Joseph Clair

Joseph Clair, PhD
Executive Dean, Cultural Enterprise
Interim Director, School of Theology
Associate Professor, Theology and Culture
PhD,
MA, Fordham University
MA, Duke University
Prior to Princeton, Clair earned an MPhil at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. He also holds master’s degrees from Fordham and Duke University as well as a bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College. His research and teaching interests include Christian thought and ethics and the role of religion in public life. He is the author of Discerning the Good in the Letters and Sermons of Augustine (Oxford UP, 2016) and Reading Augustine: On Education, Formation, Citizenship, and the Lost Purpose of Learning (Bloomsbury, 2018).
Clair lives on a hobby farm outside of Newberg with his wife, Nora, and their four children.
Contact Dr. Clair: 503-554-2153 or
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