DAVID
HOLLENBACH
CURRICULUM VITAE
Born:
Present
Position:
University Chair in Human Rights and International
Justice
and
Director, Center for Human Rights and International Justice
TEL.:
(617) 552-8855
FAX:
(617) 552-0716
E-Mail: hollenb@bc.edu
Other Positions:
August—November, 2009
Visiting
Scholar and Lecturer
Hekima
College, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa
Nairobi,
Kenya
and
Consultant
Jesuit
Refugee Service of Eastern Africa
Nairobi,
Kenya
January—April, 2006; August—December,
2003; August—December, 2000:
Visiting
Professor
August, 1996—January, 1997:
Fulbright
Visiting Scholar
1976-91:
Professor
of Moral Theology
1975-76
Research Fellow
1968-1969:
Instructor
Department
of Philosophy
Education
and Degrees:
Ph.D., 1975:
Department
of Religious Studies
M.Div.,
1971:
M.A., 1968:
Department
of Philosophy
Ph.L.,
1968:
B.S., 1964:
(Physics)
Publications
(exclusive of reviews):
Books:
Refugee Rights: Ethics
Advocacy, and
Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries and
Interpretations, edited by Kenneth R. Himes
(lead editor),
The Global Face of Public Faith: Politics, Human
Rights, and Christian Ethics.
The Common Good and Christian
Ethics. New
Studies in Christian Ethics.
Catholicism and Liberalism:
Contributions to American Public Philosophy. Edited with R. Bruce Douglass.
Justice, Peace, and Human Rights:
American Catholic Social Ethics in a Pluralistic World.
Nuclear
Ethics: A Christian Moral Argument.
Claims in Conflict: Retrieving
and Renewing the Catholic Human Rights Tradition.
Forthcoming books:
Driven from Home: Protecting the Rights of Forced
Migrants.
David Hollenbach, S.J., editor. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press,
spring, 2010. In press.
Mandarin
translation of The Global Face of Public
Faith: Politics, Human Rights, and Christian Ethics. To be published in the People’s Republic of
China under the auspices of the China Academic Consortium in the translation
series “Western Academia and Public Ethics” Expected publication in 2010.
Articles and
Chapters in Books:
“John Courtney
Murray: Theologian of Religious Freedom,” in Reclaiming Catholicism: Treasures Old and New. Edited by Thomas H.
Groome and Michael J. Daley.
“Reconciliation
and Justice: Ethical Guidance for a Broken World,” Promotio Justitiae 103 (Rome: 2009, no. 3): 71-74 .
“Response to V.
Bradley Lewis on Theory and Practice of Human Rights: Ancient and Modern,”
Journal of Law, Philosophy and Culture III, no. 1 (Spring 2009).
“U.S. Walks
Tightrope on Sudan and Uganda,” America,
November 2, 2009: 6-8.
“Corruption and Inaction Leave Kenya on
the Brink,” America, September 28, 2009: 8-9.
Republished in Jesuit Refugee Service-Eastern Africa
Headlines, October 31-November 6, 2009,
electronic bulletin.
“The Catholic
Intellectual Tradition, Social Justice, and the University,” Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education
36 (Fall, 2009): 20-22.
“The Rights of
Refugees in a Globalizing World.”
Marianist Award Lecture/2008.
“An Advocate for
All: How the Catholic Church Promotes Human Dignity,”
“The Common Good and Issues in
“Economic Justice for All Twenty Years
Later: Keynote Address at Symposium on Catholic Social Teaching on the Market,
the State, and the Law, Villanova University School of Law, September 21, 2007,”
Journal of Catholic Social Thought 6,
no.1 (2008): 315-321.
“Humanitarian
Crises, Refugees, and the Trans-national Good: Global Challenges and Catholic
Social Teaching,” in Scrutinizing the
Signs of the Times in Light of the Gospel: Proceedings of the Expert Seminar,
Leuven/Louvain-la-Neuve, 9-11 September 2004, Johan Verstraeten, ed.
“Catholic
Ethics in a
“Human Rights and Women’s Rights: Initiatives and
Interventions in the Name of Universality,” in A Just and True Love. Feminism at the Frontiers of Theological Ethics:
Essays in Honor of Margaret A. Farley, Maura Ryan and Brian Linnane, eds. Notre Dame, Indiana:
“Ecumenical
Perspectives on Human Rights and Religious Freedom: Response to
“Lessons from
the Wounded Edge,” The Tablet (
“More Than
“The Common Good
and Globalization,” in Robin Gill, A
Textbook of Christian Ethics, third edition.
