About Janet Dougherty

Janet Dougherty is a member of the senior faculty of St. John’s College, where she has taught since 1982. She has lectured publicly on Sophocles, Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Descartes, Montesquieu, Tocqueville, Hegel, and Shakespeare’s Tempest. Ms. Dougherty has published both in the St. John’s Review and The Review of Politics, and is also a contributor to The Arts of Rule: Essays in Honor of Harvey C. Mansfield. She was a recipient of the French Government Fellowship for research on Montesquieu and received a B.A at Yale in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Government at Harvard.