Suzanne Lynn Dovi
Education
June, 1999Ph.D., Politics, Princeton University
Dissertation: Beyond Privilege: Evaluating the Legitimacy of Advocates
Advisors: Amy Gutmann (Chair), Jennifer Hochschild, George Kateb, and Gerry Mara
June, 1992M.A., Political Science, Georgetown University
June, 1990M. Litt., Political Science, Trinity College, University of Dublin
Thesis:A Question of Eros: A Critique of the Straussian and Bloomian
Interpretation of Plato’s Republic
June, 1988B.A.cum laude. Dartmouth College,High Honors in government major
Employment
University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona
Departments of Political Science and Philosophy Fall ‘09-present
Associate Professor
University of Arizona Tucson, Arizona
Departments of Political Science and Philosophy Spring ‘99-Spring ‘09
Assistant Professor
Courses Taught (among others): Introduction to Political Ideas, American Political Thought, Feminist Political Theory, Liberalism and Its Critics, Problems in Contemporary Political Theory, Democracy and Inequality, Faces of Injustice, Should the US export Democracy? (online) and Democratic Theory (graduate)
Publications
Book
The Good Representative.Blackwell Publishing (2008).
Published Refereed Journal Articles
“The Ethics of The Revolving Door.” Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy. Volume 12. (2014).
“In Praise of Exclusion.” Journal of Politics71 (September 2009): 1172-1186.
“Theorizing the Representation of Women?” Gender and Politics 3, no. 3 (September 2007): 297-319.
“Sophie’s Choice: Letting Chance Decide.” Philosophy and Literature 30, no. 1 (April 2006): 174-189.
“Guilt and the Problem of Dirty Hands.” Constellations 12, no. 1 (March 2005): 128–46.
“Preferable Descriptive Representatives: Will Just Any Woman, Black, or Latino Do?” American Political Science Review 96 (December 2002): 745–54.
“Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy.” Polity 34, no. 1 (Fall 2001): 3–33.
“Response to Jeff Isaac.” Polity 34, no. 1 (Fall 2001): 37-41.
“Evil Enemies: Stigmatizing Our Opponents or Legitimizing Our Wars?” Peace Research (May 2001): 101-112.
“Mill, Nietzsche, and the Identity of Postmodern Liberalism,” (co-authored with Gerald Mara). Journal of Politics57, no. 1 (February 1995): 1-23.
Chapters in scholarly books
“Are Lobbyists Lawyers,” In Ethics in Politics: The Rights and Obligations of Individual Political Agents. Routledge Press. 2017. Coauthored with Jesse McCain.
“Hanna Pitkin,” InThe Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary [1950-2000] Political Theory. Oxford University Press.2016.
“Measuring Representation,” In Political Representation: New Insights into Old Questions. Palgrave Publishers. 2016.
“Preferable Descriptive Representatives: Will Just Any Woman, Black, or Latino Do?,” In Women, Gender, and Politics: A Reader. Eds. Mona Lena Krook and Sarah Childs. Oxford University Press. Reprint.
"Mill, Nietzsche, and the Identity of Postmodern Liberalism," (co-authored with Gerald Mara), J.S. Mill's Social & Political Thought: Critical Assessments. Ed. G. W. Smith. Routledge Press. Reprint.
Reviews
Review of Anne Phillips’ Multiculturalism without Culture.In Politics & Gender (2009), 5:443-446
Review of Andrew Rehfeld’s The Concept of Constituency: Political Representation, Democratic Legitimacy, and Institutional Design. In Perspectives on Politics (2006), 4.4: 763-764.
Review of Nadia Urbinati’s Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government. In American Political Science Review(2003), 1: 397-397.
Review of Lorraine Bayard de Volo’s Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs. In New Perspectives on Political Science(2003).
Review of Danis Tanovic’s No Man’s Land. In Contemporary Justice Review(2003), 6.4: 401-2.
Review of Gail Tulloch’s Mill and Sexual Equality. In Women and Politics(Summer 1993).
