Daniela Cammack / Political Theory Workshop
Daniela Cammack works primarily on ancient Greek politics and philosophy, though she maintains research and teaching interests in Roman, medieval and modern political ideas and practices, the history of political economy (especially Marx) and the history and theory of democracy. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Political Theory, Polis, History of Political Thought, Classical Quarterly, Classical Philology, and the Journal of Political Philosophy. Her dissertation, Rethinking Athenian Democracy, won Harvard's Robert Noxon Toppan Prize for best dissertation on a subject of political science in 2013. Prior to joining UC Berkeley in July 2019, she was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows and taught for three years at Yale. She is currently working on a monograph on ancient Greek democracy.
BA Modern History and English Literature (Oxford, 2002) MPhil Political Thought and Intellectual History (Cambridge, 2005) PhD Political Science (Political Theory) (Harvard, 2013).
The Political Theory Workshop offers faculty and other scholars an opportunity to present "in progress" or recently completed work to a diverse audience from political science, philosophy, law, and other social sciences and humanities. Workshop papers come from all areas of political theory, including normative and positive theory, legal theory, and the history of political thought. Papers are circulated ten days before the seminar. Participants are expected to read the paper before the workshop. Each session begins with comments and questions on the paper by a discussant, a brief response from the author, followed by a general discussion.