Department of Political Science

My name is Hayden Proborowski and I am a Ph.D. Candidate in the Political Science department at Indiana University Bloomington. I am originally from New Hampshire and received a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from the University of New Hampshire. In my dissertation, I argue that the American founding generation believed entrusting the presidency to morally virtuous individuals would act as a bulwark against executive tyranny. I have taught a course about theories of political leadership, from ancient Greece to contemporary democratic theory, and have given several lectures about thinkers such as Hobbes, Publius, and Rousseau. I am a recipient of the Ronald E. McNair Scholars Graduate Fellowship and am proudly a first-generation college student. My broad research interests are eighteenth-century American political thought, political leadership, and the relationship between civic virtue and democratic citizenship.