Devin Stauffer
Jack Miller Center Summer Institute Faculty
Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
Devin Stauffer is a professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Stauffer specializes in classical and early modern political philosophy. He has written two books on Plato and one on Thomas Hobbes. Prior to coming to The University of Texas in 2004, Professor Stauffer taught at Kenyon College and St. John’s College in Annapolis. During his time at Kenyon College, he received two awards for teaching excellence, and he has since received three more teaching awards at The University of Texas. In 2013-14, he was a fellow of the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation in Munich. In the Spring of 2018, he was a visiting associate professor at Harvard.
Professor Stauffer’s books are Plato’s Introduction to the Question of Justice (SUNY, 2001), The Unity of Plato’s Gorgias (Cambridge, 2006), and Hobbes’s Kingdom of Light (Chicago, 2018). His articles have appeared in various journals, including the Review of Politics, the Journal of Politics, and the American Political Science Review.
Research interests:
Classical Political Thought
Early Modern Political Thought
