NANCY L. SCHWARTZ 



Nancy L. Schwartz attended Oberlin College (B.A. 1967), the London School of Economics and Political Science (1965-66) and Yale University (M. Phil. 1971, Ph.D. 1976). As an undergraduate she concentrated in International Relations and Comparative Politics in the Government major; as a graduate, in Political Theory and American Politics.

At Wesleyan, she is Professor of Government, teaching political and social theory in the Government department and government courses in the interdisciplinary College of Social Studies. She has published articles on the political sociologists Karl Marx and Max Weber, a book -- The Blue Guitar: Political Representation and Community (Chicago, 1988)-- on the theory and practice of political representation in America and renaissance Italy, and articles on egalitarianism and on representation and elections in Israel.

Current projects include the relation of women to the idea of courage in Greek and Jewish political thought, and topics in classical political theory, nineteenth century modernity, and religion and its relation to politics.

She served as Justice of the Peace during which time she married two Wesleyan students.

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