Jennifer Frey, Ph.D.
Dean, Honors College
jennifer-frey@utulsa.edu
Jennifer Frey, Ph.D., is the inaugural dean of the Honors College at The University of Tulsa and professor of philosophy in the Department of Philosophy & Religion. She is 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 Tulsa, she was an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina, and prior to that, a collegiate assistant professor of the humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society for the Liberal Arts. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and her B.A. in philosophy and medieval studies (with a classics minor) at Indiana University-Bloomington.
Frey’s academic research is primarily on topics of moral psychology and virtue. In 2015, she was awarded a multi-million dollar grant from the John Templeton Foundation, titled “Virtue, Happiness, and the Meaning of Life.” She frequently writes essays and book reviews for publications including First Things, Image, The Point, and the Wall Street Journal. She hosts a philosophy, theology, and literature podcast called “Sacred and Profane Love.”
