My Students at UCLA

Keith Topper, “Sciences of Uncertainty: Perspectives on Naturalism, Politics and Power”, Ph.D. 1994. Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine Book: The Disorder of Political Inquiry, Harvard University Press, 2005. Tim Gaffaney, "Freedom, Democratic Citizenship, and the Problem of Poverty", Ph.D. 1997. Currently: Working for a private company in Los Gatos, CA [Previously: Research Director, Democratic Policy Committee, United States Senate] Book: Freedom for the Poor: Welfare and the Foundations of Democratic Citizenship, Westview Press, 2000. John Medearis, "Democracy in Joseph Schumpeter's Social and Political Thought", Ph.D. 1998. Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of California, Riverside. Book: Schumpeter’s Two Theories of Democracy, Harvard University Press, 2001 (received the Thomas J. Wilson Memorial Prize, Harvard University Press). Dan O'Neill, "A Revolution in Morals and Manners: The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate", Ph.D. 1999. Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, Gainesville Book: The Burke-Wollstoncraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy, Penn State University Press, 2007 Helena Wong, "Negotiating Gender: The Women's Movement for Legal Reform in Colonial Hong Kong", Ph.D. 2000. Currently: Department of General Education, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Michael Goodhart, "Democracy Without Limits: Human Rights and the Democratization of the Global Order", Ph.D. 2000. Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Pittsburgh University Book: Democracy as Human Rights: Freedom and Equality in the Age of Globalization, Routledge, 2005 Jason Caro, "More Freedom", Ph.D. 2000. Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Houston. Andrew Lister, "Understanding the Burdens of Judgment: Moral Pluralism, Causal Ambiguity, and the Limits of Consequentialist Public Reason", Ph.D. 2001. Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Studies, Queen's University, Ontario, Canada Shira Tarrant, "Confronting the Bonds of Ideology" Feminist Social and Political Theory, 1945-1965", PhD 2001. Currently: Associate Professor, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, California State University, Long Beach Book: When Sex Became Gender, Routledge, 2006 Mary McThomas, "The Right to Privacy: Individual Liberty, Property Interests and the Dual System of Privacy Rights in the United States", Ph.D 2007 Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Public Administration, Mississippi State University Mark Kaswan, "The Politics of Happiness and Practice of Democracy", Ph.D 2010 Currently: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Texas, Brownsville and Beyster Fellow, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University Steve On, "Securing Freedom: A Systematic and Comprehensive Approach to Addressing Violence against Women in the Private Sphere" Currently: Associate Professor, Institute of Political Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan