Associate Professor and Department Chair Dan Sabia
Ph.D., University of Minnesota (1978)
Email: sabia@sc.edu
Phone: 803-777-3109/4547
Professor Sabia’s research and teaching interests include modern and contemporary political thought, democratic theory, political ethics, utopian political thought, and philosophy and methodology of the social sciences. His current research is focused on political judgment and democratic theory.
Professor Sabia is the current Chair of the Department and, until recently, the Managing Editor, and a past Editorial Board member, of the Journal of Political Science, a professional journal published annually by the South Carolina Political Science Association. Professor Sabia is also a founding member of the Association for Political Theory, and has served as a Program Committee member for the Association’s inaugural, and many subsequent, national conferences. From 2001-03, he served as a member of the Steering Committee, and as Chair of the Awards Committee, of the Society for Utopian Studies. And he is a member of many other professional organizations as well. Professor Sabia was the primary founder and organizer of the Theory Symposium, an interdisciplinary colloquium series based in the Department, and he is currently a member of the University’s interdisciplinary Science Studies Group, a Faculty Associate of Preston Residential College, and a frequent teacher in the Honors College. He has served as a Dean’s Advisor for the College of Arts and Sciences, and has held a variety of Departmental positions before becoming chair, including Graduate Director and Faculty Senate representative.
Professor Sabia is the co-editor of two books, and the author of articles that have appeared in Political Theory, American Political Science Review, American Journal of Political Science, and other outlets. His most recent published work includes “Defending Immanent Critique,” Political Theory 38 (October 2010): 684-711, “Utopian Visions of Democracy,” Contemporary Justice Review 9 (March 2006): 81-101, and “Billy Budd and the Politics of Prudence,” in Democracy’s Literature: Political Fiction in America, eds., Patrick Deneen and Joseph Romance (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005).
Professor Sabia received his BA in Political Science from SUNY/Albany in 1970, and a PhD in Political Science, with a minor in Philosophy, from the University of Minnesota in 1978. He has been a member of this Department since 1977.