Background
Spiro, Herbert John was born on September 7, 1924 in Hamburg, Germany. Came to the United States, 1938, naturalized, 1944. Son of Albert John and Marianne (Stiefel) Spiro.
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Politics as the Master Science from Plato to Mao
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Patterns of African Development
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Politics as the Master Science: From plato to Mao
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The Politics of German Codetermination
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The dialectic of representation, 1619 to 1969 (Jamestown essays on representation)
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Herbert John Spiro
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Education
Student, San Antonio Junior College, 1943. AB summa cum laude, Harvard University, 1949. Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1950.
Doctor of Philosophy, Harvard University, 1953. Master of Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1971.
Career
Administrative assistant United States War Department, Vienna, 1945-1946. Member faculty Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1950-1961, assistant professor, 1957-1961. Associate professor political science Amherst (Massachusetts) College, 1961-1965.
Professor political science University Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1965-1973. Member policy planning staff Department State, Washington, 1970-1975. Ambassador to Cameroon, 1975-1977.
Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, 1975-1976. Fellow Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 1978. Visiting professor political science Defense Intelligence School, 1979-1980.
University professor political science John F. Kennedy Institute for North America Studies, Free University Berlin, 1980-1989. Fulbright senior research professor University College Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1959-1960. Consultant British Commission to Review Constitution, Federation Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1960, Japanese Commission on Revision Constitution, 1962.
Visiting associate professor University Chicago, 1961, Stanford (California) University, 1963. Chairman Asian and African Studies program, Amherst-Smith-Mount Holyoke Colleges, University Massachusetts, 1964-1965. Visiting professor international affairs Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton (New Jersey) University, 1966.
Advisory council political science Haverford College, 1966-1971. Affiliated with Nuffield College, Oxford (England) University, 1967-1968. Resident scholar Rockefeller Foundation Study Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1968, 78.
Visiting professor government, guest scholar Center for International Affairs, Harvard University, 1983. Visiting scholar University Texas, Austin, 1984-1989. Life member British studies faculty seminar University Texas, Austin, since 1983.
Researcher Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library., 1985-1986. Fellow Aspen (Colorado) Institute Humanistic Studies, 1986. Adjunct professor government University Texas, Austin, 1989-1991.
Participant internat scholarly and diplomatic conferences. Founder Brackenridge H.S.-Wilhelm Gymnasium Exchange. Lecturer in field.
Works
book
- World politics;: The global system, (The Dorsey series in political science)
- Politics as the Master Science from Plato to Mao
- Patterns of African Development
- Politics as the Master Science: From plato to Mao
- The Politics of German Codetermination
- The dialectic of representation, 1619 to 1969 (Jamestown essays on representation)
Membership
Delaware Texas State Republican Convention, 1990-1992. Precinct chairman Travis County. Republican candidate for Texas House of Representatives, 1991, United States House of Representatives, 1992, 94, United States Senate, 1993.
Fellow Association for Diplomatic Studies. Member African Studies Association, American Political Science Association (council 1968-1970, chairman election committee 1969), International Political Science Association, American Society Political and Legal Philosophy, Council Foreign Relations, Council American Ambassadors, American Foreign Service Association, Military Order Purple Heart, San Antonio World Affairs Council, Harvard Alumni Association (appointed regional director Texas 1994-1997), San Antonio College Alumni Association (director since 1999, Distinguished Former Student award 2000), Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft Berlin, Signet Society, Harvard University Faculty Club, Harvard Club (New York City, delegate to Texas), Harvard Club Berlin (president 1985-1989), Harvard Club Austin (president 1990-1992), Harvard Club San Antonio, Phi Beta Kappa.
Connections
Married Elizabeth Anna Petersen, June 7, 1958 (divorced). Children: Peter John, Alexander Charles Stiefel. Married Marion Ballin, July 22, 1985.
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Political Party
Republican
Awards
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Decorated Bronze Star medal with oak leaf cluster, Purple Heart. Grand officer Legion of Valor Cameroon, 1977. Recipient Detur prize Harvard College, 1948, Bowdoin prize, 1952. John Harvard scholar, 1949-1951, Holzer scholar, 1949-1951. Guggenheim fellow, 1959-1960, Social Science Research Council faculty fellow, 1962, 67-68, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, 1958, Sheldon travelling fellow Harvard University, also Fulbright fellow, 1953-1954. Moody grantee Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1985.Decorated Bronze Star medal with oak leaf cluster, Purple Heart. Grand officer Legion of Valor Cameroon, 1977. Recipient Detur prize Harvard College, 1948, Bowdoin prize, 1952.
John Harvard scholar, 1949-1951, Holzer scholar, 1949-1951. Guggenheim fellow, 1959-1960, Social Science Research Council faculty fellow, 1962, 67-68, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, 1958, Sheldon travelling fellow Harvard University, also Fulbright fellow, 1953-1954. Moody grantee Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1985.
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Decorated Bronze Star medal with oak leaf cluster, Purple Heart. Grand officer Legion of Valor Cameroon, 1977. Recipient Detur prize Harvard College, 1948, Bowdoin prize, 1952. John Harvard scholar, 1949-1951, Holzer scholar, 1949-1951. Guggenheim fellow, 1959-1960, Social Science Research Council faculty fellow, 1962, 67-68, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, 1958, Sheldon travelling fellow Harvard University, also Fulbright fellow, 1953-1954. Moody grantee Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1985.Decorated Bronze Star medal with oak leaf cluster, Purple Heart. Grand officer Legion of Valor Cameroon, 1977. Recipient Detur prize Harvard College, 1948, Bowdoin prize, 1952.
John Harvard scholar, 1949-1951, Holzer scholar, 1949-1951. Guggenheim fellow, 1959-1960, Social Science Research Council faculty fellow, 1962, 67-68, Rockefeller Foundation fellow, 1958, Sheldon travelling fellow Harvard University, also Fulbright fellow, 1953-1954. Moody grantee Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation, 1985.