Steven Frankel

Professor Steven Frankel is a professor of philosophy at Xavier University. He also serves as the Executive Director of the Stephen S. Smith Center in the Williams College of Business, where he is the Smith Professor of Political Economy. In 2022, the College of Arts and Sciences awarded Frankel the Roger A. Fortin Award for Outstanding Teaching and Scholarship in the Humanities.

Professor Frankel's scholarly work focuses on the relationship between philosophy and religion. His work has appeared in over a dozen journals including the Review of Metaphysics, Interpretation, Archiv fur Geshichte der Philosophie, The Review of Politics, International Philosophical Quarterly, Teaching Philosophy, and the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy. His work has also appeared in various collections including Spinoza and Medieval Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge University Press), Reorientation: Leo Strauss in the 1930s (Palgrave Macmillan), and Liquider Mai 68? (Presses de la Renaissance, Paris). His books include French Studies: Literature, Culture, and Politics (with John Ray, Editions Honore Champion, Paris, 2014) and Civil Religion in Modern Political Philosophy (with Martin Yaffe, Penn State University Press, 2020). His most recent book with John Ray is entitled Equality and Excellence (SUNY Press, 2023). He is currently writing a book, Commerce and Character, on Ralph Lerner’s interpretation of the American Revolution (University Press of Kansas, forthcoming).