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Professor
School of Civic Life and Leadership

Dustin.Sebell@unc.edu

Dustin Sebell is Professor in the School of Civic Life and Leadership, where he studies and teaches the history of political thought. Before coming to Carolina, he was Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University, where he was Director of the LeFrak Forum and the Symposium on Science, Reason, and Modern Democracy. From 2022-24, he was the Class of 1962 Resident Fellow at the U.S. Naval Academy’s Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership and, from 2014-15, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Government at Harvard University. He received his PhD in 2014 from Boston College.

His first book, The Socratic Turn: Knowledge of Good and Evil in an Age of Science, was published in 2016 by the University of Pennsylvania Press, and won the Delba Winthrop Award for Excellence in Political Science. His second book, Xenophon’s Socratic Education: Reason, Religion, and the Limits of Politics, was published in 2021, also by the University of Pennsylvania Press. His work on ancient and modern political philosophy has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, the Review of Politics, the Political Science Reviewer, and Hume Studies.