Mercer Professor Charlotte Thomas to deliver Constitution Day address

Professor and author Charlotte Thomas, Ph.D., will examine “A Republic, If We Can Keep It: Institutions, Conventions and our Written Constitution” during a special Constitution Day address at Hanover College.

The address will be held Monday, Sept. 20, at 7 p.m. in the Ogle Center. Limited admission is available to the free lecture. Face-coverings are required.

Thomas serves as professor of philosophy, director of the “Great Books” program and director of the philosophy and art study abroad program at Mercer University in Macon, Ga. She specializes in the philosophy and culture of ancient Greece with an interest in other ancient cultures.

She teaches the history of ancient philosophy, human nature and art, along with introductory ethics courses that include significant service-learning components. She has taught all courses in Mercer’s “Great Books” program and, in recent years, has taught materials for first-semester college students that begin with Homer and end with Plato.

Thomas also serves as co-director of Mercer’s Thomas C. and Ramona E. McDonald Center for America’s Founding Principles. The center focuses on core texts of the Western tradition and examines the cross-centuries dialogue about citizenship, human rights and political, economic and religious freedom.

The McDonald Center’s programming includes the annual A.V. Elliott Conference on Great Books and Ideas, a general education course on America’s founding principles, undergraduate research fellowships, faculty-student reading groups and summer “Great Books” programs for high school teachers and students.

Thomas, who published “The Female Drama: The Philosophical Feminine in the Soul of Plato’s Republic,” in 2019, received a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and Great Books at Mercer. She earned doctoral and master’s degrees in philosophy at Emory University.