Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series

I am pleased to invite you to the 41st Hofstra University Distinguished Faculty Lecture, which will be presented by Leslie Feldman of the Department of Political Science in Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  Professor Feldman’s lecture, titled “Spaceships and Politics: Lessons From The Twilight Zone,” will be delivered on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, 11:15 a.m.-12:40 p.m., at the Leo A. Guthart Cultural Center Theater, located on the first floor of the Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus.

Professor Feldman holds a B.A. from Cornell University, Phi Beta Kappa; an M.A. from New York University; and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University, where she was a Bradley Fellow.  She joined the Hofstra faculty in 1990 as an assistant professor of political science.  She became an associate professor in 1997 and was promoted to full professor in 2007.  She teaches courses in classical political theory, modern political theory, and American political thought, and specializes in early modern political thought, liberalism, and the political theory of Thomas Hobbes.  She has written on Hobbes and motion and has delivered numerous papers on Rousseau, social contract theory, and the political thought of de Tocqueville and Hobbes.  She has held visiting fellowships at Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities.  Professor Feldman has also served as an executive board member of Hofstra’s chapter of The Phi Beta Kappa Society.  Professor Feldman has also served as chair of the political theory section of the Northeastern Political Science Association, and she has twice served as chair of the political theory section of the New York State Political Science Association.  She is the author of Freedom as Motion (2000); contributed to the book Power Plays by Dick Morris (2002); and is co-editor, with Rosanna Perotti, of Honor and Loyalty: Inside the Politics of the Bush White House (Greenwood Press, 2002).  Spaceships and Politics: The Political Theory of Rod Serling was published in 2010 by Lexington Books.  She is currently at work on a book that is based on the political theory of The Beverly Hillbillies, and views of the American Dream, social status, and social mobility in America.

President Rabinowitz and I look forward to joining you at this lecture.

Herman A. Berliner, Ph.D.
Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs