Dr. Eric Gregory

Biography

Eric Gregory joined the faculty in 2001 and was promoted to Professor in 2009. He is the author of "Politics, Order, Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship" published by the University of Chicago Press in 2008. Gregory has contributed articles to various edited volumes and journals, including the Journal of Religious Ethics, Modern Theology, Studies in Christian Ethics, and Augustinian Studies. His research interests encompass religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life. In 2007, he received Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. He completed his undergraduate education at Harvard College and earned an M.Phil. in Theology from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, followed by a doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University. Gregory has held fellowships at the Erasmus Institute, University of Notre Dame, the Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Tikvah Center for Law & Jewish Civilization at New York University School of Law. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled "In-Gathering Strangers: Global Justice and Political Theology," which examines secular and religious perspectives on global justice. He serves as the Chair of the Humanities Council at Princeton and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Religious Ethics, as well as the executive committee of the University Center for Human Values.

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