Education & Professional History
University of Minnesota, BA, MA; Brown University, PhD.
At Carleton since 2016.
Highlights & Recent Activity
He is the former Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education and Dean of Academic Advising, Stanford University (2016 – 2022) .
His latest book, Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success, was published in 2023 by Radius Book Group.
Organizations & Scholarly Affiliations
Society of Jewish Ethics
Louis is the author of the following books:
Thinking Critically in College: The Essential Handbook for Student Success (Radius Book Group, 2023)
Repentance: The Meaning and Practice of Teshuvah (Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, 2010)
An Introduction to Jewish Ethics (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 2005)
Past Imperatives: Studies in the History and Theory of Jewish Ethics (Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998)
He is also the co-editor (with Elliot Dorff) of Contemporary Jewish Theology: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999) and Contemporary Jewish Ethics and Morality: A Reader (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), as well as three volumes (Body; Money; Power) in the Jewish Choices, Jewish Voices series (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2008, 2009)
