Contact Information

  • Jeffrey C. Witt
  • Loyola University Maryland
  • Department of Philosophy
  • 4501 N. Charles St.
  • Baltimore, MD 21210
  • jcwitt@loyola.edu
  • http://jeffreycwitt.com

    Education

  • 2008-2012 Boston College
  • 2011 University of Helsinki, Visiting Post-Graduate Student
  • 2006-2008 Boston College
    • May 2008 MA Philosophy
    • Masters Comprehensive Exam, Passed with Distinction
  • 2002-2006 Wheaton College
    • May 2006 BA Philosophy, Summa Cum Laude with Departmental Honors
    • Honors Thesis: The Future of Religion and the Place of Metaphysics
    • Academic Minor: Ancient Languages
    • Academic Minor: English Literature

    Positions

  • 2024-Present Full Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland
  • 2021-2024 Chair of the Philosophy Department, Loyola University Maryland
  • 2018-2024 Associate Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland
  • 2012-2018 Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Maryland
  • 2007-2011 Teaching Fellow, Boston College
  • 2006-2007 Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. J.L.A. Garcia, Professor, Boston College, Philosophy
  • 2006-2007 Graduate Research Assistant, Dr. Marina McCoy, Assistant Professor, Boston College, Philosophy
  • 2005-2006 Teaching Assistant, Dr. Bruce Benson, Professor, Wheaton College, Philosophy
  • 2004-2005 Research Assistant, Dr. David Cook, Arthur Holmes Chair of Faith and Learning, Wheaton College, Philosophy

    Areas of Expertise

    • AOS

    • Fourteenth Century Scholasticism
    • History of Medieval Philosophy
    • Faith and Reason
    • Medieval Epistemology
    • Medieval Metaphysics
    • Digital Humanities

    • AOC

    • Aquinas
    • Aristotle
    • Ethics, History of Moral Philosophy
    • Philosophy of Religion
    • Renaissance/Early Modern Reception of Scholasticism

    Books

  • 2016 Robert Holcot co-written with John T. Slotemaker (Great Medieval Thinkers) (Oxford University Press, 2016)

    Edited Volumes

  • 2021 Politics and Society: The Patristic Legacy in the Middle Ages, eds. Jeffrey C. Witt and John T. Slotemaker (Studia Patristica CV, v. 2) (Peeters, 2021)
  • 2017 Augustine in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology, eds. Jeffrey C. Witt and John T. Slotemaker (Studia Patristica LXXXVII, v. 13) (Peeters, 2017)
  • 2015 A Companion to the Theology of John Mair, ed. Jeffrey C. Witt and John T. Slotemaker (Companion to the Christian Tradition) (Brill, 2015)

