Austin Walker is Associate Director and Scholar-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute, an independent institute for Catholic thought at the University of Chicago. He oversees the presentation of the Church’s intellectual tradition on the University of Chicago campus and the wider Chicagoland area. He also leads LCI’s Executive Great Books seminar series and serves as an instructor at the University of Chicago’s Graham School Basic Program of Liberal Education. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought, where he wrote on John Henry Newman’s political philosophy. He and his wife have three young children and live on Chicago's South Side. They are parishioners at St. Thomas the Apostle in Hyde Park.