"Catholicism
and American Political Culture: Confrontation, Accommodation, or
Transformation?" in Inculturation
and the Church in
“New Directions for the Church and the Ignatian
Family,” Promotio Justitiae 92 (
“Human Rights, Justice and the
“Globalization, Solidarity, and Justice,” East Asian Pastoral Review 43, 1 (
“Gaudium et Spes: Commentary and
Interpretation,” in Modern Catholic Social Teaching: Commentaries
and Interpretations edited by Kenneth R. Himes
(lead editor), Lisa Sowle Cahill,
Charles E. Curran,
“Joy and Hope, Grief and Anguish: ‘Gaudium et Spes’ 40 Years Later,”
“Human Rights in Catholic Thought: A New Synthesis,”
“Military Intervention in
“The Search for Universal Values:
Religious Contributions.” In Universal
Values: Proceedings of International Symposium in connection with the 2004 Olympics at the Academy of Athens, Loucas G.
Christophorou and George Contopoulos, eds.
“A Response to
“Freedom for Humanity--Response to Clifford Green.”
In For the Sake of the World: Karl Barth
and the Future of Ecclesial Theology,
“The Hard Lessons of Kakuma: The Suffering of
Refugees Should Raise New Questions about the Use of Military Force,”
“Christianity in a Community of Freedom: An
Interview with Professor David Hollenbach, S.J.” Hekima
Review 30 (
“Strength
in
“Mercados, Justicia y Bien Común,” Mensaje 52, no. 517 (Santiago, Chile:
Marzo-Abril, 2003): 31-34.
“The
Common Good and Christian Ethics,”
"Response"
[to essays by Nancy Rosenblum, Miera and Sanford Levinson, and Amy Gutmann]. In
School Choice: The Moral Debate, Alan
Wolfe, ed.
"The
Life of the Human Community: How Can We Pursue a Ministry of Solidarity,"
"Justice and Solidarity in an Age of
Globalization," Revue de Philosophie
et de Critique Sociale de Kimwenza (Kinshasa, République Démocratique du
Congo: 2001), 95-107.
"Réponde aux attaques: Perspective éthique,"
Projet N° 268 (Paris: Hiver,
2001-02), 19-23.
"Responder
a los ataques terroristas: una perspectiva ética y religiosa desde los Estados
Unidos," Sal Terrae: Revista Hispanoamericana de Teologia Pastoral (Madrid: Noviembre 2001), 901-909.
"Responding
to the Terrorist Attacks: An Ethical Perspective,"
"Catholicism's
Communitarian Vision: The Church in the Modern World." In As
Leaven in the World: Catholic Perspectives on Faith, Vocation, and the
Intellectual Life, Thomas M. Landy, ed.
"Religion,
Morality, and Politics." In The Catholic Church, Morality, and Politics,
Readings in Moral Theology, no. 12, Charles E. Curran and Leslie Griffin,
eds. New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2001, 60-76. Originally
published in Theological Studies 49
(1988).
"The
Pope and Capitalism." In The
Catholic Church, Morality, and Politics, Readings in Moral Theology, no.
12, Charles E. Curran and Leslie Griffin, eds.
New York/Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press,
2001, 284-287. Originally published in
"Common
Good," Collegeville Catholic
Reference Library, CD Rom, version 1.0 (
"Catholic
Higher Education in a Globalizing World," Hekima Review 24 (
"Catholics
as Citizens: Pastoral Challenges and Opportunities," Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture 3:4 (Fall, 2000):
57-69.
"The
Common Good and Urban Poverty," Dimensions
of Poverty and the Common Good, 1999 Vincentian Chair of Social Justice
Presentations, vol. 5 (
"Contexts
of the Political Role of Religion: Civil Society and Culture." In Reasonable Pluralism, vol. 5 of The Philosophy of Rawls, Paul Weithman,
ed.
“Virtues and Vices in Social Inquiry.” In The
Nature of Moral Inquiry in the Social Sciences: Essays by Clarke E. Cochrane,
David Hollenbach, Alan Wolfe, and Robert Wuthnow. South Bend, IN, Occasional Papers of the Erasmus Institute, 1999 series, no. 2,
45-61.
