Shasta Kaul

Graduate Fellow, 2022-24

Shasta Kaul is a third year Political Science PhD student at the University of Notre Dame. She holds an MA in Social Sciences from the University of Chicago and a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) from the University of Oxford.

Through the works of Machiavelli and Kautilya, in her dissertation Shasta plans to explore how political realism can challenge and reframe existing approaches to value pluralism in modern democratic societies. She is also interested in how states, as the loci of power, have understood their own practical and normative functions over time.