Austin Walker is the Associate Director and a Scholar-in-Residence at the Lumen Christi Institute. He oversees the Institute’s presentation of the Catholic intellectual tradition on the University of Chicago campus. He also leads Great Books seminars for LCI and the University of Chicago’s Graham School. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago’s Committee on Social Thought in 2022, where he wrote on the political philosophy of John Henry Newman. He holds a B.A. in Greek and Latin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.A. from the University of Mississippi.
