Tyler Castle

Biography

Tyler Castle is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and Associate Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government, overseeing the Tocqueville Fellowship Program, the Constitutional Studies Minor, and other programs for undergraduates and graduate students, as well as alumni. 

His dissertation explores the philosophical grounding for political moderation within the Christian intellectual tradition, focusing on the thought of Augustine, Blaise Pascal, and Alexis de Tocqueville. During his time at Notre Dame, Tyler has also been selected as a David Solomon Fellow with the deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture and a Michael and Karen Laub-Novak Fellow with the Jacques Maritain Center. 

Before coming to Notre Dame, Tyler spent almost a decade at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in Washington, DC, where he served as director of its Intiative on Faith & Public Life and contributed to the institute's broader efforts to improve the quality of political discourse on college campuses. In addition to overseeing dozens of student and faculty programs during his time at AEI, he played a lead role in the development of a variety of educational resources- including essay compilations on economics and morality and the future of liberalism, as well as a feature-length documentary on Christian engagement in contemporary American politics titled "For Love of Neighbor: Politics for the Common Good." 

Previously, Tyler was a fellow with the John Jay Institute and received his B.A. in Political Science from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. 

Areas of Interest

Christian political thought, American constitutionalism, Political moderation