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vita
Lyman Tower Sargent Born: February 9, 1940
563 Cricklewood Dr. Telephone:
State College, PA 16803-2118 1-814-238-3531
USA 1-814-753-2080 (Mobile)
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Fields
Research:
Utopian Thought
Politics and Literature
Recent Normative Political Thought
American Political Thought
Teaching:
Normative Political Philosophy
Early Modern and Recent Political Thought
Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
Politics and Literature
American Political Thought
Political Theory and Public Policy
Education Major Minor
B.A. Macalester College 1961 International Political Science,
Relations
M.A. University of Minnesota 1962 American None
Studies
Ph.D. University of Minnesota 1965 Political History
Science
Fellowships and Honors
Phi Kappa Delta (National Honorary Debate Society)
De Witt Wallace Graduate Fellowship, 1961-1962
Fellow, Wilton Park, England, 1972
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1981-1982
Distinguished Scholar Award, Society for Utopian Studies, 1997
Distinguished Scholar Award, Communal Studies Association, 2002
Fellow, Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, 1995-1996, Winter 2004, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008
Honorary Research Fellow, Department of History, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, 2006-2007
Visiting Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, Hilary and Trinity terms 2007
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Political Ideologies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2007, 2009
Fellow, Centre for New Zealand Studies, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2009-2010
Highfield Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham, 2012
Dissertation
The Relationship Between Political Philosophy and Political Ideology:
A Study of Etienne Cabet and His Communitarian Experiments.
Experience
Teaching and Research
Assistant Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1965-1970
Associate Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1970-1975
Professor, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1975-2005
Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 2005-
Member, Graduate Faculty, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Member, Doctoral Faculty, University of Missouri
Visiting Professor, Department of Politics, University of Exeter, England, 1978-1979, 1983-1984
Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, 1981-1982
Academic Visitor, Department of Government, London School of Economics and Political Science, 1985-1986
Fellow, Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, 1995-1996, 2004, 2005-2006, 2006-2007, 2007-2008
Visiting Professor, Schools of History and Social Studies, University of East Anglia, 1998-1999
Visiting Professor, Department of Politics, Victoria University of Wellington, 2001
Visiting Fellow, Mansfield College, University of Oxford, Hilary and Trinity terms 2007
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Political Ideologies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2007, 2009
Highfield Fellow, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Nottingham
External Examiner
Victoria University of Wellington, 1996 Janine Hayward (Doctoral thesis)
Victoria University of Wellington, 1996 Donald Dunham (MArch thesis)
Queen’s University of Belfast, 1998 Andrea McVeigh (Doctoral thesis)
University of Sydney, 2005 SooJin Yoon (Doctoral thesis)
Outside Reader
SUNY Buffalo, 2002 Lia Vella (Doctoral thesis)
Doctoral Committees at University of Missouri-St. Louis
Margie DeWeese-Boyd (1998) Co-Chair
Zinaida Karapetyan (2005)
Courtney Andrews
Duk Kim
MA Committee at University of Missouri-St. Louis
David Vaughan (1989) (Chair)
Gabriel Harper (2003) (Chair)
Administrative
Director, Political Science Laboratory, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1968-1969
Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1972-1975, 1984-1985
Chairperson, Department of Political Science, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1969-1971, 1975-1978, 1992-1997
Honorary Curator, Utopia Collection, Thomas Jefferson Library, University of Missouri-St. Louis, 1986-2002
Founder and Co-Editor, Syracuse University Press series on Utopianism and Communitarianism, 1988-1996
Editor, Utopian Studies, 1990-2004.
