ph.D.
European History
University of Virginia
About
Professor Thomas Albert Howard holds the Richard and Phyllis Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics at Valparaiso University and serves as a Senior Fellow of the Lilly Network of Church-Related Colleges and Universities. A recent Fulbright Scholar, he is the author or editor of numerous books, including Broken Altars: Secularist Violence in Modern History (Yale University Press, 2025); The Faiths of Others: A History of Interreligious Dialogue (Yale University Press, 2021); The Pope and the Professor: Pius IX, Ignaz von Döllinger, and the Quandary of the Modern Age (Oxford University Press, 2017); and Remembering the Reformation: An Inquiry into the Meanings of Protestantism (Oxford University Press, 2016). His forthcoming book, Modern Christian Theology: An Intellectual History (Princeton University Press, 2027), offers a sweeping account of Christian thought from the Enlightenment to the present. He is also working on a new book, The Missionary Paradox: Christianity and the Undoing of Empire. Howard’s scholarship has appeared in leading academic journals, including The Journal of the History of Ideas and The Journal of the American Academy of Religion, as well as in broader publications such as The Hedgehog Review, The Wall Street Journal, Commonweal, Touchstone, Inside Higher Ed, The National Interest, The Christian Century, and First Things. His work has been translated into German, Italian, Russian, Spanish, and Portuguese.
