Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics
Research Professor of Political Science and Classical Studies

Phone: (919) 660 4367
Email: euben@duke.edu

Physical Address:
319 Perkins Lib
Durham, NC 27708

Postal Address:
Box 90204
Durham, NC 27708-0204

Peter Euben is Research Professor of Political Science and Classical Studies and the Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics in the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. He specializes in ancient, modern, and contemporary political thought; literature and politics; political education; democratic culture and politics; and the politics of morality. He is the author of The Tragedy of Political Theory, Corrupting Youth, and Platonic Noise, editor of Greek Tragedy and Political Theory, and co-editor of Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstitution of American Democracy. His articles have appeared in numerous journals including The American Political Science Review and Political Theory. He has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Social Science Research council, the National Humanities Foundation, and was a Laurence Rockefeller Fellow at the Princeton Center for the Study of Human Values. He has also won five teaching awards. He earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Swarthmore College and a doctorate in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He is presently working on a book entitled, The Necessities of Utopia and the Prospects for Rationality.