is Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin, where she teaches political philosophy and ethics. She was born in Pasadena, California on April 26, 1958. She earned a B.A. in history from Yale, a B.Ed. from the University of Toronto, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Committee on Social Thought. She has won fellowships from the Searle, Olin, and Earhart Foundations, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her publications include The Political Philosophy of Benjamin Franklin (Johns Hopkins, 2007); Aristotle and the Philosophy of Friendship (Cambridge, 2003); The Learning of Liberty: The Educational Ideas of the American Founders (co-authored with Thomas L. Pangle, Kansas, 1993); and articles on Plato, Aristotle, the American founders, and the philosophy of education. Her current research interests include ancient political philosophy and literature, ethics, and problems of justice and moral responsibility. She is currently at work on a book tentatively entitled Virtue is Knowledge: The Socratic Paradox and the Problem of Moral Responsibility.