Vasileios Syros, Ph.D
Distinguished Guest Fellow
(from January to May 2012)
University of Notre Dame
Postal address:
1124 Flanner Hall
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
USA
E-mail: vasileios.syros@helsinki.fi
Research interests
Vasileios Syros is a Docent at the Universities of Helsinki and Jyväskylä and is a past Senior Fellow at The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago. His research focuses on the interaction among Christian, Islamic, and Jewish traditions of political thought as well as on cross-cultural encounters in the late medieval and early modern period.
Vasileios Syros is the author of Die Rezeption der aristotelischen politischen Philosophie bei Marsilius von Padua: Eine Untersuchung zur ersten Diktion des Defensor pacis (Brill, 2007). His current projects include two monographs: Marsilus of Padua at the Intersection of Ancient and Medieval Cultures and Traditions of Learning (University of Toronto Press, forthcoming spring 2012); and The Protean Art of Politics: Early Modern Jewish Political Thought and Skepticism. He has published in a number of international peer-reviewed journals, including the Bulletin de Philosophie Médiévale, History of Political Thought, Journal of Early Modern History, Journal of World History, Medieval Encounters, Philosophy East & West, Revue des Études Juives, and Viator.
In 2009 Vasileios Syros was appointed editor-in-chief by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies for the series Medieval Confluences: Studies in the Intellectual History and Comparative History of Ideas of the Medieval World. He has held teaching and research appointments at several prestigious institutions, including the Academy of Finland, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in Paris, the École Pratique des Hautes Études, and in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.