Patrick J. Deneen graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in English literature and political science. From 1995 to 1997, he was a speechwriter and special advisor to the US Information Agency. From 1997 to 2005, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Princeton University. From 2005 to 2012, he was associate professor of government at Georgetown University, and in the fall of 2012, he joined the faculty at Notre Dame. He is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles and reviews, and has given invited lectures around the world. Deneen won the A.P.S.S.A. Leo Strauss Award for the best dissertation in political theory in 1995 and the A.P.S.S.A. award for best first book in 2000. He has been awarded research fellowships by Princeton University, the Earhart Foundation, and the Virginia Institute for Advanced Study. His teaching and writing interests focus on the history of political thought, American political thought, liberalism, conservatism, and constitutionalism.