Faculty and Staff
Damien Picariello
| Title: | Director of Faculty, Curricula, and Courses for Dual Enrollment Programs Associate Professor of Political Science |
| Department: | Division of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education USC Sumter |
| Email: | picaried@uscsumter.edu |
| Phone: | 803-938-3812 |
| Office: | Schwartz Building, Room 139 |
Education
M.A., Political Science, University of Michigan, 2013
B.A., Political Science (honors), Baruch College, 2008
Bio
Damien K. Picariello is Director of Faculty, Curricula, and Courses for Dual Enrollment Programs and Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Sumter. He teaches broadly within political science, and his regularly offered courses include POLI 201 (American National Government) and POLI 357 (Film, Politics, and Social Change). He is the editor of The Western and Political Thought: A Fistful of Politics (Palgrave, 2023), The Politics of Horror (Palgrave, 2020) and Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought (Palgrave, 2019). On campus, he is the co-organizer of USC Sumter's annual Constitution Day program and co-director of USC Sumter's annual French Film Series.
More information on dual enrollment and early college with USC Sumter can be found here.