Biography
Maura Cowan is a predoctoral fellow at the Civitas Institute. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Tulane University, specializing in the history of political philosophy. Her interests include the intersection of politics, literature, and philosophy, with a focus on the ancient Greeks. Cowan completed her undergraduate degree at St. John’s College in Annapolis, and has taught the classics of political philosophy and literature at both the secondary and university level. Before joining the Civitas Institute, Cowan was a fellow at the Murphy Institute. She is currently writing a dissertation on the “ancient quarrel” between poetry and philosophy presented in Plato’s Republic.
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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