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Richard Avramenko
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Title: Assistant Professor
Joint Appt: Integrated Liberal Studies
Office: 201c
Office Hours: By appointment: on leave Fall 2009
Phone: 608-263-2292
Has Voicemail: Yes
E-Mail: avramenko@wisc.edu
Keywords: Ancient, Continental, Literature, Tocqueville
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Richard Avramenko (Ph.D. Georgetown, 2005) has taught both Political Science and Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin since the Fall of 2005. His main areas of interest are ancient and continental political thought, though he tends to pursue themes rather than specific thinkers or eras. He teaches Western Culture: Political, Economic, and Social Thought, Plato, Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Politics and Literature, the History of Political Economy, the Romance of War, Nietzsche, Methods of Political Theory, or whatever strikes him as interesting and appropriate. Avramenko has written articles on topics such as Plato, Dostoevsky, St. Augustine, Tocqueville, Nietzsche, Voegelin, and Heidegger. He has completed a book manuscript called Manly Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb, has co-edited a book on friendship (Friendship and Politics: Essays in PoliticalThought), and is currently working on a new book manuscript: Tocqueville and the Egalitarian Mind: A Phenomenology. When not thinking deep thoughts, Avramenko can be found marathon training somewhere by Lake Monona, biking along the Capital City Crescent, drinking coffee and writing at Barriques, golfing, SCUBA diving in Belize, or just generally being "a kaleidoscopic man, a man of many different humors, fair and colorful as the city itself" (Republic, Book VIII).
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