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Nathan W. Harter, J.D.

Academic Appointments

a. School of Technology, Purdue University: 1989-present Associate Professor (tenured); Department’s ‘95 & ’01 Outstanding Tenured Faculty Teaching Award

b. School of Liberal Arts, Indiana University - Purdue University at Columbus (IUPUC): 1994-1995 Lecturer: P110, Topical Introduction to Philosophy; 1994-1997 Lecturer: P120, Personal and Professional Ethics; 2003 Cross-listed: BUS W494, Herman B. Wells Seminar on Leadership

c. School of Liberal Arts, Purdue University: 1990-1992 Lecturer: PHIL 111, Ethic

Other Employment:: 2005-2006 Interim Assistant Location Director, Columbus / Greensburg (Purdue; 1985-1990 Private Practice, Attorney; 1989-1990 City Attorney, City of Rising Sun, IN; 1987-1989 Deputy Prosecutor, 7th Judicial Circuit, Ohio County, IN

Education:: Indiana University School of Law (Bloomington); J.D. magna cum laude, Order of the Coif Butler University (Indianapolis); A.B. cum laude, with honors in both Philosophy & Political Science

Refereed Publications:: (submitted). Recovering the philosophical anthropology of Max Scheler for leadership studies. Journal of Leadership Education.; (accepted). Leadership as the promise of simplification. Emergence: Complexity and Organization.; Dark, M., Epstein, R., Morales, L., Countermine, T., Yuan, Q., Ali, M., Rose, M., & N. Harter. (accepted). A framework for information security ethics education. Encyclopedia of Information Ethics and Society. Hershey, P A: Idea Group Reference.; (2006). Voegelin’s ladder. Integral Review. 2:78-89.; Harter, N.*, Ziolkowski, F., & S. Wyatt. (2006). Leadership and inequality. Leadership. 2:3.; Dark, M.*, Harter, N., Ludlow, G., & C. Falk. (2006, April). Ethical attributes in computing and computing education: An exploratory study. Journal of Information Communication & Ethics in Society.; (2003 summer). Between great men and leadership: William James on the importance of individuals. Journal of Leadership Education2:1.; (2003). Multiple leaders among volunteers: A case study of Lutherans organizing themselves to offer refuge. Journal of Management Systems15:1:51-58.; Harter, N.* & D. Evanecky (2002). Fairness in Leader-Member Exchange theory: Do we all belong on the inside? Leadership Review.; (2001). Luxury, waste, excess, and squander. Reason in Practice: The Journal of Philosophy of Management.1:2:75-81.; D. Frantz * & N. Harter. (1999). Collegiality: A concept leaders can't be without. Proteus.16:2:7-10.; (1997-1998). The spiral of the American labor movement. Journal of Individual Employment Rights.6:2.; (1997). The shop floor Schopenhauer: Hope for a theory-X supervisor. Journal of Management Education.; 1:1:87-96.; (1996, Fall). Glimpses of Agathon: On teaching Plato’s Hipparchus. American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Philosophy and Teaching. 96:1:107-111.; Harter, N.* & Harter, K.J. (1993). Using Aesop’s Fables to teach conflict resolution. The Delta Kappa Gamma Bulletin,59 :3:42-46.

Other Publications:: “Bureaucrat” & “Bureaucracy” in Encyclopedia of the social sciences (2nd ed.) (E. Bonilla-Silva, P. Costanzo, P. Mason, P. McClain, D. Scott, & T. Singleton, eds.). Macmillan Reference, publisher.; “Elite theory”, “Great Man theory”, “Hierarchy”, & “Impression management” in Key concepts in leadership studies (Antonio Marturano and Jonathan Gosling, eds.). Routledge.; Signposts at the crossroads: Leadership as symbolism. In Huber, N. & M. Harvey (eds.) (2006). Building leadership bridges 2006. International Leadership Association.; (2006). Springs of leadership. Integral Review.2:14-18.; (2006). The cry for ethics. Philosophy for Business. 25.; “Bureaucracy”, “Elite theory”, History”, & “Spirituality” in (2004). Encyclopedia of Leadership (James MacGregor Burns, G. R. Goethals, Georgia J. Sorenson, eds.). Sage Reference, publisher. .; Harter, N.* & J. Phillips. (2004). “Systems theory.” Encyclopedia of Leadership (James MacGregor Burns, G. R. Goethals, Georgia J. Sorenson, eds.). Sage Reference, publisher. 3,000 words.; (2002). Seeming to be real: The leader as image. In L. Matusak & C. Cherrey (Eds.) Building leadership bridges. (International Leadership Association & Center for Creative Leadership).; From Simmel’s conception of society to the function and form of legal conflict. In T. Powers & P. Kamolnick (eds.) (1999). From Kant to Weber Freedom and culture in classical German social theory. (Krieger).; (1997). Eric Voegelin on the authority to lead. Modern Age. 39:1:21-27.; (1996). Conservative roots of American labor policy. Labor & Employment News1:1:1 & 7.; (1995, Summer). Harter’s girdle: Toward an imagery of group cohesion as elasticity. Explorations. 13:4:31-43.; Harter, N.* & Harter, J. (1995). Game theory. Abridged in Laskowitz, K. & R. Leavitt (Eds.). A Guidebook on Conflict Management (pp. 18-21). West Lafayette, IN.; (1992, Fall). Municipal consolidation: Notes for the small-town practitioner. The Urban Lawyer,24:4:761-774.; (1992, October/November). Thinking about diamonds and organizational vision. The Journal for Quality and Participation,15:6:14-16.; (1991). Balancing act. American Bar Association Journal. 77:58-60.

Book: (2006). Clearings in the Forest. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press.

Seminars, fellowships, and short courses: 2005 A.D. Welliver Faculty Summer Fellow (The Boeing Company)(St. Louis, MO); 2004 Justice: Philosophical and theological perspectives (Portland, OR). Erasmus Institute Summer Faculty Seminar, University of Notre Dame.; 2003 Malcolm Muggeridge Centenary (Wheaton, IL). Wheaton College, Image& Touchstone journals, and International Studies Institute.; 2002 Faith under democracy (Ann Arbor, MI). The Federalist Society & Ave Maria School of Law.; 1999 Grove City College Summer Institute on Market Economics and Religious Faith (Grove City, PA).; 1995 Freedom and Culture in Classical German Social Theory (Chicago). National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminar, University of Chicago.

Reviewer: American Bar Association’s Central and East European Law Initiative:; Comments on draft legislation on the organization/operation of the High Court of the Republic of Albania.; Comments on the final draft constitution of the Republic of Albania.; Position paper on the autonomy of local government for Albania.; Comments on the draft constitution of Ukraine.; Comments on draft law on local self-government for Republika Srepska.; Comments on the draft constitution of the Republic of Albania.; Comments on the draft arbitration procedure code of Kazakhstan.; Comments re: draft charter of the city of Moscow.; Comments re: draft law of Kyrgyz Republic on the status of Bishkek, capital city.; Comments re: draft law of the Russian Federation on the status of the city of Moscow, the capital of the Russian Federation.

Professional Responsibilities: Presently I serve as convener-elect of the section on scholarship for the International Leadership Association, with the expectation that I serve as convener in 2007.