Ewa Atanassow is returning to ECLA this summer after spending the 2008-09 academic year on a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University. She received an MA and 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 Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris. Her research focuses on the intersection of ethics, psychology and politics in the liberal tradition in political thought, with particular emphasis on Tocqueville and the nineteenth century in Europe and America.

Before coming to ECLA, she has taught at the University of Chicago, Kenyon College, and the Jagiellonian University.

Teaching Interests:
History of political philosophy; liberalism, colonialism and empire; nationhood and nationalism; political psychology; Tocqueville

Courses taught at ECLA:
AY Core Course Art, Morality and Politics in Renaissance Florence
AY Core Course Property

Publications:

‘Fortnight in the Wilderness’: Tocqueville on Nature and Civilization, Perspectives on Political Science, Winter 2006, vol. 35, No.1.

Book review of Alexis de Tocqueville, Writings on Empire and Slavery, Jennifer Pitts (trans.), Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, published in Nations and Nationalisms, October 2003.