Mark Cladis
Professor of Religious Studies:
Religious Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 3106
Mark_Cladis@brown.edu
Mark Cladis's publications and teaching pertain to the history of Western political, social, and religious thought, especially the religious nature and origins of liberal, democratic society. Religion and the environment is another subject of his research and teaching.
He is currently completing a book titled, In Search of a Course: Reflections on Pedagogy and the Culture of the Modern Research University. Additional book projects include: Religion Gone Wild: Spirituality and the Environment; and Religion, Democracy, and the Environmental Imagination.
Biography
Mark S. Cladis is Professor of Religious Studies. He is the author of Public Vision, Private Lives (Oxford University Press, 2003; paperback edition, Columbia University Press, 2006) and A Communitarian Defense of Liberalism (Stanford University Press, 1992), and over forty articles and chapters in edited books. After receiving his doctorate from Princeton University, where he studied philosophy and social theory as they relate to the field of religious studies, he taught at the University of North Carolina, Stanford University, and at Vassar College where he served as Chair for six years. He is the editor of Emile Durkheim's Elementary Forms of the Religious Life (Oxford University Press, 2001) and of Education and Punishment: Durkheim and Foucault (Oxford: Center of Durkheimian Studies, 1999). Currently he is completing a book, In Search of a Course: Reflections on Pedagogy and the Culture of the Modern Research University.
Awards
Carnegie Scholar, 2005-06.
Institutional Nomination for the National Endowments for the
Humanities Summer Fellowship (Fall, 2003)
Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Study Center, Fall, 1998
Fulbright Senior Research Award, Paris, France, 1992-93
National Endowments for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1992
Interfoundational Grant from the Franco-American Commission for Educational Exchange, travel and living expenses for my invitation as the speaker for the Religion and Ethics Lecture Series, University of Strasbourg, Spring 1993
Research Appointments:
Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University, January-July, 1995
Visiting Scholar, Oxford University, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, January-July,1995
Visiting Research Fellow, Centre de Recherche
en Epistémologie Appliquée (CNRS lab), Ecole Polytechnique, 1992-93; and September-December, 1994
Scholar in residence, Maison Suger: Maison des
Sciences de l'Homme, 1992-93; and September-December, 1995
Teaching
Teaching Experience
Professor Cladis has taught over 60 courses in the last 20 years at University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Stanford University, Vassar College, and at Brown. His courses pertain to modern religious and philosophical thought; social and political theory; and environmental studies.
Curriculum Vitae