“Civil
Rights and the Common Good: Some Possible Contributions of Religious
Communities.” In Religion, Race, and
Justice in a Changing
“The Common Good and Urban Poverty,”
“The Common Good in a Divided Society,” The
“Fidelity
to the Gospel/Respect for the Other.” In
Faith in the Public Forum. Neil Brown and Robert Gascoigne, eds.
“Is Tolerance
Enough? The
“Spécificité de la pensée sociale catholique et bien
commun de l’humanité.” In Église et
société: un dialogue orthodox russe - catholique romain. Jean-Yves Calvez and Anatole Krassikov,
eds. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1998,
91-108.
“Solidarity,
Development and Human Rights: The African Challenge.” The
Journal of Religious Ethics 26:2
(1998): 305-317.
"Christian
Social Ethics after the Cold War." In John
Paul II and Moral Theology.
“The Common
Good and the Recovery of Public Life.” Regis University President’s Newsletter,
November, 1998: 1-5. Lecture presented
at the inauguration of The Institute on the Common Good,
“Is Tolerance
Enough? The
“Human Rights
in Social Development.” The Independent Review 1, no. 2 (1997):
154-60. [
"The
“The Gospel of
Life and the Culture of Death: A Response to John Conley.” In Choosing
Life: A Dialogue on Evangelium Vitae. Ed. Kevin Wm. Wildes and Alan C.
Mitchell.
“On Afropessimism: Hope in the ‘Heart of Darkness.’”
"The
Market and Catholic Social Teaching."
In Outside the Market No
Salvation? Ed. Dietmar Mieth and
Marciano Vidal. Concilium
1997/2. London/Maryknoll, NY: SCM
Press/Orbis books, 1997, 67-76. Also
published in Dutch, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
“The Fire This Time: Life in a Postmodern
World.”
“Politically
Active Churches: Some Empirical Prolegomena
To A Normative Approach.” In Religion and Contemporary Liberalism.
Ed. Paul Weithman. Notre Dame, IN:
“The
"Freedom
and Truth: Religious Liberty as Immunity and Empowerment." In John
Courtney Murray and the Growth of Tradition. Ed. J. Leon Hooper and
"The
"Tradition,
Historicity, and Truth in Theological Ethics." In Christian Ethics: Problems and Prospects. Ed. James M. Childress
and
"Social
Ethics Under the Sign of the Cross.”
Presidential Address to the Society of Christian Ethics. In The
Annual of the Society of Christian Ethics 1996. Ed. Harlan
“Etica social bajo el signo de la cruz.” Revista Latinoamericana de Teologia 37 (San Salvador, El Salvador, April, 1996):
43-58. Translation
of "Social Ethics Under the Sign of the Cross.”
“Report from
"The
Common Good in the Postmodern Epoch: What Role for Theology?" In Religion,
Ethics, and the Common Good. Ed. James Donahue and M. Theresa Moser. Annual Publication of the College Theology
Society, vol. 41. Mystic, CT:
Twenty-Third Publications, 1996, 3-22.
"The
Common Good, Pluralism, and Catholic Education." In The
"Passion
and Compassion: Human and Divine: A Response to Susan A. Ross." Catholic Theological Society of
"The
"Virtue,
the Common Good, and Democracy." In
New Communitarian Thinking: Persons, Virtues, Institutions, and
Communities. Ed. Amitai Etzioni.
"The
Foundation of Theological Knowledge."
In Christianity and Civil Society:
Theological Education for Public Life. Ed. Rodney L. Peterson.
"Civil
Society: Beyond the Public-Private Dichotomy." Responsive Community 5 (Winter, 1994-95): 15-23.
"Contexts
of the Political Role of Religion: Civil Society and Culture." San Diego Law Review" 30 (1994):
879-901.
"Public
Reason/Private Religion? A Response to Paul J. Weithman." Journal of Religious Ethics 22/1 (1994):
39-46.
"Common
Good." In The New Dictionary of Catholic
Social Thought. Ed. Judith A. Dwyer.
"
"The
Roots of Respect." Review of On Human Rights. Ed. by Stephen Shute and Susan Hurley. Commonweal, May 6, 1994, 27-28.
"Positions chrétiennes concernant la
violence." In Dictionnaire de Spiritualité, vol. XVI. Beauchesne:
"Intellectual
and Social Solidarity." In Catholic Universities in Church and
Society: A Dialogue on Ex Corde
Ecclesiae. Ed. John P. Langan.
