Tucker J. Gregor
Tucker J. Gregor is a fourth year PhD candidate in the Department of Religious Studies and is pursuing the Graduate Certificate in Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies.
His research explores the ethics and politics of vulnerability through the lens of virtue theory, affect, and emotion. Gregor is trained specifically in the Thomistic tradition of virtue theory and works to bring this tradition into conversation with contemporary conversations about affect theory in order to better understand the ways in which moral discourses form the subjectivity of moral agents, the identity of moral agents, and moral agency itself. Gregor’s research can shed light on the normative force underpinning a politics of vulnerability often deployed by political-religious movements like white Christian nationalism in the U.S.
After completing his BA in 2017, Tucker continued his education and earned an MA in Divinity at University of Chicago in 2019. He then spent two years teaching Catholic theology at the high school level before entering the Ph.D. program in Religious Studies at University of Iowa in Fall 2021.
Tucker spent his first two years at Iowa teaching Introduction to Rhetoric (RHET:1030) as the instructor of record. He now works as the Editorial Assistant on the Journal of Religious Ethics (JRE) and is advised by Dr. Diana Cates. He lives with his two cats and enjoys cooking, playing video games, and working out.
Research interests
- Religious ethics
- Theory of Religion
- Thomas Aquinas
- Vulnerability Theory
- Virtue Theory
- Affect Theory
- Philosophy of Emotion
- Moral Psychology
- Moral Agency
- Nationalism
Courses taught
- RHET1030—Introduction to Rhetoric
