Education Background

Ph.D. - State University of New York at Albany
M.A. - SUNY at Albany & University of Massachusetts at Amherst
B.A. - Siena College

Courses Taught

  • Environmental Law and Policy
  • American Politics
  • Constitutional Law
  • Human Rights Law and Politics
  • Law and Bioethics
  • Political Theory

Research Interests

My research interests cleave in two distinct directions. I am completing a book on Wittgenstein and Political Theory; part of a larger study of contemporary political theory as a series of responses to political trauma (genocide, war, the Holocaust) and ecological catastrophe. My second area of scholarly interest is the politics of sustainable development, where I am formulating a position I call "Political Ecology" that considers the larger political effects of acknowledging the illogic of limitless economic growth on a planet of limited natural resources.

Publications

  • "The Iron Triangle: Why the Wildlife Society Needs to Take a Position on Economic Growth," co-authored with Brian Czech and nineteen signatories, Wildlife Society Bulletin 31.2 (Fall 2003), pp. 574-77.

Presentations

  • "Seeing As It Happens: Theorizing Through the Eyes of Wittgenstein," a paper presented at the 2004 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Association, Boston, MA, November 11-13, 2004.
  • Chair and discussant for "Social Criticism and Political Argument Panel," at 2004 Annual Meeting of the Northeastern Political Science Association, Boston, MA, November 11-13, 2004.
  • "Theorizing Sustainability: An Exercise in Political Ecology," at the Association for Political Theory Conference, October 29-31, 2004, Colorado College Roundtable: Environmental Political Theory: The Art of Politics in a Natural World.
  • Participant at Oxford Round Table on Regulating Sustainable Development: Adapting Globalization in the Twenty-First Century, University of Oxford, England, August 8-13, 2004, in the keynote presentation: "Theorizing Sustainability: An Exercise in Political Ecology."
  • "Political Ecology and Sustainability: A Political Defense of Ecological Economics," at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 15-18, 2004.
  • "Sustainability Science in Policymaking: Santa Rosa National Park (Costa Rica) and Adirondack State Park," co-authored with Tom Langen, presented at the Wildlife Society 2003 Annual Conference, Sept. 8, 2003, Burlington, VT, sponsored by the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics.
  • "Theorizing Politics Lost: Hannah Arendt and Herbert Marcuse," presented at the Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Assoc., Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 2003.
  • Respondent, Panel on "Jacques Derrida and Political Theory" at the Annual Meeting of Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 3-6, 2003.
  • Respondent, "Did Socrates Believe in Democracy?" at the SUNY Potsdam's Legacy of Greece and Rome Conference, March 13, 2003.
  • Chair, "Continental Political Philosophy Panel" at the Association for Political Theory Inaugural Conference, Calvin College, Grand Rapids Michigan, Oct. 17-19, 2003.

Contact

Email:
crobinso@clarkson.edu

Office Phone Number: 315/268-3986

Office Location: 302 Science Center

Clarkson Box Number: CU Box 5750

Zoom ID URL: https://clarkson.zoom.us/j/93305037775?pwd=U3VqbFN3M3hPZysxUzhtMVVhalB1UT09

Office Hours

  • Monday: 4:30 -6:30
  • Wednesday: 4:30 - 6:30
  • Friday: 4:30 - 6:30