Timothy Brennan is a graduate of the University of Melbourne and holds a Ph.D. in political science from Boston College. His main areas of research are modern political philosophy and American political thought, and his current research is focused especially on the political thought of Benjamin Franklin. He has published articles in Political Theory, History of Political Thought, Interpretation, the Review of Politics, History of European Ideas, The European Legacy, and the Journal of Politics. Before coming to the University of Tennessee, he taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Texas at Austin. He is originally from Sydney, Australia.