Natalie Moreira

Education 

Ph.D. (cand.), University of Dallas

Dissertation: “What Keeps a Political Community Together? Storytelling as Power in the Political Thought of Hannah Arendt”; Expected Completion: Spring 2025

M.A., University of Dallas 

B.A., Baylor University

     Natalie Moreira joined the Baylor faculty as a Full-Time Temporary Lecturer in Fall 2022.  She teaches PSC 1387: The U.S. Constitution, Its Interpretation, and the American Political Experience along with PSC 1305: American National Government. In addition, she hosts a colloquium session on Hannah Arendt through the Baylor Honors College.

     She received a M.A. and is completing a Ph.D. from the Institute of Philosophic Studies in the Braniff Graduate School of the University of Dallas. While at the University of Dallas, she studied Ancient Political Philosophy and Early Modern Political Philosophy as well as American Political Theory, History of the Western Tradition, and Phenomenology. She taught Principles of American Government, served as a teaching assistant for Liberalism and the Enlightenment, and tutored in the University of Dallas Writing Lab. 

     Moreira's current research centers on the way radically unique humans manage to live together in a way that makes their lives fuller and freer and relies on the insights of Hannah Arendt as a guide. Her dissertation formulates a theory of power within Arendt's broad understanding of politics, and it centers on portraying power as mutual storytelling rather than resource allocation or the authority to command. 

Research and Teaching Interests

Research Interests: History of Western Thought, Leadership and Statesmanship, Politics and Literature

Teaching Interests: American Political Theory, Liberalism and Democracy, Western Political Theory