page_title: Adam Kotsko
section_title: Career
hierarchical_section_title: Adam Kotsko / Career
caption_attribution_description: English: Adam Kotsko at the Shimer College commencement ceremony in Chicago in May, 2012.
context_page_description: Adam Kotsko is an American theologian, religious scholar, culture critic, and translator, working in the field of political theology. He served as an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago, which was absorbed into North Central College in 2017. He is chiefly known for his interpretative work on philosophers Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben, as well as his writing on American pop culture. Some of his better-known books include Why We Love Sociopaths, Awkwardness, and Žižek and Theology.
context_section_description: After completing his doctorate in 2009, Kotsko taught for two years at Kalamazoo College, a liberal arts college in Michigan.
  In 2011, Kotsko was hired by Shimer College, a small great-books college in Chicago.  He was one of three new Shimer professors hired that year, the school's largest intake of new faculty in more than a decade.  In his first year at Shimer, Kotsko participated in a reworking of the school's upper-level core humanities courses. He also served on numerous committees in Shimer's self-governance body, the Shimer College Assembly. In April 2013, Kotsko was elected parliamentarian of the assembly.
caption: Kotsko at the Shimer College commencement ceremony in Chicago in May 2012
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