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Jacqueline R Hunsicker
jacquelinehunsicker@gmail.com
Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow
University of Houston
Honors College
212 M.D. Anderson Library
Houston, TX 77004
EDUCATION
2006-2012
PhD, Government, University of Texas at Austin, August 2012
Subfields: Public Law and Political Theory. 
Dissertation: “Veneration, Aspiration, and Redemption: a Study of American Constitutional Development”
Committee: Sanford Levinson (chair), Gary Jacobsohn, Jeffrey Tulis, H.W. Perry, Russell Muirhead (Dartmouth), Devin Stauffer, Robert Moser
2008
M.A., Government, University of Texas at Austin, spring 2008
2005
B.A., Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park, fall 2005
Degree awarded with high honors, magna cum laude, GPA: 3.94
EXPERIENCE
2012-13 Post-Doctoral Teaching Fellow, University of Houston Honors College
PUBLICATIONS
2006
“From Machiavellian Foundings to Republican Law.” The Good Society 15:2
2012
“The Two Cyruses: Models of Machiavellian Humanity and Harshness for Republican Leaders” (forthcoming History of Political Thought)
UNDER REVIEW
2012
“Faith and Doubt: Aspirations for the American Constitution” Journal of American Political Thought
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Nov 2011
“James Madison: Constitutional Stability and Change.” paper presentation at Northeast Political Science Convention, Philadelphia, PA.
April 2009
“The Twenty-First Century Response to Carl Schmitt,” co-authored with Peter Mohanty, paper presentation at the 2009 meeting of the Midwest Political Science 
Association Conference, Chicago, IL
April 2008
"The Two Cyruses: Models of Machiavellian Humanity and Harshness,”
paper presentation at the 2008 meeting of the Midwest Political Science 
Association Conference, Chicago, IL
August 2007
“Machiavelli’s Model Prince: How Historical Cyrus Shows the Way to the Perpetual Republic,” paper presentation at the 2007 meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, IL
April 2007
“Machiavellian Necessity and the Founding of Republican Rome,” paper presentation at the 2007 meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Guest Lectures: “The Court,” October 26, 2011 and November 2, 2011
Signature Course Teaching Assistant
Spring 2011, University of Texas, US Constitutions and Politics
Spring 2009, University of Texas, US Constitution 
and Governance
--trained in interdisciplinary undergraduate teaching
--taught three instructional sections weekly, graded weekly papers and exams
--assisted with syllabus development and exam writing
Supplemental Instructor
Spring 2008, University of Texas, Issues and Policies in American Government
--taught two instructional sections weekly, grade exams and papers
Teaching Assistant
Fall 2008, University of Texas, American Political Thought (upper level)
--developed some exams, graded exams and papers
Fall 2007, University of Texas, President, Congress, and Court
--developed essay questions and graded essay exams and papers
Spring 2007, University of Texas, Introduction to American and Texas Politics
--graded essay exams
Fall 2006, University of Texas, Introduction to American and Texas Politics
--taught several class sessions, helped write exams
Fall 2005, University of Maryland, Rise and Fall of Communism 
--taught several class sessions, graded quizzes
HONORS AND AWARDS
Fall 2011
Macdonald Dissertation Fellowship
2009-2010 Earhart Foundation Fellowship
Spring 2009
Certificate in Interdisciplinary Teaching
Spring 2009
Conference Travel Award, University of Texas
Fall 2007
Professional Development Award, University of Texas
Fall 2005
Philip Merrill Presidential Scholar
Spring 2005
Phi Beta Kappa, third-year inductee
Spring 2004
Mary Elizabeth Roby Departmental Scholarship
LANGUAGES
French—excellent
German—basic
Italian—basic
MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Founder, University of Texas Public Law Graduate Working Group 2011
American Political Science Association, since 2006
Midwest Political Science Association, since 2006
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Constitutional development (domestic and foreign), constitutional change, rule of law, American founding, Niccolò Machiavelli, ancient and modern political thought.
Updated July 2012