Daniela Cammack

Welcome! 

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I'm a historian of political thought with a focus on ancient Greek politics and the history and theory of democracy. My first book, Demos: How the People Ruled Athens will be published by Princeton University Press in the US on December 15, 2026 and in the UK on February 9, 2027. I'm currently working on a sequel, Democracy: How the People Lost Power, also to be published by PUP. I also help to edit two academic journals: History of Political Thought and Polis, the Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought.

 

After receiving my Ph.D. from Harvard in 2013, I held postdoc or lecturer positions at Harvard, Stanford, and Yale. In 2017, I gave birth to a wonderful daughter and, in the same year, joined Yale as an assistant professor of Political Science. In 2019, I moved to UC Berkeley, taking up a position as an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science. Since 2020, I've also been affiliated with the Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (formerly Classics).

 

I have research and teaching interests in ancient Greek, Roman, early modern, and modern political ideas and practices. I'm especially enthusiastic about Aristotle, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Marx and Engels, and the topics of political representation, sovereignty, collective agency, and demotic law and justice.

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Thank you for your interest in my work.

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