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Andrew Gross

Hayek Visiting Fellow, Lyceum Program, Clemson Institute for the Study of Capitalism

Andrew Gross, Ph.D., is a Hayek Visiting Scholar at the CISC and an Instructor in the Department of Political Science. Before coming to Clemson University, he was a Faculty Lecturer in the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Houston-Victoria. He received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto, his M.A. in Political Science from the University of Calgary, and his Ph.D. in Political Science, specializing in Political Philosophy (Ancient and Modern) and International Relations from the University of Toronto.

Gross's dissertation took an interdisciplinary approach to Homer's Iliad, building on scholarship that analyzed the poem as a work of classical literature, anthropology and political thought. He argued that the epic poem is a unified work that provides a comprehensive account of the human situation, to which politics is central. Gross's current project is on the transfiguration of the epic hero - as an individual and in his connections to politics - from the Iliad to Sophocles' Ajax to Plato's Symposium and Apology of Socrates.