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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.

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