Presenters

Thomas M. Landy

Thomas M. Landy is Associate Director of the Center for Religion, Ethics and Culture at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester , MA , where he teaches sociology. The Center, launched in 2001, seeks to strengthen the religious identity and mission of Holy Cross by sponsoring programs and events that reflect both Catholic and interfaith concerns.

He is the founder and director of Collegium, a colloquy on faith and intellectual life. Founded in 1993, Collegium organizes summer workshop-retreats on faith, vocation and intellectual life for faculty from its 64 member Catholic colleges and universities, and for graduate students from a broad array of institutions.

Tom earned a B.A. in History at Fairfield University , and M.A. in International Relations at the University of Chicago , an M.Div. from the Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Boston University , under the direction of Peter Berger and Alan Wolfe. While at Weston, Tom also served as Associate Project Director of the Leadership Education Project at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

A sociologist of religion, he has written several articles on the colleges founded by Catholic nuns, and conducted research on Catholics’ attitudes towards sacrifice. He edited a volume, As Leaven for the World: Catholic Reflections on Faith, Vocation, and the Intellectual Life ( Franklin , WI Sheed and Ward, 2001).