Carol McNamara

Carol McNamara is the senior director of the Center for Constitutional Design at the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Prior to that, she served as the founding associate director for public programs for the School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership at Arizona State University. Between 2013 and 2017, she worked as the founding director with Olene Walker, a former governor of Utah, to build the Olene Walker Institute of Politics & Public Service at Weber State University in Utah. Her research focuses on politics and literature, ancient political thought, and the American presidency. Her publications include articles on the thought of Tom Wolfe, Shakespeare's politics, and Xenophon's Socrates, as well as edited volumes on "The Obama Presidency in the Constitutional Order" and "Citizenship and Civic Leadership in America."

Her academic expertise includes classical political thought, Shakespeare's politics, the Socratic education in Xenophon, Tom Wolfe, and the American presidency.