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MICHAEL E. LIPSCOMB

Dr. Lipscomb will be on Sabbatical during the Spring 2009 semester.


Biography

Dr. Michael Lipscomb received his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University where he wrote a dissertation entitled, ‘Critical Desire’ and the Feminist Other of Critical Theory.  He is currently working on projects considering the role of aesthetics in environmental politics as well as a project considering the way in which time, memory, and desire function within various forms of political theory. In addition, he just published a book with Dr. Karen Kedrowski on breastfeeding rights.

Dr. Lipscomb has been at Winthrop since 2001, and. He was recently promoted to Associate Professor and awarded tenure effective August 2007. His areas of teaching, research, and scholarship are in the fields of Political Philosophy and Political Theory, specifically in the areas of Postmodernism and Feminist Theory. He teaches courses in Ancient and Medieval Political Thought, Modern and Contemporary Political Thought, Feminist Theory, African American Political Thought, Nietzsche and Postmodernism, and the Human Experience: Who Am I?.  He also serves as the department’s Graduate School Advisor to advise those students who want to go on for Masters and PhD degrees in Political Science and related fields. Dr. Lipscomb was recently awarded the Kinard Award for teaching in 2007.

Selected Publications

  • The Theory of Communicative Action and the Aesthetic Moment: Jürgen Habermas and  the (neo)Nietzschean Challenge”  New German Critique, Spring/Summer, 2002.
     

  • Democracy and Communicative Rifts: Foucault, Fish and Yucca Mountain,” co-authored with Robert O’Connor (Associate Professor, Penn State University), Administrative Theory and Praxis, September, 2002.
     

  • Breastfeeding Rights in the United States, with Michael E. Lipscomb. Praeger Publishers, 2008.

Courses Taught (selected syllabi are linked)
NOTE: these syllabi may not be current, please check with the professor.
    PLSC 201:  American Government (Majors Only)
   
PLSC 201H:  American Government (Honors)
   
PLSC 312:  Constitutional Law - Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
   
PLSC 325:  Environmental Politics
    PLSC 351:  Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
   
PLSC 352:  Modern and Contemporary Political Thought
   
PLSC 356:  American Political Thought
   
PLSC 510
:  Nietzsche & His Heirs

    PLSC 551:  African American Political Thought
   
PLSC 553:  Feminist Theory

     GNED 102:  The Human Experience, Who Am I?

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