John-Paul Heil

Bradley Hall
Room 432

John-Paul Heil received a PhD in history with distinction from the University of Chicago in 2022 with a dissertation entitled "Virtue and Vice in the Political World of Renaissance Naples." He graduated from the Mount in 2015. His writing has appeared in Time Magazine, Smithsonian, and Los Angeles Review of Books.

• MTS in Biotechnology and Ethics, Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (ongoing)
• Ph.D. in History, University of Chicago (2022)
• M.A. in History, University of Chicago (2016)
• B.A. in History, Philosophy, and Italian Studies, Mount St. Mary's University (2015)

• Fulbright Open Study Grant to Italy, 2021-22

• Catholic intellectual tradition
• Early modern Europe
• The Italian Renaissance
• Virtue politics
• The thought of Wendell Berry

Selected Articles

"Core Fellows: Addressing the Catholic Intellectual Tradition's Incompatibility with Adjunctification," Journal of Catholic Higher Education 40, no. 2 (2021), with Prof. Stephen McGinley.

“Assassinations, Crusades, and Alfonso V of Aragon as Crusader King in the Thought of Aeneas Silvius Piccolomini,” The Catholic Historical Review 107, no. 3 (2021).

Selected Essays

"The pandemic gave small farmers an upper hand for once. Now what?" The Week (2022).

"Little White Lies,” History Today (2022).

"The Work of a Catholic University in Local Culture." Dappled Things (2022).

"The Field is the World." Comment Magazine (2021).