Biography
Jacob Howland served as Provost and Dean of the Intellectual Foundations Program at the University of Austin from 2022 to 2025, and before that, as McFarlin Professor of Philosophy at the University of Tulsa. The author of five books on Plato, Kierkegaard, and the Talmud, he will be a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Civic Leadership at the University of Texas in AY 2026-27.
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