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Don Carmichael Professor Emeritus, Dept of Political Science, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada T6G 2H4 email: Don.Carmichael@ualberta.ca 11608 Edinboro
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BRIEF
RESUME/ CV
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
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.