Patrick J. Deneen

Professional info

 

I have been teaching at the University of Notre Dame since Fall 2012, when I was appointed Associate Professor of Political Science and David A. Potenziani Memorial Chair of Constitutional Studies.  I was promoted to Professor of Political Science in 2018. I have previously taught at Princeton University and Georgetown University, and was a speechwriter and special assistant to the Director of the United States Information Agency from 1995-1997.

Work experience

 

University of Notre Dame

 

Associate Professor and David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair in Constitutional Studies

2012-2018

 

Professor and David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair in Constitutional Studies

2018 - present

 

 

Georgetown University

 

Markos and Eleni Tsakapoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government

Founding Director, The Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy

2005 - 2012 

 

 

Princeton University

Assistant Professor of Government

1997 - 2005

 

 

 

Education

 

Rutgers University

Ph.D., 1995

 

Dissertation:  "The Odyssey of Political Theory"

 

Recipient of APSA's Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Philosophy, 1995

 

Director:  Wilson Carey McWilliams

 

 

The University of Chicago

Committee on Social Thought

1986-1987

 

Rutgers University

B.A., English, 1986

 

2010 - present

2010 - present