Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Government and the Founding Director, Georgetown Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Citizenship
Mark Fisher is an Assistant Professor at Georgetown University in the Department of Government and the Founding Director of the Georgetown Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Citizenship (AIDC). His research focuses on the history and future of democratic thought, with a particular emphasis on early attempts to understand and theorize Athenian democracy.
He is currently writing two books on Thucydides as a political thinker. The first, Thucydides and the Heroic Democracy, provides a historical account of Thucydides' analysis of Athenian democracy by situating it within the Greek heroic tradition. The second, Thucydides and Political Theory, takes stock of recent attempts to place Thucydides in conversation with contemporary thinkers on themes such as the cause(s) of war, political necessity, national identity, and democratic backsliding.
He has held visiting research fellowships at the University of Oxford and the Freie Universität, Berlin. His work has been funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
