Dr. Michael Gubser

Education
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

Fields and specialties
European intellectual history; history of international development

Teaching areas
Intellectual history, Central and Eastern Europe, international development

Research interests
European intellectual history, phenomenology, international development

Books
The Far Reaches: Phenomenology, Ethics, and Social Renewal in Central Europe. Palo Alto: Stanford Press, 2014.
 
Time's Visible Surface: Alois Riegl and the Discourse on History and Temporality in fin-de-siècle Vienna.  In the series: Kritik: German Literary Theory and Cultural Studies.  Wayne State Press: Detroit, January 2006.

Edited Books

The Practice of International Development.  Co-edited with Jerrold Keilson.  New York: Routledge, 2018.
                                                                                           
Current Book Project
“Retrieving the Past: History and Ahistoricism in International Development.” 
 
Selected Articles

“The Walls of Kano: USAID Education Programming in North Nigeria and the Problem of Sustainability.” In Gubser and Keilson, eds. The Practice of International Development. New York: Routledge, 95-128.
 
“The Presentist Bias: Ahistoricism, Equity, and International Development in the 1970s.”  Journal of Development Studies 48 (2012): 1-14.
 
“The Terror and the Hope: Jan Patočka’s Transcendence to the World.”  Schutzian Research 3 (2011): 185-202.

“A True and Better ‘I’: Husserl’s Call for Worldly Renewal.”  Analecta Husserliana 110: Part II (2011): 579-98.
 
“The View from Le Château: USAID’s Recent Decentralization Programming in Uganda.”  Development Policy Review 29:1 (January 2011), 23-46.
                                                                       
“Rhythm in the Thought of Alois Riegl and his Contemporaries.”  In Alois Riegl Revisited: Beiträge zu Werk und Rezeption.  Vienna: Verlag der österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2010: 89-99.
 
“Franz Brentano’s Ethics of Social Renewal.”  Philosophical Forum 40: 3 (Fall 2009): 339-366.
 
“A Cozy Little World: Reflections on Context in Austrian Intellectual History.”  Austrian History Yearbook XL (2009): 202-214.
 
“Time and History in Alois Riegl’s Theory of Art.” Journal of the History of Ideas 66: 3 (Fall 2005): 451-74.

Service

"Democracy in Peril?" Speaker Series (Chair, Coordinating Committee) 

Personnel Advisory Committee Chair

Music

Dr. Gubser's Musical, INTO THE SUN

For Dr. Gubser's band, Chico Motel, see the albums Ra-Ta-Ta (2016), Transatlantic (2010), and Cheesemaker (2005)