    Articles

  • 2026 "Flosculum ex prato: a source for Geremia da Montagnone’s Compendium moralium notabilium, or vice versa?" Manuscript Studies, Co-authored with Chris Nighman, Forthcoming
  • 2024 Finding Relatedness: pathways for detecting textual relatedness in the medieval scholastic corpus. Methodos. Savoirs et Textes: Digital Humanities in the Web 3.0 Era 24 (2024) https://doi.org/10.4000/12xql
  • 2023 "An introduction to God's omnipresence through the "four ways" of Francis of Meyronnes OFM (fl. 1320)", ed. by Richard Blum, Intellectual History Review, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496977.2023.2285261
  • 2023 Transparency and Discovery: Using a Text-Image Network to Study Manuscripts and Text Transmission", in Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities. On the Way to the Future of Digital Manuscript Studies (special issue), 2023. https://doi.org/10.46298/jdmdh.10225
  • 2021 "Pico della Mirandola's Defense of Origen and his Scholastic Sources" in Politics and Society: The Patristic Legacy in the Middle Ages, eds. Jeffrey C. Witt and John T. Slotemaker (Studia Patristica CV, v. 2) (Peeters, 2021)
  • 2021 "Re-Conceiving the Christian Scholastic Corpus with the Scholastic Commentaries and Texts Archive", co-authored with Michael Stenskjær Christensen and Ueli Zahnd, in Christianity and Digital Humanities, (De Gruyter, 2021).
  • 2021 "English Dominican Intellectual Tradition", co-authored with John T. Slotemaker, in A Companion to the English Dominican Province, eds. Eleanor J. Giraud and J. Cornelia Linde (Brill, forthcoming).
  • 2020 "Peter Plaoul and Intuitive Knowledge", In Philosophical Psychology in Late-Medieval Commentaries on Peter Lombard’s Sentences, edited by Monica Brînzei and Christopher D. Schabel, 21:81–102. Rencontres de Philosophie Médiévale. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.RPM-EB.5.119850
  • 2019 "Decoupling Quality Control and Publication: The Digital Latin Library and the Traveling Imprimatur," Co-authored with Sam Huskey, Digital Humanities Quarterly, 13:4 (2019).
  • 2018 "Digital Scholarly Editions and API Consuming Applications", in Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces, Schriften des Instituts für Dokumentologie und Editorik, Band 12 (BoD, Norderstedt, 2018), pp. 219-247.
  • 2018 "Finding Authority in a Time of Confusion: Early Deliberations on the Western Schism at the University of Paris" in Legitimation of Political Power in Medieval Thought, eds. C. López Alcaide, J. Puig Montada, P. Roche Arnas, (Brepols 2018), 423-441.
  • 2017 "Tradition, Authority, and the Grounds for Belief in Late Fourteenth Century Theology" in Augustine in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology, eds. Jeffrey C. Witt and John T. Slotemaker in Studia Patristica LXXXVII, v. 13, (Peeters 2017), 147-160.
  • 2017 "Creating Jewish Otherness: The Jew as an Archetype in Fourteenth-Century Philosophical and Theological Reasoning" Jews in Medieval England: Teaching Representations of the 'Other.' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017)
  • 2016 "The Sentences Commentary Text Archive: Laying the Foundation for the Analysis, Use, and Reuse of a Tradition," Digital Humanities Quarterly 10:1 (2016)
  • 2015 "Table of Questions [of John Mair's Sentences Commentary]," co-edited with John Slotemaker and Ueli Zahnd in A Companion to the Theology of John Mair, ed. Jeffrey C. Witt and John T. Slotemaker, (Brill, 2015), pp. 290-376
  • 2015 "Acquired Faith and Mair's Theological Project," in A Companion to the Theology of John Mair, ed. Jeffrey C. Witt and John T. Slotemaker, (Brill, 2015), pp. 41-73
  • 2015 "John Mair and His Sentences Commentary," co-authored with Severin Kitinov and John Slotemaker, in Mediaeval Commentaries on the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard, v. 3, ed. Philipp W. Rosemann (Brill, 2015) 369-415
  • 2015 "Texts, Media, and Re-Mediation: the Digital Future of the Sentences Commentary Tradition" in Mediaeval Commentaries on the "Sentences" of Peter Lombard, v. 3, ed. Philipp W. Rosemann, (Brill, 2015), 504-515
  • 2014 "Peter Plaoul's Lecture Commentary on the Sentences: A Canonical Ordered List of Lectures," in Manuscripta, 58:2 (2014): 159-270
  • 2013 "Interpreting Augustine: On the Nature of 'Theological Knowledge' in the Fourteenth Century," in Studia Patristica, 69:17 (2013): 359-372
  • 2012 "Adam de Wodeham," co-authored with John T. Slotemaker, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2012/entries/wodeham/>.
  • 2011 "The Adam de Wodeham Workshop", co-authored with John T. Slotemaker, Société Internationale pour L'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, 53 (2011), 470-477
  • 2011 "Divine Power," Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy between 500 and 1600, (ed.) Henrik Lagerlund, (Springer, 2011), 269-271
  • 2011 "William of Alnwick," Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy between 500 and 1600, (ed.) Henrik Lagerlund, (Springer, 2011), 1399-1402
  • 2011 "William of Ware," Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy between 500 and 1600, (ed.) Henrik Lagerlund, (Springer, 2011), 1418-1420
  • 2011 "Essence and Existence," Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy: Philosophy between 500 and 1600, (ed.) Henrik Lagerlund, (Springer, 2011), 304-310