"Christian Social Ethics after the Cold
War." Theological Studies 53
(1992): 75-95.
"The
Role of the Churches in the American Search for Peace." In The
American Search for Peace: Moral Reasoning, Religious Hope, and National
Security. Ed. George Weigel and John P. Langan.
"The Pope and Capitalism."
"Cities,
Suburbs, and 'The Common Good': Boundaries of Moral Responsibility," with
Anthony Downs and Amitai Etzioni. A
"Religion and Political Life." Theological Studies 52 (1991): 87-106.
"Social
Morality in the Catechism." In The Universal Catechism Reader. Ed.
Thomas Reese.
"Faith,
Justice, and the Jesuit
"The Common Good Revisited." Theological
Studies 50 (1989): 70-94.
"Fundamental
Theology and the Christian Moral Life."
In Faithful Witness: Foundations
of Theology for Today's Church. Ed. Leo J. O'Donovan and T. Howland
Sanks.
"'For
the More Universal Good': Recovering the Idea of the Commonweal,"
"Justice
as Participation: Public Moral Discourse and the
"Notes
on Moral Theology: 1987." Theological
Studies 49 (1988): 67-150, with William C. Spohn, Edward C. Vacek, and John
Langan.
"Liberalism,
Communitarianism, and the Bishops' Pastoral Letter on the Economy." The Annual of the Society of Christian
Ethics (1987), 19-40. Reprinted in
Mary C. Segers, ed., Church Polity and
American Politics: Issues in Contemporary Catholicism,
"The
Church's Social
"War
and Peace in American Catholic Thought: A Heritage Abandoned?" Theological Studies 48 (1987): 711-26.
"AIDS Education: The Moral
Substance."
"Eine
Soziallehre nur für die
"Preaching and Politics, Consistency and
Compromise." Church 3, no. 2 (Summer, 1987): 11-19.
"Pastoral on Economy Shapes Moral View of
Public Policy."
"Ethics
in Distress: Can There Be Just Wars in the Nuclear Age?" In The
Nuclear Dilemma and the Just War Tradition. Ed. William V. O'Brien and John
Langan, S.J.
"Both
Bread and Freedom: The Interconnection of Economic and Political Rights in
Recent Catholic Thought." In Human Rights and the Global
"Notes
on Moral Theology: 1985." Theological Studies 47 (1986): 69-133. With Richard A. McCormick, William C. Spohn
and
"The
Growing End of an Argument."
"Notes
on Moral Theology: 1984." Theological Studies 46 (1985):
50-114. With Richard A. McCormick,
"Unemployment
and Jobs: A Theological and Ethical Perspective." In Catholic
Social Teaching and the
"Choix de textes de Magistere de Jean XXIII, Paul
VI, Jean-Paul II et Vatican II." In Droits de
l'homme: Approche Chrétienne. Fédération Internationale des Universités
Catholiques, Centre de Coordination de la Recherche.
"Deterrence
- The Hardest Question." New Catholic World 226, 1983,
254-257. Reprint of an excerpt from Nuclear Ethics: A Christian Moral Argument.
"The
Challenge of Peace in the Context of Recent Church Teachings." In Catholics
and Nuclear War: A Commentary on "The Challenge of Peace": The
"Nuclear
Weapons and Nuclear War: The Shape of the Catholic Debate." Theological
Studies, 43 (1982): 577-605.
"Courage
and Patience: Education for Staying Power in the Pursuit of Peace and
Justice." In Education for Peace and Justice. Ed. Padraic O'Hare.
"Human
Work and the Story of Creation: Theology and Ethics in Laborem Exercens." In Co-Creation and Capitalism: John Paul II's
Laborem Exercens. Ed. John Houck and Oliver Williams.
"Nuclear Weapons Policy and Christian
Conscience." New Catholic World 226, Jan/Feb, 1983, 17-20.
"The Bishops and the Nuclear Policy
Debate." News from Weston, Fall/Winter, 1982, 3-4.
"Human
Rights and Religious Faith in the
"Global
Human Rights: An Interpretation of the Contemporary Roman Catholic
Understanding." In Human Rights in the
"Human
Rights and Interreligious Dialogue: The Challenge to
"The
Politics of Justice." Theology Today 38 (1982): 489-493. Reprinted in Border Regions of Faith: An Anthology of Religion and Social Change.
