Maura Cowan is a predoctoral fellow at the Civitas Institute. She is also a Ph.D. candidate in philosophy at Tulane University, specializing in the history of political philosophy. Her interests include the intersection of politics, literature, and philosophy, with a focus on the ancient Greeks. Cowan completed her undergraduate degree at St. John’s College in Annapolis, and has taught the classics of political philosophy and literature at both the secondary and university level. Before joining the Civitas Institute, Cowan was a fellow at the Murphy Institute. She is currently writing a dissertation on the “ancient quarrel” between poetry and philosophy presented in Plato’s Republic.