Biography
Abby Thomas is a postdoctoral fellow at the Civitas Institute. Her teaching and research focus is the history of political philosophy, with a particular focus on the thinkers of ancient Greece. Her current research is a book-length study of Aristotle’s intricate treatment of pleasure and pain in his philosophy of moral and philosophic education. Before coming to the Civitas Institute, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Politics and in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. She earned her B.A. from Hiram College and her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame.
Awards
Josh Blackman holds the Centennial Chair of Constitutional Law at South Texas College of Law and is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He has authored three books, and his latest, An Introduction to Constitutional Law, was a top five bestseller on Amazon. He is a contributing editor to Civitas Outlook.
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