Ed. Kenneth Aman.
"Reflections
on Conscience, Registration and Conscription." Current
Issues in Catholic Higher Education 1 (Summer, 1980): 14-17.
"Human Rights." New Catholic Encyclopedia,
vol. 17 (supplementary volume), 1979.
"Plural
Loyalties and Moral Agency in Government."
In Personal Values in Public
Policy: Conversations on Government Decision-Making. Ed. John Haughey.
"Theology
and Philosophy in Public: A Symposium on John Courtney Murray's Unfinished
Agenda." Theological Studies 40 (1979): 700-715. With John A. Coleman, J.
"Modern
Catholic Teachings Concerning Justice."
In The Faith That Does Justice:
Examining Christian Sources for Social Change. Ed. John C. Haughey.
"A
Prophetic Church and the Catholic Sacramental Imagination." In The
Faith That Does Justice. Ed. John C. Haughey. 234-263.
"Public
Theology in
"Impressions from
"Moral
Claims, Human Rights and Population Policies." Theological Studies 35
(1974): 83-113. With Drew Christiansen,
Ronald Garet and Charles Powers.
"Corporate Investments, Ethics and Evangelical
Poverty." Theological Studies 34 (1973): 265-274.
"
"On
'From Natural to Legal to Human Rights': A Response to Professor
Jenkins." In Human Rights. Ed. Erwin Pollack.
Jay Stewart, 1971.
Forthcoming articles:
Theses:
Ph.D.
Dissertation: "The Right to Procreate and Its Social Limitations: A
Systematic Study of Value Conflict in Roman Catholic Ethics."
M.A. Thesis: "The Aesthetic Basis of
Whitehead's Speculative Philosophy."
Academic
Lectureships:
Marianist Award
Lecture, “The Rights of Refugees in a Globalizing World.” Dayton, OH: University
of Dayton, January, 2009.
Charles Owen
Rice Lecture, “Forced Migrants, Human Rights and Global Justice, Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, PA, March 26, 2009.
Conference on
Justice in Jesuit Higher Education, Fairfield University, presentation on the
work of the Center for Human rights and International Justice, June 19, 2009.
Loyola
University of Chicago, Keynote lecture, "The Catholic University and the
Common Good," President's Leadership Retreat for faculty, administration,
and staff, November
6, 2007.
Lecture
series, East Asian Pastoral Institute,
Ateneo de Manila,
Lecture
Series,
Presentation, “Ethical
Issues for Policy regarding Refugees,” conference on the Collaboration of
Jesuit Universities regarding Migration,
Faith and Justice Lecture,
Catholic University of Eastern Africa,
Permanent Commission for Human Rights,
The Republic of Zambia, Lusaka, presentation, “The Challenge of Human Rights in
Africa Today,” October 27, 2000.
Loyola Lecture, "The Common Good in
a Divided Society,"
Santa Clara Lecture, “The Common Good in
a Divided Society.”
University
Convocation Lecture. “The Common Good
and Urban Poverty,”
Chancellor's Lecture and Convocation Address,
Willis
M. Tate-Willson Lectures, "Justice as Participation: Recovering the Idea
of the Commonweal," Southern
Kellogg
Lectures, Episcopal
Sorenson
Lecture,
Van
Christoph Lecture,
Isaac
Hecker Lecture,
D.
R. Sharpe Lectureship in Social Ethics, University of
Presentations
to Professional Societies:
“My Work in
Christian Ethics,” presentation at Annual Meeting of Society of Christian
Ethics, to Caucus of Student Members, San Jose, CA, January 9, 2010.
“Comparative
Ethics, Islam, Human Rights: Internal Pluralism and the Possible Development of
Tradition,” presentation, Annual Meeting Society of Christian Ethics,
Comparative Ethics Interest Group, Chicago, IL, January 9, 2009.
Refugee Rights:
Ethics, Advocacy, and Africa. Participant in discussion of my book by this
title. Annual Meeting Society of Christian Ethics, January 10, 2009.
“Is the Just War Tradition still Viable.”
Respondent to two papers on this topic. Annual Meeting Society of Christian
Ethics, January 10, 2009.
“Just War, The Responsibility to
Protect, and Humanitarian Intervention,” Annual
Meeting of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Los Angeles, CA,
June 8, 2007.
