Eric Malczewski is a Ph.D. candidate in The University Professors Program studying under the direction of Professor Liah Greenfeld. His areas of interest are Classical Sociological Theory and Political Philosophy. He is currently exploring the link between the philosophy of history and the advent of empirical social science, in addition to working on a case study regarding the sociology of literature and the sociology of knowledge in the context of early-modern
England.

Mr. Malczewski is the Teaching Assistant for the following courses:
Modernity Seminar (CAS SO543 / UNI ID 543)
Culture & Society (UNI ID204)
Sociology of Culture (GRS SO837)
Comparative Political Analysis (CAS PO657)

In academic year 2006/2007 Mr. Malczewski was awarded a Graduate Writing Fellowship by Boston University's Writing Program in the College of Arts and Sciences. He taught the courses "Time Recreated; Time Regained" and “Classics of Social Theory,” which he designed. An abridged list of the texts Mr. Malczewski has taught follows: Marc Bloch's The Historian's Craft; Annie Dillard's "Total Eclipse"; Emile Durkheim's The Division of Labor in Society, The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Rules of Sociological Method, and Suicide; Liah Greenfeld's Nationalism: Five Roads to Modernity, and Nationalism and the Mind; Karl Marx's "The German Ideology"; Friedrich Nietzsche's "On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life"; Marcel Proust's Swann's Way; and, Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.