Adam Kissel

Ph.D. candidate
The Committee on Social Thought
The University of Chicago
ahkissel@uchicago.edu
302-668-8219

"My friend, you are an American. Your nation is the greatest and most famous for wisdom and for strength. Aren't you ashamed to worry about money, getting as much as you can, and about prestige and status, instead of intelligence and truth and the soul, getting it to be the best it can be? You don't worry about that; you don't even think about it." 

         Socrates (with some substitutions; from Plato's Apology at about 29).

Here's the 2012 update:

FIRE bio
Huffington Post bio

Here are my graduate school courses and teaching:

• Leon Kass, Genesis (notes from 12/01, now superseded in part by Mr. Kass's book) | Exodus (summary) (reading notes) | Meno | Nicomachean Ethics
• Paul Friedrich, Homer's Odyssey
• Jonathan Lear, Plato's Gorgias
• Wendy Olmsted, Reading Course: Plato's Republic
• Bernard McGinn, History of Christian Thought I (not many notes here)
• Margaret M. Mitchell, The Pastoral Epistles (paper TK)
• David Tracy, Reading Course: City of God
  -------------, Modernity/Postmodernity
• Terry Eagleton, Modernism
• David Grene and Wendy Doniger, Shakespeare: Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida
• David Bevington, Reading Course: Shakespeare
• Wendy Olmsted, Paradise Lost
• Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetorics of Science and Religion
• Wendy Olmsted and Wayne C. Booth, Reading Course--Rhetoric
• Marc Fumaroli, Montaigne's Essays
• Ralph Lerner, Political Thought of Benjamin Franklin
  -------------, Gibbon's Decline and Fall
• Robert Pippin, Kant's Theory of Freedom
• Jean Elshtain, Augustine or Rousseau?
• Donald Levine, Reading Course--Undergraduate Education
• Lorraine Daston, The Moral Authority of Nature
• F. (Chris) Gamwell, Introduction to Ethical Theories
• Nancy Stein with Tom Trabasso, Conflict, Culture, Attitudes, and Change
• Greek 101, 102, 103 -- Attic Greek
• Latin 101, 102, 103 -- Latin
• German Reading Exam: High Pass
• TA for The Organization of Knowledge (Wayne C. Booth, Herman Sinaiko, and William Sterner), SPR01, SPR04
• TA and Writing Intern for Human Being and Citizen (Herman Sinaiko, 2002-03; Lee Behnke and Ted O'Neill, 2003-04); Instructor for two sections in fall 2005
• Teaching Intern for Classics of Social and Political Thought III (Donald Levine)
• Pedagogies of Writing (Little Red Schoolhouse Staff)
• Fundamentals List (exam January 24-29, 2002)
• Dissertation proposal