Jack Bevacqua

Biography

Jack Bevacqua is a Ph.D. candidate in constitutional studies and political theory at the University of Notre Dame. His research focuses on late-modern political theory, especially the thought of Alexis de Tocqueville, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Friedrich Nietzsche. His dissertation investigates Tocqueville's political and moral psychology in light of Rousseau's, focusing on their conceptions of love, desire, and friendship. 

Jack is a University Presidential Fellow at Notre Dame and has received numerous fellowships, including from the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, the Mercatus Center, and the Hertog Foundation. He holds an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and graduated with honors from American University, where he earned a B.A. in Political Science with a concentration in political theory. 

Areas of Interest

Late- modern political thought, American political thought, Political Pyschology, Religion and politics, History of political thought