    Other Contributions to the Field

  • 2018 Organized the Second SCTA Workshop and Public Showcase, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, June 25-29, 2018
  • 2016 Organized Workshop on "Linked Data and the Medieval Scholastic Tradition," University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, August 17-19, 2016
  • 2016 Organized LombardPress-Schema Editors Meeting, Barcelona, July 12-14, 2016
  • 2015 Organized Workshop on "Augustine in the late Middle Ages" at the 2015 Oxford Patristics Conference, Oxford, England, August 2015
  • 2014 Attended "Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute," at Northeastern University, Boston, MA, April 30 to May 2, 2014
  • 2012 Attended "Introduction to XSLT for Digital Humanists" at Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 4-8th, 2012
  • 2012 Participated in Interedition 9th Bootcamp hosted by the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, January 11-14, 2012
  • 2011 Participated in The Humanities and Technology Camp" (THATCamp), San Francisco, CA, October 22-23, 2011
  • 2011 Organized an International Conference on Adam Wodeham (with Olli Hallamaa and John T. Slotemaker), the "Adam Wodeham Workshop", Helsinki, Finland
  • 2010 Organized Conference Panel (with John T. Slotemaker) "John Mair: An early 16th-Century Commentator on Peter Lombard's Sentences," Sixteenth Century Society Conference, Montreal, Canada
  • 2007 to 2010 Index Thomisticum Review Team: Contributed to the creation of an index and annotated bibliography of all the articles relevant to Thomas Aquinas and Thomism produced in the given year. The project website can be viewed here: http://www.thomistica.info/index.html

    Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

  • 2021-2023 Collaborator on the "The Digital Auctores Project," (PI Chris Nighman, Wilfrid Laurier University) Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Award $$225,505 CAD)
  • 2021 Faculty Award for Excellence in Transformative Teaching, Loyola University Maryland
  • 2018 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship, Fellowship to work at the Digital Humanities Lab at Leipzig University.
  • 2017 Summa Halensis Digital Edition Preparation Grant, King's College London
  • 2016 Summer Research Grant, Loyola University Maryland
  • 2016 Faculty Technology Grant, Loyola University Maryland
  • 2016 Digital Latin Library Pilot Edition Grant
  • 2016 IIIF Implementation Grant: Webmentions
  • 2016 Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 2016
  • 2015 Vatican Film Library Mellow Fellowship, Research Fellow at the Knights of Columbus Vatican Film Library, St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, January 11th-23rd, 2015
  • 2013 SIEMP Travel Stipend to attend 2013 SIEPM Colloquium, Universidad de Alcalâ, Alcalá, Spain
  • 2013 Summer Research Grant, Loyola University Maryland.
  • 2013 Acceptance (and travel stipend) to participate in TEI Workshop: "Taking TEI Further: Customizing the TEI", Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, May 8-10.
  • 2012 Tuition scholarship to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada, June 4-8th, 2012
  • 2012 Bursary provided by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology (COST) Action IS0704 to Interedition 9th Bootcamp in Leuven, Belgium, January 11-14, 2012
  • 2011-2012 Doctoral Fellowship, Boston College
  • 2011 CIMO Fellowship, June 1-August 31, 2011 [Outside fellowship to fund Medieval Research at the University of Helsinki for three months, under the direction of Simo Knuuttila]
  • 2011 Ernest Fortin Summer Research Grant
  • 2010 Junior Scholars Grant, Boston College Center for Jewish-Christian Learning
  • 2010 Bradley Summer Award, Institute for the Study of Politics and Religion
  • 2010 Ernest Fortin Summer Research Grant
  • 2010 Participant in National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute in Oxford, UK, July 6-August 11, 2010; Institute title: 'Representations of the 'Other': Jews in Medieval Christendom; [Outside fellowship, full stipend]
  • 2010 Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award
  • 2009 Bradley Summer Award, Institute for the Study of Politics and Religion
  • 2009 Ernest Fortin Summer Research Grant
  • 2008 Bradley Summer Award, Institute for the Study of Politics and Religion
  • 2006-2011 Boston College Graduate Assistantship/Teaching Fellowship, tuition scholarship and full stipend
  • 2006 Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society Scholarship
  • 2006 James G. Jameson Critical Essay Contest, Humanities and Theological Studies, 1st Prize, Can Metaphysics Have a Place in Religion?
  • 2006 Wheaton College Scholastic Honor Society Inductee
  • 2006 Wheaton College Philosophy Department Honors

    Societies and Special Interest Groups (Past and Present)

  • IIIF Coordinating Committee
  • Textual Encoding Initiative (TEI)
  • IIIF Manuscript Interest Group
  • Digital Latin Library Advisory Board
  • Renaissance Society of America
  • American Philosophical Association
  • Society for Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy