William Fahey, Ph.D.
Dr. William Edmund Fahey earned an Honors A.B. from Xavier University in classics and history. Afterwards he pursued postgraduate studies in ancient history at University of St. Andrews (Scotland), where he completed the M.Phil. (mode A) in ancient history. He earned both the M.A. and Ph.D. (with highest distinction) in early Christian studies from The Catholic University of America. He has held a number of distinguished fellowships, including the Thomas Savage, S.J., Fellowship for Excellence in Humanities; the Russell Trust Award of the University of St. Andrews; The McGuire-Peebles Fellowship at The Catholic University of America; the Richard M. Weaver Fellowship; the Marguerite Eyer Wilbur Fellowship; two Earhart Fellowships; and he was a Salvatori Fellow at the Heritage Foundation (Washington, D.C.). His archeological work has led him to Wales, the south-east coast of England, eastern Turkey, and the Alpine valleys in Italy.
Fahey recently moved to Thomas More College after nearly a decade of teaching at Christendom College, where he established and served as chairman of the Department of Classical and Early Christian Studies. Fahey also taught at The Catholic University of America, as well as Brookfield Academy (Wisconsin) and the American Academy (St. Davids, Pennsylvania).
Fahey’s work has been published in the Bryn Mawr Classical Review, The St. Austin Review, Faith & Reason, The University Bookman, Classical World, and The Classical Bulletin. He has recently finished co-editing a volume of Hilaire Belloc’s political thought, as well as an anthology on the principle of subsidiarity. He is currently translating St. Robert Bellarmine’s political writings.
Fahey is a Benedictine Oblate (novice) with the Monastery of Our Lady of the Annunciation. His interest in Distributism is nourished by the regular consumption of Catholic social encyclicals, cask-conditional ale, and bacon, all in vast quantities. He has returned to the lands of the Pennacooks and Abnekis (to some, New England), where his family has dwelt since the eighteenth century. Near an obscure tributary of the Merrimack river, he is restoring 2 acres with his wife, Amy, and his four children: Helena (10), Mary (6), Catriona (4), and William (1).
