Emanuele Saccarelli

Emanuele Saccarelli joined the department in 2005 after receiving his Ph.D. in Political Science with a minor in History from the University of Minnesota in the same year.

His research and teaching interests include:

Classical Marxism (Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Gramsci) and the unfortunate and reversible transition to post-Marxism and post-modernism.

History and contemporary political significance of Stalinism.
Theories of the origins of capitalism (Sweezy, Dobb, Brenner, Williams, Wolf, Mandel) and their implications for the early-modern period in the history of political thought.

Gender and family relations in the early-modern period (Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu)

Ancient political thought (particularly Thucydides and Plato)
Revolutions and revolutionary political thought and more generally the relation between political practice and political theory.

Emanuele teaches Ancient and Early-Modern Political Thought (301a, 301b) and Democracy and Mass Society (406)

His publications and conference papers include:

"Review of John Sanbonmatsu, 'The Postmodern Prince: Critical Theory, Left Strategy, and the making of a New Political Subject.'" New Political Science. 27:2, 2005.

"Empire, Rifondazione Comunista, and the Politics of Spontaneity." New Political Science. 26:4, 2004.

"The Mummy, the Professor and the Cannibal: the contemporary uses and Marxist reclamation of Gramsci." Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2004

"Searching for the Existential Socrates." Presented at the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, April 2003

Emanuele roots for the Dallas Cowboys, the Detroit Tigers, and AS Roma. Emanuele also roots for other, more serious things. Listing them on the departmental website, however, would be less than tactful. In spite of recent reverses Emanuele is still very much Italian, so be mindful of that in dealing with him.