The Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government is proud to introduce its Fall 2024 Tocqueville Fellows. The cohort includes 21 talented Notre Dame undergraduates from various programs of study, as well as one St. Mary’s undergraduate.
The Tocqueville Fellowship Program provides students extracurricular opportunities to explore fundamental questions about politics, culture, business, markets, philosophy, law, and religion. Emphasizing the Catholic mission of Notre Dame, the program also encourages students to consider the Catholic intellectual tradition’s answers to these questions.
Practically, Tocqueville Fellows receive special invitations to meet, network, and dine with high-profile scholars and practitioners visiting Notre Dame. Past examples include Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, Harvard Professor Danielle Allen, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. In September the Fellows will have the opportunity to share breakfast with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, where they will engage on significant questions at the nexus of the spiritual and the political. Fellows also take part in a close-knit intellectual community, participating in weekend discussion colloquia and social events with each other and with faculty. The opening colloquium for this fall’s cohort focused on Ivan Turgenev’s classic novel Fathers and Sons. With Turgenev’s help, students discussed perennial dynamics in politics (especially generational conflict), as well as the allure of political ideology and the things in life that transcend it.
The complete list of fall fellows and their bios can be found on our fellows page.
More information about the Tocqueville Fellowship can be found on our fellowships page.