Electronic Publication, Peer or Editor Reviewed
“Why We’re Doing a Teach-In for Unity at University of Arizona on Inauguration Day.” Arizona Daily Star. January 18, 2017. At Coauthored with Monica Casper, Liane Hernandez and Phyllis Taoua.
“How We Can Lower Corporate Taxes For The Right Reasons” Talking Points Memo. April 15, 2015. At Coauthored with John Schwarz.
“Ever the Protectors, Moms Seeking Asylum Need Protection, Too.” The American Prospect. May 10, 2015. At Coauthored with Nina Rabin.
“Want to influence a member of Congress? Dangle a K Street Job.” LATimes, February 16, 2015. At
“The New Mandatory civics exams are asking all the wrong Questions. Here are the right ones.” Washington Post. January 27, 2015. At
“We have collective amnesia about race.” Quartz. January 19, 2015.At
“We Spend Billions on Democracy-Building Abroad. What if We Matched That at Home?” Talking PointsMemo. February 26, 2015. At
“Putting Abusers in the Doghouse.” Truthout.org. March 18, 2015, coauthored with Mariana Manriquez. At
“Political lies need to be fact checked in ways that bridges different political truths, not silences them.” USAPP. London School of Economics and Political Science’s Daily Blog. July 3, 2014. Accessed July 21, 2014.
Entry on Political Representation. The On-Line Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (Updated 2016).
Work in Progress
Democracy and Exclusion (book manuscript)
Faking Accountability(book manuscript)
“Exclusion: The Missing Piece of INGO Accountability”
“The Politics of Non-Presence”
“Political Despair and Sources of Hope” currently under review at Constellations
“In Praise of Formal Exclusion?”
Selected Conference Participation
InvitedKeynote Speaker
“The Price of Justice,” presented as Keynote Speaker at “Equal in Dignity: Human Rights and the Passage of Generations,” the annual Trudeau Foundation Conference on Public Policy held November 18-20, 2010 in Winnipeg, Canada.
“Making the World Safe for Democracy,” presented as Keynote Speaker at “Diversity within Unity” a conference held at Lady Margaret’s Hall, Oxford, England, Summer, 2000.
Selected Invited Conference Participation
“Representing Women: The Importance of Resistance”European Conference of Politics and Gender Conference. 11-13 June 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden.
“The Politics of Non-Presence.” European Conference of Politics and Gender Conference. 11-13 June 2015 in Uppsala, Sweden.
“Political Despair and Democracy” APT Association. October 2014 in Madison Wisconsin.
“Accountability as Resistance.” American Political Science Association held September 2014 in Washington DC.
“The Ethics of The Revolving Door” to be presented tothe conference “Ethics of Lobbying” at Georgetown Institute for the Study of Markets and Ethics November 22, 2013in Washington, DC.
“Measuring the Representation of Women” presentedat theEuropean Conference on Gender and Politics held March 2013 in Barcelona, Spain.
“Exclusion: the Missing Piece of Accountability” presented to the Exclusion Workshop at Northeastern UniversitySeptember 28-30, 2012.
“Roundtable on Felon Disenfranchisement” at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in New Orleans. August 28-September 2, 2012. Cancelled due to hurricane.
"Measuring Representation: Rethinking the role of Exclusion" presented at“Rethinking Representation” a conference at the University of Bern, Switzerland, Nov 1, 2009.
“In Praise of Formal Exclusion” presented at “Criminal Justice Roundtable” a conference at the University of Chicago, Spring 2009.
“Making Democracy Work for Women” presented at “Political Women and American Democracy,” a conference held at Notre Dame University, Spring 2006.
“Rethinking Descriptive Representation” presented at the Workshop on Transformation of Democratic Representation at The Center for Democracy and the Third Sector at Georgetown University, Washington, DC, Summer 2004.
