Associate Provost
University of Tulsa
Denise Dutton is an assistant provost and applied assistant professor of political science at the University of Tulsa. As director of the honors program, Dutton guides students as they join the centuries-old conversation about what makes for the well-lived life. She teaches a range of honors seminars, exploring ideas from the ancient Greeks and their invention of history, tragedy and philosophy to the Renaissance and its project of self-fashioning and the Enlightenment out of which the rights-bearing individual emerges. In these traditions, she finds powerful articulations of the project of self-government as both a moral obligation and a creative endeavor. Dutton also serves as the founding director of the Henneke Center for Academic Fulfillment.
Dutton earned her doctorate in politics at Princeton University. She served as assistant professor of political science at Missouri State University for several years, before returning to her alma mater. She and her husband stay busy chasing after twin toddlers and the family Boxer.