Thomas Ward

Thomas M. Ward is Associate Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas at Austin, in the School of Civic Leadership. He specializes in the history of philosophy and theology of the Middle Ages. He has translated, with commentary, John Duns Scotus’s Treatise on the First Principle (Hackett, 2024), and is the author of several books including most recently a monograph about Severinus Boethius, After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher (Word on Fire Academic, 2024), which won the Catholic Media Association Book Award for History (First Place). He has been a NEH Fellow and Harvey Fellow, and is a past winner of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Founder’s Award and the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Rising Scholar Essay Contest. He studied philosophy at Biola University (B.A.) and theology at Oxford University (M.Phil.). His PhD in philosophy is from The University of California, Los Angeles. Prior to joining the School of Civic Leadership at UT Austin, Ward was Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and Associate Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University, and was a visiting assistant professor at Azusa Pacific University and The University of California, Los Angeles.

EDUCATION
BA in Philosophy from Biola University
MPhil in Theology from University of Oxford
Ph.D. in Philosophy from University of California, Los Angeles