Morimichi Wantanabe Professor of Political Science and History Long Island University C.W. Post Campus 720 Northern Boulevard Brookville, NY 11548 TEL: (516) 299-3026 FAX: (516) 299-4140 Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION: Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo Degree HOGAKUSIU (LL.B.), 1948 Graduate Education Major Field of Concentration: Political Theory Minor Field of Concentration: Comparative Government University of Tokyo, 1948-50 Princeton University, 1950-52 Columbia University, 1954-61 Degrees: M.A., 1956 (Columbia University) Ph.D., 1961 (Columbia University) POSITIONS HELD: Meiji Gakuin Junior College, Tokyo, Japan Lecturer, 1948-50 Professor, 1950 Meiji Gakuin College, Tokyo, Japan Instructor, 1949-51 Lecturer, 1951-54 (Sept. 1950 - June 1952 on leave of absence) Kansas State College of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, Kansas Visiting Assistant Professor, 1960-61 Queens College, City University of New York, New York Instructor, 1961-63 Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, Brookville, New York Assistant Professor, 1963-66 Associate Professor, 1966-71 Professor, 1971- Faculty of Law, University of Tokyo, Japan Visiting Professor, 1976 (Summer) Faculty of Law, Keio University, Tokyo Visiting Professor, 1976 (Summer) Himeji Dokkyo University, Himeji, Japan Visiting Professor, 10/1/1989-1/31/1990 Seigakuin University, Tokyo, Japan Visiting Professor, 3/1994-8/1996 MEMBERSHIPS: American Political Science Association American Historical Association Medieval Academy of America Renaissance Society of America American Catholic Historical Association American Society of Church History University Seminar on the History of Legal and Political Thought and Institutions, Columbia University (Chairman: 1983-85) University Seminar on the Renaissance, Columbia University AWARDS AND HONORS: Dean's Recognition Award C.W. Post College, Long Island University, 1976 Trustees Award for Scholarly Achievement (TASA) Long Island University, 1981 RESEARCH GRANTS: American Philosophical Society, 1964 American Council of Learned Societies, 1966 Foundation for Reformation Research, 1970 American Philosophical Society, 1970 C.W. Post College, Long Island University, 1974 Council on International Educational Exchange (Travel Grant), 1976 American Philosophical Society, 1977 C.W. Post College, Long Island University, 1984 PRESIDENT AND EDITOR: American Cusanus Society, President, 1983 - American Cusanus Society Newsletter, Editor, 1984- OTHER POSITIONS: Wissenschaftlicher Beirat (Academic Advisory Board), Cusanus-Gesellschaft, Germany, Member, 1968- Nihon Kuzanusu Gakkai (Japanese Cusanus Society), Honorary Adviser, 1983- BOOK DEDICATED: Nicholas of Cusa: In Search of God and Wisdom: Essays in Honor of Morimichi Watanabe by the American Cusanus Society, ed. Gerald Christianson and Thomas M. Izbicki [Studies in the History of Christian Thought, Vol. XLV] (Leiden/New York/Kobenhavn/Köln: E.J. Brill, 1991). PUBLICATIONS: BOOK: The Political Ideas of Nicholas of Cusa with Special Reference to his De concordantia catholica (Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance LVIII). Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1963. TRANSLATION: Paul Oskar Kristeller, RENESSANSU NO SHISO (Renaissance Thought), tr. Morimichi Watanabe. Tokyo: The University of Tokyo Press, 1977. FORTY-FIVE ARTICLES, INCLUDING: "An Inquiry into the Study of Medieval Political Thought," Meiji Gakuin Review, XIX (September, 1950), 33-51. "Puerto Rico: The Caribbean Crossroads," Meiji Gakuin Review, XXVIII (February, 1953), 101-114. "A Study of the 1952 American Presidential Election," Meiji Gakuin Review, XXIX (June, 1951), 87-109. "American President as Maker of Foreign Policy and Commander-in-Chief," Meiji Gakuin Review, XXXIII (December, 1953), 67-80. "Eight Philosophers of the Italian Renaissance," Bibliothaque d'Humanisme et Renaissance, XXVII (1965), 539-.541. "The Life and Thought of Nicholas of Cusa," Journal of Theology, XXVIII (Tokyo, 1966), 114-120. "Nicholas of Cusa as a Canon Lawyer," Year Book of the American Philosophical Society 1965 (1966), 642-644. A report. TWENTY-FOUR REVIEWS... (last update 1997)