CURRICULUM VITAE OF ALAN KAHAN
DEGREES: Ph.D. 1987, The University of Chicago
M.A. 1981, The University of Chicago
B.A. 1980, Princeton University
EMPLOYMENT: Visiting Professor, University of Colorado – Boulder, 2021-22
Professor of British Civilization, Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, 2012 –
Adjunct Professor, SciencesPo, Paris, 2010 - 12
Adjunct Professor, NYU-Paris, 2010 - 12
Adjunct Professor, American Graduate School of International Relations and Diplomacy (AGSIRD), Paris, 2009 - 12
Professor, Department of History, Florida International University, 2004 - 07
Director of Graduate Studies in History, 2003 - 06
Director, FIU European Studies Program, 2003 - 05
Associate Professor 1995 – 2003
Assistant Professor, 1992 - 95
Mellon Assistant Professor of Humanities, Rice University, 1988-92
CONTACT: alan.kahan@uvsq.fr
EDITORIAL The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville
BOARD:
GRANTS AND
AWARDS: Benson Visiting Professor of Conservative Thought, University of
Colorado – Boulder, 2021-22
Senior Member, Institut Universitaire de France, 2016-21
Visiting Senior Fellow, Clare Hall, Cambridge, Jan.-June, 2018
Visiting Senior Fellow, King’s College, London, Jan.-June, 2017
Visiting Senior Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford, Jan.-June, 2014
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2013-2014
Earhart Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, 2012
Florida International University Outstanding Research Award, 2006
Florida International University Summer Research Fellowship, 2006
Earhart Foundation Summer Research Fellowship, 2001
Florida International University Summer Research Fellowship, 1999
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1995-96
BOOKS:
Freedom from Fear: An Incomplete History of Liberalism, forthcoming, Princeton
University Press, 2023.
Tocqueville, Democracy, and Religion: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls,
Oxford University Press, 2015, pp. 256.
Mind vs Money: The War Between Intellectuals and Capitalism, Transaction
Publishing, 2010, Routledge 2017, pp. 321.
Alexis de Tocqueville, Continuum Books, 2010, pp. 151.
Liberalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe: The Political Culture of Limited Suffrage,
Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003, pp. 256.
Aristocratic Liberalism: The Social and Political Thought of Jacob Burckhardt,
John Stuart Mill, and Alexis de Tocqueville, Oxford University Press, 1992.
Paperback edition, with new afterword, Transaction Publishers, 2001, pp. 242.
TRANSLATIONS:
Benjamin Constant, Commentary on Filangieri’s Work, the first English translation, Liberty Fund, 2015, pp. 272.
Alexis de Tocqueville, The Old Regime and the Revolution, a new translation, The University of Chicago Press. Volume One, 1998, pp. 451. Volume Two, 2001. Paperback edition of Volume One, 2004, pp. 528.
EDITIONS:
Le capitalisme, la personnalité et la culture, a special issue of The Tocqueville Review/La
Revue Tocqueville, vol. 40, n.2, Dec. 2019, pp. 318, edited by Alan S. Kahan, Catherine
Marshall, and Joanna Nowicki
Liberal Moments, edited and with an introduction by Ewa Atanassow and Alan S. Kahan, Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 227.
On Liberty, with Supporting Documents, by John Stuart Mill, a new
edition with introduction, Bedford-St. Martin’s Press, 2008, pp. 200.
The Tocqueville Reader, edited and with an introduction by Alan S. Kahan and Olivier Zunz, Blackwell, 2002, pp. 384.
ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS :
"From Constant to Spencer: Two Ethics of Laissez-Faire", History of European Ideas, forthcoming 2022.
"Why Steve Bannon is Not a Fascist”, Society, July, 2018,
“And What if Tocqueville was Wrong?”, The Tocqueville Review/La Revue Tocqueville, June,
2018, pp. 235-44.
“From Basel to Brooklyn: Liberal cultural pessimism in Burckhardt,
Röpke, and the American Neoconservatives”, in Wilhelm Röpke (1899-
1966): A Liberal Political Economist and Conservative Social
Philosopher, ed. Stefan Kolev, Springer Verlag, 2018, pp. 157-64.
"Tocqueville: The Corporation as an Ethical Association”, in Wealth, Commerce and Philosophy: Foundational Thinkers and Business Ethics, ed. by B. Heath and E. Kaldis, The University of Chicago Press, 2017, pp. 283-300.
"Vom Ungeist des Verachtung des Geldes” in Wilhelm Röpke heute: zur Aktualitât des grossen liberalen Ökonomen und Publizisten, ed. Pierre Bessard,
Edition Liberales Institut, 2017, pp. 74-83.
"Democratic Grandeur: How Tocqueville Constructed His New Moral Science in America”, in Tocqueville’s Voyages: The Evolution of His Ideas and Their Journey Beyond His Time, ed. Christine Henderson, Liberty Fund, 2015, pp. 177-201.
“Tocqueville, Religion and Democracy: Checks and Balances for Democratic Souls”, American
Political Thought, vol. 4, no. 1, 2015, pp. 100-119.
“Tocqueville and Liberal Education”, The Tocqueville Review/La Revue
Tocqueville, vol. 34, no. 2, 2013, pp. 159-168.
“Beyond the Frontiers of Christendom: Tocqueville, Islam, and Hinduism”, Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy, ed. by Ewa Atannassow and Richard Boyd, Cambridge University Press, 2013, pp. 89-110.
"The Aristocratic Vision: Matthew Arnold and Nietzsche”, History of Political Thought, vol. 33, no. 1, Spring, 2012, pp. 125-143.
"Max Weber and Warren Buffet: Looking for the Lost Charisma of Capitalism”, Society, vol. 49, no. 2, March, 2012, pp. 144-150.
“Tocqueville: Liberalism and Imperialism", French Liberalism from Montesquieu to the Present Day, ed. Raf Geenens and Helena Rosenblatt, Cambridge University Press, 2012, pp. 152-168.
"Tocqueville and Gender Distinctions”, Essais de philosophie pénale et de criminologie, vol. 7, 2008, pp. 117-128.
"Aristocracy in Tocqueville/De l’aristocratie chez Tocqueville", The Tocqueville Review, March 2006, pp. 323-348.
Review essay, “Tocqueville and the French Revolution”, History and Theory, October, 2006, pp. 424-435.
“Western Intellectuals and Commercial Society", Society, January 2006, pp. 45-52.
"Burckhardt and Modernity", Beitraege zu Jacob Burckhardt, ed. by Andreas Cesana and Lionel Gossman, Munich, 2004, pp. 253-268.
“The Burckhardt-Sismondi Debate over the Meaning of the Italian Renaissance", The Renaissance in the Nineteenth Century, ed. by Yannick Portebois and Nicholas Terpstra, Toronto, 2003, pp. 159-170.
"Defining Opportunism: The Political Writings of Eugène Spuller," History of Political Thought, Winter 1994.
Liberalism and Realpolitik in Prussia, 1830-52: The Case of David Hansemann," German History, October 1991.
"Guizot et le modèle anglais" in François Guizot et la culture politique de son temps (Paris: Gallimard, 1991).
"The Victory of German Liberalism? Rudolf Haym, Liberalism and Bismarck," Central European History, March 1990.
"Tocqueville's Two Revolutions," Journal of the History of Ideas, Oct. 1985.
BOOK REVIEWS in Albion; Annales Benjamin Constant; American Historical Review, Canadian Journal of History; H-France; History of Political Thought; Journal of American History; Journal of Modern History; Nineteenth-Century Prose; Review of Politics; Utilitas; Victorian Studies.