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Steven J. Vanderheiden
Assistant Professor of
Political Science
Ketchum 106, 333 UCB
phone (303) 492-7440 •
fax (303) 492-0978
e-mail: steven.vanderheiden@colorado.edu
http://spot.colorado.edu/~vanders/
EDUCATION:
Doctor of Philosophy, Political Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2001
Dissertation
Green Justice: Liberal
Egalitarianism and the Challenge of Environmental Aims
Examination committee
Marion Smiley
(chair), Bernard Yack, Patrick Riley
Master of Arts, Political Thought
(Political Science & Philosophy)
Bachelor of Arts, Economics and English (double major)
SPECIALTIES:
Areas of research specialization:
Normative political theory, environmental
political theory, environmental ethics
Areas of teaching competence:
Ancient, modern, and contemporary political thought,
democratic theory, ethical theory, environmental politics
EXPERIENCE:
Assistant Professor – Political Science
Associate Professor – Philosophy and Political Science
Assistant Professor – Philosophy and Political Science
RESEARCH:
Books:
Atmospheric
Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change (monograph),
Political Theory
and Global Climate Change (edited volume),
Refereed articles:
“Radical
Environmentalism in an Age of Antiterrorism,” Environmental Politics 17, no. 2 (April 2008): 299-318.
reprinted in Reflections on American Environmentalism,
ed. by David Schlosberg and Elizabeth Bomberg (
“Two Conceptions of
Sustainability,” Political
Studies 56, no. 2 (June 2008): 435-55.
“Climate Change and
the Challenge of Moral Responsibility,” Journal of Philosophical Research (2007 special issue on “Ethics
and the Life Sciences,” ed. by Fred Adams): 85-92.
“Conservation,
Foresight, and the Future Generations Problem,” Inquiry 49, no. 4 (August 2006): 337-52.
“Two Shades of Green: Food
and Environmental Sustainability,” Environmental
Ethics 28, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 129-45.
“Assessing the Case
against the SUV,” Environmental
Politics 15, no. 1 (February 2006): 23-40.
“Eco-Terrorism or
Justified Resistance? Radical Environmentalism and the ‘War on Terror’,”
Politics & Society 33, no. 3
(September 2005): 425-47.
reprinted in: Terrorism in
Perspective, ed. by Sue Mahan and Pamala Griset (
“Missing the Forest
for the Trees: Justice and Environmental Economics,” Critical Review of International Social and
Political Philosophy 8, no. 1 (March 2005): 51-69.
“Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Responsibility: Responding to Climate
Change,” Public Affairs Quarterly 18
(April 2004): 141-58.
“Justice in the Greenhouse: Climate Change and the Idea of
Fairness,” Social Philosophy Today
vol. 19 (2004): 89-101.
“Rousseau, Cronon, and the Wilderness Idea,” Environmental
Ethics 24, no. 2 (Summer 2002): 169-88.
“Habitat Conservation Plans and the Promise of Deliberative
Democracy,” Public Integrity 3, no. 3 (Summer 2001): 205-20.
“Why the State Should Stay Out of the Wedding Chapel,” Public
Affairs Quarterly 13 (April 1999): 175-89.
Book chapters:
“Introduction” and “Climate Change, Environmental Rights, and Emissions
Shares,” in Political Theory
and Global Climate Change (
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Book reviews:
Review of Peter Oosterveer’s Global
Governance of Food Production and Consumption: Issues and Challenges, in Global Environmental Politics
(forthcoming).
Review of Neoliberal Environments: False Promises and
Unnatural Consequences, ed. by Heynen, McCarthy, Prudham, and Robbins, in Environmental Ethics, forthcoming
(2008).
Review of Steven Cohen’s
Understanding Environmental Policy,
in Environmental Ethics, forthcoming
(2007).
Review of A Political Space: Reading the Global
through Clayoquot Sound, ed. by Warren Magnusson and Karena Shaw, Perspectives on Politics 2, no. 2 (March
2004): 205-6.
Review of Peter Singer’s
One World: The Ethics of Globalization,
in Environmental Ethics 26, no. 2
(Summer 2004): 209-12.
Review of Louis Pojman’s
Moral Philosophy: A Reader, in Teaching Philosophy 26, no. 3
(September 2003): 313-15.
Short book reviews:
Review of David Lewis
Schaefer’s Illiberal Justice: John Rawls
vs. The American Political Tradition, in Choice (September 2007).
Review of Donald
Liddick’s Eco-terrorism: Radical
Environmental and Animal Liberation Movements, in Choice (April 2007).
Review of Alan
Dershowitz’s Rights From Wrongs: A
Secular Theory of the Origins of Rights, in Choice 42 (September 2005).
Review of Robyn
Eckersley’s The Green State: Rethinking
Democracy and Sovereignty, in Choice 42,
issue 6 (February 2005): 1093.
Review of From Liberal Values to Democratic Transition,
ed. by Ronald Dworkin, in Choice 41,
issue 11/12 (July 2004): 2124.
Review of Human Nature and Public Policy: An Evolutionary
Approach, ed. by Somit and Peterson, in Choice
41, issue 8 (April 2004): 1542.
Review of Joel
Kassiola’s Explorations in Environmental
Political Theory, in Choice 40,
issue (July/August 2003): 1980.
Review of Meir
Dan-Cohen’s Harmful Thoughts: Essays on
Law, Self, and Morality, in Choice 40, issue (January 2003): 902.
Review of Charles W.
Anderson’s A Deeper Freedom: Liberal Democracy as an Everyday Morality,
in Choice 39, issue (December 2002): 707.
