Dana Villa specializes in contemporary political theory and the history of  political thought. He is the author of Socratic Citizenship as well as two books on Hannah Arendt, Arendt and Heidegger: The Fate of the Political, and Politics, Philosophy, Terror: Essays on the Thought of Hannah Arendt. In addition, he is the editor of The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt and the co-editor of Liberal Modernism and Democratic Individuality. He taught at Amherst College for 10 years and has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the University Center for Human Values (Princeton University), and the Institute for Advanced Study. He has published articles on Arendt, Nietzsche, Weber, and Socrates in such journals as Political Theory, Constellations, American Political Science Review, and the Revue Internationale de Philosophie. He is currently working on a study of Hegel and Tocqueville.

Photo: © 2003 Mike Minehan