Rachel K. Alexander is a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy and a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. Her research interests include the history of political thought, classical political philosophy, American political thought, and politics and literature. Her work has appeared in refereed journals such as Perspectives on Political Science, Interpretation, and Law and Justice, as well as in popular publications like Law & Liberty. She holds a B.A. in Politics from Washington and Lee University and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Baylor University, where she was awarded Baylor’s 2019-2020 Outstanding Dissertation Award. She was recently a 2019-2020 John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the James Madison Program and Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Princeton University.