CURRICULUM VITAE


(updated, January, 2020)


LORIAUX, Michael Maurice

Professor, Political Science

Northwestern University




Employment



1988 - present: Department of Political Science, Northwestern University

2001-2011: Visiting Professor, Sciences Po, Paris

1984-1988:  Department of Political Science, University of Utah

1978-1980: Professeur d'histoire et géographie, Collège Stanislas, Paris



Education


PhD, Department of Politics, Princeton University

Maîtrise d'Histoire, University of Paris Panthéon Sorbonne

Diplôme, l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po)

A.B., History, University of Chicago



Teaching and Research Fields


International Relations

European Union

Post-Sovereignty, Post-Nationhood Studies



Academic Awards and Honors


Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques.


Charles Taylor Award for the best book in political science that employs or develops interpretive methodologies and methods, awarded by the Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Conference Group of the APSA, for European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier


Gabriel A. Almond Award for best doctoral dissertation in Comparative Politics, by American Political Science Association


Tocqueville Fellow, The French-American Foundation



Courses taught


Undergraduate:


PS 211 Introduction to Interpretive Methods in Political Science


PS 240 Introduction to International Relations


PS 308 Critical Theory and the Study of Politics


PS 364 French Politics, Society, and Culture (taught in Paris)



Graduate:


PS 408 Interpretive and Critical Approaches to the Study of Politics


PS 447 Critical Studies in World Politics




Scholarship


Books:


English translation of Marc Crépon, Murderous Consent, Fordham University Press, 2019.


Europe Anti-Power: Ressentiment and Exceptionalism in EU Debate, London: Routledge Interventions, 2016.


English translation of Marc Crépon, The Thought of Death and the Memory of War, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Law and Moral Action in World Politics.  Edited with Cecelia Lynch, University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 

Capital Ungoverned: The Dismantling of Activist Credit Policies in Interventionist States.  Co-authored with Meredith Woo-Cumings, Kent Calder, Sylvia Maxfield, and Sofia Perez, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997.

The Past as Prelude: History in the Making of the New World Order.  Edited with Meredith Woo-Cumings, Boulder: Westview, October, 1992.

France After Hegemony: International Change and Financial Reform, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.



Articles and book chapters:


Mythography: No Exit, No Conclusion?,” with Cecelia Lynch, in Berit Bliesemann de Guevara, ed., Myth and Narrative in International Politics, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.


“Many Europes and the Place of Power,” in Chris Rumford, ed., Many Europes, Special Issue of the journal Comparative European Politics 14 (4), July 2016.

“Hermeneutics,” a 6000-word article in The Encyclopedia of Political Thought, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.


“Rankings and Faculty Governance of the University,” in Peter Hayes, ed., The Future of the University, Bielefeld: Transkript: Verlag für Kommunikation, Kultur, und soziale Praxis, 2012.


“Thucydides’ Aesthetics of Power and Constructivist Historicism,” in Oliver Kessler, Rod Hall, Cecelia Lynch and Nick Onuf, eds., On Rules, Politics, and Knowledge, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.


“The Poetic Sources of the Modern Concept of Nationhood,” in Rainer Hudemann, Manfred Schmelling, Die Nation auf dem Prüfstand, Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2009.

“Developmentalism as Political Culture and Liberalization in France” in Meredith Woo, Neoliberalism and Institutional Reform in East Asia, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

"The Illusion of Power and the Disruption of Moral Norms: Thucydides' Critique of Periclean Policy," with Sara Monoson, in Beate Jahn, ed., Classical Theory in International Relations, Cambridge University Press, 2006 (reprises 1998 APSR article).

“France: A New “Capitalism of Voice?” in Linda Weiss, ed., States in the Global Economy, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

"The Rhineland, European Union, and Regionalism in the World Economy," in Gheorgii Derluguian, ed., Questioning Geopolitics (Greenwood Press, 2000). 

"International Law and Moral Action in International Relations Thought," in Cecelia Lynch and Michael Loriaux, Law and Moral Action in World Politics, University of Minnesota Press, 2000.

"The French Developmental State as Myth and Moral Ambition," in Meredith Woo-Cumings, ed. The Developmental State, Cornell University Press, 1999.

"Realism and Reconciliation: France, Germany, and the European Union," in Ethan Kapstein and Michael Mastanduno, eds., Unipolar Politics: Realism and State Strategies After the Cold War, Columbia University Press, 1999. 

"The Illusion of Power and the Disruption of Moral Norms: Thucydides' Critique of Periclean Policy," with Sara Monoson, American Political Science Review, June, 1998.

"Saint Augustine and the Realists: Skepticism, Psychology, and Moral Action in International Relations Thought," International Studies Quarterly, December, 1992. 

"The Riddle of the Rhine: France, Germany, and the Geopolitics of European Integration."  In Meredith Woo-Cumings and Michael Loriaux, eds., The Past as Prelude: History in the Making of the New World Order, Boulder: Westview, October, 1992.

"Prodigal Daughter: Karol Wojtila and 'la Fille aînée de l'Église,'" French Politics and Society, Winter, 1991. 

"France, Monetary Policy, and the Integration of Europe," French Politics and Society, Summer, 1990

"Comparative Political Economy as Comparative History," Comparative Politics, April, 1989. 

"States and Markets: French Financial Interventionism in the Seventies," Comparative Politics, January, 1988


Works in Progress:


English translation of Emmanuel Pataq Siman, Christianity Otherwise: An Oriental Dominican Addresses the West (Paris: L'Harmattan, 2018). To be submitted for publication in English in 2020.

European Union, Vatican II, and the Twilight of Sovereignty. Book manuscript to be submitted for publication in 2021.


Book Reviews and other publications:

"Les deux phases de l'hégémonie financière américaine," Le Monde, Feb. 9, 1998. 

Julius W. Friend, Seven Years in France: François Mitterrand and the Unintended Revolution, 1981-1988, French Politics and Society, Spring, 1990

Bernard Udis, The Challenge to European Industrial Policy: Impacts of Redirected Military Spending, American Political Science Review, June, 1989

Howard Machin and Vincent Wright, eds., Economic Policy and Policymaking under the Mitterrand Presidency, 1981-1984, St. Martin's Press.  American Political Science Review (80) no. 4, December, 1986



University Service

2018-present, Director, French Interdisciplinary Group

2016-present: Director, Art, Literature, and Contemporary European Thought, GLO program in partnership with the Université de Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle

2012-16: Undergraduate Adviser, Critical Theory interdisciplinary minor.

2010-16: Director, Paris Program in Critical Theory, Literature, and the Media.

2007-present: Critical Theory Graduate Cluster committee.

2004-present: selection committee, Paris Program in Critical Theory (graduate)

1996-2012: Co-founder and Co-Director, French Interdisciplinary Group

2003-6: member, University Hearing Board, University Hearing and Appeals System.

2001-3: Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science.

1995-1998: Member, Curriculum Review Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University.

1997-1998: Acting Director, (Buffett) Center for International and Comparative Studies.

1993-6: Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University.

1992-6: Member, University screening committee, Fulbright grant program.