Patrick Deneen

Patrick J. Deneen is the David A. Potenziani Memorial Associate Professor of Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame. From 2005 to 2012 he was an associate professor of Government and held the Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair in Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University. Prior to that Deneen was an assistant professor of Government at Princeton University and a speech writer and special advisor to the director of the United States Information Agency. His publications include Redeeming Democracy in America (2011, ed.), The Democratic Soul (2011, ed.), Democracy's Literature (2005, co-editor), Democratic Faith (2005), and The Odyssey of Political Theory (2000). In 2006, Deneen became the Founding Director of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy. He holds a B.A. and Ph.D. from Rutgers University.