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Ioannis D. Evrigenis

Political Theory
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005

Biography

Ioannis Evrigenis teaches courses on ancient and medieval political thought, nationalism, and the social contract, as well as seminars on Plato, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. He holds a B.A. from Grinnell College, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Herrnstein Prize.

Professor Evrigenis is co-editor of Johann Gottfried Herder's Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings (Hackett, 2004), and the author of articles on a wide range of topics in political theory, and of Fear of Enemies and Collective Action (Cambridge University Press, 2008), which received the 2009 Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science. At present, he is working on a study of the concept of the state of nature in political thought, entitled Anarchy and Equality (under contract with Cambridge University Press). He has received grants and fellowships from Princeton's University Center for Human Values, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation, the Earhart Foundation, and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, as well as five Certificates of Distinction in Teaching from Harvard University's Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning.

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