Ewa Atanassow joined ECLA in 2008. She has taught at Kenyon College, the University of Chicago, Jagiellonian University, and was a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University. She has received a PhD from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, an MA in psychology from the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, and has held research fellowships at École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris and Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. Her research focuses on the intersection of ethics and psychology in the liberal tradition of political thought, with emphasis on Tocqueville. Her articles and reviews have appeared in Journal of Democracy, Kronos, Nations and Nationalism, and Perspectives on Political Science. She is currently co-editing a collection of essays on Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press.

Courses taught at ECLA:

Core courses:
Art, Morality and Politics in Renaissance Florence

Forms of Love
Objectivity II
Plato's Republic and Its Interlocutors

Property

Electives:
Liberalism, Fascism, Socialism
Passions and Politics

Patriotism and Its Other(s)

The Spirit of the Persian Letters / De l'esprit des Lettres Persanes (bilingual elective, co-taught with Edit Gerelyes).