Dr. Jason Taylor is a first-generation student who went to college in his home state at the University of Montana before moving to Boston for graduate studies in Classical Languages (MA, Boston University) and Philosophy (Ph.D., Boston College). During his time at Boston College, he was transformed by eight years of teaching in the service-learning program, PULSE; because of that experience, he helped to start En/Route, a similar yearlong service-learning program for first-year students at Regis University. As the founding Director of the Office of the First Year Experience, Dr. Taylor has worked since 2017 to create a culture and community which recognizes how profoundly our first-year students, as newcomers, are a source of institutional strength, and a grace, to us.
Dr. Taylor’s teaching and research explores the range and diversity within the tradition of Western political philosophy. As part of that scholarly agenda, he has published two translations of the work of the baroque Giambattista Vico (most recently The New Science in 2020 with Yale University Press).
Dr. Taylor is deeply committed to both the contemplative and praxis dimensions of our shared mission in Jesuit higher education. He was a member of the Ignatian Colleagues Program, Cohort 9 (2016-18) of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Each year he co-facilitates the Ignatian Summer Institute for new faculty in their second and third years at Regis University.
