Fred E. Baumann came to Kenyon as director of the Public Affairs Conference Center and part-time teacher of Political Science in 1980, entering the department full-time in 1986. He teaches courses in the history of political philosophy, politics and literature, diplomatic history and statesmanship as well as PSCI 101-102. The author of Fraternity and Politics: Choosing One's Brothers , Baumann is now working on a book on the status of political humanism. He is an associate editor of the journal Interpretation, and has served as chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee. Baumann received the Senior Faculty Trustee Teaching Award and was invited to give the Founders Day talk.

Education

Ph.D. History, Harvard University
B.A. Cornell University

Selected Publications

"Visions of Utopia: Philosophy and the Perfect Society," a course of fourteen recorded lectures, Recorded Books, 2008.

"Raymond Aron and Jean-Paul Sartre," in The Enduring Influence and Relevance of Raymond Aron's Political Reasoning, Daniel Mahoney and Brian-Paul Frost, Transaction Publishers, 2007.

"Our Fractious Foreign Policy Debate," The Public Interest, vol. 157 (Fall 2004), pp. 67-84.

"Two Friendships: Schiller's Don Karlos and Letters on Don Karlos," in Political Affections: Love and Friendship, ed. Eduardo Velasquez (Lexington, 2002).

Fraternity and Politics: Choosing One's Brothers (Praeger, 1998).

Courses Taught

PSCI 101-102: The Quest for Justice
PSCI 220: The Classical Quest for Justice
PSCI 221: The Modern Quest for Justice
PSCI 321: Political Theory and Political Practice
PSCI 365: International Terrorism
PSCI 422: Thucydides: War and Philosophy
PSCI 426: Humanism and its Critics
PSCI 427: Nietzsche and Political Philosophy
PSCI 427: The Political Philosophy of Montaigne
PPOL 440: Senior Seminar in Public Policy