The International Boethius Society welcomes Philip Edward Phillips (Middle Tennessee State University) as its new Executive Director. Upon accepting his appointment by outgoing Executive Director Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr., on July 9, 2025, he named Professor Kaylor Executive Director Emeritus and promoted Anthony G. Cirilla from associate editor to co-editor (with Kenneth C. Hawley) of Carmina Philosophiae. A charter member of the Society, Professor Phillips has served as its Corresponding Secretary (1992-1996), editor of the IBS Newsletter (1995-2002), co-editor (with Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.) of Carmina Philosophiae (1996-2014), and Secretary (1996-2025). The author of “Boethius” in Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies (Oxford, 2017) and editor of Prison Narratives from Boethius to Zana (Palgrave, 2014), Professor Phillips was co-editor (with Professor Kaylor) of five books on Boethius. He is grateful to Professor Kaylor for his lifelong commitment to the advancement of Boethian studies, from founding the Society to supporting emerging scholars, and he looks forward to working with the officers, trustees, and members of the Society to continue to promote the study of Boethius worldwide.
