Daniel Schillinger
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Daniel Schillinger is a Lecturer in Political Science and a Senior Fellow of the Center for Civic Thought. He was previously a Postdoctoral Associate and Lecturer in Humanities as well as a Fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. He regularly teaches in Directed Studies, Yale’s great books program, for which he is currently the faculty coordinator of the track in historical and political thought. In addition, he offers seminars on Greek and early modern political thought, including Thucydides, Tragedy and Politics, Plato, and Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan. In 2025, he won the Lux et Veritas faculty prize. His book, Luckless: The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought, will be published by Oxford University Press early in 2026. His articles have appeared in venues such as Political Research Quarterly, History of Political Thought, The Review of Metaphysics, The Washington Post, and The Point. When he is not teaching at Yale, he often teaches summer seminars as a visiting professor at Deep Springs College.
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- Political Theory