My work has been published in American Political Thought, The Tocqueville Review, and The Political Science Reviewer. I have held fellowships from the France Chicago Center, Sciences Po, the Barry Center, the Mercatus Center, the Institute for Humane Studies, and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.
My current book project, Beyond Meritocracy: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Democratic Age, argues that liberal education can form the elites we need—ones who relate to their fellow citizens with wisdom, magnanimity, and humility.
See this article featuring Academia Tocqueville, my initiative to teach French political thought to some of the best graduate students in America. Applications for this summer’s edition are open now.
Please contact me at lfoster2@nd.edu. My writing is available for download at https://nd.academia.edu/LukeFoster.
I am a Postdoctoral Research Scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame.
I hold a PhD from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought, a uniquely interdisciplinary program between the humanities and social sciences. I wrote my dissertation on the role of elite education in democracy, entitled 'Excellence for the Democratic Age: Liberal Education and the Mixed Regime.'
I research and teach political theory, inspired by such authors as Plato, Montesquieu, and Alexis de Tocqueville. I am passionate about the power of ideas to form culture and souls.
