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Gabrielle Grow

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Biography

Gabrielle Grow is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in constitutional studies and political theory and a Notebaert Premier Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. Her dissertation examines the agrarian ideal in American political and constitutional thought, with the goal of better understanding how to sustain a stable middle-class republic amidst economic change. Her prior research on stability and middle-class virtue in Aristotle’s Politics was published in Polis. Gabrielle is also interested in the decline of social capital in Western democracies, and to this end has pursued research on liberal/communitarian debates, the relationship between religion and liberal constitutionalism, and the tension between community and mobility in American constitutionalism. In addition to her theoretical work, Gabrielle is conducting a novel quantitative project to analyze the effects of disestablishment on religious engagement in the early United States, a project supported by the Notre Dame Democracy Initiative.

Before coming to Notre Dame, Gabrielle worked at the University of Chicago for economist Dr. Steve Levitt, where she completed research projects related to agriculture and K-12 education, among other issues. She received her BA (with honors) in Public Policy from Stanford University. In her spare time, Gabrielle enjoys mentoring Notre Dame undergraduate business students alongside her husband, Nathan, and spending time on her family farm.

Areas of Interest

American and ancient political thought; religion and liberal constitutionalism; communitarianism & individualism