Jennifer Frey has Sacred & Profane Love for the Symposium Stage

Jennifer Frey, Ph.D. will be a keynote speaker at The National Symposium for Classical Education this year. The Symposium, made possible by the Great Hearts Institute, the leading conference of scholars and K-12 educators dedicated to enriching our understanding of classical education and building a world-class network of professionals from within the classical movement.

“My academic research is primarily in moral psychology and virtue,” said Frey. “I’ve co-edited a volume titled Self-Transcendence and Virtue with my former colleague Candace Vogler, and I am finishing up a volume titled Practical Truth with my husband and colleague, Christopher Frey. A third volume, titled Practical Wisdom, is under contract with Oxford University Press. In 2015, I was awarded a multi-million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, titled ‘Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life.’”

Hear from Jennifer Frey and other impactful speakers at the 2024 Symposium held on March 20-22 at the Phoenix Convention Center. Registration is NOW LIVE!

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This year’s Symposium will focus on renewing the Great Conversation concerning great works and perennial ideas. This year we will underscore the importance of teaching and modeling the conversations that lead to insight–among colleagues, between teachers and students, with families, and across our communities. At a time when our society most needs genuine dialogue, classical schools provide a sanctuary of genuine civility. Join us to discover how classical education embodies the good conversations, providing both the means and the model for a more civil society.

Frey frequently writes more popular essays and book reviews in places like Breaking Ground, First Things, Image, The Point, and The Wall Street Journal. Frey also hosts a philosophy, theology, and literature podcast called Sacred and Profane Love.”

She will soon be the inaugural dean of the Honors College at the University of Tulsa, which will enroll its first students for the fall 2024.“A national leader in liberal arts education, Jennifer is deeply committed to philosophy, literature, history, art, and religion and will continue our renaissance to achieve the type of education that is essential to human flourishing,” said University of Tulsa President Brad R. Carson.

Frey lives with her husband and six children in Columbia, South Carolina, where she is currently an Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. She is also a Peter and Bonnie McCausland faculty fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences, a faculty fellow at the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America, and a Newbigin Interfaith Fellow with The Carver Project. Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of the Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was also a member of the Society for the Liberal Arts. Frey earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studied under John McDowell and Michael Thompson, and her  B.A. in Philosophy and Medieval Studies with a Classics minor at Indiana University-Bloomington.

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