Faculty in Political Theory

Michael Dawson

John D. MacArthur Professor of Political Science and the College

Pick Hall 419
773 702 8932

mc-dawson@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• American politics
• Politics of race and ethnicity
• Democratic theory

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Demetra Kasimis

Assistant Professor

Pick Hall 511
773 834 8782
On Leave 2018-19

demetrakasimis@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Political theory
• Classical Greek thought and its contemporary reception
• Democratic theory
• Citizenship and migration

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John McCormick

Professor
Director of Graduate Studies

Pick 422B
773 834 4353

jpmccorm@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Modern political thought
• Renaissance Italy
• 20th century Germany
• Contemporary democratic theory
• European politics

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Martha Nussbaum

Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics

1111 East 60th Street, Room 520
773 702 0303

martha-nussbaum@law.uchicago.edu

Nathan Tarcov

Karl J. Weintraub Professor in the College and the Division of the Social Sciences

Foster Hall 316
773 702 8064

nst1@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Ancient political thought (Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch)
• Modern political thought (Machiavelle, Locke, the American Founders, Strauss)
• Education and family in political theory
• Principles of US foreign policy

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James Lindley Wilson

Assistant Professor

Pick Hall 521
773 702 8564

jimw@uchicago.edu

Major Areas of Interest:

• Democratic theory
• Egalitarianism and theories of justice
• Global justice
• History of democratic thought
• Constitutional and election law

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