A native Kansan, Tyler received his AB from Harvard, where he founded a debate society and wrote a thesis on Roman poetry. After graduating from that venerable Puritan institution, Tyler fulfilled his lifelong dream of studying amongst Oxford's gothic spires. When he was not punting on the Cherwell or enjoying tea and scones, Tyler read Aristotle's Ethics in Greek and wrote a master's thesis on the reception of Aristotle's Politics in early modern England. He is grateful to be spending the year surrounded by the Counter-Reformation splendor of Rome.