Dan Kapust (Photo by Isabelle Delfosse)
The L&S Honors staff is excited to welcome our new faculty director, Dr. Daniel Kapust, Judith Hicks Stiehm Chair in Political Theory. He assumes the role previously held by Dr. Jenny Saffran. While welcoming Dr. Kapust, the Honors staff would also like to thank Dr. Saffran for her three years of leadership in the Honors Program!
Dan Kapust has been a faculty member in the Department of Political Science since 2011; prior to that, he was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at the University of Georgia. As a faculty member at UW-Madison, Dan has both mentored Honors students conducting research and taught Honors courses. Dan is delighted to be taking on the role of Director of the L & S Honors Program and is excited to meet and work with Honors students.
We invite you to join us in welcoming Dan and encourage you to read more about Dan and his enthusiasm for joining the Honors Program in a recent article published by the College of Letters & Science.