Lorraine Pangle
Jack Miller Center Academic Advisory Council Member
Professor of Government and Co-Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center,
University of Texas at Austin
Lorraine Pangle is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches political and moral philosophy. With Thomas Pangle she is co-director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas, a program in the great books and ideas that have shaped Western civilization and the American republic. This program provides a pathway through UT’s core curriculum for undergraduates in every college and major, helping to prepare them for thoughtful lives as citizens and leaders.
She holds a B.A. in history from Yale, a B.Ed. from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought. She has held fellowships from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Earhart Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
She is author of five books, Reason and Character: The Moral Foundations of Aristotelian Political Philosophy (Chicago, 2020); Virtue is Knowledge: The Moral Foundations of Socratic Political Philosophy (Chicago, 2014); The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin (Johns Hopkins, 2007); Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship (Cambridge, 2003); and The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders, co-authored with Thomas Pangle (Kansas, 1993); as well as articles on Homer, Plato, Xenophon, Aristotle, the American Founders, Nietzsche, and Leo Strauss. She is currently at work on a book on the advice Aristotle might have for contemporary America.
Research interests:
Political and moral philosophy
