Demetra Kasimis is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She writes and teaches on the thought and politics of classical Greece and their contemporary receptions, democratic theory, and the literary dimensions of political theoretical texts. S...
Demetra Kasimis is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. She writes and teaches on the thought and politics of classical Greece and their contemporary receptions, democratic theory, and the literary dimensions of political theoretical texts. She is interested in questions of identity, exclusion, and citizenship, themes she is currently exploring in her book manuscript Classical Greek Theory and the Politics of Immigration. Professor Kasimis has held fellowships from the NEH, ACLS, and Mellon and Fulbright Foundations. She previously taught at Yale as a postdoctoral fellow and at California State University, Long Beach as an assistant professor. She is a graduate of Columbia and received her Ph.D. from Northwestern.