Silvia Fedi is a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She works at the intersection of feminist political theory, ancient Greek political thought, and democratic theory. Her first book project, Ruled by Women: Gynocracy In and Out of Classical Greek Political Thought, studies figures of gynocracy—the rule (kratos) of women (gynē)—in ancient and contemporary times. The project interrogates how imaginations of polities ruled by women challenge established political forms, presenting alternatives to regime typologies like democracy or oligarchy. In depicting women's transcendence of merely reproductive roles, she contends that gynocracy threatens the traditional means of political power, like the orderly transmission of citizenship and property, revealing the necessity of centering gender when theorizing regime. 

Silvia holds a Ph.D. (2024) and an M.A. (2019) in Political Science from the University of Chicago, as well as a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Trinity College (2017). Before returning to the University of Chicago, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Emory University. Her writing is forthcoming in Polity.