Anthony M. Alioto

Anthony Alioto recently retired after a thirty-seven-year tenure at Columbia College, including the last sixteen as the first John Schiffman endowed chair in ethics, philosophy, and religious studies. He carried out the vision of the Schiffman family, bringing noted speakers to campus two times a year for lectures focused on religious studies and ethics in society.
Alioto has written several scholarly texts, including A History of Western Science; Saintly Sex: Saint John Paul II, Sex, Gender and the Catholic Church; The Ninefold Path; and Exalted Father: The Books of Marduk.