Elly Long

I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at Princeton University, where I study political theory.

My research interests include the history of political thought (particularly the thought of Augustine), politics and religion, and American political thought. My work is published or forthcoming in History of Political Thought, American Political Thought, Journal of Religious Ethics, Political Science Reviewer, and Augustinian Studies. My dissertation, “Augustine and the Politics of Contingency,” studies the contributions Augustine’s theological vision affords our understanding of the unchosen aspects of our political lives.

Prior to Princeton, I completed a masters in Theology at the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in 2020. I completed my undergraduate studies at Princeton in 2018, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in Politics.