Paul Carrese

Paul Carrese is professor in the School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University, serving as founding director 2016 to 2023. For two decades he was a professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy, and co-founded its honors program blending liberal arts and leadership education. He teaches and publishes on the American founding, American constitutional and political thought, civic education, and American grand strategy. His most recent book is Democracy in Moderation: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Sustainable Liberalism (Cambridge, 2016). He has held fellowships at Oxford (Rhodes Scholar); Harvard; University of Delhi (Fulbright fellow); and the James Madison Program, Princeton. He served on the advisory board of the Program on Public Discourse at UNC Chapel Hill; co-led a national study, Educating for American Democracy, on American history and civics education in K-12 schools with partners from Harvard and Tufts universities and iCivics (2021); is a fellow of the Civitas Institute, UT Austin; and serves on the Academic Council of the Jack Miller Center for America’s Founding Principles and History and on the Civic Education Committee of the American Political Science Association. In 2024 he is Senior Fellow in Civic Thought and Leadership with the Jack Miller Center.