Samuel Piccolo

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame

M.A., University of Notre Dame

B.A. (Hons), Brock University

Books

Piccolo, S. (2027). Instruments of the Soul: A New Encounter with Native American Thought. (p. 265). Stanford University Press.

Piccolo, S., & McAdams, A. (2024). Far-Right Newspeak and the Future of Liberal Democracy. (p. 293). Routledge.

Journal Articles

(2025). The Transhumanist Challenge to Liberal Individuals. Politics & Poetics, 6. 82-118.

(2025). Plagues and Pantheism. History of European Ideas, 51(4). 933-936.

(2024). Nature in Native American Political Thinking. American Political Thought, 13(1). 1-29.

(2024). Critical Theory and North American Indigenous Thinking. European Journal of Political Theory, 23(4). 545-566.

(2023). Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law. American Journal of Political Science, 68(3). 1139-1151.

(2023). Modern Constitutionalism, Treaty Federalism, Indigenous Peoples, and the Problem of Envy. Politics & Poetics, 5. 21-50.

(2023). From Navajo ‘Holy Wind’ to Spinoza’s Divine Nature: Viola Cordova’s ComparativeApproach to Indigenous Thought. Journal of Politics, 85(4). 1444-1456.

(2022). To Hell with Both of You: the Dantean Roots of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Political Science Reviewer, 46(2). 170-197.

(2022). “Nothing Short of Murder”: How Civilian Leaders Can Diminish Military Capacity. Security Studies, 31(2). 318-350.

(2021). Petites Histoires, Meta-perspective: Meaning and Narrative in Julian Barnes. Papers on Language and Literature, 57(3). 275-301.

(2020). Coming into the Country: An Arendtian Analysis of Nationalism and Narrative. Arendt Studies, 4. 153-175.

Thinking and Acting in ‘Indian’ at the American Founding. Journal of Politics,

Martial Virtue and Constitutional Veneration: Insights for Liberalism from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy and Spartan Politeia. Polity,

New Materialism, Harm, and Hierarchies in Nature. Political Theory,

Book Chapters

Piccolo, S. (2027). Localism in Native American Thought and History. In German, Z., & Moore, T. (Eds.), Cambridge Companion To Localism

Piccolo, S. (2027). Environmental Collapse and (Post)Apocalypticism: Indigenous Legacies of The Last Man . In Hunt, E. M. (Ed.), The Last Man at 200: Imagining the Future After Environmental Disaster Bloomsbury.

(2024). Liberalism’s Vulnerabilities and Two Paths for the Future. Far-Right Newspeak and the Future of Liberal Democracy (pp. 233-259). London. Routledge.

Piccolo, S. The Sins in Native American Traditions. In Keys, M. M. (Ed.), Cambridge Companion to the Seven Deadly Sins In Progress.

Media Contributions

Piccolo, S. (2025). Illiberalism, the Environment, and Native American Political Thought.

Presentations

Piccolo, S. Instruments of the Soul: A New Encounter with Native American Thought. Baruch College Department of Political Science Annual Reception.

Piccolo, S. Thinking in "Indian" during the Revolutionary Era. Baruch College Department of Political Science Research Colloquium.

Piccolo, S. Hope in Native American and Aristotelian Philosophy. MPSA Annual Meeting. Chicago

Piccolo, S. Apocalypticism in Native American Traditions. Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting. Chicago

Piccolo, S. Indigenous Ethics and Neo-Aristotelian Virtues. APSA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia

Piccolo, S. Indigenous Ethics and Neo-Aristotelian Virtues. MPSA Annual Meeting. Chicago

Piccolo, S. Transhumanist Threats to Liberalism. Politics & Poetics Conference. Oxford

Piccolo, S. Nature in Native American Political Thinking. Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory.

Piccolo, S. Natural Law and Indigenous Sovereignty. Native Americans and the Constitutional Order. Oklahoma University

Piccolo, S. Native American Thinking and Neo-Aristotelianism. Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting. Schenectady

Piccolo, S. Nature in Native American Political Thinking. WPSA Annual Meeting. San Francisco

Piccolo, S. Indigenous Sovereignty, Common Law, and Natural Law. APSA Annual Meeting. Montreal

Piccolo, S. Critical Theory and Indigenous Thought. 14th International Critical Theory Conference of Rome.

Piccolo, S. Navajo Holy Wind and Spinoza’s Divine Nature: Viola Cordova’s Comparative Approach to Indigenous Thought. Harvard Graduate Conference in Political Theory.

Piccolo, S. Navajo Holy Wind and Spinoza’s Divine Nature: Viola Cordova’s Comparative Approach to Indigenous Thought. Duke Graduate Conference in Political Theory.

Piccolo, S. Lockean and Indigenous Accounts of Envy in the ‘New World’. Politics and Poetics Conference. Oxford

Piccolo, S. From Athens to Turtle Island: Indigenous Thought and Neo-Aristotelianism. WPSA Annual Meeting. Virtual Conference

Piccolo, S. Navajo Holy Wind and Spinoza’s Divine Nature: Viola Cordova’s Comparative Approach to Indigenous Thought. CPSA Annual Meeting.

Piccolo, S. Arendtian Guilt. SPSA Annual Meeting.

Piccolo, S. Memory, Forgetfulness, Guilt: Considering Transhumanism. Washington, DC: APSA Annual Meeting.

Piccolo, S. Philosophic Affinities with Indigenous Political Theory. Canadian Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Vancouver

Piccolo, S. An Infernal Frankenstein: The Frozen Hells of Shelley and Dante. Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting. San Diego

Piccolo, S. Nationalism and Narrative: An Arendtian Analysis. Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting. Austin

Reviews

Piccolo, S. (1970,January 1). David Lay Williams: The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economy Inequality ShapedPolitical Thought from Plato to Marx.. Review of Politics.

Piccolo, S. (1970,January 1). Robert Nichols: Theft is Property! Dispossesion and Critical Theory. St. Anthony's International Review.

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