Jon directs the Arts and Humanities Collaborative at Albertus Magnus College, a Catholic liberal arts college in New Haven, CT. He also teaches in the Department of Philosophy and Religion and serves as a Co-Director of the College’s Honors Program. In the summers, he teaches in the Summer@Brown Pre-College Program at Brown University. He is a member of the Advisory Board for Zeal: A Journal for the Liberal Arts. His research focuses on the philosophy of personalism and the Catholic intellectual tradition.
Currently Jon is working to build the Collaborative and develop content for its podcast, Studium. You can find the audio version on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, or Spotify. A video version is available on the Collaborative’s YouTube channel. On YouTube he also maintains a channel for his work at Albertus and his main channel, Labyrinths, which features content on philosophy, religion, culture, and ideas.
Videos
Beyond the Catholic “Left” and “Right”
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Beyond the Catholic “Left” and “Right”
We need to move beyond the tired distinction between “liberal” and “conservative” Catholicism. Here I try to do so by tracing both back to a common root: personalism. Both are understandable, I hold, as different kinds or varieties of personalism, and the question of how to overcome this division is to this extent a philosophical problem, not a political one. I consider how this framing relates to Church teachings on contraception, same-sex relationships, and transgender identity. Includes discussion of Descartes, Kant, Scheler, Buber, Mounier, the Catholic Worker Movement, and three popes: John Paul, Benedict, and Francis.
Introducing the Catholic intellectual tradition
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Readings in modern Christianity
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Readings from the Reformation
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A twitch is not a wink! Geertz’s interpretive account of religion
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The grueling, magnificent joy of research
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Write for your audience, work with your team
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Go to the object!
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Studium, Episode 3 — Humanities at the Barnum Museum
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