Professor Russell Hittinger

Since 1996, Prof. Hittinger has been the incumbent of the Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa, where he is also a Research Professor in the School of Law. He specializes in issues of philosophy, theology and law. From 2002-05 he was Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.

He has taught at Fordham University and at the Catholic University of America, and has taught as a Visiting Professor at Princeton University, New York University, Charles University in Prague, and at the Pontifical Università Regina Apostolorum in Rome. Since 1993, he has been on the summer faculty of the Tertio Millenno program in Krakow, Poland.

Since 2001, he is a member of the Pontificia Academia Sancti Thomae Aquinatis (Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas), to which he was elected a full member (ordinarius) in 2004, and elected to the consilium or governing board in 2006.

His books and articles have appeared on the University of Notre Dame Press, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Fordham Unviersity Press, the Review of Metaphysics, the Review of Politics, several law journals (American and European). In 2000, he was a Senior Research Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, where he began research on a book The Popes and the Desacralized Caesar: Roman Theories of the Modern State 1800-1989, to be published in a new series of monographs prepared by the Law and Religion program at Emory Law School. His most recent book The First Grace: Re-Discovering Natural Law in a Post-Christian Age was published in Jan. 2003. His essays on papal social doctrine appeared last year in a two-volume work Law and Human Nature: Teachings of Modern Christianity (Columbia University Press, fall 2005).

He serves on several boards and boards of advisors, including First Things, the American Journal of Jurisprudence, Nova et Vetera, the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, and the European board of Ius et Lex.

In 2003, to mark the centenary of the death of Pope Leo XIII, Professor Hittinger gave a lecture to Ministry of Culture of the Italian Government. Last November he gave "Secularity and the Anthropological Problem," as the Inaugural Claude Ryan Lecture in Catholic Social Thought, McGill University in Montreal. In December 2006, he addressed the President, Prime Minister, and Speakers of the Polish Parliament in the Royal Castle in Warsaw. His keynote address culminated a week-long celebration of human rights and the Polish constitution.

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