"David Weinstein" Archive

Retiring faculty and staff members

A message from President Nathan Hatch

As we prepare to celebrate Commencement and the achievements of the Class of 2015, we also pause to recognize and honor the outstanding careers of our retiring faculty and staff members.

Please join me in thanking this distinguished group of leaders, colleagues, mentors and friends and congratulating them on more than 500 years of combined service to Wake Forest University:

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News from the Department of Politics and International Affairs

IMG_6607Sara Dahill-Brown, assistant professor, has been named an Emerging Education Policy Scholar by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute.  The program brings up-and-coming scholars to Washington, D.C., to meet with education-policy experts and to share and brainstorm exciting new directions for K-12 education research. The program focuses on three over-arching goals:

  1. To foster an opportunity for talented, promising scholars to connect with other scholars in their field, as well as to introduce them to key players in the education-policy arena;
  2. To expand the pool of talent and ideas from which the education-policy arena currently draws; and
  3. To increase understanding of how the worlds of policy and practice intersect with scholarly research in education and related fields.

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John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life

David Weinstein

David Weinstein admits to being a bit schizophrenic. Weinstein, a professor of political science, often inhabits two intellectual worlds. The student of British philosophy in him has recently published “John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life.” The German intellectual historian in him is working on another book, “Exile and Interpretation.” Read more.

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Weinstein: A professor of many worlds

David WeinsteinDavid Weinstein admits to being a bit schizophrenic. Weinstein, a professor of political science and one of Wake Forest’s most prolific scholars in the humanities, often inhabits two intellectual worlds. As he moves back and forth between those worlds, he’s extending Wake Forest’s academic reach to Israel, Germany, Italy and England.

One world is centered around British moral and political philosophy. The other world centers around modern German intellectual history and political thought. “I go back and forth on a daily basis,” he says. “The two areas really cross-fertilize each other… sometimes.”

The student of British philosophy in him has recently published “John Stuart Mill and the Art of Life” (Oxford University Press), a collection of original essays by leading scholars on Mill, probably the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the 19th century. Read more

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