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About the Director

Thomas M. Landy

Thomas M. Landy
Thomas M. Landy, a sociologist with a specialization in the sociology of religion and Catholicism, was appointed director of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross in March 2009. He served as the Center’s associate director since its inception in 2000 and was named interim director in 2008. Landy is also a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Holy Cross and sits on numerous committees.

Landy was director of the College’s Lilly Vocation Discernment Initiative from 2003-08 and continues to serve on its steering committee. This Initiative sponsors a number of programs including convocations, summer internships, parish ministry internships and lectures to encourage students to reflect on faith and commitment as they consider their career paths.  He is founder and director of the Collegium, a faculty fellows program initially funded by the Lilly Endowment and sponsored by The Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities.  A consortium of 63 Catholic colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada, Collegium sponsors faculty development programs on issues of faith and intellectual life.

Editor and contributor for the book As Leaven for the World: Catholic Reflections on Faith, Vocation, and the Intellectual Life (Franklin, WI: Sheed and Ward, 2001), Landy has written articles and book reviews for Commonweal, Conversations in Jesuit Higher Education, Theological Studies and Journal of the Social Scientific Study of Religion. He has spoken on Catholic intellectual traditions on campuses and at conferences nationwide.  He has taught at Harvard University, Boston University, Fairfield University, Loyola University Chicago, and Saint John’s University.

He is the 2009 recipient of the John Henry Newman Medal, which honors exemplars of Jesuit Catholic education, from Loyola College in Maryland.  

Landy holds a Ph.D. in sociology from Boston University, an M.Div. from Weston School of Theology, an M.A. in international relations from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in history from Fairfield University.