Olin Center, Amy Apfel Kass CV

The John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy

Amy Apfel Kass

Curriculum Vitae

Fall, 1999

Name: Amy Apfel Kass

Home: 5811 S. Dorchester, Chicago, Illinois 60637

Home Phone: 773-241-5649

Marital Status: Married, l961 (Leon R. Kass)

Education

1959-62 ---- The College of the University of Chicago; A.B., l962.
1962-64 ---- Brandeis University, Department of History of Ideas; M.A., l964.
1967-72 ---- The Johns Hopkins University, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Department of Education; Ph.D., l973. (Dissertation: Radical Conservatives for Liberal Education.)

Teaching Positions

1964-66 ---- Social Studies Teacher, Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High, Sudbury, Mass.
1969 ---- Instructor, Institute for Adult Education, Georgetown University, Wash. D.C.
1972-75 ---- Instructor, The Evening College, The Johns Hopkins University
1975 ---- Instructor, Liberal Studies Program, Georgetown University
1974-76 ---- Tutor, St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland
1976-78 ---- Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division, The University of Chicago
1978-present ---- Senior Lecturer, Humanities Collegiate Division, The University of Chicago

Other Teaching Activities

(Partial Listing)
1996-97 ---- Lilly Seminars for Civic Leadership
1985-present ---- Faculty, "Fundamentals: Issues and Texts," Undergraduate Degree Program, New Collegiate Division, The University of Chicago
1984-present ---- Staff Chairman, "Human Being and Citizen," Common Core Course
1984 & 1987 ---- Seminar Leader, Paideia Program, Chicago Public Schools
Summer, l986 ---- Seminar Co-leader, Telluride Association Summer Program, The University of Chicago

Fellowships, Grants, and Honors

Brandeis University Fellow, 1962-64
The Johns Hopkins University Fellow, 1967-70
Florence Bamburger Award, The Johns Hopkins University, l970
The Llewelyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1980
Visiting Scholar, Department of Education, Duke University, 1984-85
Grant from Institute for Educational Affairs, 1984-85
Grant from The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, 1991-1992
Grant from Lilly Endowment, 1995-96 & 1996-98, to plan and run project on civic leadership

Publications

"The Liberal Arts Movement: From Ideas to Practice," in The College, XXV, October, l973, pp.1-8,25-26

"Accomplished Advocates for Change," review of Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington, Women in Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove, College Teaching, Spring, l989, pp.76-78.

"Autobiographers as Teachers: Toward Solving the Problem of Civic Education," in Philip Jackson and Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon, editors, From Socrates to Software: The Teacher as Text and the Text as Teacher, Eighty-ninth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Chicago, l989, pp.90-114.

"The Education of Telemachos," in St. John's Review, XLI, number 1, 1991-1992, pp.39-60.

"After the Fall," review of Mark Schwehn, Exiles from Eden, in First Things, August/September, 1993, pp.55-60.

"Inspiriting Learning," College Teaching, Winter, 1994, pp.35-38.

"The Giving Tree : A Symposium," in First Things, January, 1995, pp.36-37.

[Book] American Lives: Cultural Differences, Individual Distinction (New York: Golden Owl Press, 1995).

"Who Am I?: Autobiography and American Identity,"in College Teaching, Fall, 1995, pp. 93-99.

[with Leon R. Kass] "What's Your Name?", in First Things, November, 1995, pp.14-25

[with Leon R. Kass] "Proposing Courtship," in First Things, October, 1999, pp.32-41

[Book with Leon R. Kass] Wing to Wing, Oar to Oar: Readings in Courting and Marrying, forthcoming January, 2000, University of Notre Dame Press.

Public Lectures

(Partial listing)
"Plato's Meno: On Virtue and Learning"

"On Women and Learning: Address to Entering Women"

"The Odyssey: The Taming of the Shrewd"

"The Odyssey: The Homecoming of Penelope"

"Love and Friendship in Homer's Odyssey"

"Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Woman's Movement"

"What Do Women Want?"

"The Education of Telemachos"

"Autobiography and Teaching Cultural Literacy"

"Re-viewing Booker T. Washington's Up From Slavery"

"Autobiography and American Identity: Another Look at The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"

"Was it Worth it?" Convocation Address at Shimer College

"Courtship in The Tempest"

Professional Associations and Activities

Consulting editor and reviewer, College Teaching, 1987-present
Consultant to Lilly Endowment, Project on Leadership, 1995-present
Member, "Ethics of Everyday Life Project," Institute on Religion and Public Life, 1992-present

Courses Taught

Georgetown University

Democracy and Education

Human Beings, Citizens, and Political Communities

The Johns Hopkins University

Men and Ideas in American Educational Thought

Men and Ideas in American History

Political Philosophy: Ancient and Modern

Political Thought of the American Founding

St. John's College

Freshman Seminar: Great Books of Ancient Greece

The University of Chicago
(Partial Listing)

Philosophy, Literature, and History (Common Core)

Human Being and Citizen (Common Core)

Philosophy and Law

Homer, Odyssey and Iliad

On Learning: Inquiry and Experience

The Nature of Tragedy

Autobiography and Education: Exemplary Americans (with Ralph Lerner)

Reading Lyric Poetry

Men and Women: Literary Perspectives

Politics and Literature: American Individualism (with Ralph Lerner)

Plato, The Apology of Socrates

Civility (with Leon R. Kass)

Politics and Sex: Literary Perspectives

American Lives: Franklin and Adams

Tolstoy, War and Peace (with Leon R. Kass)

Cultural Differences: Individual Distinction

Art and Nature: Shelley and Shakespeare

Politics in Literature: Tragedy

Ethics of Everyday Life: Courtship (with Leon R. Kass)

Melville, Moby-Dick (with Ralph Lerner)

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