Heather L. Reid is Scholar in Residence at the Exedra Mediterranean Center in Siracusa, Sicily, and Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Morningside University in Sioux City, Iowa. She is a 2015 Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, 2018-2020 Fellow of Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC, and 2019 Fulbright Scholar at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. She is director of the Fonte Aretusa organization and past president and recipient of the distinguished service and distinguished scholar awards of the International Association for the Philosophy of Sport. Her books include Olympic Philosophy (2020,), Introduction to the Philosophy of Sport (2012, 2nd ed. 2022), Athletics and Philosophy in the Ancient World: Contests of Virtue (2011), and The Philosophical Athlete (2002, 2nd ed. 2019). She is co-author of The Olympics and Philosophy (2012), Aretism: An Ancient Sports Philosophy for the Modern Sports World (2011), and Filosofia dello Sport (2011).
