Peter Diamond

Clinical Associate Professor

Biography

Dr. Peter Diamond is a member of the Liberal Studies faculty at New York University and is currently Assistant Dean for Faculty Development and Program Advancement. Previously he was Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Graduate Program at the University of Utah. He is the author of the book, Common Sense and Improvement: Thomas Reid as Social Theorist (Frankfurt, 1998) as well as numerous articles and book chapters on the moral and political thought of the early modern and modern eras. In recent years he has taught courses on nationalism and multiculturalism, just war theory, cultural membership, democratization, and ideologies of empire and imperialism. He received his Ph.D. in the history of political thought from The Johns Hopkins University.

Education

Ph.D. - Johns Hopkins University
M.A. - Johns Hopkins University
M.Sc. - London School of Economics
B.A. - Georgetown University

Teaching and Research Interests

History of modern political thought; contemporary international political theory; democratic theory, political rhetoric and deliberation, and the relationship of politics and religion

Selected Publications

Common Sense and Improvement: Thomas Reid as Social Theorist (Frankfurt: Verlag Peter Lang, 1998).

“The ‘Enlightenment Project’ Revisited: Common Sense as Prudence in the Philosophy of Thomas Reid” in Prudence: Classical Virtue, Postmodern Practice, edited by Robert Hariman (University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2003), pp. 95-129.

“Thoreau’s Rhetoric of Resistance,” in Great Books Written in Prison, ed. Ward Regan (Jefferson: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2015), pp. 93-106.

“Las Casas’ In Defense of the Indians: Can A Just War Be Waged Against Barbarians?” in The Quest for Excellence, edited by Dustin Gish, Chris Constas, and J. Scott Lee (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016), pp. 157-62.

“Thoreau and the Anti-Politics of Resistance,” Twentieth Annual Association of Core Texts and Courses Conference Proceedings, 2014, edited by Greg A. Camp and J. Scott Lee (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, forthcoming).