Robert Royal is no longer with the Ethics & Public Policy Center. This information should not be considered current. Robert Royal left the Center in 1999 to found the Faith and Reason Institute.
Robert Royal is vice president and Olin Fellow in Religion and Society at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, in Washington, D.C., which published his book 1492 And All That: Political Manipulations of History (1992).
He has taught at Brown University, Rhode Island College, and The Catholic University of America. He received fellowships to study in Italy from the Renaissance Society of American (1977) and as a Fulbright scholar (1978). From 1980 to 1982, he served as editor-in-chief of Prospect magazine in Princeton, New Jersey.
Among the other books he has published are: Jacques Maritain and the Jews (University of Notre Dame Press), Building a Free Society (with George Weigel), Crisis and Opportunity: U.S. Policy in Central America and the Caribbean (with Mark Falcoff), and, with Virgil Nemoianu, The Hospitable Canon and Play, Literature, Religion: Essays in Cultural Intertextuality.
His articles have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and other publications, including First Things, Crisis, Communio, the Wilson Quarterly, the Catholic Historical Review, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, National Review, and The American Spectator. He writes and lectures frequently on questions of ethics, culture, religion, and politics, and has appeared on various television and radio stations around the United States.
Dr. Royal has also translated books and articles from French, Spanish, and Italian; most recently J.-P. Torrell's Initiation à saint Thomas d'Aquin (Catholic University of America Press, 1996) and Roberto Papini's The Christian Democrat International (Rowman & Littlefield, 1997).
Education
B.A., M.A. - Brown University
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Catholic University of America.
