my honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland with Robert Gallo, Sir Bob Geldof and Neil Jordan (l-r).