CONTACT: alan.kahan@uvsq.fr CURRICULUM VITAE OF ALAN KAHAN DEGREES: Ph.D. 1987, The University of Chicago M.A. 1981, The University of Chicago B.A. 1980, Princeton University EMPLOYMENT: Professor of British Civilization, Université de Versailles/St. Quentin, 2012 Adjunct Professor, SciencesPo, Paris, 2010-12 Adjunct Professor, NYU-Paris, 2010-12 Adjunct Professor, American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy (AGSIRD), Paris, 2009-12 Professor, Department of History, Florida International University, 2004-07 Director of Graduate Studies in History, 2003-06 Director, FIU European Studies Program, 2003-05 Associate Professor 1995 2003 Assistant Professor, 1992-95 Mellon Assistant Professor of Humanities, Rice University, 1988-92 EDITORIAL BOARD: The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville GRANTS AND Elected Senior Member, Institut Universitaire de France, 2016-21 AWARDS: Visiting Senior Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, Jan.-June, 2018 Visiting Senior Fellow, King s College, London, Jan.-June, 2017 Visiting Senior Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford, Jan.-June, 2014 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2013-2014 Earhart Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, 2012 Florida International University Outstanding Research Award, 2006 Florida International University Summer Research Fellowship, 2006 Earhart Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, 2001 Florida International University Summer Research Fellowship, 1999 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1995-96
Curriculum vitae of Alan Kahan 2 BOOKS: The Three Pillars of Liberalism: Freedom, Markets, and Morals from The Enlightenment to the Present, in progress Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls, Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 256. Mind vs Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism, Transaction Publishing, 2010, pp. 321. Alexis de Tocqueville, Continuum Books, 2010, pp. 151. Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage, Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, pp. 256. Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt, John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville, Oxford University Press, 1992. Paperback edition, with new afterword, Transaction Publishers, 2001, pp. 242. TRANSLATIONS: Benjamin Constant, Commentary on Filangieri s Work, the first English translation, Liberty Fund, 2015, pp. 272. Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution, a new translation, The University of Chicago Press. Volume One, 1998, pp. 451. Volume Two, 2001. Paperback edition of Volume One, 2004, pp. 528. EDITIONS: Liberal Moments, edited and with an introduction by Ewa Atanassow and Alan S. Kahan, Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 227. On Liberty, with Supporting Documents, by John Stuart Mill, a new edition with introduction, Bedford-St. Martin s Press, 2008, pp. 200. The Tocqueville Reader, edited and with an introduction by Alan S. Kahan and Olivier Zunz, Blackwell, 2002, pp. 384.
Curriculum vitae of Alan Kahan - 3 ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS : Why Steve Bannon is Not a Fascist, Society, forthcoming 2018 And What if Tocqueville was Wrong?, The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, forthcoming 2018. From Basel to Brooklyn: Liberal cultural pessimism in Burckhardt, Röpke, and the American Neoconservatives, in Wilhelm Röpke (1899-1966): A Liberal Political Economist and Conservative Social Philosopher, ed. Stefan Kolev, Springer Verlag, 2018. Tocqueville: The Corporation as an Ethical Association, in Wealth, Commerce and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics, ed. by B. Heath and E. Kaldis, The University of Chicago Press, 2017, pp. 283-300. Vom Ungeist des Verachtung des Geldes in Wilhelm Röpke heute: zur Aktualitât des grossen liberalen Ökonomen und Publizisten, ed. Pierre Bessard, Edition Liberales Institut, 2017, pp. 74-83. Democratic Grandeur: How Tocqueville Constructed His New Moral Science in America, in Tocqueville s Voyages: The Evolution of His Ideas and Their Journey Beyond His Time, ed. Christine Henderson, Liberty Fund, 2015, pp. 177-201. Tocqueville, Religion and Democracy: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls, American Political Thought, vol. 4, no. 1, 2015, pp. 100-119. Tocqueville and Liberal Education, The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, vol. 34, no. 2, 2013, pp. 159-168. Beyond the Frontiers of Christendom: Tocqueville, Islam, and Hinduism, Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy, ed. by Ewa Atannassow and Richard Boyd, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 89-110. The Aristocratic Vision: Matthew Arnold and Nietzsche, History of Political Thought, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring, 2012, pp. 125-143. Max Weber and Warren Buffet: Looking for the Lost Charisma of Capitalism, Society, vol. 49, no. 2, March, 2012, pp. 144-150.
Curriculum vitae of Alan Kahan - 4 ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS (cont.) Tocqueville: Liberalism and Imperialism", French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day, ed. Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 152-168. Tocqueville and Gender Distinctions, Essais de philosophie pénale et de criminologie, vol. 7, 2008, pp. 117-128. Aristocracy in Tocqueville/De l aristocratie chez Tocqueville", The Tocqueville Review, March 2006, pp. 323-348. Review essay, Tocqueville and the French Revolution, History and Theory, October, 2006, pp. 424-435. Western Intellectuals and Commercial Society", Society, January 2006, pp. 45-52. "Burckhardt and Modernity", Beitraege zu Jacob Burckhardt, ed. by Andreas Cesana and Lionel Gossman, Munich, 2004, pp. 253-268. The Burckhardt-Sismondi Debate over the Meaning of the Italian Renaissance", The Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by Yannick Portebois and Nicholas Terpstra, Toronto, 2003, pp. 159-170. "Defining Opportunism: The Political Writings of Eugène Spuller," History of Political Thought, Winter 1994. Liberalism and Realpolitik in Prussia, 1830-52: The Case of David Hansemann," German History, October 1991. "Guizot et le modèle anglais" in François Guizot et la culture politique de son temps (Paris: Gallimard, 1991). "The Victory of German Liberalism? Rudolf Haym, Liberalism and Bismarck," Central European History, March 1990. "Tocqueville's Two Revolutions," Journal of the History of Ideas, Oct. 1985.
Curriculum vitae of Alan Kahan - 5 BOOK REVIEWS in Albion; Annales Benjamin Constant; American Historical Review, Canadian Journal of History; H-France; History of Political Thought; Journal of American History; Journal of Modern History; Nineteenth- Century Prose; Utilitas; Victorian Studies. PAPERS PRESENTED OVER THE PAST 4 YEARS AT THE FOLLOWING UNIVERSITIES: Institute for Historical Research, University of London Department of Politics, King s College, University of London Intellectual History Seminar, Oxford University Long Nineteenth-Century History Seminar, Oxford University Department of History, University of Sussex Department of Politics, University of Hull Department of Politics, University of Durham Department of Sociology, Humboldt University, Berlin Department of Politics, University of Halle, Germany History Graduate Center of the City University of New York, USA SciencesPo, Reims Séminaire d histoire intellectuel, Paris 8 et Paris 4