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Professor of Religion and former Chair of the Humanities Council | Princeton University
Eric Gregory is Professor of Religion and former Chair of the Humanities Council at Princeton University. His research and teaching focus on religious and philosophical ethics, theology, political theory, law and religion, and the role of religion in public life. He is the author of Politics & the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship (University of Chicago Press, 2008), and recent articles on myth and politics, the philosophy of history, secularity, and moral supererogation. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Religious Ethics and sits with the executive committee of the Princeton University Center for Human Values. In 2007, he was awarded Princeton’s President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching. A graduate of Harvard College, he earned an M.Phil. and Diploma in Theology from the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and his doctorate in Religious Studies from Yale University. In 2025-2026, he is Old Dominion Research Professor in the Humanities at Princeton and Senior Fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry. Among his current projects is a book tentatively titled, The In-Gathering of Strangers: Global Justice and Political Theology, which examines secular and religious perspectives on global justice.
