White grew up in southeast
Georgia in an interfaith household. His father, a doctor, is
Jewish, and his mother is a nurse. He was baptized by an
Episcopal priest in his twenties, but eventually converted to
Catholicism his senior year of college. He completed his bachelor’s in
religious studies from
Brown University (1993) and his Master’s (1995) and Doctorate (2002) in Theology at
Oxford University. White entered the
Order of Preachers in 2003. He completed his
licentiate in Sacred Theology (2007) at the
Dominican House of Studies in
Washington, D.C. He professed
final vows on May 17, 2007, and on May 23, 2008, was ordained a priest. His research and teaching concentrate on
Thomistic metaphysics,
Christology and Catholic-Reformed
ecumenical dialogue. He was appointed an ordinary member of the
Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas in 2011. White taught at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., from 2008-2018, and was the founder and director of the
Thomistic Institute in Washington from 2009 until his departure for Rome in 2018. In 2015 White became co-editor of
Nova et Vetera, an American Catholic theological journal. In 2018 he was assigned to teach at the Angelicum and function as the director of the Angelicum Thomistic Institute. In June 2021, he was appointed rector of the Angelicum. On May 13, 2022 White delivered the
commencement address at the
Catholic University of America and was awarded an
Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters. In June 2022 White was appointed president of the Academy of Catholic Theology, one of the principal societies of academic Catholic theology in the United States. On December 7, 2023 White received the title of
Master of Sacred Theology from the Order of Preachers. White is a founding member of the Catholic
bluegrass group
the Hillbilly Thomists, which has released four studio albums, to date. In 2023, he was named an official
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