Susan M. Matarese, PhD

About

Honors and Awards

Philip Grant Davidson Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1982
Israel T. Naamani Award for Outstanding Service, 1994
University of Louisville Red Apple Award for Distinguished Teaching, 1996

Teaching Areas

Honors Seminar: Comparative Political Systems
Comparative Political Systems
American Political Thought
Democracy and Its Critics
Political Theory and Utopia
Quest for Community
American Extremism

Research Areas and Projects

Political Theory and Utopian Literature
Political Theory and Experimental Utopias
Shaker Studies
Her book, tentatively titled: Earth and Spirit, Nature and Grace: Shaker Health Practices is forthcoming

Professional Memberships

Communal Studies Association
Society for Utopian Studies

Activities

Board of Directors, Center for Communal Studies
Associate Editor, Communal Societies

Education

PhD, University of Minnesota (1979)

MA, University of Minnesota (1974)

BA, University of Rhode Island (1971)

Recent Publications

Susan Matarese, “Aging with Grace: Growing Old Among the Shakers,” The Midwest Quarterly, forthcoming.
Susan Matarese, “The Order of Nature and the Order of Grace: The Shakers’ Culture of Cleanliness and the Cholera Epidemic of 1832,” Communities, 2018.
Susan Matarese, “Political Theory and Utopia: On the Uses of the American Communal Past,” Communities, 2017.
Susan Matarese, “Death and Interconnectedness,” invited essay in Befriending Death, eds. Alfred Killilea and Michael Vocino, Bloomington, Indiana, 2015.
Susan Matarese and Paul Salmon, “Seeking Solitude in Communal Settings,” chapter in Solitude: Psychological Perspectives on Social Isolation, Social Withdrawal and Being Alone, Robert Coplan ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.