Daniel Schillinger is Lecturer in Political Science and Senior Fellow of the Center for Civic Thought at Yale University. He teaches regularly in Directed Studies, Yale’s great-books program, and coordinates its track in historical and political thought. His courses range across Greek and early modern political philosophy, including Thucydides, Greek tragedy, Plato, and Hobbes. Schillinger is the author of Luckless: The Idea of Luck in Ancient Greek Thought, published by Oxford University Press in 2026. His articles have appeared in Political Research Quarterly, History of Political Thought, The Review of Metaphysics, The Washington Post, and The Point. He previously served as a postdoctoral associate and lecturer in Humanities at Yale and as a fellow of the Whitney Humanities Center. In 2025, he received the Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize. He also teaches summer seminars as a visiting professor at Deep Springs College.