Sophie Pangle is a PhD Candidate in the Government Department studying the history of ancient and modern political theory. Her research addresses the concepts of dignity, indignation, justice, and freedom, with a focus on late modern responses to ancient Greek political philosophy. Her dissertation compares the roles of amour-propre and thumos in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s response to the thought of Plato. It examines the two thinkers’ respective critiques of a political passion responsible for the concern with honor, pride, dignity, and indignation in light of Rousseau’s recovery of and departure from classical political philosophy. Her work has been published in History of Political Thought and The Political Science Reviewer.
At Harvard, Sophie has served as a teaching fellow for courses on ancient, medieval, and modern political theory, liberalism and its critics, and African American political thought. She holds a BA in Fundamentals: Issues and Texts from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
Contact
spangle@g.harvard.edu
1737 Cambridge Street
Subfields
Political Thought and its History | International Relations
Academic Interests
Ancient and Medieval Political Thought | Democracy | Ethics | Modern and Contemporary Political Thought | Political Psychology | Race & Ethnicity | Religion in Politics
Research Methods
Historical Methods | Normative Political Thought