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.