Dr. David P. Deavel (Ph.D., Fordham) is an associate professor and chairman of the Department of Theology at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. He teaches courses in modern theology, moral theology, and Christology for the M.A. program at St. Mary’s Seminary, as well as in the literary nonfiction track for UST’s MFA program. His work, focusing on figures including St. John Henry Newman, G. K. Chesterton, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, has been at the intersection of theology, philosophy, politics, and literature.

A senior contributor at The Imaginative Conservative, an Associate Editor at VoegelinView, a Contributing Editor for Gilbert, and an editorial board member for Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture (for which he was editor-in-chief for six years), he currently serves on the board of directors for the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and University Faculty for Life, and the board of advisers for CUA Press’s Catholic Women Writers series.

He has served as a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute and was the 2013 winner of the Acton Institute’s Novak Award. He was the co-editor of Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West, and his articles have appeared in Chesterton Review, Chicago Studies, New Blackfriars, Nova et Vetera, and other journals and books. In addition to his academic work, his public and popular writing on religion, culture, and politics has appeared in many outlets including Catholic World Report, Claremont Review of Books, First Things, Minneapolis Star Tribune, New Criterion, and The Wall Street Journal.