912 S. 34th Ave. Director of Graduate Studies (Master’s Programs)
Hattiesburg, MS 39402 Department of Political Science, International
(601) 268-6563 Development, and International Affairs
Marek.Steedman@usm.edu University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406
(601) 266-4941
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ph.D., Political Science August 2003
Major, Political Theory; Minor, Comparative Politics
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
B.A., Political Science, with High Distinction May 1994
Articles and Chapters
“‘Walk with Me in White’: Autonomy in a Herrenvolk Democracy (Atlanta, 1880-1910),” invited to revise and resubmit to Du Bois Review.
“‘All The Bonds of Race … Slacken’”: Estrangement and Racial Discord in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America,” under review at Representations.
“Resistance, Rebirth, and Redemption: The Rhetoric of White Supremacy in Post-Civil War Louisiana,” in “Rights and Practices of Modern Resistance,” Historical Reflections /Réflexions Historiques, volume 35, no. 1, spring 2009.
“How Was Race Constructed in the New South?,” Du Bois Review, volume 5, no. 1, spring 2008.
“State Power, Hegemony and Political Memory: Lotman and Gramsci,” in Amy Mandleker and Andreas Schonle eds., Lotman and Cultural Studies: Encounters and Extensions, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006. (revised version of Poroi article)
“Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865-1879,” in Diana Paton and Pamela Scully, eds., Gender and Slave Emancipation in the Atlantic World, Duke University Press, 2005.
“State Power, Hegemony and Political Memory: Lotman and Gramsci,” Poroi, vol. 3, no. 1., June 2004.
Book Manuscript
Jim Crow Liberals: How Southern Progressives Remade Race, Citizenship, and Liberalism in America. Under review.
Book Reviews
Review of “James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government,” American Review of Politics, (forthcoming, Vol. 30 (Fall 2009 / Winter 2010)).
Areas of interest:
Race Theory, American Political Thought, History of Political Thought, Social Theory, Continental European Political Thought, Philosophy of Science, American Political Development, Race and Southern History, Law and Society, New Orleans.
Positions:
New Orleans Research Collaborative, Executive Board member.
Projects in Progress:
Race and New Orleans Bibliography (team leader). Current bibliography will be published at http://nolaresearch.org.
“The South’s Faustian Bargain: Race, Modernity, and Southern Agrarian Thought,” article
Research project on party platforms of the two major political parties in the United States, with Allan McBride.
TEACHING POSITIONS:
Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science 2005—
International Development, and International Affairs.
University of Southern Mississippi
Great Issues of Politics; Political Philosophy: Plato to Machiavelli;
Political Philosophy: Hobbes to Nietzsche; Contemporary Political
Philosophy; Southern Politics; Intro to American Politics;
American Political Theory.
Visiting Assistant Professor. Department of Political Science. 2003-2005
Carleton College.
Introduction to Political Philosophy; Modern Political Philosophy;
Race Theory: Contemporary Approaches; American Political Development;
Reason and Enlightenment: The Frankfurt School and Political Theory;
Democracy and Its Critics; American Political Thought.
Graduate Student Instructor. Political Science Department. Spring Terms,
University of Michigan. 2000, 2002, 2003
Introduction to Political Theory.
Adjunct Instructor. Political Science Department. Spring 1998
Albion College.
Politics of American Democracy.
ADMINISTRATIVE POSITIONS:
Director of Graduate Studies (Master’s Programs). 2007—
Department of Political Science, International Development,
and International Affairs. University of Southern Mississippi.
AWARDS:
Mississippi Campus Compact, Help America Vote Program Award 2010
With Troy Gibson.
Rita Mae Kelly Endowment Fellowship Award. Centennial Center for Political 2009
Science and Public Affairs.
Ford Fellow. Political Science Department. University of Michigan. 2002-2003
Renewal. Included summer stipend.
Outstanding Concentration Advisor Award. Political Science 2002
Department. University of Michigan.
