Daniela Cammack

I'm an assistant professor of Political Science, affiliated in Classics. I was born in the UK to an English father and Chilean mother, grew up in Manchester, and have worked in Malaysia and China as well as the UK and US. Since receiving my Ph.D. from Harvard in 2013, I've held positions at Harvard (Junior Fellow in the Society of Fellows), Stanford (visiting research fellow) and Yale (visiting lecturer and assistant professor). In 2017, I gave birth to a wonderful daughter, and in 2019, joined UC Berkeley. I'm currently working on two books: one on ancient Greek democracy and another comparing ancient and modern democracy. For more information, including course syllabi and teaching evaluations, please visit danielacammack.com.

Teaching Note: Everyone is welcome in my classes and I try to nurture a warm and inclusive environment with lots of room for spontaneous questions and debate, so I can teach to and from the intellectual curiosity and openness of those present in the room at that moment. For me, it's easier to get into that zone when I don't teach from previously ordered slides or scripts (I do use visual aids such as maps, images, and passages from texts). I always provide historical context and offer my own interpretations of our texts and I make my lecture notes and notes on the texts available to students on the course website. But my main pedagogical hope is to model the kind of reflective, questioning, critical readership/studentship stance that I'd like my students to develop. What I love to do is promote in-class thought and discussion about our readings, typically through asking questions and being questioned about the reading that you'll have done in your own time. I've been told by some that this mode of teaching and learning is outside the norm for political science; by others, that it's not unusual at all. I mention it here just so everyone knows what to expect, in case it's a more aural/oral style of engagement than some are used to.