Dr. Mary Imparato

Politics Chair, Belmont Abbey College

Dr. Mary Imparato is Assistant Professor of Politics at Belmont Abbey College where she has taught courses on the American Constitution, political philosophy, public policy, and research methods. She is primarily a political theorist with research interests in religion and politics, liberty and authority, philosophy of law, Catholic social teaching, and the thought of St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas. She completed her doctorate in Political Science at Rutgers University, with a dissertation centered on religious toleration in the western tradition. She holds an interdisciplinary Masters degree from the City University of New York (where she studied primarily medieval history and philosophy) as well as a Bachelors in Government from Harvard University. A native New Yorker, she currently resides in North Carolina with her husband and three children.