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Humility: A Round-Up of Recent Academic Papers

If you would like to explore scholarly discussions on humility, here is a sampling of the work from various disciplines from the past few years.

Amaya, Amalia. “Reasoning in character: virtue, legal argumentation, and judicial ethics.” Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 28, no. 3 (2025): 359-378.
Baehr, Jason, “Defining Humility: The Scope of Humility” (2020). Philosophy Faculty Works. Available at https://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/phil_fac/296
Bowes, Shauna M., and Arber Tasimi. “How intellectual humility relates to political and religious polarization.” The Journal of Positive Psychology 20, no. 4 (2025): 569-581.
Callahan, Laura. “Intellectual humility and Christian faith.” Religious Studies 61, no. 4 (2025): 936-950.
Choe, Elise JY, Stephen Waldron, Choi Hee an, and Steven J. Sandage. “Intellectual humility and religion/spirituality: A scoping review of research.” The Journal of Positive Psychology 19, no. 4 (2024): 611-628.
Foronda, Cynthia. “A theory of cultural humility.” Journal of Transcultural Nursing 31, no. 1 (2020): 7-12.
Frohnen, Bruce P. “Augustine, Lawyers & the Lost Virtue of Humility.” Catholic University Law Review. 69 (2020)
German, Zachary K., and Robert J. Burton. “Constitutional Humility: The Contested Meaning of a Judicial Virtue.” American Political Thought 10, no. 2 (2021): 238-270.
Kelemen, Thomas K., Samuel H. Matthews, Michael J. Matthews, and Sarah E. Henry. “Humble leadership: A review and synthesis of leader expressed humility.” Journal of Organizational Behavior 44, no. 2 (2023): 202-224.
Porter, Tenelle, Chayce R. Baldwin, Michael T. Warren, Elise D. Murray, Kendall Cotton Bronk, Marie JC Forgeard, Nancy E. Snow, and Eranda Jayawickreme. “Clarifying the content of intellectual humility: A systematic review and integrative framework.” Journal of personality assessment 104, no. 5 (2022): 573-585.
Sivakumar, Kishore, and Mieke Boon. “The role of intellectual humility in promoting epistemic fluency for interdisciplinary engineering education.” In Frontiers in Education, vol. 9, p. 1395265. Frontiers Media SA, 2024.
Solchanyk, Daniel, Odera Ekeh, Lise Saffran, Inger E. Burnett-Zeigler, and Ashti Doobay-Persaud. “Integrating cultural humility into the medical education curriculum: strategies for educators.” Teaching and learning in medicine 33, no. 5 (2021): 554-560.
Zhong, Jie, Li Zhang, Ping Li, and Duo Zhen Zhang. “Can leader humility enhance employee wellbeing? The mediating role of employee humility.” Leadership & Organization Development Journal 41, no. 1 (2020): 19-36.