Vasileios Syros, Ph.D
Docent, Visiting Assistant Professor of Social Thought,
2008–2010, Joint appointment at The John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought & The College, The University of Chicago
E-mail: vsyros@uchicago.edu
Research interests
Dr. Vasileios Syros received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Cyprus and did graduate work in medieval and early modern history and philosophy at the Universities of Freiburg i. Br., Marburg and Heidelberg. He obtained his PhD (focus on Religion, Political History, Comparative Medieval and Early Modern History, History of Concepts) from the University of Heidelberg in 2003. His PhD dissertation is a study of the Reception of Aristotle’s Political Thought in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor pacis (Brill, 2007). He also completed post work in philosophy of religion, medieval Arabic political philosophy and medieval and modern Hebrew Literature and Paleography at the University of Munich, the Sorbonne and the École Pratique des Hautes Études.
During the academic year 2007/2008, Dr. Syros worked at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris and taught as a Maître de conférences invité at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. He has also taught at the University of Jyväskylä, the University of São Paulo, the University of Beijing, Charles University in Prague, Eötvös Loránd University and the University of Namibia. In the academic year 2008/2009 Dr. Syros has been invited by the University of Chicago to teach at the Committee on Social Thought and the College as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
Dr. Syros’ current research and teaching activities focus on the history of concepts in late medieval Islamic, Jewish and Christian political thought. At this point, he is completing a monograph on the political thought of Simone Luzzatto, a 17th-century Jewish writer.