Great Books Program Faculty
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Gwen Adams Director, Great Books Program Gwen Adams teaches at Trinity School at River Ridge, Eagan, Minnesota. She has taught Ancient and Medieval History, Literature and Composition, Introductory Science, Old Testament, and Catholic Doctrine. She also currently interns at a local farm called the Dodge Nature Center, studying small sustainable agriculture practices consonant with Catholic Social Teaching. She has also served as Director of Youth Formation at St. Boniface Parish in Lafayette, Indiana, and run a household community for Catholic undergraduates at the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minnesota. She has published in St. Austin Review, and holds a B.A. in History from Christendom College and an M.A. in Catholic Studies from the University of St. Thomas. |
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Fred Fraser Fellow at Thomas More College Fred Fraser graduated from the Classical and Early Christian Studies Department at Christendom College in 2003. His BA thesis is a study in Roman religion focusing on how the Romans understood Augustan Rome to be a holy place and how religion, especially ritual, maintained Rome’s sanctity. Mr. Fraser subsequently attended the Braniff Graduate School of Liberal Arts at the University of Dallas, where he obtained a Master of Arts in 2006. His thesis is an investigation of Pindar’s concept of kairos in his epinikians, arguing that the concept of kairos as “right moment” is a hellenistic development, and that kairos in Pindar most often signifies “proper measure.” During his last year at Dallas, Mr. Fraser obtained a Texas teaching certificate for high school Latin and taught in Aledo High School for one year, and later as a Visiting Lecturer in Classics for two years at Christendom College. Mr. Fraser is currently working towards a PhD in the Greek and Latin Department at the Catholic University of America. |
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Walter J. Thompson Associate Professor of Humanities Dean of Students Walter J. Thompson studied politics and philosophy at Georgetown University and the University of Notre Dame. Before coming to Thomas More College, he was Associate Professor of Ethics and Political Philosophy at the International Theological Institute in Gaming, Austria, where he also served as Vice President (1996–2001) and Academic Dean (2001–2006). He has taught a wide range of courses in the humanities, philosophy and theology. His research interests include ethics, politics, natural philosophy and theology in the Thomistic-Aristotelian tradition. He is a past winner of the Matchette Prize for Young Scholars of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Professor Thompson, his wife Ruth, and their seven children live in Amherst, NH. |