Mark D. Jordan

Jordan first earned his reputation as a respected Aquinas scholar and in the late 1990s became a leading figure in the emerging field of religion, gender, and sexuality. The Invention of Sodomy(1997) was perhaps his most important historical contribution to that field, but he has since made many more, some of them involving ethical analysis of debates over same-sex unions, others pertaining to the interpretation of European intellectuals who have influenced the field, such as Foucault. He has continued his important scholarship on Aquinas, most recently by emphasizing the rhetorical and pedagogical dimensions of Aquinas's writings.