Marc LiVecche

I am the McDonald Distinguished Scholar of Ethics, War, and Public Life at "Providence: A Journal of Christianity & American Foreign Policy," a publication and research institute I helped found in 2015. I also serve as a non-resident research fellow at the US Naval War College. From 2020-21 I was a research fellow at The Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the US Naval Academy, where I taught in the core ethics program in the Department of Leadership, Ethics, and Law. From the summer of 2018 to the fall of 2020, I was the McDonald Research Scholar at the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, & Public Life at Christ Church, Oxford University. Prior to these roles, I did my PhD at the University of Chicago, where I had the joy of working under the supervision of the political theorist and public intellectual Jean Bethke Elshtain, until her death in August, 2013. Before all this academic stuff, I spent twelve years in Slovakia doing a variety of things throughout Central Europe—ranging from helping build sport and recreational leagues in post-communist communities, to teaching writing, literature, and philosophy at Comenius University, to working at a Christian study and research center, to leading seminars on history and ethics onsite at the former Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi concentration camp in Poland. This latter experience allowed me to continue my undergraduate study of the Shoah, an ongoing preoccupation that has rendered me entirely unfit for pacifism. I live in Annapolis, Maryland with my wife and children–and a "marmota monax" whistlepigging under the shed.