Aurelian Craiutu(Ph.D. Princeton, 1999) is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University, Bloomington. He taught at Duke University and University of Northern Iowa prior to joining Indiana University in 2001 where he is also affiliated with the Russian and East European Institute, The WEST European Studies Institute, and the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. At IU, he has been teaching Y105 (Introduction to Political Theory), Y281 (Modern Political Ideologies), Y381 (Classical Political Thought), Y 382 (Modern Political Thought) as well as a host of graduate courses such as Approaches and Issues in Political Philosophy, Classics of Social and Political Thought, The French Revolution and Its Interpreters, Moderation and Radicalism, After the Revolution: 1789 and 1989.
Professor Craiutu's research interests include French political and social thought (Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Constant, Madame de Staël, Guizot, Raymond Aron), varieties of liberalism and conservatism, democratic theory as well as theories of transition to democracy and democratic consolidation in Eastern Europe. In 2000, Craiutu won the American Political Science Association's Leo Strauss Award for the best doctoral dissertation in the field of political theory.
Aurelian Craiutu is the author of Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaires, published by Lexington Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield, (a 2004 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award). A French revised and enlarged edition of this book was published in April 2006 under the title Le centre introuvable: la pensée politique des doctrinaires sous la Restauration at Editions Plon (Commentaire series). Craiutu also published Elogiul libertatii [In Praise of Liberty: Essays in Political Philosophy, 1998, in Romanian), and Elogiul moderatiei [In Praise of Moderation, 2006], both with Polirom Publishing House.
Professor Craiutu edited Guizot's History of the Origins of Representative Government in Europe (Liberty Fund, 2002) and was the co-editor of Dialog si libertate: Eseuri în onoarea lui Mihai Sora [Dialogue and Liberty: Essays in Honor of Mihai Sora, 1997; in Romanian]. He also translated into Romanian Edmund Husserl's Cartesian Meditations (1994), Gustave Thibon's Conversations with Christian Chabanis (1997), and Gabriel Marcel's Conversations with Pierre Boutang (1996).
Craiutu's articles and reviews were published in many academic journals including American Political Science Review, The Review of Politics, History of Political Thought, Political Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, History of European Ideas, Ethics, Rhetoric & Public Affairs, Government & Opposition, Critical Review, and East European Constitutional Review. He serves as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Political Theory published by Sage.
In 2004, Professor Craiutu received a Student Choice Award (on the basis of "excellent teaching and general rapport with students") and an Outstanding Junior Faculty Award that recognizes the achievements of junior faculty who have committed themselves to the teaching and service missions of the University while also developing nationally recognized programs in research and creative activity.
Professor Craiutu is currently working on a book on political moderation entitled Faces of Moderation exploring various aspects of moderation in modern political thought, with special emphasis on French political thought. He has translated and edited (with Jeremy Jennings) a volume of Tocqueville's writings, Letters and other Writings: Tocqueville after 1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and co-edited (with Jeffrey C. Isaac) a volume entitled America through European Eyes (Penn State University Press, 2008). Professor Craiutu has also finished editing a new English translation of Madame de Staël's Considerations on the Main Events of the French Revolution (forthcoming with Liberty Fund) and co-edited with Sheldon Gellar a volume that applies Tocqueville's concepts to the study of democratization processes around the world (forthcoming with Lexington Books, Rowman & Littlefield).
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