Amanda Arulanandam received her Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of Toronto, where she completed a dissertation on St. Augustine's examination of humility in political life. Prior to coming to Princeton, Arulanandam was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Notre Dame's Center for Philosophy of Religion.

While at Princeton, Arulanandam will continue to work on her monograph, The City of the Humble: On the Politics of the Lowly. Building on her doctoral work, this book will examine the status of the "lowly" in political life through the lens of several figures in the history of political thought.