Past speaker

Dr. Jerome Foss

Professor of Catholic Thought, Saint Vincent College

Jerome C. Foss is the Endowed Professor of Catholic Thought and Culture at Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, where he also serves as the Director of the Center for Catholic Thought and Culture, the Director of the Saint Vincent Core Curriculum, and the Director of the SVC Honors program. Dr. Foss also created and directs the Saint Vincent Summer Institute in Rome. He is the founding editor of Conversatio, a journal in Catholic, Benedictine, liberal arts tradition. Dr. Foss earned his doctorate in political science at Baylor University. He has published several books, articles, and essays. His most recent book is Flannery O’Connor and the Perils of Governing by Tenderness. Dr. Foss regularly gives presentations on his research in the areas of American Political Thought, Catholic Political Thought, and Literature and Politics. Dr. Foss lives in Latrobe with his wife Karen and their eight children.