Articles by Andreas Avgousti

May 18, 2022

🦋 Reimagining democracy, one word at a time

Andreas Avgousti
Andreas Avgousti asserts that collecting democracy’s words gives us a window into the democratic imagination. He reads Jean-Paul Gagnon’s expanding database as an illustration of democratic virtues
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Andreas Avgousti
Research Affiliate, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies, Simon Fraser University

Andreas studied political science at Columbia University, where he received his PhD in 2015; he holds a BSc in Government and History (First Class) and an MSc in Political Theory (Merit) from the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He was the inaugural Hellenisms Past and Present, Local and Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies at Simon Fraser University, Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Portland State University, and Lecturer in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University.

His research programme is motivated by contemporary democratic concerns regarding opinion in all its forms (viz. reputation, judgment, rumour) and is historically located in ancient Athens (Plato, Isocrates, Lycurgus) and late antique Antioch and Constantinople (John Chrysostom).

Andreas is the author of Recovering Reputation: Plato and Demotic Power (Oxford University Press 2022)

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