Diana Schaub

Diana Schaub
Name	Diana Schaub
Birth date	20th century
Occupation	Professor, author, commentator
Institutions	Loyola University Maryland, American Council of Trustees and Alumni
Alma mater	Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University

Diana Schaub is an American political theorist, literary critic, and professor known for her work on American political thought, rhetoric, and education. She has written on figures from the American Founding through 20th-century conservatism, contributed essays to public discourse, and served in academic and policy-oriented institutions. Schaub's scholarship engages texts and thinkers across Western political and intellectual traditions.

Early life and education

Schaub completed undergraduate and graduate studies that connected her to institutions and scholars in the United States and Europe, including Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, and interactions with faculty associated with Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, Oxford University, Cambridge University, University of Chicago, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania', Brown University, Duke University, Cornell University, University of Virginia, Rutgers University, Indiana University Bloomington, University of Michigan, University of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles, New York University, London School of Economics, European University Institute, The Catholic University of America, Notre Dame, University of Notre Dame Law School, Claremont McKenna College, Pepperdine University, American University, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Georgetown University Law Center, Bard College, Syracuse University, University of Texas at Austin, Texas A&M University, Washington University in St. Louis.

Academic career

Schaub has held faculty positions and visiting appointments at campuses and centers such as Loyola University Maryland, where she taught courses intersecting the writings of Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, James Madison, John Locke, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Harold Bloom, Leo Strauss Center, The Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, The Claremont Institute, Hudson Institute, Brookings Institution, American Council of Trustees and Alumni, The Johns Hopkins University, Georgetown University, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, Hoover Institution, Manhattan Institute, Cato Institute, New America Foundation, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, National Endowment for the Humanities.

In her roles she participated in conferences and seminars featuring scholars and public intellectuals associated with Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Harvard University Press, Yale University Press, Columbia University Press, Stanford University Press, The American Political Science Association, The American Historical Association, The Modern Language Association, The American Philosophical Society, The Institute for Advanced Study, The Royal Institute of Philosophy, The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, The National Humanities Center, The Wilson Center.

Writings and major works

Schaub's publications include books, essays, and edited volumes addressing canonical texts and modern debates. Her work engages authors and texts such as Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Augustine of Hippo, Thomas Aquinas, Niccolò Machiavelli, Martin Luther, John Calvin, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, Hannah Arendt, Allan Bloom, Leo Strauss, Richard Rorty, Christopher Lasch, Irving Babbitt, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy, Elizabeth Anscombe, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Fredric Jameson, Stanley Fish, Harold Bloom.

Her essays have appeared in outlets and journals such as The Weekly Standard, The National Interest, The Public Interest, Commentary (magazine), The Claremont Review of Books, The American Conservative, Commonweal, First Things, The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The New Republic, National Review, The Spectator (U.S. edition), Dissent (magazine), The New Criterion, Modern Age, Policy Review, American Affairs, National Affairs.

Political and philosophical views

Schaub's analyses draw on traditions from Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome through Medieval philosophy and Renaissance humanism to Enlightenment thinkers and American Founding Fathers. She often interprets texts by Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, Joseph de Maistre, John Adams, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Alexis de Tocqueville, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Leo Strauss, Allan Bloom, Richard Rorty, John Rawls, Robert Nozick and contemporary commentators at The American Enterprise Institute, Heritage Foundation, Hoover Institution, Brookings Institution, Cato Institute to address debates on constitutionalism, civic virtue, liberalism, conservatism, republicanism, federalism, secularism, pluralism, virtue ethics, natural law, and political theology.

She has engaged public controversies and policy issues debated by figures from Supreme Court of the United States decisions to debates in United States Congress, op-eds in The New York Times, exchanges at The Aspen Institute, panels at The National Review Institute, and testimony before bodies connected to National Endowment for the Humanities and U.S. Department of Education.

Awards and recognition

Schaub has been acknowledged by academic societies, journals, and foundations associated with The National Endowment for the Humanities, The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, The Philanthropy Roundtable, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, The Charles Koch Foundation, The John M. Olin Foundation, The Earhart Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Mellon Foundation, The Getty Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation, The National Humanities Medal, Pulitzer Prize-adjacent citation communities, and recognition in listings by publications such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, Inside Higher Ed, The New York Times Book Review.

Personal life and affiliations

Schaub's affiliations include membership or fellowships with organizations and societies such as American Council of Trustees and Alumni, The National Review Institute, The Heritage Foundation, American Enterprise Institute, The Claremont Institute, The Intercollegiate Studies Institute, The Modern Language Association, American Political Science Association, The American Philosophical Association, The Society of Fellows, Phi Beta Kappa, The Catholic University of America, The Institute for Advanced Study, The Aspen Institute, The Brookings Institution, Council on Foreign Relations and participation in events associated with The White House, United States Congress, Smithsonian Institution, Library of Congress, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Category:American academics Category:Political philosophers