Paul A. Rahe

Professor of History, Charles O. Lee and Louise K. Lee Chair in the Western Heritage

Kendall 214

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“The students who come to Hillsdale College—undergraduates and graduate students alike—enjoy an increasingly rare privilege: the opportunity to get a proper liberal education designed to prepare them for active citizenship.”

~ Paul A. Rahe

Education

B.A. in History, Yale University, 1971

B.A. in Literae Humaniores, Oxford University, 1974

Ph.D. in History, Yale University, 1977

Honors, Prizes, Scholarships, & Fellowships

Rhodes Scholarship, 1971

Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University, 1971

Junior Fellowship, The Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., 1980-1981

Fellowship, The National Humanities Center, Spring, 1984

Fellowship in the Eastern Mediterranean, Institute of Current World Affairs, Crane-Rogers Foundation, 1984-1986

John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship, John M. Olin Foundation, Inc., 1988-1989

Fellowship, Center for the History of Freedom, Washington University, Spring 1990

Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1993-1994

Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., 1993-1994

Templeton Honor Rolls for Education in a Free Society, The John M. Templeton Foundation, 1997-1998

Visiting Research Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Spring, 1999

Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Fall 2005

Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford, Michaelmas and Hilary Terms, 2005-2006.

DaimlerChrysler Fellow, Hans Arnhold Center, The American Academy in Berlin, April-May 2006

Koren Prize for the Best Article Published in French History in 2005, Society for French Historical Studies, 21-22 April 2006

Visiting Fellow, Social Philosophy and Policy Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, 18 May – 5 June 2009, 22 June – 7 August 2009

Emily Daugherty Award for Teaching Excellence, Hillsdale College, 12 April 2012

W. Glenn Campbell and Rita Ricardo-Campbell National Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 2 September 2013 – 17 May 2014

2019 Strategic Forecasting Book Award for Excellence in Geopolitical Analysis, Annual Meeting of the Mackinder Form, Tyson’s Corner Westin Hotel, Falls Creek, Virginia, 24 – 25 October 2019

Courses Taught

HST 104: Western Heritage

HST 393: Soft Despotism: Democracy’s Drift

HST 393: Machiavelli, More, Erasmus

HST 393: American Constitutional Convention

HST 401: Ancient Greece

HST 403: Ancient Greek City

HST 475: Case Studies: Origins of War

HST 597: Machiavelli

POL 597 / POL 720syllabus: Machiavelli

POL 597 / POL 723syllabus: Thucydides

POL 728syllabus: Plato’s Laws

Books

Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992), An Alternate Selection of the History Book Club, May 1993.

Republics Ancient and Modern I: The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994).

Republics Ancient and Modern II: New Modes and Orders in Early Modern Political Thought (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994).

Republics Ancient and Modern III: Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994).

Against Throne and Altar: Machiavelli and Political Theory under the English Republic (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Soft Despotism, Democracy’s Drift: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville and the Modern Prospect (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).

Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty: War, Religion, Commerce, Climate, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009).

The Grand Strategy of Classical Sparta: The Persian Challenge (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015), also available as an audiobook on audible.com.

The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016).

Sparta’s First Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Sparta, 478-446 BC (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019), also available as an audiobook on audible.com.

Chinese Translation of Republics Ancient and Modern III: Inventions of Prudence: Constituting the American Regime, forthcoming from Yilin Press in Nanjing.

Chinese Translation of Republics Ancient and Modern II: New Modes and Orders in Early Modern Political Thought, forthcoming from Yilin Press in Nanjing.

Chinese Translation of Republics Ancient and Modern I: The Ancien Régime in Classical Greece, forthcoming from Yilin Press in Nanjing.

Turkish Translation of The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy, forthcoming from Verba Medya in Istanbul.

Sparta’s Second Attic War: The Grand Strategy of Sparta, 446-418 BC (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2020), forthcoming.

Books Edited

Montesquieu’s Science of Politics: Essays on the Spirit of Laws, ed. David W. Carrithers, Michael A. Mosher, and Paul A. Rahe (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2001).

Machiavelli’s Liberal Republican Legacy, ed. Paul A. Rahe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006).