Research Grants
University of Wyoming Arts and Sciences Research Grant, 1965
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Summer Research Fellowship, 1966
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Summer Research Fellowship, 1969
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Summer Research Fellowship, 1975
Institute for Advanced Study, National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1981-1982
American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant, 1983 (Declined)
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Research Fellowship, 1985-1986
American Council of Learned Societies, Travel Grant, 1988
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Research Fellowship, Winter 1991
University of Missouri, Research Board, 1993-1994
University of Missouri-St. Louis, Research Fellowship, Winter 1999
University of Missouri, Research Board, Winter 2004
Professional Memberships
Association of Members of the Institute for Advanced Study
American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
Conference for the Study of Political Thought
Society for Utopian Studies
Associazione internazionale per gli studi sulle utopie
Utopian Studies Society of Europe
International Communal Studies Association
Communal Studies Association (Formerly the National Historic Communal Societies Association)
Science Fiction Research Association
H.G. Wells Society
William Morris Society
International Society for Intellectual History
Association Offices
Conference for the Study of Political Thought
St. Louis Area Coordinator 1969-1971, 1972-1978, 1980-1981, 1987-2006
Member, Council 1969-1971, 1972-1981
Editor, Newsletter, 1970-1971, 1974-1981
Member, Administrative Committee, 1974-
Member, Program Committee, 1977-1978
Member, Policy Committee, 1979-1980
Member at Large - USA, 1981-
Member, Publications Committee, 1987-1988
World Future Society, St. Louis Chapter
Member, Council, 1972-1973, 1975-1976
President, 1973-1974
Amintaphil--American Section of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Acting Secretary-Treasurer, 1973-1974
Member, Program Committee, 1975-1978, 1989-90, 1995-
Chairperson, 1977-1978
Member, Publication Committee, 1976-1979
Chairperson, 1978-1979
Member, Executive Committee, 1977-1979, 1981-1983, 1991-95
Elected Member 1993-95
Chairperson, Nominations Committee, 1981-1983
Chairperson, Membership Committee, 1991-93
International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
Member, Organizing Committee for the 1975 World Congress
Member, Organizing Committee for the 1999 World Congress
Missouri Political Science Association
Chairperson, Best Paper Award Committee, 1976
Midwest Political Science Association
Member, Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, 1976-1977
Alternative Futures: The Journal of Utopian Studies
Member, Advisory Board, 1977-1982
Member, Finance Committee, 1980-1982
Society for Utopian Studies
Member, Publications Committee, 1981-1985
Member, Steering Committee, 1983-2004, 2011-13
Chairperson, 1986-90
Editor, Utopian Studies, 1990-2004
Program Chair, 2012
Popular Culture Association
Organizer, Panels on Utopianism and Communitarianism, 1987-1988
Politics and Literature Section of the American Political Science Association
Coordinator, 1987-1991
Editor, Newsletter, 1987-1991
Member-at-Large, Executive Committee, 1993-96
Communal Studies Association (Formerly the National Historic Communal Society Association)
Member, Board of Directors, 1989-92
Member, Advisory Board, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca sull'Utopia, Università degli Studi di Bologna
Member, Advisory Board, Centro Eugenio Battisti per la Storia delle Idee, Rome
Utopian Studies Society of Europe
Member, Executive Committee, 2004-2009
Revista Morus--Utopia e Renasciemento
Member, Editorial Board
University Service
University of Missouri-St. Louis
1965-66 Member, Admissions and Financial Aid Committee
1980-2002 Department Library Coordinator (1965-69, 1972-75)
1975-97 Member, University Senate (1967-73)
1968-70 Member, International Studies Committee
Chairperson, (1969-1970)
1969-70 Member, International Studies Executive
Committee
1987-90 Member, Senate Executive Committee (1969-70, 80-81)
1972-73 Member, Graduate Council
1972-74 Member, Research and Publications Committee
1972-75 Member, College of Arts and Sciences Advising
Committee
Chairperson, (1972-74)
1974-75 Member, Ad-hoc Committee to Review the Administrative
Structure of the University of
Missouri-St. Louis
1975-78 Member, University of Missouri (U-Wide)
Doctoral Coordinating Committee--Political