“A
Response to
“Solidarity
and the Common Good: Implications for Catholic Higher Education.” Lecture.
Annual meeting of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities,
Catholic Theological Society of
American
Australian
Theological Forum, Conference on Faith in the Public Forum,
Journal of
Religious Ethics Forum, at the Society of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting,
Atlanta, GA, January 8-11, 1998, presentation on “Human Rights and Social
Development in Africa.”
37th Annual
Meeting, Society Of Christian Ethics,
National
Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education, Third Annual Biennial
Symposium, panel presentation, "Reflection on the Jesuit document on 'The
Situation of Women in Church and Society,'" and Roundtable discussion
"Dialoging about the Jesuit Document", Boston College, July 12-13,
1996.
College
Theology Society, opening plenary address at Annual Meeting, “The Common Good
in the Postmodern Epoch: What Role for Theology?”Worcester,
Catholic
Theological Society of America, plenary address, "Passion and Compassion:
Human and Divine,"
Catholic
Theological Society of America, Hispanic
Theology Continuing Seminar, presentation on Hispanic Feminist Theology in the
work of Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz and Pillar Aquino; Chair, plenary panel on Jesus
and Ethics, June 9-12, 1994, Baltimore, MD.
Society
of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, "Human Rights and the Pursuit of a
Just Peace,"
Catholic
Theological Society of
Catholic
Health Association, Annual Colloquium, "The Preferential Option for the
Poor and the Common Good,"
Society
of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, "Remarks on Alastair MacIntyre's Whose
Justice? Which Rationality?"
Society
of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, plenary address, "Liberalism,
Communitarianism and the Bishops Pastoral Letter on the Economy," January,
1987.
Society
of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, chair and respondent to paper by Arthur
Dyck, "Human Rights and Human Community,"
Catholic
Biblical Association Annual Meeting, "The Use of the Bible in the
Association
of Puerto Rican Economists Annual Meeting,
Society
of Christian Ethics, Working Group on War and Peace, "The Churches and the
Nuclear Debate,"
Society
of Christian Ethics Annual Meeting, response to paper by John Langan,
"Catholic Anthropology as a Basis for a Theory of Human Rights,"
Catholic
Theological Society of
Catholic
Theological Society of
American
Catholic
Theological Society of
Catholic
Theological Society of
Other Academic
Positions and Responsibilities
Board
of Trustees,
Harvard
Divinity School and Harvard University Center for International Affairs,
sponsored jointly by Interreligious Peace Colloquium, Executive Director,
Seminar on "Muslim Jewish Christian Faith Communities as Transnational
Actors for Peace and Justice," 1979.
National
Catholic Educational Association, Member, Task Force on Justice in Higher
Education, 1976-77.
Editorial
Responsibilities:
Journal of
Religious Ethics (
Political
Theology (
The Annual of
the
Membership in
Professional Societies:
Society
of Christian Ethics. President, 1995-96.
Vice President, 1994-95. Board of
Directors, 1987-91. Chair of Search
Committee for Editor of The Annual of the
Society of Christian Ethics, 1990-91.
Catholic Theological Society of
Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural
Affairs
Travel:
Travel
to Kenya, Uganda, and Sudan. September,
October, and first half of November, 2009.
I traveled to these countries to further develop the cooperative
relationship between the Center for Human Rights and International Justice and
the Jesuit Refugee Service in Eastern Africa and with the Center for Peace
Studies and International Relations at Hekima College of the Catholic
University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi.
Consulted with Jesuit Refugee Service on modes of advocacy for human
rights, conflict prevention and avoiding further displacement in southern Sudan
in response to the 2011 referendum on southern Sudanese
self-determination.
Workshop
on the Human Rights of Forced Migrants, principle presenter, for staff of
Jesuit Refugee Service, Bangkok,
Thailand, July 9-12, 2009.
Visiting
Professor, The Catholic University of Eastern Africa, Hekima College, Nairobi,
Kenya, August—November, 2009; January-April, 2006; August--December, 2003; August--December,
2000; September 1996--January, 1997.
1996--97 teaching supported by a Fulbright Scholar Award for Lecturing
and Research.
Leadership
Team, Advanced
Visiting Professor, Ateneo de Manila, East Asian
Pastoral Institute,
Visiting
Professor, June—July, 2009; June, 2000:
Research
Travel on Human Rights in Comparative Ethical Perspective:
Research and Lecturing on Population
Awards:
Marianist
Award.
