Anthony Kammas - Department of Government and Politics ...

Anthony Kammas
University of Southern California 25 S. Oak Knoll Ave. #502
Department of Political Science Pasadena, 91101
Von KleinSmid Center, 327 (626) 683-9295
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0044 kammas@usc.edu
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EMPLOYMENT
2005 University of Southern California, Department of Political Science
Lecturer
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Maryland, College Park (2005)
Department of Government and Politics
Fields: Comparative Politics and Political Philosophy
Dissertation Title: “Brushing History against the Grain: What the Experience of
East European Dissent Teaches us about Democracy”
Dissertation Committee: Vladimir Tismaneanu (Chair), C. Fred Alford, Benjamin
Barber, Mark I. Lichbach, Dick Howard (SUNY-Stony Brook)
Research Interests: political ideologies, revolutions, contemporary and continental
political philosophy (existentialism, critical theory, feminism, and post-structuralism),
Ancient and Classical Greek political thought, aesthetics
Teaching Interests: Political Morality and Political Action, Modernity and its Critics,
Ancient and Classical Greek Thought, The Rise and Fall of Communism, European
Politics, Democracy and Democratization, Globalization and its Discontents, Survey
Courses in Comparative Politics and the History of Political Thought
M.A. New York University (1999)
Degree Awarded with Honors in Humanities and Social Thought
B.A. Fordham University (1995)
Double Major: Politics & History. Minor: Economics (Dean’s List)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Professor
Politics of Russia and Eastern Europe – Spring 2006, University of Southern California
Modernity and its Critics – Spring 2006, University of Southern California
Comparative Politics – Fall 2005, University of Southern California
European Politics – Fall 2005, University of Southern California
Contemporary Political Thought – Fall 2005, University of Southern California
The Rise and Fall of Communism – Spring 2005, The George Washington University
Introduction to Comparative Politics – Fall 2004, The George Washington University
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Political Philosophy Survey Course – Summer 2004, University of Maryland
Political Morality and Political Action – Winter 2003 and 2004, University of Maryland
Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland
Marxism and Post-Marxism – Spring 2001 and 2002
Politics and Film – Summer 2001
The Rise and Fall of Communism – Fall 2000-2004
Political Theory Survey Course – Spring 2000
Introduction to Political Science, College Park Scholars – Fall 1999
PUBLICATIONS
“Introducing Agnes Heller: The Radical Imagination of an Unhappy Consciousness” Review
essay of Simon Tormey’s Agnes Heller: Socialism, Autonomy, and the Postmodern in
East European Politics and Societies vol. 17. Issue 4, Fall 2003
"Havel Deserves Better: Promises and Failures of a Political Biography" Review Essay of John
Keane’s Vaclav Havel: A Political Tragedy in Six Acts in East European Politics and
Societies vol. 15. Issue 3, Fall 2001
CONFERENCES AND PRESENTATIONS
“Revisiting the Constellation of East European Dissent: The Dialectics of Political Revolt and Renewal”,
forthcoming paper presentation at the 2005 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Washington, DC, 1 September
Dissertation Presentation at the 17 th Annual Wye River Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar co-sponsored by
East European Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Committee on East
European Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies, August 2004
“The Radical Imagination Transformed: Agnes Heller, the Budapest School, and the Overcoming of
Marxism” paper presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Slavic Studies, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 19 November
“The Problems of Political Ideology for the New Century” paper presented at the 2003 annual meeting of the
Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, Illinois, 3 April
“The Ethics of Antipolitics: Václav Havel” presentation at the 2002 annual meeting of the American Political
Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 30 August
“Dissent and Identity Revisited: Czechoslovakia 1968-1969” paper presented at the 2001 annual meeting of
the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, Crystal City, Virginia, 17 November
Discussant/participant, DC Area Workshop in Contentious Politics, University of Maryland, College Park,
Fall 2001
Co-Chair and participant of the Graduate Student Conference, Challenges to Democracy, Department of
Government and Politics, University of Maryland, 27-28 April 2001
AWARDS
• Title VIII East European Studies Research Scholar (short-term), Woodrow Wilson International Center
for Scholars, 2003
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• Tuition Award, Middlebury College’s Intensive German Language Summer Program, 2003
• Jacob K. Goldhaber Travel Grant, University of Maryland, Spring, 2003
• Pass with Distinction: Comparative Politics Comprehensive Examination, 2002
• Enhanced Teaching Assistant Award, University of Maryland, 2001-2003
• Graduate Teaching Assistantship, University of Maryland, 1999-2003
• Distinguished Teaching Assistant, University of Maryland, 1999-2000
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
• Managing Editor, East European Politics and Societies 2001-2004
• Assistant Editor, East European Politics and Societies 2000-2001
• Program Coordinator, The Center for the Study of Post-Communist Societies 2001-2004
• Graduate Student Association Representative, the Undergraduate Studies Committee
• United Nations, Department for Development Support and Management Services
Intern, Division of Public Administration and Development Management, 1995-1996
• Office of the United States Senate, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Intern, NYC Division, 1993-1994
FIELDWORK/RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Field research in Havana, Cuba. Special focus: political dissent and ideological decay in late State Socialism,
March 2003
Research Assistant to Professor Martin O. Heisler: Immigration and Migration throughout Europe, Fall 1999
Master’s thesis research, Charles University – Prague, Czech Republic, Summer 1998
LANGUAGES Modern Greek (Fluent), Ancient Greek (Intermediate), German (Basic)
REFERENCES
Vladimir Tismaneanu, University of Maryland, College Park
C. Fred Alford, University of Maryland, College Park
Benjamin Barber, University of Maryland, College Park
Mark I. Lichbach, University of Maryland, College Park
Dick Howard, State University of New York, Stony Brook
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