Faculty Profiles

Vaughn Bryan Baltzly is an associate professor of philosophy at Texas State University. He earned graduate degrees at the University of Maryland in both public policy (focusing on international development policy under the tutelage of Carol Graham) and political philosophy (writing a dissertation supervised by William Galston and Christopher Morris). After completing graduate studies, and before coming to Texas State in 2016, Vaughn spent more than six years employed by the U.S. federal government. His civil service was split evenly between the executive branch (where he was a Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of Veterans Affairs) and the legislative branch (where he was a senior analyst in housing policy at the Government Accountability Office).