Dennis G. Dalton
Professor

 

Address
Barnard College, Columbia University
3009 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6598
Fax: 212-854-3024, E-mail: ddalton@barnard.edu

Schedule Fall   Spring Research Interests Political theory Political thought in South Asia Nonviolence and violence in society Mahatma Gandhi Martin Luther King, Jr.

Rafael, School of Athens          Vatican Museum

Courses

POLS BC 1013x	Political Theory I  formerly BC 3013)
POLS BC 1014y	Political Theory II  (formerly BC 3014)
POLS BC 3007	Modern Political Movements
POLS BC 3423y	Colloquium on Nonviolence
POLS BC 3761-62	Senior Research Seminar in Political Theory
FSM BC 1206	First-Year Seminar on Violence and Nonviolence
	Nonviolent Power in Action: a series of three e-seminars (Note: this CU Interactive page will open in its own browser window. In order to return to this page, simply close the new window.) See also a December 2001 article in Columbia News.

Evaluations   On-line, in PDF

Education
Ph.D., University of London, 1965
— Dissertation: "The Idea of Freedom in the Political Thought of Vivekananda, Aurobindo and Tagore."
M.A., University of Chicago, 1962
B.A., Rutgers University, 1960

Recent Awards
Senior Fulbright Scholarship for Research and Teaching in Nepal, 1994-95
Ann Whitney Olin Senior Award for Teaching and Research, 1989-94
Emily Gregory Award for Distinguished Teaching, Barnard College, 1978
American Council of Learned Societies grant for research in South Africa, August 1975
American Philosophical Institute grant for research in India, January-July 1975
American Council of Learned Societies grant for research at the India Office Library, London, England, June-August 1972

Books Published
Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action
Columbia University Press, 1993

Indian Idea of Freedom: Political Thought of Swami Vivekananda, Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore
The Academic Press, 1982

 

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