Rate My Professor Steven Skultety

Steven Skultety is Professor of Philosophy, Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion, and Director of the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi. He earned a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Montana in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Northwestern University in 2006, where he successfully defended his dissertation. Skultety joined the faculty at the University of Mississippi in 2006. In 2012, he became Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religion. He was promoted to Professor in 2020 and appointed Director of the Declaration of Independence Center in 2021.

Skultety's research focuses on the way ancient philosophers understood human beings who were at odds with one another. His current work concentrates on Aristotle’s political philosophy, with a long-term goal to track arguments about interpersonal conflict from the Presocratics to the Stoics. Other academic interests include virtue theory, republicanism, and democratic theory. He is the author of Conflict in Aristotle’s Political Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2019). Selected publications include “Aristotle on Virtue as Mean State: A Map or Legend of Ethical Terrain?” in Ancient Philosophy (2022), “The Humbling of an Impatient Cosmopolitan” in Dissident Philosophers (2021), “A Neo-Aristotelian Theory of Political Honor” in Honor in the Modern World (2016), and “Categories of Competition” in Sports, Ethics & Philosophy (2011). In 2019, Skultety received the NACADA Region 4 Excellence in Advising Award for his work in Philosophy and Religion.