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F. Russell Hittinger is Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of Tulsa. His research focuses on the intersection of philosophy, religion, and law. Hittinger is on the governing council of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas. He has published more than 100 articles and reviews in addition to several books, among them Thomas Aquinas and the Rule of Law and The First Grace: Rediscovering the Natural Law in a Post-Christian World.

Since 1996, Hittinger is the incumbent of the William K. 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 2002-2005 he was the Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion.

A former Christendom College professor (1986-87), Hittinger 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 2001, he is a member of the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, founded by Pope Leo XIII. On Sept. 8, 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Hittinger as an ordinarius in the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. He is one of two lay academics in the world to serve on these two Pontifical academies.

His books and articles have appeared in the University of Notre Dame Press, Oxford University Press, Columbia University Press, Fordham University Press, the Review of Metaphysics, the Review of Politics, and several law journals.

Yale University Press will publish his current book, Paper Wars: The Papacy and the Modern State, next year. He is under contract with Emory to finish a book entitled Aquinas’s Questions on Law: A Primer.

September 2013.