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established to foster research in the humanities and the arts and in select topics in
natural sciences. In addition to encouraging research, IIAL seeks to publish, in book
and journal-article format, the research of its scholars and writers either through the
institute’s publishing arm, Alethes Press, or other appropriate venues. Your tax-
deductible donations are most welcome. Please make US checks payable to the
International Institute of Arts and Letters and mail them to:
International Institute of Arts and Letters
525-k East Market Street, #293
Leesburg, VA 20176
Board of Advisors:
Dr. Russell Hittinger graduated summa cum laude from
the University of Notre Dame in 1975. In 1986, he
received his doctorate in philosophy from St. Louis
University. Since 1996, he has held the William K.
Warren Chair of Catholic Studies at the University of
Tulsa, where he is also a research professor of law.
In addition, he is the chair of the Department of
Philosophy and Religion. Author of numerous articles,
Dr. Hittinger’s latest book is The First Grace:
Rediscovering Natural Law in a Post-Christian Age (ISI
Books).
Dr. Mark Sandona, chairman of the Department of
English, Hood College, holds an M.A., and Ph.D. in
comparative literature from Harvard University and
specializes in Medieval and Renaissance literature and
art. His The Usurer’s Heart: Giotto and Enrico
Scrovegni in Padua (with Anne Derbes) is forthcoming
from The Penn State University Press (winter 2008).
D.C. Schindler, holds an M.A., Ph.D. in philosophy
from The Catholic University of America and is
assistant professor of philosophy in the Department of
Humanities and Augustinian Traditions at Villanova
University. Dr. Schindler is also the associate editor
of Communio: International Catholic Review and edits
for Alethes Press its Logos Books series in
Continental philosophy and theology.
Dr. Kenneth L. Schmitz, received his Ph.D. in philosophy
under Etienne Gilson, one of the leading Thomist philosophers
of the twentieth century and its leading historian of medieval
thought and culture. Dr. Schmitz is himself one of the
discipline’s most accomplished teachers and writers
and is professor emeritus of philosophy and fellow of Trinity
College, University of Toronto, associate fellow of the
Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto,
and professor of philosophy, John Paul II Institute
and CUA, Washington.
Holger Zaborowski (D.Phil., Oxford), is an assistant
professor of philosophy at The Catholic University of
America and is the author of Nature and Freedom:
Robert Spaemann’s Critique of Modernity and the Gift
of the Human Person (Oxford University Press: Oxford
Theological Monographs Series, 2006).