Abigail Staysa
Fields of Study: Political Theory, Constitutional Studies
Areas of Interest: history of political philosophy, ancient political philosophy
Abby Staysa is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Civitas Institute and a Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Texas at Austin. Her area of teaching and research is the history of political philosophy, with a particular focus on the thinkers of ancient Hellas. Her current research is a book-length study of Aristotle’s intricate treatment of pleasure and pain in his philosophy of moral and philosophic education. Before coming to the Civitas Institute, Abby was a Postdoctoral Fellow with the James Madison Program and Department of Politics at Princeton University. She earned her B.A. from Hiram College (2015) and her Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame (2023).