Ioannis Evrigenis
Jack Miller Center Founding Civics Initiative Faculty
Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and Ethics, Claremont McKenna College
Ioannis Evrigenis is the Alice Tweed Tuohy Professor of Government and Ethics at Claremont McKenna College. His research centers on natural law and rights, psychology, rhetoric, and sovereignty in the history of political thought. He is the author of Images of Anarchy: The Rhetoric and Science in Hobbes’s State of Nature (2014) and of articles and chapters on a wide range of issues and thinkers in political theory, as well as co-editor of Johann Gottfried Herder’s Another Philosophy of History and Selected Political Writings (2004). Evrigenis received the Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science for his book Fear of Enemies and Collective Action (2008), as well as the RSA/TCP Article Prize for Digital Renaissance Research for his article “Digital Tools and the History of Political Thought: The Case of Jean Bodin.”
He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, which conferred on him the Herrnstein Prize for his dissertation. He has been awarded numerous grants and fellowships, and has led several JMC-sponsored civics courses for Massachusetts teachers, as well as a seminar for community college professors in the Northwest.
Research interests:
Natural law and rights
Psychology
Rhetoric
Sovereignty in the history of political thought
