Roger D. Masters, Ph.D. - Biography
Roger D. Masters is Nelson D. Rockefeller Professor Emeritus in the
Dartmouth College Department of Government. He heads the Dartmouth
Foundation for Neuroscience and Society. For several decades he has
researched the causes of violence and other dysfunctional human behavior
such as ADD, ADHD, drug abuse and the like. His viewpoint, which has been
published widely, is that toxins in the environment have subtle effects on
brain and neural functions which are ultimately manifested in behaviors
which many social scientists and politicians prefer to attribute to social
dynamics.
Dr. Masters presented a groundbreaking study related to lead and
silicofluorides at the recent 17th International Neurotoxicology
Conference ( "Children's Health and the Environment," Little Rock,
Arkansas, October 17-20, 1999).
Below are a few relevent excerpts from his Curriculum Vitae:
Education:
Harvard College, 1951-55 (., Summa cum Laude, 1955)
University of Chicago, 1957-58 (M.A., 1958)
Institut d'Etudes Politiques, Paris, 1958-59 (Auditor)
University of Chicago, 1959-61 (Ph. D., 1961)
Behavioral Research (1995-1998)
Cultural Attache, U.S. Embassy, Paris, France (1969-71)
Visiting Lecturer, Yale Law School (1988)
Adjunct Professor, Vermont Law School (Fall, 1993, 1994)
Awards:
Fulbright Fellowship to France (1958-59)
Joint Yale-S.S.R.C. Fellowship (1964-65)
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship (1967-68)
John Sloan Dickey Third Century Professor of Government,
Dartmouth College (1979-1985)
Director d'Etudes, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Paris, France (1986)
Work in progress: Analysis of neurotoxicity associated with
pollution, poor diet, and lifestyle as risk factors in vi`
crime, health, and social behavior.
Publications:
Editor and co-translator, Rousseau's First and Second Discourses (New
York: St. Martin's, 1964)
The Nation is Burdened: American Foreign Policy in a Changing World
(New York: Knopf, 1967)
The Political Philosophy of Rousseau (Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1968)
Editor, Rousseau's Social Contract, with Geneva Manuscript and
Political Economy (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1978)
Co-Editor with Margaret Gruter, Ostracism: a Biological and Social
Phenomenon (New York: Elsevier Science Publishers, 1986)
The Nature of Politics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989)
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau, Judge of Jean-Jacques;
Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 1 (Hanover, NH: University
Press of New England, 1990).
Co-Editor with Glendon Schubert, Primate Politics (Carbondale, IL:
Southern Illinois University Press, 1991); paperback, with new
Preface (University Press of America, 1994).
Co-Editor with Margaret Gruter, The Sense of Justice: Biological
Foundations of Law (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992)
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau's First Discourse and
Polemics; Collected Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 2 (Hanover, NH:
University Press of New England, 1992).
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau's Second Discourse.
Polemics, and Political Economy; Collected Writings of Rousseau,
Vol. 3 (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1993)
Beyond Relativism: Science and Human Values (Hanover, NH:
University Press of New England, 1993)
Co-Editor, with Michael T. McGuire, The Neurotransmitter
Revolution (Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press,
1994)
General Editor, Gruter Institute Reader: Biology, Law, and Human
Behavior (Computerized Database for Customized Books of Readings;
New York: McGraw Hill [Primis])
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau's Socal Contract, Essay
on the Virtue of Heroes, Geneva Manuscript; Collected Writings of
Rousseau, Vol. 4 (Hanover, NH: University Press of New England,
1994)
Co-Editor with Christopher Kelly, Rousseau's Confessions, Collected
Writings of Rousseau, Vol. 5 (Hanover, NH: University Press of New
England, 1996)
Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power (University of
Notre Dame Press. 1996)
Fortune is a River: Leonardo da Vinci and Niccole Machiavelli's
Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History (New
York: Free Press, 1998). Paperback edition, New York: Plume,
1999).
Over 150 scholarly articles and journalistic essays in English,
French, and German, including contributions to Quarterly Review of
Biology, Ethology and Sociobiology, American Political Science
Review, World Politics, Politics and Life Sciences, Environmental
Toxicology, International Journal of Environmental Studies, etc.