Robert C. Pirro is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Georgia Southern University, USA. He came to Georgia Southern in 1997 after finishing graduate work at U. C. Berkeley (Ph. D. 1996) and undergraduate work at Harvard (B. A. 1986). He covers most of the department's survey courses in political theory/philosophy (Ancient Political Thought, Modern Political Thought, Contemporary Political Thought, American Political Thought, Feminist Political Thought). Film and Politics is the newest addition to the political theory/philosophy courses he offers. Professor Pirro has many scholarly interests including the politics of tragedy, the political thought of Auschwitz survivor, industrial chemist, and writer Primo Levi, the political theory of the German-Jewish refugee-turned-American Political theorist Hannah Arendt, and the politics of film. His book publications include Motherhood, Fatherland, and Primo Levi: The Hidden Groundwork of Agency in His Auschwitz Writings (2017); The Politics of Tragedy and Democratic Citizenship (2011); and Hannah Arendt and the Politics of Tragedy (2001).
