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Jonathan Gust
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Kiera Daly
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Emily Walsh
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Faculty Experts - Thomas W. Smith, Ph.D.

Thomas W. Smith, Ph.D.
Director, Honors Program;
Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences;
Associate Professor, Humanities;
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science;
Villanova University College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Area of Expertise:

Classical Political Theory
Politics and Religion
Liberalism
Literature and Politics

Summary

Dr. Smith's expertise bridges the disciplines of political science and humanities with special emphases on how religion, literature and philosophy inform governmental policy. Well versed in classical political theory, Smith is a good interview source for subjects ranging from ethics and political ambition to public policy and liberalism. He has appeared in a PBS documentary on religion and public life.

Education

Ph.D., University of Notre Dame
M.A., Catholic University
B.A., Georgetown University

Selected Publications

Smith, Thomas W., Revaluing Ethics: Aristotle's Dialectical Pedagogy, State University of New York Press, 2001.
Smith, Thomas W., "The Primacy of Virtue Over Wealth" in Gregory Butler (ed.), Political Economy in Philosophic Perspective, University Press of America, 2008.
Smith, Thomas W., "Catholic Social Thought and Liberal Democracy," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 11:1 Winter 2008, 15-48.
Smith, Thomas W., "Tyson's Tragic Sensibility," Journal for Peace and Justice Studies 16:1 2007, 61-70.
Smith, Thomas W., "Tolkien's Catholic Imagination: Mediation and Tradition," Religion and Literature 38:2 (2006), 73-99.

Selected Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Villanova University

Selected Research

Villanova Institute for Teaching and Learning, Summer Fellowship
Grant Recipient, John Templeton Foundation, "Visions of Freedom" Project
Earhart Fellowship for intensive study of Classical Greek

About Villanova
Since 1842, Villanova University’s Augustinian Catholic intellectual tradition has been the cornerstone of an academic community in which students learn to think critically, act compassionately and succeed while serving others. There are more than 10,000 undergraduate, graduate and law students in the University's five colleges – the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Villanova School of Business, the College of Engineering, the College of Nursing and the Villanova University School of Law. As students grow intellectually, Villanova prepares them to become ethical leaders who create positive change everywhere life takes them.

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