Susan Collins
Associate Professor
Office: PGH 401
Phone: 713-743-3900
E-mail: suecoll724@uh.edu
Susan Collins is a political theorist holding a joint appointment in political science and the Honors College. She teaches courses in the history of political thought as well as the gateway course for all Honors students; she was awarded the 2004-2005 University of Houston Provost Core Teaching Excellence Award. Her research focuses on classical thought. Among the main themes of her work are the intersection of ethics and politics in Ancient thought, contemporary efforts to use Aristotle’s thought in resolving the problems of liberalism, and the classical alternatives to modern theories of justice.
She has recently published Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship (Cambridge 2006), a study Aristotle’s treatment of citizenship in his Nicomachean Ethics and Politics. Other publications include “Moral Virtue and the Limits of the Political Community in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics,” in the American Journal of Political Science (January 2004), Action and Contemplation: Studies in the Moral and Political Thought of Aristotle (SUNY 1999), Empire and the Ends of Politics: Plato’s Menexenus and Pericles’ Funeral Oration (Focus Philosophical Library, 1999), and “The Challenge of Plato’s Menexenus” in Review of Politics (January 1999).