Sarah L. Houser
1310 Hillcrest Rd.217 O’Shaughnessy Hall
South Bend, IN 46617 Department of Political Science
574-339-4801University of Notre Dame
South Bend, IN 46556
Education:
Ph.D., University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, January 2010
Dissertation: Loving Pimlico: Patriotism in the Age of the Cosmopolis
Advisor: Dr. Michael Zuckert
Defense Date: August 22, 2009
M.A., University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 2005
B.A. (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa), Rhodes College, Memphis, TN, 2002
Experience:
Instructor, POLS 30747, “Patriotism and Cosmopolitanism”
Spring 2009
Teaching Assistant
University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
Fall 2003-Spring 2005
Courses: Introduction to Political Theory, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Constitutional Law
Editorial Assistant
Review of Politics, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN
August 2005-December 2006; August 2008-December 2008
Research Assistant
“Wollstonecraft in America,” Dr. Eileen Botting, University of Notre Dame
Fall 2002-Spring 2003
Publications:
“'Drawing the Line of Equality’: Hannah Mather Crocker on Women’s Rights” co-authored with Eileen Hunt Botting, American Political Science Review, May 2006
Reminiscences and Traditions of Boston: being and Account of the Original Proprietors of that town, the Manners and Customs of its People. By Hannah Mather Crocker, eds. Eileen Hunt Botting and Sarah L. Houser, New England Historical Genealogical Society Press, forthcoming.
Conference Papers:
“The Last Refuge of Scoundrels?: Richard Rorty and the Contemporary Rehabilitation of
Patriotism,” as part of the panel: “The Conditions of Civic Virtue” at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, 2009.
“Lex Vera, Lex Romana: Cicero on Patriotism and Universal Justice” as part of the panel: “Cicero and the Romans” at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, 2007.
“In the Shadow of Mary Wollstonecraft: Hannah Mather Crocker on Women’s Rights” as part of the panel: “Mary Wollstonecraft's Philosophy and its Legacies” at the Midwest Political Science Association Conference, 2004.
Service:
Discussant, Panel on “Colonial, Racial, and Ethnic Inequalities and Injustices,” American Political Science Association Conference, August 2008
Graduate Student Representative, Political Science Department Academic Honesty Committee, University of Notre Dame, 2004-05
President, Political Science Graduate Organization, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2005-Spring 2006
Vice-President, Political Science Graduate Organization, University of Notre Dame, Fall 2003-Spring 2005
Grants/ Fellowships:
College of Arts and Letters, Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2009-2010
Willis Family Research Fellowship in Gender Studies, 2008-09
Earhart Foundation Fellowship, 2007-08; 2006-07
Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, Summer Faculty/student Research Grant, Summer 2003
Awards/Honors:
KanebCenter Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching - 2004
Phi Beta Kappa (inducted May 2001)
Omicron Delta Kappa (inducted April 2002)
Seidman Award for Outstanding Senior in Political Science (April 2002)
Pi Sigma Alpha- Political Science Honors Society
Phi Alpha Theta – History Honors Society
Rhodes College Dean’s List (Fall 2000)
RhodesCollege Honor Roll (Fall 1998-Spring 2002)
Seidman Award for Outstanding Freshman Political Science Student (April 1999)
National Merit Scholar