Alex Tuckness

Associate Professor

Iowa State University

Employment

· Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Iowa State University, 2005-Present.

· Director of the Public Policy and Administration Program, 2006-2008 and Director of Graduate Education, 2007-2008.

· Visiting Fellow in Ethics, Harvard Center for Ethics and the Professions, Harvard University, 2003-2004.

· Assistant Professor, Dept. of Political Science, Iowa State University, 1999-2005.

Education

·Princeton University, Ph.D. in Politics, 1999.

·Cambridge University, M.Phil. with Distinction in Political Thought and Intellectual History, 1995.

·University of Chicago, A.B. with Honors in Political Science, 1994 (Phi Beta Kappa, 1993).

Awards and Fellowships

· Alumni Junior Faculty Excellence Award, Dept. of Political Science 2005

· Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics and the Professions in 2003-2004. Award of approximately $30,000 funding academic work at Harvard.

· Iowa State University Faculty Professional Development Assignment, 2003-2004. Awarded by Iowa State for the full academic year to support research at Harvard University providing six months salary during academic leave.

· ISU Foundation Award for Early Achievement in Teaching, 2003. A university-wide teaching award recognizing overall excellence in teaching and conferring a one-time stipend of $1000. Awarded to two faculty members annually.

· Selected by ISU Center for Teaching Excellence as a Wakanse Teaching Fellow, 2002.

· Princeton University Honorific Fellowship, 1998-99.

Given annually to 13 Princeton graduate students entering their final year of enrollment.

· Harvey Fellowship, 1998. Supports graduate research by Christians in secular fields.

· Center for Human Values Graduate Prize Fellowship. 1997-98.

Supports graduate study for 10-12 Princeton students in ethics, political theory, and other fields related to human values.

· Donnelley University of Chicago-Cambridge University Exchange Scholarship. 1994-95.

Supports one year of study and travel by one student from each institution.

Grants

· ISU Miller Teaching Fellowship, 2002-2003. $8,000 grant for pilot program in which advanced undergraduates lead discussions sections in introductory classes as part of a Capstone Project Course.

· Iowa State Summer Humanities Grant, 2002. One month of summer salary was awarded for work on “Partial Justice: The Problem of Punishing War Crimes.”

· Iowa State Summer Humanities Grant, 2001. One month of summer salary was awarded for work on normative dimensions of humanitarian intervention.

· Iowa State Summer Humanities Grant, 2000. One month of summer salary was awarded to facilitate revision of book manuscript, “Locke and the Legislative Point of View.

Publications

Book

· Locke and the Legislative Point of View: Toleration, Contested Principles and Law. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2002.

Articles

· Everybody Does It: An Analysis of a Common Excuse, Public Integrity, forthcoming.

· Punishment, Property, and the Limits of Altruism: Locke’s International Asymmetry. American Political Science Review, vol. 208, 2008, pp 467-480.

· “Locke’s Main Argument for Toleration” Nomos (Yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy), vol. 48, 2008, pp. 114-138.

· “John Locke and Public Administration,” Administration & Society, vol. 40, May 2008, pp. 253 - 270.

· “John Locke’s Political Philosophy” for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005 (updated periodically).

· “Discourses of Resistance: Political Argument in the American Revolution.” Journal of the History of Ideas, October, 2003, pp. 547-564.

· “Rethinking the Intolerant Locke,” American Journal of Political Science, April 2002, pp. 288-298.

· “Legislation and Non-neutral Principles: A Lockean Approach,” Journal of Political Philosophy, September 2000, pp. 363-378.

· “The Coherence of a Mind: John Locke and the Law of Nature,” Journal of the History of Philosophy, January 1999, pp. 73-90.

Book Chapter

· “The U.S., the I.C.C., and the Demands of Impartiality” in Bringing Power to Justice, eds. Joanna Harrington, Michael Milde, and Richard Vernon. McGill/Queens University Press, 2006.

Conference Papers:

· “Anselm and the Paradox of Justice” (with John Michael Parrish), American Political Science Association, September 2009.

