FACULTY

Graduate Program Director

Emory H. Woodard, IV, Ph.D.
Dean, Graduate Studies in Liberal Arts & Sciences
Chair, Institutional Review Board
Associate Professor in Communication

Graduate Liberal Studies Steering Committee

Gordon Coonfield, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Valentina DeNardis, Ph.D.
Director of Classical Studies
Lisa M. Dolling, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor and Associate Dean, CLAS
Brooke Erdman
Associate Director, Student Services
Jennifer Jackson, Th.D.
Associate Teaching Professor, Systematic/Constructive Theology
Director of Graduate Programs, Master's and Certificate
(610) 519-6476
Eugene McCarraher, Ph.D.
Professor of Humanities and History
Evan Radcliffe, Ph.D.
Director, English Graduate Program; Associate Professor

Program Director
Dr. Emory Woodard

      

DEADLINES

Fall Assistantship: February 1

Fall: Rolling until August 1

Spring: Rolling until December 1

Summer: Rolling until May 1
 

Begin your application.

    

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT

Krista Cantrell ’22 MA

Liberal Studies Master’s Degree Helps Recent Grad Align Career and Life Goals with Personal Values

Krista Cantrell ’22 MA began her graduate studies in the summer of 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic and civil unrest. During this time of isolation and uncertainty, Villanova’s master’s program in Liberal Studies served as both an opportunity to connect with others and as a path to align her career with her personal values of equity and justice. Cantrell’s academic excellence led to her induction into the National Honor Society of the Association of Graduate Liberal Studies Programs, and, today, she works for a national nonprofit focused on changing the conversation about mental health. READ MORE