Ryan Patrick Hanley
Jack Miller Center Summer Institute Faculty
J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science, Boston College
Ryan Patrick Hanley is the J. Joseph Moakley Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy (by courtesy) at Boston College. Prior to joining the faculty at Boston College, he was the Mellon Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Marquette University, and held visiting appointments or fellowships at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Chicago. A specialist on the political philosophy of the Enlightenment period, he is the author of over seventy articles and chapters and four books, including Adam Smith and the Character of Virtue (Cambridge, 2009), Love’s Enlightenment: Rethinking Charity in Modernity (Cambridge, 2017), Our Great Purpose: Adam Smith on Living a Better Life (Princeton, 2019), and The Political Philosophy of Fénelon (Oxford, 2020). He is most recently the editor of Love: A History (Oxford, 2024), in the Oxford Philosophical Concepts series.
Research interests:
Political Philosophy
Enlightenment Period
Economic Theories
