Bridget Safranek Knuffke completed her Ph.D. at The Catholic University of America’s School of Philosophy under the direction of F. Russell Hittinger. Her research focuses on Aquinas’s moral philosophy, particularly his thought on punishment. Her dissertation, “Thomas Aquinas on Medicinal Punishment” examines Aquinas’s comparison of punishment to medicine and its implications for contemporary social theory. She holds a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Dallas and a Ph.L. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America, and has been a graduate fellow with the Lilly Network and the Institute for Human Ecology.