Thomas Ward
Associate Professor
Thomas M. Ward is an associate professor of philosophy in the School of Civic Leadership and the Department of Philosophy (by courtesy). His research focuses on the history of philosophy, especially in the Middle Ages. He is the author or translator of several books including, most recently, After Stoicism: Last Words of the Last Roman Philosopher, and a translation, with commentary, of John Duns Scotus’s Treatise on the First Principle. He has been a N.E.H. Fellow (2022) and Harvey Fellow (2009-2011) and is a past winner of the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Founder’s Award (2013) and the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Rising Scholar Essay Contest (2018). Before taking up his post at UT Austin, Ward was an associate professor of philosophy at Baylor University and assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University. He studied philosophy at Biola University, theology at Oxford University, and received his Ph.D. in philosophy at UCLA.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. from UCLA
M.Phil. from Oxford University
B.A. from Biola University
