Daniel J. Mahoney, Professor of Political Science
DR. DANIEL J. MAHONEY
Phone: 508-767-7547
Email: dmahoney@assumption.edu
Professor of Political Science (1986)
Department of Political Science
B.A., College of Holy Cross, 1982
M.A., Catholic University of America; Political Science, 1984
Ph.D., Catholic University of America; Political Science, 1988
Ph.D. Thesis Title: “The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron: Statesmanlike Prudence at the Dawn of Universal History”
Sample of Courses Taught
Undergraduate: Political Issues, Modern States, Ideology and Revolution, The Study of International Relations: Thucydides to Aron, Political Economy: Smith to Hayek, Political Leadership, Politics and Literature, Classical Utopias, Senior Seminar: Democracy Ancient and Modern.
Sample of Publications
- Mahoney, D.J. The Conservative Foundations of Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against ITS Modern Enemies and Immoderate Friends (Forthcoming). ISI Books, January 2011.
- With Edward E. Ericson, Jr., Professor Mahoney is the editor of The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947-2005. ISI Books, 2006.
- Mahoney, D.J. Bertrand de Jouvenel: The Conservative Liberal and the Illusions of Modernity. ISI Books, 2005.
- Mahoney, D.J. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Ascent From Ideology. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. (Appeared in a revised and augmented French edition as Alexandre Soljenitsyne: En finir avec l’ideologie, Fayard, 2008).
- Mahoney, D.J. De Gaulle: Statesmanship, Grandeur, and Modern Democracy. Praeger, 1996 (revised paperback edition, Transaction Publishers, 2001).
- Mahoney, D.J. The Liberal Political Science of Raymond Aron. Rowman & Littlefield, 1992. (A French edition appeared in 1998).
- Professor Mahoney is the author of over one hundred twenty introductions, books, articles, and book reviews that have appeared in a wide range of scholarly and public journals. His writings have appeared in French, Italian, Russian, Hungarian, Norwegian and Portuguese translation.
Sample of Presentations
Professor Mahoney has made well over one hundred presentations at professional and public conferences.
Other
In 1999 Professor Mahoney was the recipient of the prestigious Prix Raymond Aron. He is associate editor of Perspectives on Political Science and book review editor of Society.
