Dr. Anna Moreland

Dr. Anna Bonta Moreland is the Anne Quinn Welsh Endowed Chair and Director of the University Honors Program at Villanova University, as well as professor in the Department of Humanities. Her teaching focuses on faith and reason, medieval theology with an emphasis on Thomas Aquinas, theology of religious pluralism, and comparative theology. She earned her Ph.D. in Systematic Philosophy from Boston College.

A full professor in the Department of Humanities, Dr. Moreland’s academic expertise and research include medieval theology, interfaith dialogue, and comparative theology. She is the author of Known by Nature: Thomas Aquinas on Natural Knowledge of God, Muhammad Reconsidered: A Christian Perspective on Islamic Prophecy, and The Young Adult Playbook: Living Like it Matters. She is recipient of a “Hope in Higher Education” Templeton Foundation three-year grant, and a Lilly funded Educating Character Initiative “Augustinian Leadership and Character Education Beyond the First-Year Experience: Toward a Shared Understanding and Collaborative Practices at Villanova” one-year grant.