Mark Shiffman is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University, with expertise in Philosophy, Political Theory and Classical Studies. Courses he teaches include “Classical Statesmanship,” “Race and Democratic Dignity,” and “Dostoyevsky’s Brothers Karamazov.” He earned his B.A. from St. John’s College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago.
He is the translator of Aristotle’s De Anima (Hackett, 2010) and author of numerous articles and book chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Augustine, Ockham, Hobbes, Locke, Simone Weil, Ralph Ellison, Wendell Berry and Rémi Brague. He lives with his family in the Mt. Airy neighborhood of Philadelphia.
