This is the personal scholarship page for Timothy Gutmann. My PhD in religion is from the University of Chicago. I focus on Islamic and East Asian thought.
My research and teaching also focus on diverse traditions of educational theory and practice, the politics of belonging and the minority question, and liberalism in contemporary society.
Having taught at the UChicago and elsewhere, I am Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the University of Southern Mississippi. I split my time between Hattiesburg and Chicago.
Here’s the video of the lecture I gave as Mississippi Humanities Council Humanities Teacher of the Year. I’m very glad I got the chance to give it. The topic is about the crisis in reading comprehension, questions of a canon, and what we can learn from the Confucian canon.