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Layton Field, PhD, serves at the Vice President of Mission & Ministry, overseeing the Division of Mission & Ministry that includes the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes, the Center for Campus Ministry, the University Chaplain, and the Center for Service at Mount St. Mary’s University. Dr. Field has been a member of the Mount family for over a decade with various roles and responsibilities. Dr. Field is deeply committed to living out the Catholic faith alongside his wife and six children. He is the product of many years of Catholic education and formation and is an ardent advocate for the transformative power of Catholic education. Dr. Field is particularly passionate about the story of Mount St. Mary’s University as the oldest independent Catholic university in the country founded in 1808 and eager to serve all branches of the university including the College, Seminary, and National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes.
Dr. Field has been an active member of the Catholic Identity Committee at the Mount since 2019 and chair of the committee since 2023. Dr. Field was recognized for his service to the Mount community in 2022 as the recipient of the Class of 1950 Memorial Award, the Mount’s highest recognition for service, for his research on student food insecurity and the establishment of Mount Table, a free campus-wide food resource serving students in need. In 2018, Dr. Field developed the Mount Community Advancement Resources in Training, Assessment, and Service (Mount CARiTAS) program and served as director of the program until 2023 assisting multiple area community partners by providing research and analysis to support their work. Blending scholarship and service guided by the principles of Catholic Social Teaching has been a hallmark of Dr. Field’s career at the Mount.
As a faculty member, Dr. Field joined Mount St. Mary’s in 2014 in the Department of Sociology, Criminal Justice, and Human Services having completed his PhD in Sociology at Texas A&M University. He earned tenure in 2020 and has taught courses across the university ranging from introductory courses in Sociology and the Core to upper-level courses in research methods, statistics, population and society, and has even co-taught a course titled Statistics and the New Evangelization with Dr. John Love at the Seminary. Dr. Field has successfully received multiple grants and authored several publications over the years including a textbook published in 2024 by Cambridge University Press titled Applied Regression Models in the Social Sciences with coauthors Dudley J. Poston, PhD, and Eugenia Conde, PhD.
Ph.D., Texas A&M University (2014)
Demography, Fertility, Research Methods, Statistics, Applied Demography.