Dimitrios Halikias

Bio

Dimitrios Halikias is an Assistant Professor of political science at Yale University. He works on political theory and the history of political thought. His first book project is a study of how various nineteenth-century thinkers appealed to medieval feudalism as a means of offering a critique of the impersonal character of the liberal state and market economy. He has broad research interests in democratic theory, debates over the market economy, and American political thought. Before arriving at Yale, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton Society of Fellows. He maintains a semi-regular blog at dhalikias.blogspot.com.

Contact Information

• 115 Prospect St, Rosenkranz Hall, Room 337
• dimitrios.halikias@yale.edu

Education

• Ph.D.: Harvard University, 2024
• B.A.: Yale University, 2016

Articles

• “What is (de)politicization and what is wrong with it?” American Journal of Political Science. Early View, published online March 2026.
• “Development and Rupture in Woodrow Wilson’s Critique of The Federalist.” American Political Thought. Vol. 14, no. 4 (2025), 495-521.
• “Tocqueville on Servants, Servitude, and Impersonal Domination.” The Review of Politics. Vol. 87, no. 1 (2025), 43-66.
• “The Young Marx on Feudalism as the Democracy of Unfreedom.” Historical Journal. Vol. 67, no. 2 (2024).
• “Adam Smith’s Four Invisible Hands and the Problem of Political System.” History of Political Thought. Vol. 44, no. 2 (2023), 338-368.
• “Adam Smith on the Scottish Highlands and the Origins of Commercial Society.” History of Political Thought. Vol. 41, no. 2 (2020), 622-647.

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