Janice Breidenbach is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ave Maria University and a member of the Aquinas Institute at Oxford's Blackfriars Hall. She is also a Senior Affiliate of the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on philosophy of action, science, metaphysics, and human rights, with work published by Routledge and Cambridge University Press. Dr. Breidenbach has held visiting positions at the University of Florida, Oxford, and Penn. She holds degrees from Princeton, the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of St Andrews.