Jennifer Frey: Fundamental Questions in Liberal Education

Higher Ed Now

Steve McGuire, ACTA’s Paul & Karen Levy Fellow in Campus Freedom, hosts a conversation on modern liberal education with Jennifer Frey, who is set to begin a new appointment as inaugural dean of the honors college at the University of Tulsa in July 2023.

Dr. Frey is currently Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, where she is also a Peter and Bonnie McCausland faculty fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a faculty fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, and holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh. Her academic research is primarily in moral psychology and virtue, and she frequently writes popular essays and book reviews in places like First Things, The Hedgehog Review, Image, The Point,and The Wall Street Journal. She hosts a popular philosophy, theology, and literature podcast called Sacred and Profane Love.