holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. He has won Guggenheim and four National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. He has been awarded the Robert Foster Cherry Great Teacher of the World Prize, Baylor University. At the invitation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences he recently delivered the Werner Heisenberg Memorial Prize Lecture. He is on the Executive Council of the American Political Science Association, is General Editor of The Agora Editions (Cornell U. Press), and is a member of the editorial boards of Political Research Quarterly and Polis, Journal of the Society for the Study of Greek Political Thought; he serves on the Research Council of the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy. He is the author, most recently, of Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace, co-authored with Peter J. Ahrensdorf (University Press of Kansas, 1999); Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2003); and Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).