Steve Vanderheiden
Associate Professor of Political Science
Ketchum 106, 333 UCB
phone (303) 492-7440 • fax (303) 492-0978
e-mail: vanders@colorado.edu
http://spot.colorado.edu/~vanders/
EDUCATION:
Doctor of Philosophy, Political
Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison,
2001
Master of Arts, Political Thought (Political Science & Philosophy)
Bachelor of Arts, Economics and
English (double major)
ACADEMIC
POSITIONS:
Professorial Fellow – Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public
Ethics (CAPPE)
Associate Professor – Political
Science and Environmental Studies
Assistant Professor – Political
Science
Associate Professor – Philosophy and
Political Science
Assistant Professor – Philosophy and
Political Science
RESEARCH:
Books:
The Politics of Energy: Challenges for a Sustainable Future (edited volume), from a special issue of Environmental Politics, under contract
with Routledge, 2011.
Atmospheric
Justice: A Political Theory of Climate Change (monograph),
Paperback
edition published September 2009
Editor’s
Pick, Choice (November 2008)
Winner of the Harold and Margaret Sprout Award for best book
on global environmental politics, International Studies Association, 2009
Political Theory
and Global Climate Change (edited volume),
Refereed articles:
“Distinguishing
Mitigation and Adaptation,” Ethics, Place
and Environment 12, no. 3 (October 2009): 283-86.
“Allocating Ecological Space,” Journal of Social Philosophy
40, no. 2 (Summer 2009): 257-75.
“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.
reprinted in: Sustainability:
Collected Essays, ed. by Tom Campbell and David Mollica
(
“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:
“Climate Change and Collective Responsibility,”
in Compatibilist Responsibility: Beyond Free Will and
Determinism, ed. by N. Vincent, I. van de Pol and
J. van den Hoven (Springer, expected 2011).
“Climate Change and Intergenerational Responsibility,” in For All Time, ed. by Kathleen Dean Moore
and Michael Nelson (
“Introduction” and “Climate Change, Environmental Rights, and Emissions
Shares,” in Political Theory
and Global Climate Change (
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Book reviews:
Review of James Gustave Speth’s The Bridge at
the End of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to
Sustainability, in Global
Environmental Politics 9, no. 3 (August 2009): 143-45.
Review of Peter Dauvergne’s The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for
the Global Environment, in Perspectives
on Politics 7, no. (March 2009): 223-24.
Review of Peter Oosterveer’s Global Governance of Food Production and
Consumption: Issues and Challenges, in Global
Environmental Politics 8, no. 3 (August 2008): 143-45.
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 Dustin E. Howes’ Toward a
Credible Pacifism: Violence and the Possibilities of Politics, in Choice (forthcoming).
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.
Invited talks:
“Climate Justice at COP-15 and Beyond,”
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, The
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia (organized by Seumas Miller), November 25, 2009.
“Justice and Global Climate
Change,” Institute for Ethics and Public Affairs,
“Political Theory Perspectives on
U.S. Climate Policy,” testimony before the Committee
on America’s Climate Choices, National Academy of Science, August 31, 2009.
“Climate Change and Collective
Responsibility” (keynote talk), Moral
Responsibility: Neuroscience, Organization & Engineering conference,
Centre for Ethics and Technology, TU-Delft, Netherlands, August 2009.
“Justice, Responsibility and
Climate Change,” Department of Politics and International Relations,
“Justice and Global Climate
Change,” presented at the University of California-San Diego Political Theory
Colloquium (organized by Alan Houston),
“Climate Change and Environmental
Rights,” presented at the
“Environmental Degradation as a
Human Rights Issue,” Ideas Matter lecture series,
“Political Theory of Global
Climate Change,” presented at the Stanford Humanities Workshop,
“Eco-Terrorism? Radical
Environmentalism and the ‘War on Terror’,” Virginia Commonwealth Colloquium series,
Recent presentations:
APA: American Philosophical Association APSA: American
Political Science Association
APT: Association for Political Theory MPSA:
NASSP: North American Society for Social
Philosophy WPSA: Western Political
Science Association
“Living Green and Living Well:
Climate Change and the Low-Carbon Imaginary,” to be presented at the WPSA
annual meeting,
“Climate Justice
Beyond the State,” presented at the International Studies Association
annual meeting,
“Citizens and Consumers:
Individual Responsibility for Sustainability,” presented at the From the Local to the Global: International
Sustainability Conference,
“Challenges for a Sustainable Risk
Society: The Case of Nuclear Energy,” presented at the WPSA annual meeting,
“Cultivation or Conservation? Competing Imperatives for Land
Use,” presented at the CU-Boulder ENVS colloquium series, April 1, 2009
“Intergenerational
Cosmopolitanism: Maintaining Justice along Two Dimensions,” presented at the
APT annual meeting,
“Climate Policy, National
Liability, and Collective Responsibility,” 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.
“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,
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)
CU-Boulder Dean’s Fund for
Excellence grant ($700), Spring 2008
CU-Boulder Institute for Ethics
and Civic Engagement grant ($2500), Spring 2008
CU-Boulder Center for the
Advancement of Research and Teaching in the Social Sciences (CARTSS) Albert E.
Smith Scholar grant for research on “Sustainability, Security, and Survival in
a New Nuclear Age” ($5000), Spring 2008
CU-Boulder Dean’s Fund for
Excellence grant ($700), Fall 2008, Fall 2009
CU-Boulder Committee for
Humanities and the Arts Visiting Scholar grant ($1000), Fall
2008 (used to bring David Schlosberg to campus)
CU-Boulder President’s Fund for
the Humanities grant ($3000), Fall 2009, for “Climate
Justice Lecture Series”
CU-Boulder Single Semester
Research Leave (Spring 2010)
SERVICE:
Department service:
Assistant Director of Graduate Studies, CU Political Science, 2008-09
Sustainability
Residential Academic Program liaison for CU ENVS, 2008-09
Member, Political Science Graduate Committee,
CU-Boulder (2007-present)
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)
Associate
Editor, Ethics, Place & Environment (2009-present)
Senior
Research Fellow, Earth Systems Governance Project (2010-present)
Panel chair, paper discussant, WPSA,
MPSA, NASSP, APSA meetings
Chair, WPSA
Environmental Political Theory section, 2009 annual meeting