Daniel Kapust
Position title: Honors Program Director, Professor of Political Science, Judith Hicks Stiehm Chair in Political Theory
Email: djkapust@wisc.edu
Address:
314 North Hall
Daniel Kapust received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2005, and came to UW after six years in the Department of Political Science at The University of Georgia. Kapust’s research focuses on the history of political thought, especially Roman, Florentine, early modern, and the 18th century, along with rhetoric, democratic theory, and the republican tradition.
His book, Republicanism, Rhetoric, and Roman Political Thought: Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2011. He has published articles or chapters on Hobbes, Machiavelli, Rousseau, Cicero, Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus, along with topics including flattery, rhetoric, censorship, and fear. His work has been published in theAmerican Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Political Theory, Political Studies, History of Political Thought, Journal of the History of Ideas, and the European Journal of Political Theory.
He has recently completed a second book project on flattery and political theory, titled Flattery in the History of Political Thought: That Glib and Oily Art, and has begun to work on two new book projects: one on Lucretius and early modern political thought, the other on imperial republics. He is also the Director of the Political Economy, Philosophy, and Politics Certificate Program.