Dr. J. Thomas Wren
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Profile
A historian and a legal scholar, Dr. J. Thomas Wren has written and lectured extensively on subjects including James Madison, the Virginia courts, and the historical roots of the values in leadership. His research interests include: the implementation of popular sovereignty in the American experience, the challenge of defining and implementing the common good, the roles of leaders and followers, leadership education, and the intellectual history of leadership.
Dr. Wren joined the Jepson School faculty in 1992 during the school's inaugural year. He served as interim dean and associate dean for academic affairs and is a two-time recipient of the University of Richmond's Distinguished Educator Award. He received the Jepson School Award for Leadership and Service in May 2021 and retired as professor emeritus of leadership studies in December 2012.Expand All-
Awards
Award for Leadership and Service, Jepson School of Leadership Studies
Distinguished Educator Award, University of Richmond, 2011
Nominee for State Council of Higher Education Outstanding Faculty Award, 2003
Distinguished Educator Award, University of Richmond, 1997
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Awards
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Selected Publications
Books
George R. Goethals and J. Thomas Wren, eds., Lincoln's Legacy of Leadership (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
J. Thomas Wren, Ronald E. Riggio, and Michael A. Genovese, eds., Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
Terry L. Price and J. Thomas Wren, eds., The Values of Presidential Leadership (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
J. Thomas Wren, Inventing Leadership: The Challenge of Democracy (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2007).
J. Thomas Wren, Douglas A. Hicks, and Terry L. Price, eds., The International Library of Leadership, vol. 1-3 (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2004).
J. Thomas Wren, ed., The Leader's Companion: Insights on Leadership Through the Ages (New York: The Free Press, 1995). (Currently in sixteenth printing).
J. Thomas Wren, ed., The Foundations of Leadership: A Reader (Acton, Mass: Copley Publishing Group, 1993).
Book ChaptersJ. Thomas Wren, "Of History and Leadership: The Discipline of History and the Understanding of Leadership," in Michael Harvey and Ronald A. Riggio, The Research Companion to Leadership Studies: The Dialogue of Disciplines (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing) (2011).
J. Thomas Wren, "Reinventing the Liberal Arts through Leadership," in Wren, et al., Leadership and the Liberal Arts: Achieving the Promise of a Liberal Education (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).
J. Thomas Wren, “The Common Law of England in Virginia from 1776 to 1830,” in W. Hamilton Bryson and Serge Dauchy, eds., Ratio Decidendi: Guiding Principles of Judicial Decisions (Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 2006).
J. Thomas Wren, “A Quest for a Grand Theory of Leadership,” in George Goethals and Georgia Sorenson, eds., A Quest for a General Theory of Leadership (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006).
J. Thomas Wren and Elizabeth Faier, “Contemplating Context,” in George Goethals and Georgia Sorenson, eds., A Quest for a General Theory of Leadership: A Multidisciplinary Experiment (Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006).
J. Thomas Wren, "James Madison and the Ethics of Transformational Leadership," in Joanne B. Ciulla, ed., Ethics: The Heart of Leadership (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998).