Assistant Professor
Ioannis D. Evrigenis - Political Theory
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005
Professor 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 BA from
Grinnell College, an MSc from the London School of Economics &
Political Science, and AM and PhD degrees from Harvard University.
His doctoral dissertation was awarded the Herrnstein Prize. He is
co-editor of Johann Gottfried Herder's Another Philosophy of
History and Selected Political Writings (Hackett, 2004), and the
author of Fear of Enemies and Collective Action (Cambridge
University Press, 2008), as well as of articles on a wide range of
topics in political theory. At present, he is working on a study of
the concept of the state of nature in political thought, entitled
Images of Anarchy (under contract with Cambridge University
Press). He has received grants and fellowships from 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. During the
2008-2009 academic year, Professor Evrigenis will be a Laurance S.
Rockefeller Visiting Fellow at Princeton's University Center for
Human Values.
Prof. Evrigenis's web page
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