Aaron Zubia
Jack Miller Center America250 Media Fellow
Assistant Professor in the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education,
University of Florida
Aaron Alexander Zubia is an Assistant Professor in the Hamilton School of Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida. Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow with The Tocqueville Program in the Department of Politics and International Affairs at Furman University. In 2019-20, he was a Thomas W. Smith Postdoctoral Research Associate in the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.
Zubia specializes in the moral and political philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment and the American founding. He is the author of The Political Thought of David Hume: The Origins of Liberalism and the Modern Political Imagination (University of Notre Dame Press, 2024).
His scholarly work has appeared in Political Theory, Hume Studies and Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy. He has also written in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, First Things, Law & Liberty, Washington Examiner, and Public Discourse. He is the winner of the first annual Hume Studies Essay Prize for his paper, “Hume’s Transformation of Academic Skepticism,” and he was a runner up for the Jack Miller Center’s Excellence in Civic Education Award in 2021.
He holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a B.B.A. in Marketing from the University of Texas at El Paso.
Research interests:
American founding
David Hume
Moral philosophy
Political philosophy
Scottish Enlightenment
