Office Hours:
Monday
12:30 - 2:30
Friday
2:00 - 4:00
and by appointment

Kateri Carmola
Assistant Professor of Political Science; Christian A. Johnson Junior Fellow in Political Philosophy
Munroe Hall 212
Phone: (802) 443 - 3128
Email: kcarmola@middlebury.edu
Degrees, Specializations & Interests:
Ph.D. (1999) University of California, Berkeley; B.A. (1988) University of Chicago

Faculty Expert Profile



Courses Taught

PSCI 0101: Introduction to Political Philosophy
PSCI 0235: War, Law and Ethics
PSCI 0245: Power and Powerlessness
PSCI 0401: Modern and Post-Modern Political Thought



Winter Term Courses Taught

2002:Witness:  Human Rights and Film
2004:Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War
2006:Private Military Companies and the Future of War

Publications

"Machiavelli's Theory of Deception and the Political Uses of Conspiracy," manuscript submitted to Political Theory, June 2006

"Abu Ghraib and the Complications of Institutional Stability," manuscript submitted to Ethics and International Affairs, March 2006

"The Concept of Proportionality:  Old Questions and New Ambiguities," Just War Theory Revisited, Mark Evans, ed., University of Edinburgh Press, November 2004

"Outsourcing Combat:  Force Protection and the Externalization of War Crimes,"  International Journal of Politics and Ethics, February 2003

"Noble Lying: Justice and Intergenerational Tension in Plato's Republic,"  Political Theory, Vol. 31, No. 1, February 2003

Current Book Project

Private Military Companies and New Wars:  Risk, Law & Ethnics(Routledge, forthcoming 2007)


Research Grants

Smith Richardson foundation, leave year grant 2005-2006


Research Interests

Ancient Political Philosophy
Modern and Post-Modern Political Thought
Machiavelli
Politics and Literature
Ethics and War
Ethics and Politics