Thomas W. Holman, Ph.D. is Interim Director of Intelligence Studies and Adjunct Professor of Politics at The Catholic University of America. Starting in Fall 2025 he will begin his appointment as John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Fellow at the James Madison Program, Princeton University. His research focuses on the ontology of the human person and its meaning for politics, especially in the context of twentieth century Continental thought and the American political tradition. He also has interests in the relation between politics and ethics, particularly as it pertains to totalitarianism and dissident politics. His dissertation focused on Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin’s 1953 debate over totalitarianism and the human person. He is co-editor, with Richard Avramenko, of Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh (Lexington Books, 2025). Dr. Holman’s work has appeared in The Political Science Reviewer, Perspectives on Political Science, The Review of Metaphysics, as well as Public Discourse, Law & Liberty, and Humanum Review.
