Timothy Brennan

Timothy Brennan is Associate Professor of Political Philosophy at the University of Austin. His research focuses on modern political theory and American political thought, with particular attention to eighteenth-century thinkers, including Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson. He has published articles in Political Theory, The Journal of Politics, and Modern Intellectual History, among other venues, and he has a forthcoming book on Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography. Before coming to the University of Austin, he taught at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Virginia.