Robert B. Lawton

Who is Robert B. Lawton?

Rev. Robert B. Lawton, S.J., Ph.D. is an American Jesuit and the 14th President of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California. He also holds tenured professorships in both the Classics and Archaeology Department and the Theological Studies Department of LMU.

A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fordham University with a major in classics in 1971, he went on to earn his Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University in 1977, where he was a Danforth and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on June 13, 1981.

Lawton taught Hebrew and Aramaic at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome from 1982 to 1984. He also served as the Dean of Georgetown College, the liberal arts and sciences college of Georgetown University.