The Summer Graduate Residency is a program designed to introduce graduate students to the thought of Dietrich von Hildebrand and other Christian personalists. It exists as an opportunity for graduate philosophy students to explore and engage the profound insights of Hildebrand as a personalist, an ethicist, and a realist phenomenologist.
During this summer graduate residency, participants will explore the major texts of Dietrich von Hildebrand, closely reading alongside our Senior Scholars, each of whom was a student of either Dietrich von Hildebrand or Karol Wojtyła. The residency culminates with the ability for graduate students to present their own work—dissertation chapters, conference papers, or graduate theses—and receive guidance from the Senior Scholars and other participants to hone the ideas, resulting in papers that will stand up to high-level academic scrutiny.
Senior Scholars

John F. Crosby

Rocco Buttiglione

Josef Seifert
Eligibility
This program is open to all advanced philosophy and theology students, currently studying at the MA level or higher. While an academic focus on Hildebrand is the key condition for eligibility to attend the residency, the Hildebrand Project invites work that brings his thought into conversation with:
- Philosophical traditions like analytic philosophy or phenomenology
- Specific contemporary issues in emotion theory, virtue ethics, aesthetics, etc.
- The intersection of faith and reason and the rehabilitation of reason in the sense of Wojtyla and Ratzinger
- The broader Catholic intellectual tradition, especially efforts to locate Hildebrand within this tradition
- Jewish, Protestant, and Orthodox philosophical and theological thought

Summer 2022 Residency








