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Mr. Alexander S. Duff

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Political Science

Email: Alexander.Duff@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2011
    Major: Social Science
    Specialization: Political Science
    Dissertation: The Paradox of Heideggerian Politics
  • MA, Carleton University, 2003
    Major: Political Science

Professional Memberships

  • American Political Science Association. (June 2019 - Present).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • PSCI 2316 - Honors US and Texas Constitutions and Institutions, 2 courses.
  • PSCI 3310 - Political Theory: Quest for Justice, 5 courses.
  • PSCI 3320 - Political Theory: The State and its Critics, 6 courses.
  • PSCI 3996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience, 2 courses.
  • PSCI 4330 - Topics in Political Theory, 5 courses.
  • PSCI 4900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • PSCI 4951 - Honors College Capstone Thesis, 1 course.
  • PSCI 5350 - Topics in Political Theory, 1 course.
  • PSCI 5900 - Special Problems, 6 courses.
  • PSCI 6310 - Topics in Political Theory, 2 courses.
  • PSCI 6900 - Special Problems, 5 courses.

Non-Credit Instruction

  • Other (Society of Fellows), 20 participants. (January 2022).
  • Other (Reading Group, graduate and undergraduate students), 6 participants. (June 3, 2020 - July 22, 2020).

Directed Student Learning

  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Political Science. (August 2021).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Political Science. (October 2020).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Political Science. (November 2018 - November 2023).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "Political Thought F. Scott Fitzgerald," Political Science. (October 2020 - October 2023).
  • Undergraduate Honors Thesis Chair, "The Education of Glaucon in Plato's Republic," Political Science. (January 2022 - April 15, 2022).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Political Science. (August 2018 - April 15, 2022).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Political Science. (January 2022 - January 31, 2022).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Political Science. (October 2019 - May 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Political Science. (October 2019 - May 2021).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Political Science. (December 2019 - November 2020).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Political Science. (October 2019 - August 2020).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Political Science. (January 2020 - February 2020).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Political Science. (October 2019 - December 2019).
  • Undergraduate Honors Thesis, English. (February 2019 - May 2019).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Political Science. (January 2019 - January 2019).
  • Doctoral Comprehensive Exam Member or Grader, Political Science. (January 2019 - January 2019).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Duff, A.S. (2015). Heidegger and Politics: The Ontology of Radical Discontent. New York, Cambridge University Press.

    • Book Chapter

  • Duff, A.S. (2021). Heidegger’s Challenge to the Renaissance of Classical Political Rationalism. Leo Strauss and Contemporary Thought.
  • Duff, A.S. (2020). Communication Ethics in Machiavelli. Political Communication Ethics: Theory and Practice. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

    • Journal Article

  • Duff, A.S. Anger, Hatred, and Judgment in Aristotle's Rhetoric. American Journal of Political Science.
  • Ward, A., Nichols, M., Dinan, M., Duff, A.S., Fortier, J., Schaeffer, D. (2022). Author Meets Critics: Ann Ward’s The Socratic Individual. 259-301. https://politicalsciencereviewer.wisc.edu/index.php/psr/article/view/750
  • Duff, A. (2022). Heidegger's Post-Western Politics. Political Research Quarterly.
  • Duff, A.S. (2022). The Language of Politics in Being and Time.
  • Duff, A.S. (2018). The Problem of Rule in MacIntyre's Politics and Ethics in the Conflicts of Modernity. 4 (1) 21.
  • Duff, A.S. (2011). Republicanism and the Problem of Ambition: The Critique of Cicero in Machiavelli's Discourses. Journal of Politics. 73 (4) 980-992.
  • Duff, A.S. (2010). Stanley Rosen's Critique of Leo Strauss.

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Duff, A.S. (Author & Presenter), McDonald Center, Abraham Lincoln and the Rule of Law, Mercer University, Macon, GA, United States of America. (2023).
  • Duff, A.S. (Author & Presenter), Constitutional Conversations: A Civic Education Summit, Abraham Lincoln on the Rule of Law, University of Dallas, United States of America. (2022).
  • Duff, A.S. (Author & Presenter), Re-Reading Aristotle's Ethics Today, How Martin Heidegger Reads the Ethics, Eric Voegelin Institute, Louisiana State University, United States of America. (2022).
  • Duff, A. (Author & Presenter), Heidegger's Political Utopianism, Department of Political Science, University of Houston, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).
  • Duff, A.S. (Author & Presenter), What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Speech: A Word from Machiavelli's Florence, Michigan State University, United States of America. (2019).
  • Duff, A.S. (Presenter), The Paradox of Heideggerian Politics, United States of America. (2018).