Doctor
of Humanities, honoris causa,
Doctor
of Divinity, honoris causa, Jesuit
School of Theology at
FBK
(Phi Beta Kappa), National Honor Society for the Arts and Sciences. Inducted as Foundation Member of the
Doctor
of Humane Letters, honoris causa,
John Courtney
Murray Award for Distinguished Achievement in Theology, awarded by the Catholic
Theological Society of America,
Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa, Christ the King Seminary,
Catholic
Press Association, second prize for best book of 1983 in the category of
Professional and Educational Resources, for Nuclear
Ethics: A Christian Moral Argument.
Grants
Received:
Principal Investigator, grant of
$197,000 received by the Center for Human Rights and International Justice from
a Foundation that wishes to remain anonymous.
The grant is for the Center’s Human Rights Research and Education
Initiative on human rights research and education related to the rights of forced
migrants. It will expand the Center’s engagement with practitioners, including
the Jesuit Refugee Service and other human rights organizations working with
migrants and refugees around the world.
Grant for project on Human Rights of Forced Migrants
as an Ethical Framework for Advocacy, Boston College Center for Human Rights
and International Justice, 2007-09, from a foundation that wishes to remain
anonymous.
Grant for project on Ethical Responsibilities toward
Forced Migrants as a Framework for Advocacy: African Perspectives,
Grant for project on Ethical Responsibilities toward
Forced Migrants as a Framework for Advocacy: African Perspectives,
Fulbright
Scholar fellowship, 1996-97, for lecturing and research on "Human Rights
and Communal Solidarity: Contributions
from Western, African, and Christian Traditions,"
Association of
Walsh-Price
Fellowship,
Other
Presentations and Academic Responsibilities:
“The Rights of Refugees in a Globalizing
World,” Presentation to Porticus Foundation and the Brenninkmeijer family,
January 8, 2009, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
Oxford
University Refugee Studies Center, participant in conference on “An Unsettled Future? Forced Migration and Refugee
Studies in the 21st Century” 7–8 December 2007,
“Evangelization and Social
Justice,” Symposium for Campus Ministers,
“Ethical Responsibilities
toward Forced Migrants,” International Conference on the State of
“Social Ethics in a
Lecture, Humanitarian Crises
in a Divided World: Contributions from Catholic Social Thought,”
“Human Rights and Christian
Ethics: A Response to
Lecture Series,
Lecture, Humanitarian Crises
in a Divided World: Contributions from Catholic Social Thought,”
Presentation, “Ethical Issues for Policy regarding
Refugees,” conference on the Collaboration of Jesuit Universities regarding
Migration,
Leadership Team, Advanced
“The Search for Universal Values:
Religious Contributions,” lecture at The International Symposium on Universal
Values, held in connection with the 2004 Olympics,
Academy of Athens, Athens, Greece, May 25-28, 2004.
“Humanitarian
Crises, Refugees, and the Transnational Good: Global Challenges and Catholic
Social Teaching,” presentation at conference on forthcoming on “Scrutinizing
the Signs of the
“Globalization, Justice, and the Common
Good. Faculty Seminar on The Common Good
and Higher Education. Lecture.
Catholic
Peace Network, planning meeting, Catholic University of America, Washington,
D.C.
Lecture,
“Markets, Justice, and the Common Good,” Center for Social Ethics and Social
Justice, Catholic University of Eastern Africa,
Lecture, "The Common Good and the
Challenges of Pluralism,"
Lecture, "Globalization,
Solidarity, and Justice," presented at conference on New Developments in
Catholic Social Thought, University of Notre Dame, April 4-6, 2002.
"A
"Responding to Terrorism: a Christian Ethical
Perspective." Address to the
President's Council,
Lecture in Globalization and Inequality
Series,
“The Common
Good and Health Care Reform--Catholic Contributions to the Debate.” Presentation to the Board of Directors,
Catholic Health Association,
“Virtues and
Vices in Social Inquiry.” Presentation
at Conference on Moral Inquiry in Social Research, sponsored by the Erasmus
Institute, University of Notre Dame, and The Jesuit Institute, Boston
College. At
“The
“The Catholic Communitarian Vision of
the Church in the World.” Plenary
Lecture, Collegium Program on Catholic Higher Education.
