Faculty and Staff
Damien Picariello
Title: | Assistant Professor of Political Science |
Department: | Division of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education USC Sumter |
Email: | picaried@uscsumter.edu |
Phone: | 803-938-3812 |
Office: | Schwartz Building, Room 139 |
Resources: | Merit Page |

Teaches or has taught the following courses
POLI 357 (Film, Politics, and Social Change)
POLI 302 (Classical and Medieval Political Theory)
POLI 111 (Controversies in American Politics)
POLI 399 (Independent Study: Modern Political Theory)
Education
M.A., Political Science, University of Michigan, 2013
B.A., Political Science (honors), Baruch College, 2008
Publications
“‘Machevil’ and Machiavellianism in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta,” forthcoming in The Journal of Political Science, Volume 46 (2018)“Boxing in Paul Pfeiffer’s Caryatids and Three Figures in a Room,” with Amy Sadao, forthcoming in INCITE Journal of Experimental Media, Issue 7 (2017)
Review of Waller R. Newell, Tyrants: A History of Power, Injustice, and Terror and Paul A. Rahe, The Spartan Regime: Its Character, Origins, and Grand Strategy, in Perspectives on Politics, Volume 15, Issue 3 (2017)
"Aeschylus and the Binding of the Tyrant," with Arlene W. Saxonhouse, Polis: The Journal of Ancient Greek Political Thought, Volume 32, Issue 2 (2015)
Presentations
Southern Political Science Association, New Orleans, LA, 2017
Presenter, “‘This is our Town’: Political Community in High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance”
Discussant, “Contested Speech and the State
Presenter, “‘This is our Town’: Political Community in High Noon and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Presenter, “‘Machevil’ and Machiavellianism in Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta”
Discussant, “Rousseau, the General Will, and the Common Good”
Media
"The challenge of self-government," in The Sumter Item
"Campers go inside the courtroom at 'Mock Trial'," in The Sumter Item
"On Presidents Day, turn to Lincoln," in The Sumter Item
Professional memberships
Member, Association for Political Theory
Awards
Tournées Film Festival Grant (with Andrew J. Kunka), French-American Cultural Exchange (FACE) Council (2017, 2016)