· “Mercy and Punishment in Augustine’s Political Thought” (with John Michael Parrish), Western Political Science Association, March 2009

· “Community and Conflict in John Locke’s Theory of Punishment,” Western Political Science Association, March 2008.

· “Everyone Does It: A Normative Analysis for Public Administrators,” American Society for Public Administration, March 2007.

· “State Consent and the Obligation to Obey International Law” Midwest Political Science Association, 2005

· “Non-ideal Theory and Justice.” Association for Political Theory Conference, October 2004.

· “Pragmatism and Universality in Grotius and Hume.” Midwest Political Science Association, 2004 (informal roundtable presentation).

· “The International Criminal Court and the Demands of Impartiality.” Midwest Political Science Association, 2003

· “The U.S., the International Criminal Court, and the Demands of Impartiality” presented to the Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict Research Group conference on “Bringing Power to Justice.” Ontario, 2003.

· “Non-intervention in a Non-ideal World,” American Political Science Association Conference, Boston, 2002.

· “Rethinking Toleration and Human Rights,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, to be presented April, 2002.

· “Locke and Legislative Consent,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago 2001.

· “The Power of Words and Swords: John Locke and the Law of Opinion,” American Political Science Association Conference, Atlanta 1999.

· “Locke, Non-neutral Principles, and the Use of Force,” American Political Science Association Conference, Boston 1998.

· “Judges in the State of Nature,” Northeast Political Science Association Conference, Boston 1998.

Professional Service:

· Section Head at the Midwest Political Science Conference, 2004, “Modern Theorists and Texts.”

· Reviewer for Harvard University Press

· Reviewer for Princeton University Press

· Reviewer for the American Political Science Review.

· Reviewer for the American Journal of Political Science

· Reviewer for Perspectives on Politics

· Reviewer for Political Theory

· Reviewer for Canadian Journal of Political Science

· Respondent to Jeremy Waldron at Princeton University’s Conference celebrating the 20^th anniversary of Joseph Raz’s Morality of Freedom, 2006.

· Discussant for a paper by Mathias Risse on International Distributive Justice at Harvard University’s conference, “Equality,” 2004.

· Panel Discussant, “Hobbes,” American Political Science Association, Washington, DC 2000.

· Panel Discussant, “Political Ethics and the Structure of Political Society,” American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, 2000.

· Panel Chair, “Locke,” Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 2001.

Courses Taught 1999-2009

· Political Science 230 Introduction to Law and Politics

· Political Science 235 Introduction to Ethics and Politics

· Political Science 421 Constitutional Freedoms

· Political Science 422 International Law

· Political Science 430 Western Political Thought: Plato to Machiavelli

· Political Science 431/531 Modern Political Thought

· Political Science 433 American Political Thought

· Political Science 480/580 Ethics and Public Affairs

· Political Science 490 (Various topics including Toleration, Just War, Genocide, and Natural Law)

· Political Science 495 Senior Project Course

· Political Science 569 Foundations of Public Administration

· Political Science 571 Organizational Theory in the Public Sector

· Political Science 578X Ethics and Public Administration

Institutional Service

· MPA Committee (2006-Present)

· Political Science Undergraduate Committee (1999-2006, 2009-Present)

· Faculty Senate (2008-Present)

· Political Science International Relations Search Committee (2008)

· Faculty Advisor for Salt Company Student Fellowship (2008-Present).

· Director of Graduate Education (2007-2008)

· Director of the Public Policy and Administration Program, (2006-2008)

· Political Science Undergraduate Committee Chair (2005-2006)

· LAS Diversity Committee (2005-2006)

· Political Science Awards Committee Chair (2004-2005, 2008-2009)

· Social Movements Search Committee Chair (2005-2006)

· Political Science Comparative Politics Search Committee (1999 and 2003)

· Latino Studies/Political Science Search Committee (2003).

· Faculty Advisor Political Science Club (2000-2003),

· Faculty Advisor Pi Sigma Alpha, National Political Science Honor Society (2000-2003,

· Faculty Advisor Mock Trial Team (2001-2003)

· Faculty Advisor Truth Bucket (2002-2003)