Kevin Schmiesing

Kevin Schmiesing lectures on church history for Mount St. Mary's Seminary and School of Theology in Cincinnati, Ohio, and serves as director of research at the Freedom and Virtue Institute. He served as a research fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty from 1999 to 2020.

Schmiesing is cohost of the podcast Catholic History Trek and has contributed to Catholic World Report and Crisis magazine. He is the author of Merchants and Ministers and Within the Market Strife and editor of One and Indivisible, Catholicism and Historical Narrative, and The Spirit Matters.

He earned his bachelor's degree from Franciscan University of Steubenville and a doctorate in United States history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Schmiesing and his wife, Anne, have seven children and live near Dayton, Ohio.