education

teaching/research interests

teaching recognition

courses taught

supervisions & publications

service

 

 

Don Carmichael

 

Professor Emeritus,

Dept of Political Science,

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada  T6G 2H4

 

email: Don.Carmichael@ualberta.ca

11608 Edinboro Rd, Edmonton AB T6G 1Z8

 

 

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                       BRIEF RESUME/ CV


 

EDUCATION

 

PhD: University of Toronto, 1978.  Supervisors: A. Kontos and C.B. Macpherson Fields:  Political theory, political behaviour, international relations.

 

Oxford University 1967‑70: doctoral work in political theory and philosophy (incomplete),.

 

MA, BA (honours): Queen's University, Ontario, 1962‑67.

 

 

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

Modern political philosophy: rights and human rights, individualism and public goods, justice, religious/spiritual commitment and political values  

 

The history of political thought, with concentration on Aristotle, Aquinas, Hobbes, and Locke.

 

 


TEACHING RECOGNITION

 

Many awards, including especially: Faculty of Arts Outstanding Teaching Award (University of Alberta), 1998, and

 

University of Alberta Students Union Award for Leadership in Undergraduate Teaching Excellence (SALUTE), 2007.      .

 

 

      COURSES TAUGHT

 

Graduate:  

contemporary political philosophy: courses on Rawls, Rights, Justice, Multiculturalism, Tolerance)

history of political philosophy: seminars on Hobbes,  Aristotle,  Aquinas, Marx

 

Undergraduate: 

Introduction to Political Science (100),  Modern Political Issues (103), The History of Political Thought (210),  Ethics and Politics (212),  Rights and Democracy (306),  Seminars on specific political philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Marx),  Contemporary Political Philosophy, Classical Islamic Political Philosophy.

 

 

SUPERVISIONS: PhD (4), PhD Ctte (10) MA (24) BA Honours (28)

 

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Book (author):  Democracy, Rights and Well-Being in Canada,  2nd ed (Toronto: Harcourt, Brace, 1999)  318 pp.  With Tom Pocklington and Greg Pyrcz as co‑authors.  Primary author of chapters 7, 9, 10, 11, and 13, and of the critical commentaries on chapters 4, 6, 8, and 14. 

 

Book (editor): From Philosophy To Politics: Essays in Memory of Dimitrios S. Panopalis (Edmonton: The Department of Political Science at the University of Alberta, 2005), 318 pp.

 

Articles and Chapters: on theorists (Hobbes), political values and ideologies, teaching, multiculturalism, political terrorism

 

 

SERVICE

 

Community: Edmonton Public Library Board of Trustees: Chair, 1998,1999; member, 1995-2000;.

 

Profession: organizer for several conferences including:

 

Chair of the organizing committee for the national conference of the Canadian Political Science Association, 1985‑86;

 

Convenor of the political theory section for for the conference in 1983.

 

Conference chair for the Tercentenary Conference on Hobbes (1979) and the Western Canada meetings of The Conference for The Study of Political Thought (1985, 1989, 1993, 1995).

 

University:         

 

President of the university staff association (AASUA), 2001-02; long-term member of its executive committee and chair of its teaching and learning committee;

 

Honours advisor and associate chair in the department, and chair of several committees in the department and the Faculty of Arts.