Bio

Prior to coming to CUA, Mr. Holman was an MV-22 Pilot in the United States Marine Corps. He served in the Western Pacific, Iraq (Al-Anbar Province), Kuwait, and East Africa. While in Iraq, he served as a Forward Air Controller, planning and coordinating U.S. and Coalition targeting, airborne intelligence collections, and Information Operations in support of Operation Inherent Resolve. He also served as U.S. liaison to the Iraqi Army’s Anbar Operations Command, assisting and advising in the development of their airborne collections program and integrating Coalition and Iraqi all-source intelligence reporting into operational planning and execution. 

Mr. Holman's doctoral work has focused on the ontology of the human person and its meaning for politics. He also has interests in the relation between politics and ethics, especially in the context of dissident politics and just war theory. He will be defending his dissertation on Hannah Arendt and Eric Voegelin's 1953 debate over totalitarianism and the human person in November 2024. He is co-editor, with Dr. Richard Avramenko, of Personalism for the Twenty-First Century: Essays in Honor of David Walsh (Lexington Books, forthcoming). His research has appeared in The Political Science Reviewer, Perspectives on Political Science, and The Review of Metaphysics.