Diana Schaub

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Diana J. Schaub
Born1959
EducationPh.D. University of Chicago
Occupation(s)professor, Loyola University Maryland

Diana J. Schaub (born 1959)[1] is professor of political science at Loyola University Maryland.[2] Schaub received both her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She teaches and writes on a wide range of issues in political philosophy and American political thought. Schaub was also a member of The President's Council on Bioethics.[3]

Career[edit]

After graduating summa cum laude from Kenyon College, Schaub began her career as an assistant managing editor for the conservative magazine, The National Interest in 1985.[4] She then served as a professor of political science at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. In 2003–2005, while serving as a professor at Loyola College, Schaub taught at a series of lectures and seminars designed for high school teachers, held at Ashland University. The conference was titled, “Race and Rights in American History” and was funded by a Teaching American History grant from the U.S. Department of Education.[5]

From 2001–2007 Schaub served as the chair of the political science department at Loyola College, which became Loyola University Maryland, where she is now a professor.

Publications[edit]

Schaub has co-edited or written three books: What So Proudly We Hail: America’s Soul in Story, Speech, and Song,[6] Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu’s "Persian Letters", and His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation. Schaub has contributed chapters to several books, including “From Hearth-Fires to Hell-Fires: Hawthorne and the Cartesian Project,” in the book, Apples of Gold in Pictures of Silver: Honoring the Work of Leon R. Kass ISBN 978-0739141595 and “Captain Kirk and the Art of Rule,” in the book Faith, Reason, and Political Life Today ISBN 978-0739102237. Schaub has also been published in many academic journals and newspapers including National Affairs,[7] The Baltimore Sun,[8] and The Public Interest.[9]

  • Kass, Amy A., Leon Kass, and Diana Schaub (eds.) (2011). What So Proudly We Hail: America’s Soul in Story, Speech, and Song. Intercollegiate Studies Institute ISBN 1-61017-006-7
  • Schaub, Diana J. (1995). Erotic Liberalism: Women and Revolution in Montesquieu's "Persian Letters". Rowman & Littlefield ISBN 0-8476-8039-8
  • Schaub, Diana J. (2021). His Greatest Speeches: How Lincoln Moved the Nation. St. Martin's Press ISBN 9781250763457

Honors and awards[edit]

Schaub has received numerous awards and fellowships throughout her career. Schaub was awarded the Richard M. Weaver Prize for Scholarly Letters in 2001, and received a research grant from the Earhart Foundation in 1995. She was also appointed to the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on the Virtues of a Free Society in 2007.[10]

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