Jill Frank
President White Professor of History and Political Science and the Robert J. Katz Chair of the Department of Government
Departments and programs
- Classics
- Government
- Society for the Humanities
Academic interests
- Political Theory
Overview
Focused on the historians, poets, and philosophers of Ancient Greece, my research seeks resources in these past thinkers for contemporary democratic theory and practice. With completed projects exploring the topics of law, judgment, persuasion, justice, property, and nature, I am currently writing on the question of constitution, the relation between aesthetics and politics, and the practice of power in Plato and Aristotle, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Thucydides.
In the news
- A&S honors 23 faculty with endowed professorships
- Grants seed social science research, conferences
- Grants create engagement opportunities for students
- Government professor’s book earns top honor from political science association
- Plato offers lessons in literacy, artistry, politics
- Nine Arts and Sciences faculty chosen as 2017 Public Voices Fellows