Heather L. Reid is Professor Emerita at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa and Scholar in Residence at the Exedra Mediterranean Center in Siracusa, Sicily. She is a 2015 Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, 2018-2019 Fellow of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, and recipient of a Fulbright Scholar award at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. As founder of the Fonte Aretusa organization, she promotes conferences and publishes research on the heritage of Western Greece. She has published numerous books and articles in ancient philosophy, philosophy of sport, and Olympic Studies. She has also been invited to lecture on these topics in Beijing, London, Rome, Seoul, and at the International Olympic Academy in Olympia, Greece. She is past president (2005-2007) and recipient of the distinguished service (2009) and distinguished scholar (2015) awards of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. She serves on the boards of the Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, The International Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Sport, Ethics and Philosophy. Her monographs include Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport (2012) Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World: Contests of Virtue (2011), The Philosophical Athlete (2002, 2nd ed. 2019), and Olympic Philosophy (2020). She is also co-author of The Olympics and Philosophy (2012), Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports World (2011), and Filosofia dello Sport (2011). Her research explores the relationship between ethics and athletics in ancient Greece and Rome; she is current focusing on the virtues and values of women’s sport in the ancient world.
