Rebeca C. Leffler, Ph.D.

Rebeca C. Leffler is a political theorist whose work focuses on rhetoric, grand strategy, and American political thought. She is currently an America in the World Consortium (AWC) Postdoctoral Associate at the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida, where she is working on her first monograph, Executive War Rhetoric. She holds a Ph.D. in political science from Claremont Graduate University.

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Her peer-reviewed research is forthcoming in American Political Thought, SAGE Encyclopedia of Crime and Gender, and the edited volume, Movements and American Political Thought. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities at LancasterHistory, the Western Political Science Association, the Jack Miller Center, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation. 

 

Prior to joining AWC, she taught government and political philosophy at Claremont McKenna College and Hamilton College. 

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