Danielle S. Allen

School of Social Science
Institute for Advanced Study
Princeton, N.J. 08540
(609) 734-8252  (Voice)
e-mail: dsallen@ias.edu

FIELDS OF EXPERTISE

• Political theory: democratic theory, language and politics, political sociology
• History of political thought: Greek and Roman, early modern, 20th century
• History of democracies; Athenian political and legal history; American political and legal history
• 20th c. American poetry.

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. Harvard University, 2001
• MA. Harvard University, 1998
• Ph.D. King’s College, University of Cambridge, 1996
• M.Phil. King’s College, University of Cambridge, 1994
• A.B. Princeton University (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), 1993

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

• 2007- UPS Foundation Professor, Institute for Advanced Study
• 2007- Visiting Professor and Research Associate, University of Chicago
• 2000- Instructor, Odyssey Project
• 2004-07 Dean, Division of Humanities, University of Chicago.
• 2003-07 Professor, Political Science, Classical Languages and Literatures, the Committee on Social Thought, and the College, University of Chicago
• 2000-03 Associate Professor, Political Science, Classical Languages and Literatures, and the Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
• 1997-2000 Assistant Professor, Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago

PUBLICATIONS

I. Books

The World of Prometheus: the politics of punishing in democratic Athens. Princeton University Press. 2000, reprinted 2002.
(Reviews: London Review of Books, TLS, Classical Quarterly, Journal of Politics, Political Theory, Gnomon, Phoenix, and others)

Talking to Strangers: anxieties of citizenship since Brown v. Board of Education University of Chicago Press. 2004. (Reviews: Boston Review, Political Theory, Review of Politics, Dissent, and others; excerpted in several journals including In These Times and in French translation in Labyrinthe)

II. Articles

“Platonic Quandaries: Recent Scholarship on Plato,” in Annual Review of Political Science (Vol. 9: 127-141, 2006)

“Talking about revolution: on political change in fourth-century Athens,” in Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece (ed. by S. Goldhill and R. Osborne, Cambridge, 2006)

 “A Multilingual America,” Soundings. 2005

“Invisible Citizens: on Exclusion and Domination in Ralph Ellison and Hannah Arendt,” in Nomos XLVI: Political Exclusion and Domination (ed. by M. Williams and S. Macedo, 2005)

 “The Lower Frequencies: On Hearing the Stirrings of Transnational Partisanship,” Perspectives on Politics (Vol. 3:3, 2005).

 “Law and Greek Tragedy,” in Cambridge Companion to Greek Law & Culture (ed. by D. Cohen and M. Gagarin, Cambridge University Press, 2005)

“Ralph Ellison,” Encyclopaedia of the Harlem Renaissance. Routledge, Forthcoming.

“Ralph Ellison on the Tragi-Comedy of Democratic Citizenship,” Raritan Feb. 2004, also in a modified form in 2004 in Raft of Hope: Ralph Ellison’s Political Thought, L. Morel, ed. University of Kentucky Press.

“Time’s Fluidity: on the elasticity and regularity of time in ancient Greek thought,” Daedulus, Spring 2003.

“Ancient Athenian Punishment,” Center for Hellenic Studies, web lecture series, Fall, 2002.

“Burning The Fable of the Bees: Cultural Poetics and the Incendiary Authority of Nature,” in The Moral Authority of Nature, L. Daston and F. Vidal, eds. University of Chicago Press,  2003.

 “Angry Bees, Wasps, and Jurors: The Symbolic Politics of Orgê in Athens,” in S. Braund and G. Most, eds. Ancient Anger. Yale Classical Studies, edited volume, October 2003.

“Law’s Forcefulness: Hannah Arendt vs. Ralph Ellison on the Battle of Little Rock,” Oklahoma City Law Review, Oct. 2001.

“Sounding Silence: in Kafka’s ‘In the Penal Colony,’” Modernism/Modernity, April 2001.

“Gorgianic Figures,” in S. Bartsch and T. Sloane, eds. Oxford Encyclopedia of Rhetoric. Oxford University Press. 2001.

“Envisaging the Body of the Condemned: the Power of Platonic Symbols,” Classical Philology. Oct. 2000.