Ford Fellow. Political Science Department. University of Michigan. 2001-2002
Dorothy McGuigan Competition for Best Graduate Student 2001
Essay on Women and Gender, Second Prize.
University of Michigan Women’s Studies Program.
Margaret and Paul Lurie Prize for Excellence in Teaching. 2001
University of Michigan Honors Program.
Rackham Predoctoral Fellow. Rackham Graduate School. 2000-2001
University of Michigan.
Thesis Research Grant. Political Science Department. 2000
University of Michigan.
The University of Michigan Outstanding Graduate Student 1999
Instructor Award. Rackham Graduate School.
University of Michigan.
John W. Kingdon Award for Outstanding Graduate Student 1999
Instructor in the Political Science Department.
Rackham Pedagogy Grant. Rackham Graduate School. 1999
University of Michigan.
Thesis Research Grant. Political Science Department. 1999
University of Michigan.
MacArthur Foundation Grant. Social Science Research Council 1996
on International Peace and Security. With Professor Ted Hopf.
Received under the auspices of the Mershon Center at Ohio
State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Non-academic Awards:
Parent of the Year. W.I. Thames Elementary, Hattiesburg, MS 2010
CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION:
“‘Walk With Me in White’: Race and Self-Mastery in Gilded Age Atlanta,” Race and Political Theory Panel. Western Political Science Association, Vancouver, March 19-21, 2009.
“Wards of the Nation: Southern Progressive Tutelage of the Races (1900-1920),” American Political Theory Conference, Wesleyan University, October 9-12, 2008.
“Can Liberalism be Ascriptive?: Race and Dependence in American Political Thought,” Dependence and Independence in Constructions of Citizenship Panel. Western Political Science Association, San Diego, March 20-22, 2008.
Chair and Discussant. Political Theory Panel. Annual Meeting of the Mississippi and Louisiana Political Science Associations, University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, March 2-3, 2007.
“The End of the Agrarian Tradition in the South: Race, Labor, and Conceptions of Independence,” American Political Theory Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, November 2-5, 2006.
“All the Bonds of Race ... Slacken”: Race and Free Labor in Louisiana, 1865-1900,” presented at the Lockmiller Seminar, Department of History, Emory University, April 12, 2006.
“Race and Emancipation,” Invited lecture, “Slavery and Emancipation in Global Perspective” course at Hamline University, April 13, 2005.
Participant. American Studies Winter Workshop, with June Howard. December 6-10, 2004.
“Free Labor and Racial Ideology in the United States: An Historical Examination,” Economies of Race: Identity and Race Formation within the Political Economy of the United States Panel. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, September 2-5, 2004.
“‘Strangers Among Themselves’: Race and Democracy in Tocqueville’s Democracy in America,” paper presented at the Foundations of Political Theory Workshop on Myth, Rhetoric, and Symbolism, APSA, Chicago, Illinois, September 1, 2004.
“‘Dead Votes’: Race, Labor, and Politics in Louisiana, 1867-1887,” presented, in various formats, to the University of Minnesota Political Theory Colloquium, February 6, 2004; to the Political Theory Convocation at Texas A&M University, March 24, 2004; and to the Political Science Department Faculty, Carleton College, April 15, 2004.
“Labor, Race, and the South: A Case Study of Louisiana During Reconstruction and Jim Crow.” The Politics of Race, Employment, and the Law in the Twentieth Century United States Panel at the Social Science History Association Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, November 13-16, 2003.
“‘Dead Votes’: Race, Labor, and Political Agency in the Nineteenth Century U.S..” Labor and American Political Development Panel, Western Political Science Association Meeting in Denver, Colorado, March 27-29, 2003
Chair. “Foundations of American Politics: Republican and Liberal?” Panel. Western Political Science Association Meeting in Denver, Colorado, March 27-29, 2003
“Before Dusk: The Concept of Race in Postbellum Louisiana,” Poster Session. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, August 28-September 1. Also presented as a paper at the Foundations of Political Theory Workshop on Myth, Rhetoric, and Symbolism, APSA, Boston, Massachusetts, August 28, 2002.
