Ewa Atanassow
Bulgaria/Poland
PhD from the Committee on Social Thought
The University of Chicago
Ewa Atanassow holds a PhD from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, an MA in psychology from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University. Her research and teaching range across the history of political thought, focusing on questions of nationhood and democratic citizenship, with emphasis on Tocqueville. She is the author of Tocqueville's Dilemmas and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization (Princeton University Press, 2022), and the co-editor of Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy with Richard Boyd (Cambridge University Press, 2013); Liberal Moments: Reading Liberal Texts with Alan S. Kahan (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017); and When the People Rule: Popular Sovereignty in Theory and Practice with Thomas Bartscherer and David Bateman (Cambridge University Press, 2023).PhD from the Committee on Social Thought
The University of Chicago
Courses taught at BCB
Core
- Early Modern Science
- Forms of Love
- Plato's Republic and Its Interlocutors
Seminars
- Aristotle's Politics
- Citizens of the World: Ancient, Modern, Contemporary
- Colonization and Democracy: the case of Algeria
- Democracy Ancient and Modern
- Equality
- Hate and Revolution
- Hobbes' Leviathan
- Liberalism and Empire: the case of India
- Liberalism, Socialism, Fascism
- Montesquieu's Spirit of the Laws
- Tocqueville's Democracy in America
Project Lead at the Science and Religion Project
Contact
Prof. Dr. Ewa Atanassow
Political Thought
Phone: +49 30 43733 104
Email: e.atanassow[at]berlin.bard.edu