John Agresto

John Agresto is an author, lecturer, and university administrator.

Agresto holds a Ph.D. in political science from Cornell University. He has published in the areas of politics, law, and education, and has taught at the University of Toronto, Kenyon College, Duke University and the New School University. In the 1980s he served as associate director of the National Humanities Center in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park, reporting to director William J. Bennett. He went with Bennett to the National Endowment for the Humanities, where he served as deputy chairman under Bennett and Lynne Cheney.