 “Changing the Authoritative Voice: Lycurgus’ Against Leocrates,” Classical Antiquity. April, 2000.

“Democratic Dis-ease: Of Anger and the Troubling Nature of Punishment,” in The Passions of Law, ed. S. Bandes. NYU Press. 2000. pp. 191-214.

“Imprisonment as Punishment in Classical Athens,” Classical Quarterly, 57: 121-135, 1997.

“A Schedule of Boundaries: an exploration of time in Athens,” Greece and Rome, 1996.

III. General Interest

“What’s In a Name?” Convocation Address, University of Chicago, June 2007

“Since You Are Mortal,” The American Scholar, Vol. 73: 4, Sep. 2004

“Equality,” The Nation, Nov. 2004

“A Lackluster Golden Anniversary,” Commentary on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, http://inthefray.com/html/article.php?sid=433&mode=thread&order=0, May, 2004

“Diversity is the Word,” Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Newsletter, Fall 2003

“The Power of Education,” Aims of Education Address, given at the University of Chicago, Sep. 20, 2001; reprinted as “The Thinking Citizen” in the Chicago Tribune Sunday Magazine, Oct. 21, 2001. Also reprinted in Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, R. Dagger and T. Ball, eds. Longman, 2003 and as “With Whom Would You Travel,” The American Scholar, January 1, 2002, Vol. 71: 1.

“Ancient Violence and the Web of Human Relations,” Tableau. University of Chicago, Humanities Division, Alumni Magazine. March 2000, pp. 9,11

“Censored: a documentary on Iranian women writers,” script written in collaboration with H. Adak, R. Shaeri, and L. Hughes, 1999

II. Reviews

M. Gagarin, Antiphon the Athenian: Oratory, Law, and Justice in the Age of the Sophists (Austin : University of Texas Press, 2002) and A. Hourcade, Antiphon d'Athènes: Une pensée de l'individu (OUSIA, 2001), Classical Review.2004; 54: 310-312

D. Villa, Socratic Citizenship. Political Theory, 2003, Vol. 31: 888-891

A. Carson, The Beauty of the Husband. March 2001, Chicago Tribune

A. Carson, Economy of the Unlost, Chicago Review. 2000

R. Slotkin, Abe, J. Morris, Abraham Lincoln: A Foreigner’s Quest, and H. Holzer, Lincoln As I Knew Him. Feb. 2000, Chicago Tribune.

S. Johnstone, Disputes and Democracy, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Jan. 2000. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/00.01.05.html

G. Wills, St. Augustine and A Necessary Evil, Chicago Tribune, Sun. Oct. 17, 1999

C. Rocco, Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity. Classical Philology, 93: 196-200, 1997

INVITED LECTURESHIPS

Blackwell Lecture Series, Bristol University, 2008

Phi Beta Kappa Lecture, University of Texas, 2007

University of Chicago Convocation Address, 2007

Ruth Winter Lecture, Lake Forest College, 2007

Rall Symposium, North Central College, 2006

Teagle Forum Lecture, Northwestern, 2006

Ralph D. Mershon Citizenship Lecture, Ohio State, 2006

Cambridge Classics Triennial Keynote, 2005

University of Berkeley, Classics ConvocationAddress, 2005

Annual National Meeting of State Humanities Councils Keynote, 2005

St. John’s College Convocation Address, 2004

Roberts Lectureship, Dickinson College, 2004

G. Else Lecture, University of Michigan, 2003

University of Wisconsin Humanities Center Public Lecture, 2003

American Bar Association Law Day Panel, Library of Congress, 2003

Inaugural Frank Snowden Lecture, Howard University, 2003

Rosenthal Lectures, Law School, Northwestern University, 2003

Foundation for the Carolinas, Annual Meeting Keynote, 2003

Moffett Lecture, Princeton University, 2002

University of Houston-Clear Lake Presidential Lecture, 2002

Wesleyan Humanities Center Lecture, 2001

Chicago Women’s Board, 2001

Edson Lecture, University of Wisconsin, 2001

AWARDS, GRANTS, AND FELLOWSHIPS

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATIONS

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