Presentations:
APA: American Philosophical Association APSA: American Political
Science Association
APT: Association for Political Theory MPS:
MPSA:
SPSA: Southern Political Science Association WPSA: Western Political Science
Association
“Climate Policy, National Liability, and
Collective Responsibility,” to be presented at the NASSP annual meeting,
“Consuming Democracy: Purchasing the
Forum at the Market,” presented at the MPSA annual meeting, Chicago, April
2008.
“Green Consumerism: Saving the World at
the Cash Register?” presented at the WPSA annual meeting,
“Justice and Global Climate Change,”
presented through the Center for Values and Social Policy seminar series,
“Holding Nations Responsible: Climate Change and Collective
Responsibility,” presented at the “Environment, Energy, Ethics: Science and
Responsibility for the 21st Century” conference,
“Challenging the Privatization of Consumption,” presented at the MPSA
annual meeting, Chicago, April 2007.
“Minimizing the Role of Luck in Environmental Governance,” presented at
the WPSA annual meeting,
“Who Governs the Market? Consumer Sovereignty, Democracy, and Social
Justice,” presented at the APSA annual meeting,
“Who Governs the Market? Consumer Sovereignty, Democracy, and Social
Justice,” presented at the MPSA annual meeting, Chicago, April 2006.
“Climate Change, Environmental Rights, and Emissions Shares,” presented
at the WPSA annual meeting, Albuquerque, March 2006.
“Climate Change and Obligations to Cooperate,” presented at the MPS
annual meeting,
“The Normative Implications of Ecological Footprinting,” presented at the
APSA annual meeting,
“Two Conceptions of Sustainability,” presented at the Association for
Politics and the Life Sciences annual meeting,
“The Normative Implications of Ecological Footprinting,” presented at the
MPSA annual meeting, Chicago, April 2005.
“Climate Change and the Challenge to Moral Responsibility,” presented at
the APA Pacific division meeting,
“Two Shades of Green: Food and Environmental Sustainability,” presented
at the WPSA annual meeting,
“Eco-Terrorism? Radical Environmentalism and the ‘War on
Terror’,” invited talk, Virginia
Commonwealth Colloquium series, November 2004.
“Climate Change and the Challenge to Moral Responsibility,” presented at
the Ethics and the Life Sciences conference,
“Eco-Terrorism? Radical Environmentalism and the ‘War on
Terror’,” presented at the APA Central Division meeting, Chicago, April 2004.
“Inequality, Equity, and Climate Change Mitigation,” presented at the
MPSA annual meeting, Chicago, April 2004.
“Climate Change and the Challenge to Moral Responsibility,” presented at
the Conference on Value Inquiry,
“The Case Against the SUV,” presented at the WPSA annual meeting,
“Eco-Terrorism? Radical Environmentalism and the ‘War on Terror’,”
presented at the MPS annual meeting,
“All is Fair? Moral
Rules during Wartime,” presented at the meeting of the NASSP annual meeting,
“The New Urban
Environmentalism,” presented MPSA annual meeting, Chicago, April 2003.
“The New Urban
Environmentalism,” presented WPSA annual meeting,
“Knowledge, Uncertainty, and Responsibility:
Responding to Climate Change,” presented at the MPS annual meeting,
“Justice in the
Greenhouse: Climate Change and the Idea of Fairness,” presented at the annual
meeting of the NASSP,
“Whither
“Sustainability and the Good Life: State
Neutrality and Environmentalism,” presented at the WPSA annual meeting,
“Democratizing
Environmental Policy,” presented at the MPSA annual meeting, Chicago, April
2000.
“Equality and Sustainability:
The Environmental Implications of Justice,” presented at the WPSA annual
meeting,
“Can Liberals Be
Environmentalists (and Vice Versa)? Liberal Theory and the Challenge of
Environmental Aims,” presented at the MPSA annual meeting, Chicago, April 1999.
“Liberal
Environmentalism: An Oxymoron?” presented at the Wisconsin Political Science
Association meeting,
“Community and the
Origin of Social Duty: Durkheim’s Methodological Collectivism,” presented at
the SPSA meeting,
“Rousseau and the Seeds
of Modern Environmentalism,” presented at the SWPSA annual meeting,
GRANTS & AWARDS:
UMD Chancellor’s Small
Grant ($750), F01, F02, F03, F04, S05, F05, S06, F06
UMD
Research Committee Travel Grant ($500), F02, S04, F04, S05, S07
UMD
Single Semester Leave, Fall 2005
Archibald Bush
Foundation Grant for “Developing Reflective Practitioners and
Self-Regulated Learners”
(second faculty cohort: Jan. 2006-May 2007)
UMD Faculty Sabbatical,
sabbatical supplement ($10,000), AY 2007-08 (declined)
University of
Minnesota Institute for Advanced Study Residential Fellowship,
Spring semester 2008 (declined)
CU-Boulder Dean’s Fund for Excellence grant ($700),
Spring 2008
CU-Boulder Institute for Ethics and Civic Engagement
grant ($2500), Spring 2008
SERVICE:
Department service:
Member, Political Science Graduate
Committee, CU-Boulder (2007-08)
Member and chair, search
committees in UMD Philosophy, Political Science
Department representative: Library, Academic Affairs,
Orientation (UMD)
Campus service:
Director,
Steering Committee,
Advisor, UMD Socratic Society (undergraduate philosophy
club)
Member, UMD Environmental Studies Program Board (2002-07)
Member, UMD Interdisciplinary Studies Committee (2004-07)
Professional service:
Editorial
Board member, Public Affairs Quarterly (2005-2008)
Panel organizer, WPSA annual
meeting, 2001
Manuscript
reviewer, The MIT Press, Public Affairs Quarterly, American Political
Science Review, Journal of Social Philosophy, Justice Quarterly, Environmental
Politics
Panel
chair, paper discussant, WPSA, MPSA, NASSP meetings
Chair,
WPSA Environmental Political Theory section, 2009 annual meeting