“Rethinking Preferable Descriptive Representatives: Will Any Black, Latino, or Muslim Do?” presented at “New Perspectives on the Study of Race and Political Representation,” a conference at the Center for the Study of African American Politics, University of Rochester, Rochester New York, Spring, 2003.
“Rethinking Preferable Descriptive Representatives” presented at the Centre for Advancement of Women in Politics seminar, “Women in Parliament: Reflections on Representation,” in Belfast, Ireland, Spring 2003.
“Hypocritical or Just Inconsistent? US treatment of War Criminals,” presented to the Human Rights Center at the University of Nebraska, Fall 2002.
Invited Symposium/Conference Participation
“In Praise of Exclusion” presented to University of California, Los Angeles, Fall 2007.
“Political Despair and Sources of Hope,” presented to Williams College, Fall 2007.
“Democracy and Terrorism: Beyond the Moral Pale,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C., September 2005.
“The Politics of Exclusion,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Association, Chicago. IL, April 2005.
“Political Despair and Sources of Hope,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Portland, Oregon, March 2004.
“Piecemeal Peace: Sources of Hope,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Philadelphia, PA, September 2003.
“International Ethics of Advocacy,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 2002.
“Choosing Against Our Children,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April, 2002.
“Emphasizing Dispossessed Subgroups in a Politics of Presence,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, San Francisco, CA, September 2001.
“Voter’s Benefit,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 20, 2001.
“Individual Choices: Distorting the Politics of Necessity,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, September 1, 2000.
“What’s Missing in a Politics of Presence?” presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 29, 2000.
“Evil Enemies: Stigmatizing Our Opponents or Legitimizing Our Wars?” presented at the Diversity within Unity Conference, Prague, Czech Republic, August 3, 1999.
“The Voice of Communities,” presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA, September 6, 1998.
Honors, Fellowships, Grants, and Awards
Fulbright Scholar. Oslo, Norway (Fall 2015-Spring 2016).
Finalist for the Four Star Teaching Award. University of Arizona (Spring 2015)
2013-14 Honors Distinguished Fellow, Honors College, University of Arizona
Visiting Fellowship, Australian National University (Summer 2008)
Finalist for the Pi Sigma Alpha Award for best paper at the Midwest (Spring 2002)
Udall Fellowship at the University of Arizona(Spring 2002)
Outstanding SBS Teaching Award for Upper Division Classes (Spring 2001)
Mellon Fellowship (September '97-June '98)
Spencer Grant (Summer '97)
Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (September '96-June '97)
Princeton University's Center of Human Values Fellowship (September '95-June '96)
IREX grant recipient to the University of Tirana, Albania (Summer '94)
Masaryk Fellowship at Charles University, Prague in the Czech Republic awarded by Charter Seventy-Seven (July-October '91)
Georgetown University Fellowship (Fall '90-Spring '92)
Rotary Scholarship to Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland (September '89-June '90)
Service
Normative Political Theory Section Co-Chair for APSA meeting 2015
Foundation’s Best Paper Award Committee for APSA for 2013
The College of Social and Behavioral Science Faculty Advisory Committee (2013-2014)
Undergraduate Committee Chair (2010-2012)
Coordinator for Works in Progress Workshop at the School of Government and Public Policy
AZ Assurance Mentor
Summer Research Institute Mentor
Flynn Scholar Mentor
SGPP Honor’s Student Faculty Liaison/Advisor
Project Editor, Social Philosophy and Policy
ReviewerforAmerican Political Science Review, American Political Science Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Journal of Political Philosophy, Journal of Philosophy, Perspectives on Politics,University of North Carolina Press, University of Toronto Press, Research Flaunders Organization (FWO), and Gender and Politics
Advisor for Mock Trial
Memberships
Member of American Political Science Association
Member of Western Political Science Association
Foundations of Political Theory section of APSA
American Political Theory Association
Women and Politics section of APSA
American Society for Political Legal Philosophy
The Scientific Council of the Multi-Ethnic/Religious Centre at the Faculty of Law University of Bihac, The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.