Science, Chairperson, 1975-76
1975-76 Member, Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Search Committee
1976-78 Member, Committee on Financial Exigency
(U-Wide)
1976-78 Member, College of Arts & Sciences Committee
on Women's Studies
1979-81 Member, Appointments, Personnel and Tenure
Committee
Co-Chairperson, 1980-81
1980-81 Member, Evening College, Bachelor of General
Studies Committee
1984-85 Member, College of Arts and Sciences, Dean's
Advisory Committee on Appointments,
Personnel and Tenure (1982-83)
1984-85 Member, College of Arts and Sciences, Honors
Committee
1986-87 Member, Amoco Good Teaching Award Committee
1987-90 Member, Senate University Libraries Committee
Chairperson, 1987-90
1987-90 University Press Committee (U-Wide)
1987-90 Library Planning Committee
1987-89 University Faculty Committee on Tenure
(U-Wide)
1987-89 University-Wide University Review Committee,
Weldon Springs Fund
Chair, 1988-89
1988-89 Chair, College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Development Committee
1988-89 Member, Honors College Transition Committee
1988-89 Member, Research and Development Leaves Committee
1989-90 Chair, Search Committee for Chair of Communication Department
1994-95 Chair, Ad Hoc Senate Committee on Video and Instructional Technology
1992-97 Department Representative to the Political Science Alumni Chapter Board
99-00
2000-03 Pierre Laclede Honors College Planning Committee
2003-05 Pierre Laclede Honors College Assembly
2003-05 Pierre Laclede Honors College Council
Various Ad-hoc and Search Committees (University, College and Department). As Chairperson served in ex officio capacity on all department committees. Have also served on all departmental committees as faculty member.
University of Exeter
1983-84 Member, Board of Studies, Economics and
Political Development
1983-84 Member, Department of Politics, Staff-Student
Committee
1983-84 Member, Department of Politics, Single Honours
Course Structure Working Party
1983-84 Member, Department of Politics, Single Honours
Admissions Panel
Courses Taught
Undergraduate
History of Political Thought; Contemporary Political Ideologies; Normative Political Thought; Utopian Thought; Contemporary Radical Thought; American Political Thought; The Marxist Heritage (Interdisciplinary); Libertarian Thought; Asian Comparative Politics; American Government; Sophomore Honors: Political Science; Literature, Ideology and 20th Century Politics (Interdisciplinary Honors Seminar); US Political Thought at the Extremes; Plato and Aristotle; Utopian Thought and Literature; Senior Seminar: Political Science; British Political Thought
Graduate
History of Political Thought, Proseminar: Political Theory, Seminar: Political Theory, Political Theory and Public Policy, American Political Thought
Publications
Books
Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis. Homewood, IL: Dorsey Press, 1969. Revised edition, 1972. 3rd edition, 1975. 4th edition, 1978. 5th edition, 1981. 6th edition, 1984, 7th edition, 1987.8th edition. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1990. 9th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth, 1993. 10th edition, 1996. 11th edition. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt, Brace, 1999. 12th edition. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, 2003. This ed. used as the basis for a Cram101 Textbook Outline. Np: Cram101, 2007 without permission from either author or publisher. 13th edition, 2006. 14th ed. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth/Cengage Learning, 2009. Spanish edition of revised edition Ideologias Politicas Contemporaneas: Analisis Comparativo. Edición revisada. [No translator given]. Madrid: Ediciones Partenon, 1972. French edition of the 7th edition Les idéologies politiques contemporaines. Trans. Odile Demange. Paris: Economica, 1987. Korean edition of the 9th edition. Trans. Bu Nam-chul. New York: International Thomson Publishing, 1994.
(With Thomas A. Zant). Techniques of Political Analysis: An Introduction. Prepared under a grant from the University of Missouri. Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Company, 1970.
New Left Thought: An Introduction. Homewood, Illinois: Dorsey Press, 1972.
British and American Utopian Literature 1516-1975: An Annotated Bibliography. Boston, Massachusetts: G.K. Hall, 1979.
(Editor). IVR NORTHAM IV. Consent: Concept, Capacity, Conditions, Constraints. Beiheft N. F. 12 of Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie. Wiesbaden, Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1979.