    • Keynote/Plenary Address

  • Duff, A.S. (Author & Presenter), On the Varieties of Political Alienation: Challenges to Democracy in Continental Thought, Louisiana Tech University, United States of America. (2022).
  • Duff, A. (Author), LSU Graduate Conference in Philosophy, Heidegger and the Language of Politics, LSU, Baton Rouge, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Duff, A.S. (Author & Presenter), What Next for the War in Ukraine?, Putin-Dugin-Heidegger and the Deconstruction of the West: Ideological Elements in the Russian Regime, UNT, United States of America. (2022).
  • Duff, A. (Other), What We Talk About When We Talk About Political Speech, Honors College, University of Houston, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Duff, A.S. (Author & Presenter), Midwestern Political Science Association, Anger and Hatred in Aristotle's RHETORIC, MPSA, Chicago, United States of America. (2023).
  • Duff, A.S. (Author & Presenter), Southern Political Science Association, The Problem of Anger in Aristotle's RHETORIC, SPSA, St. Pete Beach, Florida, United States of America. (2023).
  • Duff, A. (Author & Presenter), Ancients Critique of the Moderns: The Problem of Political Science, United States of America. (2021 - 2021).
  • Duff, A. (Author & Presenter), American Political Science Association, Machiavelli and the Political Psychology of Factionalism in the Florentine Histories, San Francisco, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).
  • Duff, A. (Author & Presenter), New England Political Science Association, Heidegger on Postwestern Politics, New England Political Science Association, Mystic, Connecticut, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).
  • Duff, A.S. (Discussant), American Political Science Association, Comments on Panel on German Political Thought, United States of America. (2019).
  • Duff, A.S. (Author & Presenter), American Political Science Association, Machiavelli's Humors in the Florentine Histories, United States of America. (2019).
  • Duff, A.S. (Discussant), New England Political Science Association, Comments on Panel on Contemporary Political Theory, United States of America. (2019).
  • Duff, A.S. (Panelist), Southern Political Science Association, Comments on Michelle Clarke, Machiavelli's Florentine Republic, United States of America. (2019).

    • Paper

  • Duff, A. (Author & Presenter), North Texas Philosophical Association, Heidegger and the Language of Politics, United States of America. (2020 - 2020).

    • Symposium

  • Duff, A.S. (Coordinator/Organizer), Symposium on Heidegger's Thought, University of Texas, Austin, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Duff, A.S. (Other), Demagoguery, Oratory, and Liberty, Demagoguery, Oratory, and Liberty, Liberty Fund, Savannah, Georgia, United States of America. (2019 - 2019).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Fellowship

  • Duff, A.S., "Texas Fellowship," sponsored by Civitas Institute, University of Texas - Austin, State, $95000 Funded. (2023 - 2024).

    • Grant - Research

  • Duff, A.S., "CREATE grant," University of North Texas, $5000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).

    • Grant - Service

  • Duff, A.S., "Constitutionalism and Democracy Forum," sponsored by Jack Miller Center, Private, $17000 Funded. (2022 - 2023).
  • Borck, C.A. (Co-Principal), Duff, A.S. (Co-Principal), "American Civic Tradition Professionalization Seminar with the Constitutionalism and Democracy Forum," sponsored by Jack Miller Center, National, $26000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Duff, A.S., "Constitutionalism and Democracy Forum," sponsored by Apgar Foundation, Private, $10000 Funded. (2022 - 2022).
  • Borck, C.A. (Co-Principal), Duff, A.S. (Co-Principal), Ruderman, R. (Co-Principal), Major, R. (Co-Principal), "Constitutionalism and Democracy Forum," sponsored by Jack Miller Foundation, National, $10000 Funded. (2021 - 2022).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • Duff, A.S., Borck, C.A., "American Civic Tradition - Summer sessions for teachers," sponsored by Jack Miller Center, National, $26000 Funded. (2023 - 2023).

Service

University Service

  • Committee Member, PSCI Professionalization Seminar Committee. (August 2022 - Present).
  • Co-Director, Constitutionalism and Democracy Forum. (August 2021 - Present).
  • Member, PSCI Graduate Studies Committee. (August 2021 - Present).
  • Member, PSCI Graduate Studies Committee. (August 2021 - Present).
  • Member, PSCI Library Committee. (August 2021 - July 2022).
  • Director, History of Political Thought Speaker Series. (September 2020 - April 2022).
  • Member, Executive Committee. (August 2020 - July 2021).
  • Committee Member, PSCI Graduate Studies Committee. (August 2018 - July 2020).
  • Committee Member, PSCI Library Committee. (August 2018 - July 2020).

Professional Service

  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Review of Politics. (November 2020 - November 2020).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Journal. (October 2020 - October 2020).
  • Reviewer, Book, Palgrave MacMillan. (August 20, 2020 - September 14, 2020).
  • Conference-Related, New England Political Science Association. (September 2018 - November 2019).
  • Reviewer, Book, Palgrave MacMillan. (October 8, 2019 - November 26, 2019).