“Gender and the Politics of the Household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865-1879.” Paper presented, by invitation, at the Race and Law Panel of the Outside Law: (Un)precedented Margins symposium in Toledo, Ohio, April 21, 2001.
Discussant. “Lotman and the Modeling of Culture” Panel. Conference on The Works of Yuri Lotman in an Interdisciplinary Context: Impact and Applicability. University of Michigan, October 29th, 1999.
Discussant. “Race and the Liberal Polity” Panel. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, September 1st-5th, 1999.
“‘By God, I Thought There Was Going to Be a Revolution There’: Freedwomen and Political Participation in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1862-1880,” Women's History Network Annual Conference, Borders and Frontiers, Glasgow, Scotland, 12-13th September, 1998.
Participant. Violent Conflict in the Twenty-First Century: Causes, Instruments and Mitigation. A Conference of the Midwest Consortium for International Security Studies, a program of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Oak Brook, Illinois, December 5, 6 and 7, 1997.
Department:
Department Governance Committee Member 2008—
Undergraduate Assessment Committee Member 2008-2009
Pi Sigma Alpha, Faculty Advisor 2008—
Chair Search Committee Member 2007-2008
External Review Committee Member 2007-2008
Alternative Learning Committee Member 2007-2008
Graduate Admissions Committee Member 2007—
American Politics/Public Admin Search Committee Member 2007-2008
Undergraduate Assessment Committee Member 2006-2007
Department Tenure and Promotion Guidelines Committee Member Summer 2006
Undergraduate Curriculum Revision Committee Member Fall 2005
Political Theory Search Committee Member. 2000-2001
Concentration Advisor. Political Science Department. 2000-2003
University of Michigan.
Political Theory Student Reading Group, Organizer. 1999-2001
Graduate Student Mentor. Political Science Department. 1998-2000
University of Michigan.
University:
Academic Council. Honors College Representative (elected to three year term). 2009—
Speaker. Cultural Orientation. International Exchange Program April 17, 2009
Presenter. Presidential Preview. Honors College March 30, 2009
March 26, 2010
Panel member. “Fridays at 2”: Obama Inauguration. Jan. 16, 2009
Student Printz and Department of Mass Communication and Journalism
Moderator. College Democrats and College Republicans Debate. Oct. 14, 2008
University of Southern Mississippi.
Moderator. University Forum Debate. University of Southern Mississippi. Sept. 11, 2007
Chairman, Mississippi State Democratic Party v. Chairman,
Mississippi State Republican Party.
Speaker. General Session. Honors Day. Honors College. Oct. 26, 2007
Katrina Research Center, Member 2005-2006
Profession:
Member. New Orleans Research Collaborative 2009—
Association for Political Theory
2009 Annual Conference Program Committee, Member 2008-2009
Peer reviewer for American Journal of Political Science 2008
Non-Professional Community Service:
W.I. Thames Elementary Parent-Teacher Association, President 2008—
Hattiesburg School District, Superintendent’s Parent Advisory Council, Member 2008—
U8 Soccer Coach Fall 2008
U6 Assistant Soccer Coach Spring 2008
American Political Science Association
Western Political Science Association
Association for Political Theory
Don Herzog, University of Michigan (dherzog@umich.edu)
Elizabeth Wingrove, University of Michigan (ewingrov@umich.edu)
Daniel P. Carpenter, Harvard University (dcarpenter@latte.harvard.edu)
Jacqueline A. Stevens, UC-Santa Barbara (jstevens@lawso.ucsb.edu)
Barbara Allen, Carleton College (ballen@carleton.edu)
Pamela Scully, Emory University (Pamela.scully@emory.edu)
Adolph Reed Jr., University of Pennsylvania (reedal@sas.upenn.edu)
Full contact information available on request