IU School of Liberal Arts

Jasper Sumner, III

Campus Address: CA 504F
Phone: (317) 278-0694
Fax: 278-3280
Email: jsumner@iupui.edu
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Appointments

Lecturer in Political Philosophy

Education

B.A. (Dist.) Indiana University 1999
M.A. University of Oklahoma 2004

Academic Interests

Political philosophy, European and Russian political thought, Marxist theory, communitarian thought, postmodernism, utopian theory

Teaching

Primarily teaches Introduction to Political Theory (POLS Y215), Themed Learning Community (SLA S100), Marxist Theory (POLS Y388), Problems in Contemporary Political Philosophy (POLS Y392), and occasionally teaches Senior Seminar in Political Science (POLS Y490), Introduction to International Studies (INTL I100)

Awards

"Favorite Professor" IUPUI Athletics Department Spring 2010
Lecturers' Development Summer Grant 2007
Lecturers' Development Conference Grant 2007
V. Stanley Vardys Award for outstanding research and writing 2003
European Union Center Research Fellow 2002-2004
Graduate Student Senate Conference Grant 2002

Publications

"The Social Construction of Globalization: How the Blair Government Reformed the British Welfare State." Indiana Journal of Political Science. Winter 2007.

Service

Executive Producer, Consider This
Member, Themed Learning Community
Member of the Board, Liberal Arts Alumni Association

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