Elly Long
Assistant Professor
Elly Long is an assistant professor of political theory at the School of Civic Leadership, where she will begin teaching in Fall 2026. Her research interests include the history of political thought, politics and religion, and American political thought. Her work has been published in History of Political Thought, American Political Thought, Journal of Religious Ethics, Political Science Reviewer, and Augustinian Studies. Her dissertation, “Augustine and the Politics of Contingency,” studies the contributions Augustine’s theological vision affords to our understanding of the unchosen aspects of our political lives, particularly as they relate to contemporary debates about political realism, cosmopolitanism, meritocracy, and pluralism. She previously completed a master’s in theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in 2020. She completed her Ph.D. and undergraduate studies at Princeton.
EDUCATION
Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. from Princeton University
M.A. from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies
