James Wilbur Ceaser is an American political scientist.[1] He is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics, and the director of the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy, at the University of Virginia, where he has taught since 1976.[2] In addition to his work at UVA, Ceaser is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University, Princeton University, Oxford University, the University of Rennes, and the University of Bordeaux, and been a Fulbright teacher at the University of Basel and the University of Florence.[3]
James Ceaser | |
|---|---|
| Born | James Wilbur Ceaser |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics |
| Awards | Bradley Prize |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Kenyon College (BA) Harvard University (PhD) |
| Influences | Plato, Aristotle, Jefferson, Madison, Tocqueville |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Harvard University, University of Virginia |
Education
editCeaser was educated at Kenyon College (B.A.), Cornell University, and Harvard University (Ph.D.) where he studied under Walter Berns, Allan Bloom, James Q. Wilson, Harvey Mansfield, and Walter Dean Burnham.[4][5][1] His dissertation, "Presidential Selection: Theory and Development," was published by Princeton University Press in 1979.[6]
Academic career
editCeaser is a well-known scholar of American politics and political philosophy. His notable books include Liberal Democracy and Political Science (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992),[7] Reconstructing America (Yale University Press, 1997),[8] and Nature and History in American Political Development (Harvard University Press, 2008).[9] Since 2004, Ceaser has served as the chairman of the Academic Council of the Jack Miller Center for the Teaching of America's Founding Principles and History. In 2006, he founded the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy at the University of Virginia.[10] In 2015, Ceaser received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for Academic Freedom from the Bradley Foundation.[11]
References
edit- ^ a b Peter Lawler, "Ceaser's American Political Science," Perspectives on Political Science vol. 29 issue 3 (Summer 2000)
- ^ "| UVA Public People Search, U.Va". publicsearch.people.virginia.edu. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
- ^ "James W. Ceaser".
- ^ James W. Ceaser, "Acknowledgments," Presidential Selection (Princeton University Press, 1979, xiii)
- ^ "Transcript of James Ceaser on Conversations with Bill Kristol". Retrieved April 24, 2023.
- ^ Ceaser, James W. (June 21, 1979). Presidential Selection. ISBN 9780691021881.
- ^ "Liberal Democracy and Political Science | Hopkins Press".
- ^ "Book Details".
- ^ "Nature and History in American Political Development — James W. Ceaser".
- ^ "Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy". University of Virginia. Retrieved April 24, 2023.
- ^ Hannemann, Benjamin. "James W. Ceaser". www.bradleyfdn.org. Retrieved April 24, 2023.