Department of Political Science

Political Science
1414 Social Sciences Building
267 19th Ave S
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-4144
Fax: 612-626-7599
E-mail: polisci@umn.edu

Chair: Raymond D. Duvall

Lisa Disch

612-626-7825
Political Science 1414 Soc Sci

Department Affiliations


Specialties

  • political theory
  • history of political thought
  • feminist theory
  • electoral process
  • democratic theory
  • contemporary continental theory
  • third party politics
  • voter participation

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Rutgers University, NJ, 1988.

Publications

  • The Tyranny of the Two-Party System. Disch, Lisa Jane, Columbia University Press, Author, 2002.
  • Hannah Arendt and the Limits of Philosophy. Disch, Lisa Jane, Cornell University Press, 1994.
  • When a Looker is Really a Bitch: Lisa Olson, Sport, and the Heterosexual Matrix: Disch, Lisa Jane, Mary Jo Kane, Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 21(1) 278-308, 1996.
  • Judith Butler and the Politics of the Performative: Disch, Lisa Jane, Political Theory, 27(4) 545-559, Jul-95.
  • Structural Constraints and Pluralist Contradictions in Hazardous Waste Regulation: Disch, Lisa Jane, Robert W. Lake, Environment and Planning, 2(4) 663-681, 1992.
  • • “Publicity-Stunt Participation and Sound Bite Polemics: The Health Care Debate 1993-94”: Disch, Lisa Jane, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 21:1 3-33, Spring 1996.
  • Minnesota and the 'Populism' of Political Opposition: Disch, Lisa Jane, Theory & Event, 3(2) , Jun-95.

Professional Activities

  • Professeur des Universités invité, Feb 2007-May 2007, Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po)
  • Director of Graduate Studies,: Department of American Studies, University of Minnesota: , 2002 - 2004
  • Director, Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, University of Minnesota: 1999 - 2001
  • Appearances on Minnesota Public Radio's "Midmorning with Katherine Lanpher" program
  • Editorial Board, University of Minnesota Press, Committee on the Press: 1998 - 2001
  • Director, Undergraduate Studies, Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota: 1996 - 1997
  • Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po): Professeur des Universités invité , Feb 2007 - May 2007

Awards

  • Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Writing Award for Excellence in Teaching Writing
  • Horace T. Morse-University Alumni Association Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Education, 2002 - 2003
  • Faculty Summer Research Fellowship and McKnight Grant, University of Minnesota, 1995
  • Arthur "Red" and Helene B. Motley Exemplary Teaching Award, 2001 - 2002

Courses Taught

  • Pol 1201 - Political Ideas and Ideologies
  • Pol 3235W - Democracy and Citizenship
  • Pol 5275 - Contemporary Political Thought
  • Pol 8275 - Contemporary Political Thought
  • POL 4210 - Population and Environment
  • POL 4210 Frameworks of Sustainability
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