Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard is Professor of Humanities and History in Christ College, the honors of college of Valparaiso University, where he holds the Phyllis
and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics. He also serve as a Senior Fellow for the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts. He is the author of many books, including The Faiths of Others: Modern History and the Rise of Interreligious Dialogue (Yale University Press, forthcoming) and an edited volume, The Idea of Tradition in the Late Modern World (Cascade, forthcoming).