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Phone: (413) 585-3555
Office: Seelye Hall 407; Hours: M 3-5, W 3-4 & by appointment
E-mail: pcoby@smith.edu
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graduated from the University of Dallas with a major in English and a minor in Art.
I attended graduate school at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in City
and Regional Planning. But not liking the program, I returned to the University of
Dallas to do a Masters and a Ph.D. in Political Science. I taught at Kenyon College
in Ohio for five years, then at Idaho State University for two years, before coming
to Smith College in 1985. My teaching areas include political philosophy, especially
ancient and early modern political philosophy, and American political thought.
I do research and write on some of the major
figures of Western political thought: Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli,
Hobbes, Locke, Marx -- and Shakespeare. Future research will focus on American political
thought and on the Scottish Enlightenment.
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