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Rev. Dr. Thomas R. Flynn Priest, Philosophy Educator Atlanta, GA www.whoswhonewsletters.com/2020/08/06/ thomas-r-flynn Dr. Flynn attendedCarroll College, graduating with a BA in 1958 before traveling to Rome to study at Gregorian University. While there, he completed his studies completely in Latin, graduating first in his class with an STL in 1962. Armed with his licentiate in theology, he returned to Helena, Montana, to teach at Carroll College as an instructor of philosophy for four years. An ordained priest, Dr. Flynn earned a PhD from Columbia University in 1970 and went on to serve as an assistant professor at the Catholic University of America from 1971 to 1975. He joined the faculty of Emory University in 1978, first as an assistant professor and then associate professor, full professor and Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Philosophy by 1987. In 2006, Carroll College awarded Dr. Flynn with an honorary LHD in recognition of his esteemed contributions to the college. Establishing a grant at the college, he contributed to the endowment chair in the department of philosophy with a gift of a considerable monetary amount. Dr. Flynn has published more than 100 essays within his areas of expertise, as well as books, including “Sartre and Marxist Existentialism,” in 1984, “Sartre, Foucault and Historical Reason,” in 1997 and 2004, and “Existentialism: A Very Short Introduction,” in 2006, which has been translated into Chinese, German and Arabic. In 2014, he wrote “Sartre: A Philosophical Biography.” A past president of the American Catholic Philosophy Association, Dr. Flynn achieved three awards for distinguished teaching: The United Methodist Church Award for University Scholar Teaching in 1986, the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award in 1981, and the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award in the Humanities in 1990. Additionally, he is a former fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study and senior fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies.