Kevin Schmiesing, Ph.D., is a research fellow at the Acton Institute.  He is a frequent writer on Catholic social thought and the history of economics, and is the author or editor of five books, including One and Indivisible: The Relationship between Religious and Economic Freedom; and Merchants and Ministers: A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States. Dr. Schmiesing holds a Ph.D. in American history from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in history from Franciscan University of Steubenville. He serves as book reviews editor for both the Journal of Markets & Morality and the Catholic Social Science Review, is second vice president of the Society of Catholic Social Scientists, and is a Research Associate at the Veritas Center for Ethics and Public Life.

Articles and Books by Kevin Schmiesing:

• One and Indivisible: The Relationship between Religious and Economic Freedom
• Merchants and Ministers: A History of Businesspeople and Clergy in the United States
• Within the Market Strife: American Catholic Economic Thought from Rerum Novarum to Vatican II
• “Another Social Justice Tradition: Catholic Conservatives,”  University of St. Thomas Law Journal , Spring 2005
• “Review of James Fisher, Communion of Immigrants,”  Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly , Fall 2002.
• The State of Economic Education in United States Seminaries.
• “The Context of Economic Personalism.” Journal of Markets & Morality. Fall 2001.
• Doing Justice to Justice. Acton Institute, 2002.
• “Catholic Critics of the New Deal: 'Alternative' Traditions in Catholic Social Thought,” Catholic Social Science Review , 2002.
• “Socially Responsible Investing: An Application of Catholic Social Thought” (with Gregory Beabout), Logos , Winter 2003. 
• “John A. Ryan and the Problem of Clerical Politics,” Journal of Church and State, Winter 2003.