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