Dana Stauffer is a senior fellow at the Civitas Institute and an associate professor of instruction and research fellow in the government department at UT Austin. She is also the undergraduate honors director for the government department. An award-winning teacher, Stauffer has taught courses in classical and modern political thought, politics and literature, women in political thought, and American government. Her research interests include classical political thought, Shakespeare’s political thought, and the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, especially Democracy in America. Her work has appeared in Political Research Quarterly, The Journal of Politics, The Review of Politics, American Political Science Review, and Interpretation. She is currently at work on a book manuscript, A World Altogether New: Tocqueville on the Modern Moral Situation. She earned her undergraduate degree from Boston College and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto.