Ioannis D. Evrigenis is a

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. He is a Professor of

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Biography

Evrigenis received his B.A. in political science from

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in 1993. He earned a M.Sc. from the London School of Economics & Political Science in 1994. From 1994 to 1996, Evrigenis served as an

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in the

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, holding the rank of second lieutenant. In 2002, he received an M.A. in political science from

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. In 2005, Evrigenis earned his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard. He received the Herrnstein Prize for his doctoral dissertation, "'Carthage Must be Saved': Fear of Enemies and Collective Action." In the fall of 2005, Evrigenis came to

as an Assistant Professor of Political Science. He was promoted to the position of Associate Professor in 2010, and he earned the full title of Professor in 2015. In the fall of 2015, Evrigenis also became the chair of Tufts' Department of Classics. He served in the role for three years before ceding the position to R. Bruce Hitchner following the 2018 spring semester.

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