British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985: An Annotated, Chronological Bibliography. New York: Garland, 1988.
(Editor). Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Reader. Pacific Grove, California: Brooks/Cole, 1990.
(Editor). Extremism in America: A Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1995.
New Zealand Intentional Communities: A Research Guide. Occasional Paper 97/2. Wellington, New Zealand: Stout Research Centre the Study of for New Zealand Society History Culture, Victoria University of Wellington, 1997.
New Zealand Utopian Literature: An Annotated Bibliography. Occasional Paper 97/1. Wellington, New Zealand: Stout Research Centre for the Study of New Zealand Society History & Culture, Victoria University of Wellington, 1997.
(Editor). Political Thought in the United States: A Documentary History. New York: New York University Press, 1997.
(Co-Editor with Gregory Claeys). The Utopia Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1999.
(Co-Editor with [Gregory Claeys] and Roland Schaer). Utopie: La quête de la société idéale en Occident. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France/Fayard, 2000.
(Co-Editor with Roland Schaer and Gregory Claeys). Utopia: The Search for the Ideal Society in the Western World. New York: The New York Public Library/Oxford University Press, 2000.
(With Lucy Sargisson). Living in Utopia: Intentional Communities in New Zealand. Aldershot, England: Ashgate, 2004. An extract was published as “Lessons from New Zealand.” Diggers & Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living 2008/2009. Ed. Sarah Bunker, Chris Coates, and Jonathan How (London: Diggers and Dreamers Publications, 2007), 89-102.
Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Articles
“Prolegomena to a Study of the Political Philosophy of Albert Camus.” The Minnesota Review 4.3 (Spring 1964): 365-69.
“Right Wing Individualism in the United States.” Minus One. Series of 6 articles, 1965-1966.
“Existentialism and Utopianism: A Reply to Frederick L. Polak.” The Minnesota Review 6.1 (1966): 72-75.
“Automation and Anarchism.” Minus One, no. 20 (October-December 1967): 5-7. Reply to comments Minus One, no. 22 (June 1968): 11.
“The Three Faces of Utopianism.” The Minnesota Review 7.3 (1967): 222-30.
“An Anarchist Utopia.” Anarchy 104 9.10 (October 1969): 316-20.
“Revolution, Evolution, and Reform.” Anarchy 114 10.8 (August 1970): 253-57.
“A Novel of the General Strike.” Anarchy 7 [ns 1 (February 1972)]: 15-16.
“The Icarians in Iowa.” Annals of Iowa, 3rd series, 41.4 (Spring 1972): 957-68.
“Utopia and Dystopia in Contemporary Science Fiction.” The Futurist 6.3 (June 1972): 93-98. Rpt. in Teaching Futures: A Collection of Articles, Syllabuses, Bibliographies and Teaching Ideas in Future Studies. Ed. James N. Stirewalt (Washington, DC: The World Future Society, 1974), unpaged.
“Women in Utopia.” Comparative Literature Studies 10.4 (December 1973): 302-16.
“A Note on the Other Side of Human Nature in the Utopian Novel.” Political Theory 3.1 (February 1975): 88-97.
“Utopia: The Problem of Definition.” Extrapolation 16.2 (May 1975): 137-48.
“English and American Utopias: Similarities and Differences.” Journal of General Education 28.1 (Spring 1976): 16-22.
“Introduction.” Man Abroad (Boston, MA: Gregg Press, 1976), v-viii.
“Themes in Utopian Fiction in English Before Wells.” Science-Fiction Studies 3 (November 1976): 275-82.
“Human Nature and the Radical Vision.” Nomos XVII: Human Nature in Politics. Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. Ed. J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman (New York: New York University Press, 1977), 250-61.
“Equality, Freedom, and Security: Some Interrelationships.” IVR X. Equality and Freedom: International and Comparative Jurisprudence. Ed. Gray Dorsey. 3 Volumes. (Dobbs Ferry, New York: Oceana Publications and Leiden, The Netherlands: A.W. Sythoff, 1977), 2: 635-40.