Elly Long

I am an incoming Assistant Professor of political theory at the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas at Austin.

My research interests include the history of political thought (particularly the thought of Augustine), politics and religion, and American political thought. My work is published or forthcoming in History of Political Thought, American Political Thought, Journal of Religious Ethics, Political Science Reviewer, and Augustinian Studies. My current book project, “Augustine and the Politics of Contingency,” studies the contributions Augustine’s theological vision affords our understanding of the unchosen aspects of our political lives.

I completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Politics at Princeton University in 2025, a masters in Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in 2020, and my undergraduate studies at Princeton in 2018, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Politics.