Robert Pirro 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). In addition to covering the department’s survey courses in political theory (Ancient, Modern, Contemporary, American, Feminist), he teaches the political theory senior seminar, which has engaged such topics as aesthetic politics, religion and politics, Italian political thought and film, and psychoanalytic considerations of maternal care and political identity.