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Damien Picariello

Title: Interim Chair, Division of Arts and Letters; Interim Chair, Division of Humanities, Social Sciences; and Education Director of Faculty, Curricula, and Courses for Dual Enrollment Programs
Professor of Political Science
Department: Division of Arts and Letters, and of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education
USC Sumter
Email: picaried@uscsumter.edu
Phone: 803-938-3812
Office: Arts and Letters Building, Room 102
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Education

Ph.D., Political Science, University of Michigan, 2014
M.A., Political Science, University of Michigan, 2013
B.A., Political Science (honors), Baruch College, 2008

Bio


Damien K. Picariello is the Interim Chair, Division of Arts and Letters; Interim Chair, Division of Humanities, Social Sciences; and Education Director of Faculty, Curricula, and Courses for Dual Enrollment Programs at the University of South Carolina Sumter. He is also Professor of Political Science and teaches broadly within that field. His regularly offered courses include POLI 201 (American National Government) and POLI 357 (Film, Politics, and Social Change). He is the editor of The Western and Political Thought: A Fistful of Politics (Palgrave, 2023), The Politics of Horror (Palgrave, 2020) and Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought (Palgrave, 2019). On campus, he is the co-organizer of USC Sumter's annual Constitution Day program and co-director of USC Sumter's annual French Film Series.

More information on dual enrollment and early college with USC Sumter can be found here.

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