Devin Stauffer

Devin Stauffer is a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute, and a professor of government in the College of Liberal Arts at UT Austin where he was the recipient of two teaching awards. He specializes in classical and early modern political philosophy. Before joining UT Austin, Stauffer taught at St. John’s College in Annapolis and at Kenyon College, where he received two awards for teaching excellence. His books include Hobbes’s Kingdom of Light (The University of Chicago Press, 2018); The Unity of Plato’s Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life (Cambridge University Press, 2009); and Plato’s Introduction to the Question of Justice (SUNY Press, 2000). His articles have appeared in policy journals including The Review of Politics, The Journal of Politics, and American Political Science Review. He has a B.A. from Kenyon College and a Ph.D. from Boston College.