 Richard Hiskes
Faculty Excellence Award in Teaching - Undergraduate Level, 2007
Department of Political Science, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Nominated By: Howard Reiter
Richard P. Hiskes is the senior political theorist in the Department
of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. He received his
MA (1975) and PhD (1978) in political science at Indiana University,
and specializes in modern and contemporary political thought,
democratic theory, environmental ethics, and human rights theory.
Throughout his numerous books and articles, Professor Hiskes has
explored many central concepts underlying democratic politics,
environmental policymaking and the philosophical foundations of human
rights. A conceptual focus running throughout all his works is the
ideal of community and how it forms a backdrop to issues within
democratic theory, science and technology policy, and human rights.
He is the author or co-author of five books that explore these
themes: Community Without Coercion: Getting Along in the Minimal State
(University of Delaware Press, 1982); Science, Technology and Policy
Decisions (with Anne L. Hiskes, Westview, 1986); Direct Democracy and
International Politics (with John T. Rourke and C.E. Zirakzadeh, Lynne
Rienner Publishers, 1992); Democracy, Risk, and Community:
Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism (Oxford, 1998);
and The Right to a Green Future: Human Rights, Environmentalism, and
Intergenerational Justice (forthcoming from Cambridge, 2008).
Professor Hiskes’s current research focuses on environmental human
rights and justice across generations. He has several published
articles on the topic, including “Environmental Human Rights and
Intergenerational Justice,” in 2006 in Human Rights Review; and
“Environmental Rights, Intergenerational Justice, and Reciprocity with
the Future,” Public Affairs Quarterly, July, 2005.
Professor Hiskes’s current research focuses on environmental human
rights and justice across generations. He has several published or
forthcoming articles on the topic, including “The Right to a Green
Future: Human Rights, Environmentalism, and Intergenerational Justice,”
forthcoming in November, 2005 in Human Rights Quarterly; “Environmental
Human Rights and Intergenerational Justice,” forthcoming in 2006 in
Human Rights Review; and “Environmental Rights, Intergenerational
Justice, and Reciprocity with the Future,” Public Affairs Quarterly,
July, 2005.
Updated: 2007
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