Thomas L. Pangle

Thomas L. Pangle holds the Joe R. Long Chair in Democratic Studies in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin.

He held previously the University Professorship in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, and is a lifetime Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

He has taught at Yale, Dartmouth, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the University of Houston (where he held the inaugural Ross M. Lence Master Teacher Residency in the Honors College), and the University of Chicago (where he also delivered the Exxon Distinguished Lectures in Humane Approaches to the Social Sciences).

Educated at Cornell University (BA) and the University of Chicago (PhD), he has won Guggenheim, Isaac Waltam Killam, Canada Council, Connaught, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Carl Friedrich von Siemens, and four National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships.

He has been awarded the Robert Foster Cherry Great Teacher of the World Prize, Baylor University. At the invitation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences he delivered the Werner Heisenberg Memorial Prize Lecture.

He has served as Senior Advisory Editor, Books in Canada: The Canadian Review of Books, is a Founding Member of the Editorial Board of The Chinese Journal of Classical Studies, General Editor of The Agora Editions (Cornell U. Press), and has served as a member of the editorial boards of Political Research Quarterly, and Polis, Journal of the Society for the Study of Greek Political Thought.

Together with Timothy Burns he edits the Palgrave Macmillan books series

Recovering Political Philosophy.