Mary G. Dietz
Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Professor
Political Science and Gender Studies Program
PhD, University of California at Berkeley
Professor Mary Dietz recently came to the Department of Political Science at Northwestern from the University of Minnesota. Her area of specialization is Political Theory, with concentrations in feminist theory and politics; democratic theory and citizenship; the history of Western political thought; and contemporary political theory, particularly the work of Hannah Arendt. She is the author of Between the Human and the Divine: The Political Thought of Simone Weil (Rowman and Littlefield Press) and Turning Operations: Feminism, Arendt, and Politics (Routledge Press); and editor of Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory (University of Kansas Press), and numerous articles and essays. One of her most recent articles is "Current Controversies in Feminist Theory" (Annual Review of Political Science). Since 2005, Professor Dietz has served as editor of the journal Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy. Her current research interests include a study of the gendering of the commonwealth in Hobbes' Leviathan; an article on the politics of religion in Machiavelli's Discourses; and a book manuscript provisionally titled Between Polis and Empire: Aristotle's Politics. In addition, Professor Dietz holds an appointment in the Gender Studies Program at Northwestern and is named to the Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition Professorship.