Rachel Alexander Cambre

As a Visiting Fellow for Heritage’s B. Kenneth Simon Center for American Studies and the Center for Education Policy, Cambre has conducted research and written on topics in American history and political thought as well as in education policy. For example, her “Conservative Roots of American Conservationism” contrasts traditional views of American conservation with more contemporary environmentalism. She has also written  several essays on the growth, purposes, and promise of classical education in the United States. 

Cambre received her PhD from Baylor’s Department of Political Science in 2019, where she received the award for the best dissertation in 2018-19. In 2019-2020 she was the John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the James Madison Program and Lecturer in the Department of Politics at Princeton University. She then served a Postdoctoral Research Associate with the Program on Constitutionalism and Democracy and a Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Virginia in 2020-2021. 

In addition to her interest in classical education, Cambre’s 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, the Political Science Reviewer, Interpretation, and Law and Justice, as well as in popular publications like Law & Liberty. 

Cambre will be teaching a graduate course in the Spring on Tocqueville in Belmont Abbey’s MA program in Classical and Liberal Education.