Thomas Hibbs is the J. Newton Rayzor Sr. Professor of Philosophy and Dean Emeritus at Baylor University, where he was the inaugural dean of the Honors College (2003-2019).  At Baylor, he was the founding Director of Baylor in Washington, D.C. (2015-2019).  He currently directs a donor funded Baylor summer program in D.C. on religion and social life. Hibbs has a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and served as a tutor at Thomas Aquinas College, Full Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at Boston College, and President of the University of Dallas. 

Hibbs works in the areas of medieval philosophy, especially Thomas Aquinas, contemporary virtue ethics, and aesthetics. He has published eight books.  His first book Dialectic and Narrative in Aquinas: An Interpretation of the Summa Contra Gentiles was published by the University of Notre Dame Press (1995) in the Revisions Series, edited by Stanley Hauerwas and Alasdair MacIntyre. His most recent book, Theology of Creation: Ecology, Art, and Laudato Si’ is also published by ND Press (2023). He has taught widely in interdisciplinary core programs at Boston College and Baylor. Hibbs received the American Maritain Association Scholarly Excellence Award (2010), was a Faculty Mentor for the Lilly Graduate Fellows Program (2013-2016), and served as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association (2017).

Dr. Hibbs has been involved in several collaborations with Zaytuna College.