Sarah Gustafson is an Assistant Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America. Her research and teaching interests focus on Alexis de Tocqueville and nineteenth century political thought, as well as the Western political philosophy tradition more broadly, contemporary and normative political theory, virtue ethics, Catholic Social and Political Thought, and Ethics and Business.
She earned her PhD from Harvard University in 2023, where she was named a Harold Laski Fellow in 2017. She graduated First Honor (Valedictorian) from Davidson College with degrees in History and French. She also earned a MA in the History of Political Thought from Queen Mary University of London, where she won the 2015 University of London Quentin Skinner Prize in the History of Political Thought.
On top of her academic research and writing, she has written for several public-facing outlets and given talks at the Acton Institute, the Tocqueville Center at Furman University, and Harvard University’s Program on Constitutional Government.
