Devin Stauffer

Biography

Professor Stauffer specializes in classical and early modern political philosophy. Most of his research has focused on classical thought, but his current work also examines the origins of liberalism, the theoretical foundations of modernity, and the divide between ancient and modern political thought. Prior to coming to The University of Texas at Austin in 2004, Professor Stauffer taught at Kenyon College and St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland. During his time at Kenyon College, he received two awards for teaching excellence. In 2009, he received the President's Associates Teaching Excellence Award at The University of Texas at Austin.

He is the author of Plato's Introduction to the Question of Justice (SUNY, 2001), coauthor and cotranslator of Empire and the Ends of Politics: Plato's Menexenus and Pericles' Funeral Oration (Focus Philosophical Library, 1999), and author of The Unity of Plato's Gorgias: Rhetoric, Justice, and the Philosophic Life (Cambridge, 2006). Professor Stauffer has also published articles on classical and modern topics in journals such as the Review of Politics and the American Political Science Review. He has an article on Hobbes's analysis of religion forthcoming in the Journal of Politics.