Daniel Davison-Vecchione is a social theorist interested in the genealogy of sociological concepts, and the influence of value judgements on social scientific methods of research. Before coming to Cambridge in 2017 to pursue his PhD in Sociology, Daniel completed his Bachelor of Laws (LLB) at the University of Surrey in 2014 and his Master of Laws (LLM) in Legal Theory at New York University in 2015. His PhD investigates whether Simmel and Weber’s canonisation in opposition to each other in Anglophone sociology has obscured how much their ideas about selfhood and action overlap, especially in relation to the key theme of tragedy. Since 2019, Daniel has been collaborating with the literary scholar Sean Seeger (University of Essex) on a series of journal articles on the relationship between speculative fiction and social theory.
