Prof. Fran Moran
Office:Karnoutsas Hall, Room 636
Office Hours: M,T,W 8-9 am; M, noon to 1 pm; T 11 am to noon
Phone: 3259 (201-200-3259)
Email at
fmoran@njcu.edu.
Poli 205, Fall 2007
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: K-636 Phone: 201-200-3259 Email:
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Publications
Articles

MORAN, Francis. 2007. "Golfers, Gophers, and Guerillas: From Caddyshack to the Classroom." Academic Forum 15(1):23-30.

Abi Awomolo and Francis Moran. 2006. Instructor's Resource Manual with Test Items to Accompany Politics in Action: Cases in Modern American Government. New York: Houghton-Mifflin.

MORAN, Francis. 2006. "'Iron Handed Despotism': Anti-Federalist Critiques of the U.S. Constitution." Academic Forum. 14:5-10.

Chadwick, Bruce, Julio Guillen, and Fran Moran. 2004. "A Poll-itical Education: The Jersey Journal/New Jersey City University Poll and Public Opinion." Academic Forum. 12: cover, 41-47.

MORAN, Francis. 2002. "Between Primates and Primitives: Natural Man as the Missing Link in Rousseau's Second Discourse." In Philosophers on Race. Eds. Julie K. Ward and Tommie Lee Lott. Malden, MA: Blackwell, pp. 125-144.

__________. . 2002. "When Bush Comes to Shove: War, Terrorism and the Role of Violence in Politics." Academic Forum

 __________.1997. "Marxist Gorillas: Non-Human Primates and the Biopolitics of Class." In Research in Biopolitics, vol. 5. Eds. Albert Somit and Steven Peterson. Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, pp. 57- 70.

__________. 1996. "Ulcers, Baseball, and the New Ethical Naturalism." Commonwealth 8:55-75.

__________. 1995. "Of Pongos and Men: Orangs Outang in Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality." The Review of Politics 57:641-664.

__________. 1993. "Between Primates and Primitives: Natural Man as the Missing Link in Rousseau's Second Discourse," Journal of the History of Ideas 54: 37-58.

Reviews

__________. 1996. "Ethics for Frankenstein: Review of Robert Hunt Sprinkle, Profession of Conscience." The Review of Politics 58:408-410.

__________. 1995. "Review of Elliott White, Genes, Brains, and Politics." Politics and the Life Sciences 15:335-336.

__________. 1993. "Review of Merlin Donald, Origins of the Modern Mind," Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems.

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Conference Papers

National Meetings

MORAN, Francis. 2006. "Real Politics, Virtual Debates: The Advantages of Creating Online Debates in Introductory Political Science Courses." 3rd Annual American Political Science Association Conference on Teaching and Learning. February 17-20, Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C.

Moran, Francis and John Porcaro. 2005. "Intelligent Design and the Politics of the Life Sciences: Leibniz in the 21st Century." Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. September 1-4, Washington, D.C.

MORAN, Francis. 2003. "Animal Tales: Politics in Buffon's Histoire Naturelle." Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. September 1-4; Philadelphia, PA.

________________. 2003. "The Pull of the Past: Pre-Darwinian Undercurrents in Early Darwinian Biopolitics." Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. September 1-4; Philadelphia, PA.

________________. 2001."Beavers and Other Political Animals in Buffon's Histoire naturelle. Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. October 18-21. College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina.

________________. 1999. Reconciling "Private Interest" and "the Common Good": Rousseau and Citizenship." Paper. Meeting of the American Political Science Association; Atlanta, GA; Sept. 1 - 5.

________________. 1998. "Setting Aside the Dust and Sand: What Pre-Darwinian Contractarians can Teach their Post-Darwinian Successors." Paper. Meeting of the Association of Politics and the Life Sciences; Back Bay Hilton; Boston, Massachusetts; Sept. 1-3

________________. 1997. "Back to the Future: On the Evolution of Equality and the Prospects for Democracy." Paper. Meeting of the American Political Science Association; Omni-Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C. August 28-31.

________________. 1997. " 'Primeval Contracts' and the 'Rights of Man': Burke and Paine on the Nature of Politics." Paper. 11th Annual DeBartolo Conference. Holiday Inn; Tampa, FL; February 20-22.

________________. 1996. "The Biopolitics of Class." Paper. Joint Meetings of the Biology and Politics Research Group of the International Political Science Association and the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences. Alfred University; Alfred, NY; July 25-27.

________________. 1995. "Towards a Radical Biopolitics: Engels and the Dialectics of Nature." Paper. Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. The Chicago Hilton; Chicago, IL; August 31-September 3.

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Regional Meetings


Moran, Francis, 2007. "Six to Go: Irish Nationalism and the Pogues." Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association. November, 15-19, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Philadelphia, PA.

__________. "Golfers, Gophers, and Guerillas: Caddyshack and the War in Vietnam." Annual Meeting of the Northeast Political Science Association. November 9-12, Omni Parker Hotel, Boston, Mass.

Moran, Francis and Joseph Moskowitz. 2005. "Outcomes and Assessment in Political Science Programs." Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association. April 1-2, Penn State University - Capital College.

Moskowitz, Joseph and Fran Moran. 2005. "On-Line Instruction in Undergraduate Political Science." Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association. April 1-2, Penn State University - Capital College.

________________. 2004. "Calhoun's 'Disquisition on Government' and the Contractarian Tradition." Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association.

MORAN, Francis. 1999. "Evolution and Revolution." Paper. Meeting of the Pennsylvania Political Science Association; Villanova University; Philadelphia, PA; April 10-11.

________________. 1997. "Reconciling 'Private Interest' and 'the Common Good': Rousseau, the Prisoner's Dilemma, and the Virtue of Citizenship." Paper. Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association. Philadelphia, PA. November 13-15.

________________. 1997. "The Relevance of the 'Government of the Physical World': Nature in Wollstonecraft's Political Thought." Paper. Meeting of the Southern Political Science Association. Omni Waterside Hotel; Norfolk, VA; November 5-8.

________________. 1996. "The Biopolitics of Democracy." Paper. Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association. Back Bay Hilton Hotel; Boston, MA; November 12-14.

_______________. 1995. "Buffon and Rousseau: The Influence of the Histoire naturelle on the Discourse on Inequality." Paper. Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association. The Hilton Gateway Hotel; Newark, NJ; November 9-11.

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