About the Speaker
Tom Woods, Jr. is an American historian, political commentator, author, and podcaster. Woods is a New York Times Best-Selling author and has published twelve books. He has written extensively on the subjects including the history of the United States, Catholicism, contemporary politics, and economics. Woods is a libertarian scholar, and although not an economist himself, a firm proponent of the Austrian School of economics. He hosts two libertarian podcasts, the Tom Woods Show and Contra Krugman.
Woods holds an A.B. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University, both in History. He is a senior fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in Auburn, Alabama and a member of the editorial board for the Institute’s Libertarian Papers.
Woods is also an associate scholar of the Abbeville Institute which seeks to preserve and present what is true and valuable in the Southern tradition. Woods was an ISI Richard M. Weaver Fellow in 1995–96.[6] He received the 2004 O.P. Alford III Prize for Libertarian Scholarship and an Olive W. Garvey Fellowship from the Independent Institute in 2003.
He has additionally been awarded two Humane Studies Fellowships and a Claude R. Lambe Fellowship from the Institute for Humane Studies at George Mason University.