Tyler Castle

Biography

Tyler Castle is Associate Director of the Center for Citizenship & Constitutional Government, overseeing the Tocqueville Fellowship Program, the Constitutional Studies Minor, and other programs for undergraduate and graduate students, as well as alumni.

Concurrently, he is a Ph.D. candidate in Notre Dame’s Political Science department. His dissertation explores the philosophical grounding for political moderation within the Christian intellectual tradition, focusing on the thought of Augustine, Blaise Pascal, and Alexis de Tocqueville. During his time at Notre Dame, Tyler has been selected as a David Solomon Fellow with the deNicola Center for Ethics and Culture and a Michael and Karen Laub-Novak Fellow with the Jacques Maritain Center.

Before coming to Notre Dame, Tyler spent almost a decade at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, where he served as director of its Initiative on Faith & Public Life and contributed to the institute’s broader efforts to improve the quality of political discourse on college campuses. Previously, Tyler was a fellow with the John Jay Institute and received his B.A. in Political Science from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA.