Dennis Dalton

Dennis Gilmore Dalton is a professor of political science from the United States. From 1969 until 2008, Dalton was the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. Dalton's work had a particular focus on the thought and leadership of Mahatma Gandhi and civil disobedience. Before his retirement from Barnard College at Columbia University, he gave lectures on political theory from Plato to the present, eastern and western philosophies. He began teaching at Barnard in 1969, teaching classes in classical and modern political theory.

Academia

He received his bachelor's degree from

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Dalton is the author of numerous articles and books, including Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action and Indian Idea of Freedom.

Awards

• Senior Fulbright Scholarship for Research and Teaching in Nepal, 1994–95
• Ann Whitney Olin Senior Award for Teaching and Research, 1989–94
• Emily Gregory Award for Distinguished Teaching, Barnard College, 1978
• American Council of Learned Societies grant for research in South Africa, August 1975
• American Philosophical Institute grant for research in India, January–July 1975
• American Council of Learned Societies grant for research at the
  India Office Library, London, England, June–August 1972^[1]

• Indian Idea of Freedom: Political Thought of
  Aurobindo Ghose, Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore
  , The Academic Press, 1982
• Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action (Revised ed.). Columbia University Press. 2012 [1993].
  ISBN 978-0-231-15959-3
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  • Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent Power in Action, Columbia University Press, revised 3rd edition with new preface and afterword, 2014
• Mahatma Gandhi: Selected Political Writings, edited with introduction by Dennis Dalton, Hackett Publishers, 1996