Dana Stauffer
Affiliated Faculty
Dana Jalbert Stauffer is Associate Professor of Instruction and Research Fellow in the Department of Government. She specializes in political theory. Her particular research interests include classical political thought, the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, and politics and drama. She teaches courses on ancient political thought, American political thought, and politics and literature. Her work has appeared in journals such as the Review of Politics, Political Science Reviewer, Journal of Politics, and the American Political Science Review, among others. She is currently at work on a book manuscript, A World Altogether New: Tocqueville on the Modern Moral Situation. Before coming to the University of Texas, she taught at Kenyon College.
