Diana Schaub

Diana Schaub is professor of political science at Loyola College in Maryland.^[1] Schaub received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches and writes on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and American political thought.

Schaub is also a member of the President's Council on Bioethics,^[2] and her nomination to that post by Pres. Bush has generated controversy.^[3] According to a 2006 article in The New Yorker, "Schaub has compared the harvesting of stem cells to slavery, and once said in a speech, 'Every embryo used for purposes of research is someone's blood relative.'"^[4]

Career

After graduating summa cum laude from Kenyon College, Schaub began her career as an assistant managing editor for the conservative magazine, The National Interest in 1985.^[5] She then served as a professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. In 2003-2005, while serving as a professor at Loyola College, Schaub taught at a series of lectures and seminars designed for high school teachers, held at Ashland University. The conference was titled, “Race and Rights in American History” and was funded by a Teaching American History grant from the U.S. Department of Education.^[6]

From 2001-2007 Schaub served as the chair of the political science department at Loyola College.

Publications

Schaub has co-edited or written two books, What So Proudly We Hail: America’s Soul in Story, Speech, and Song^[7] and Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s "Persian Letter".^[8] Schaub has contributed chapters to several books, including “From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires: Hawthorne and the Cartesian Project,” in the book, Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass,^[9] and “Captain Kirk and the Art of Rule,” in the book Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today.^[10] Schaub has also been published in many academic journals and newspapers including National Affairs,^[11] the Baltimore Sun,^[12] and The Public Interest.^[13]

• Kass, Amy A., Leon Kass, and Diana Schaub (eds.) (2011). What So Proudly We Hail: America’s Soul in Story, Speech, and Song Intercollegiate Studies Institute ISBN 1610170067
• Schaub, Diana J. (1995). Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu's "Persian Letters" Rowman & Littlefield ISBN 0-8476-8039-8

Honors and Awards

Schaub has received numerous awards and fellowships throughout her career. Schaub was awarded the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters in 2001, and received a research grant from the Earhart Foundation in 1995. She was also appointed to the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society in 2007.^[14]

External Links

• What So Proudly We Hail’s official website
• “America at the Bat” article from National Affairs
• Diana Schaub on Lincoln and Douglass, Washington & Lee University

See also

• American philosophy
• List of American philosophers

References

1. ^ Political Science
2. ^ http://bioethics.georgetown.edu/pcbe/about/schaub.html
3. ^ [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
4. ^ Michael Specter, "Political Science: The Bush Administration's War on the Laboratory," The New Yorker, March 13, 2006.
5. ^ Author Bio, http://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/diana-schaub
6. ^ "Race and Rights in American History," http://teachingamericanhistory.org, http://teachingamericanhistory.org/institutes/2004/race_readings.html.
7. ^ http://www.isi.org/books/bookdetail.aspx?id=48a46961-f7d6-4d38-aacf-6787353fb5c9
8. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Erotic-Liberalism-Diana-J-Schaub/dp/0847680401
9. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Apples-Gold-Pictures-Silver-Honoring/dp/0739141597
10. ^ http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Reason-Political-Applications-Theory/dp/0739102230
11. ^ http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/america-at-the-bat
12. ^ http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2010-03-24/news/bal-op.court0324_1_justices-oral-arguments-supreme-court-tv
13. ^ http://www.nationalaffairs.com/public_interest/detail/bioethics-and-the-constitution
14. ^ http://www.hoover.org/fellows/8803

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