Thomas Thorp

Thomas Thorp studied philosophy at Stony Brook (Ph.D 1993) with stints at universities in France and Germany. He is currently a Professor of Philosophy at Saint Xavier University in Chicago. Thorp teaches and writes in two areas: wilderness philosophy with a special interest in the Wolf, and archaic Greek political history with a special interest in Homer, and Solon. He is co-author (with Brian Seitz) of "The Iroquois and the Athenians: A Political Ontology" (Lexington), and has just completed editing a collection of his previously published essays on ancient Greek poetry called "First Words." His current project is a book on the representation of wolves and their role in defining human culture in the Yellowstone area: "Eating Wolves." He is the founder and director of "The Yellowstone Project" a program that brings undergraduates to the Yellowstone area to engage in philosophical fieldwork. When he is not in Yellowstone, he lives in Oak Park, IL, with his wife and partner Ginger Costello and their son Owen.