Dr Benjamin Storey

Furman University

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Benjamin Storey is the Jane Gage Hipp Professor in European and American Political Thought, Politics and International Affairs, as well as Director of the Tocqueville Program at Furman University. He is winner of the 2016 Alester G. and Janie Earle Furman, Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the 2011 Francis Bonner "American Scholar" Award, presented by Furman's Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. In 2016-17, Storey was a Visiting Fellow at the James Madison Program at Princeton University. His writings have appeared in the Journal of Politics, the Review of Politics, The New Atlantis, City Journal, and many other venues. With Jenna Silber Storey, he is co-author of a book entitled Why We are Restless: The Modern Quest for Contentment, which was published by Princeton University Press in the Spring of 2021.

Honors

  • Alester G. and Janie Earle Furman Award for Excellence in Teaching, Furman University, Spring 2016

  • The Inaugural Francis Bonner "American Scholar" Award, given by Furman University's Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, August 2011

  • National Endowment for the Humanities "Enduring Questions" Grant, 2010-2012

  • Intercollegiate Studies Institute Western Civilization Fellow, 2004-2005

  • John U. Nef Fellow for Research in Paris, 2001-2002

  • H.B. Earhart Fellow, 1999-2001, 2002-2004

  • Junior Fellow, John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy, 1999-2001, 2002-2003

  • Max Steele Award in Fiction Writing, University of North Carolina, 1997

  • Phi Beta Kappa, University of North Carolina, 1996

Education

  • Ph.D., Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

  • M.A., Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago

  • B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill