Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas, Austin
Council, 2007-09

Thomas L. Pangle (b. 1944 in U. S.) 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 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has taught at Yale, Dartmouth, the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, the University of Oklahoma, where he was Feaver MacMinn Visiting Scholar, 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 Benton Bowl, Yale University (for contribution to education in politics) and the Robert Foster Cherry Great Teacher of the World Prize, Baylor University. At the invitation of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences he recently delivered the Werner Heisenberg Memorial Prize Lecture.

He is General Editor of The Agora Editions (Cornell U. Press), and is a member of the editorial boards of Political Research Quarterly and Polis, Journal of the Society for the Study of Greek Political Thought; of the Advisory Board, Centre for Liberal Education, Carleton University, Ottawa; of the Research Council, International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy; and of the Council, North American Chapter, Society for the Study of Greek Political Thought. He served as Senior Advisory Editor, Books in Canada: The Canadian Review of Books 1995-98.

He is the author of Montesquieu's Philosophy of Liberalism (U. of Chicago Press, 1973); The Spirit of Modern Republicanism: The Moral Vision of the American Founders and the Philosophy of Locke (U. of Chicago Press, 1988); The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 1992); The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders, co-authored with wife Lorraine (Univ. Press of Kansas, 1993); Justice Among Nations: On the Moral Basis of Power and Peace, co-authored with Peter J. Ahrensdorf (University Press of Kansas, 1999); Political Philosophy and the God of Abraham (Johns Hopkins U. Press, 2003); and Leo Strauss: An Introduction to His Thought and Intellectual Legacy (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).