Thomas M. Ward is Chair of the Faculty and 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. Before joining the School of Civic Leadership, he was assistant professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University and associate professor of philosophy at Baylor University, and he also held visiting appointments at Azusa Pacific University and the University of California, Los Angeles.

Ward has been an NEH Fellow and Harvey Fellow, and his work has received the Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy Founder’s Award, the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly Rising Scholar Essay Contest award, and the Catholic Media Association Book Award for History.