“The Future of Social Witness: Karl
Barth and the Politics of the
“The Moral Development of University
Students,” response to presentation by William Spohn. Conference on Jesuit Higher Education in the
21st Century,
Consultation, Center for Theological
Inquiry,
Regis
University, Denver, CO. Inaugural
Lecture of the Institute for the Common Good, on “The Common Good or the Death
of Public Life.”
Conference on
The Globalization of the Economy and the Evolution of Catholic Social Thought,
sponsored by The Center of Concern, principal drafter of final document of the
conference,
“Transitions”
Program for Younger Jesuits Interested in Higher Education, participant and
lecture on “The Jesuit Educational Mission in a Pluralistic Environment,”
Loyola Marymount University, May 30-June 2, 1997.
“Renewal”
Program in Faith and the Intellectual Life, sponsored by “Collegium” and the
Lily Foundation, resource person and author of one of three conference
background documents, “The Catholic University Under the Sign of the
Cross.” At
University of
The Catholic
University of Eastern Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, November 8, 1996, Graduation
Keynote Address, “The Catholic
University, Human Suffering, and the Crisis of Humanism.”
Boston
Theological Institute Ethics Colloquium, Presentation, Civil Society and
Culture: Contexts for the Political role of Religion,"
Georgetown
University, Lecture, "The 'Gospel of Life' and the 'Culture of
Death," at conference on the Papal Encyclical Evangelium Vitae, November 10-12, 1995.
Wheeling
Jesuit College, Jesuit Lecture, "The
Boston
College, Jesuit Institute Lecture, "The
University of
Boston
Theological Institute Ethics Colloquium, presentation on Stephen Mott, Christian Perspectives on Politics,
Boston
Theological Institute, presentation on Stephen Mott, "Christian
Perspectives on Politics,"
University
of Dayton School of Law,
Maryknoll
School of Theology, three lectures, "Human Rights, the Common Good, and
the Option for the Poor,"
University
of Notre Dame, paper on "Freedom and Truth: Religious Liberty as Immunity
and Empowerment," presented at a conference on Social Ethics in the Murray Tradition,
Harvard
Program on Business, Economics and Values, presentation on "Ethical
Questions for a Market Economy after the Cold War,"
University
of Detroit, Faith Doing Justice Conference, sponsored by the National Office of Jesuit Social
Ministries, presentation on "Social Solidarity and Social Sin," June
23, 1991.
Christ the King Seminary,
Cato Institute,
Worcester
Polytechnic Institute, Humanities Faculty Seminar, Presentation on "The
Common Good Revisited," December 10, 1990.
Woodstock
Theological Center, Washington, D.C., Conference on the Social Contributions of
the Church after the Cold War, sponsored
by the Woodstock Center and the German Catholic Bishops Conference, presentation on "Human Rights and Ethnic
Conflicts," September 28-30, 1990
Woodstock
Theological Center, German-American Colloquium on The Ethics of Peace After the
End of the Cold War, sponsored by the Woodstock Center and the Catholic
Bishops' Conference of West Germany.
Presentation on "Human Rights and Ethic Conflicts: Global
Perspectives,"
Boston
Theological Institute Ethics Colloquium, paper presented: "A Communitarian
Reconstruction of Human Rights,"
"Presidential
Politics: Toward a More Substantive Treatment of Values," Conference on
Values and Images in Presidential Politics, sponsored by Harvard Divinity
School and the Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University, April 17-18, 1989.
The
Brookings Institution,
Seventh
Biennial Colloquium of the Russian Orthodox Church and Pax Christi
International, "Human Rights and the East/West Conflict,"
National
Jewish/Christian Conference, "The Contributions of Religious Communities
to Human Rights: A Catholic Perspective," and "Religious Agendas in
the Social/Political Arenas,"
University
of Notre Dame, Center for Pastoral Ministry, "Catholic Tradition and the
Ethics of the Arms Race," May, 1982.
St.
Mary of the
Ditchley
Foundations Conference on "Human Rights and World Peace,"
Courses Taught
at
Graduate:
The Common Good
Human Rights
Contemporary
Theories of Justice
Christian
Ethics: Major Figures
Christian
Ethics and Social Issues
Public
Theology and Public Philosophy
Christian
Social Thought and Economic Justice
Reinhold
Niebuhr and John Courtney Murray
Ethics Doctoral Seminar
Undergraduate:
Introduction
to Christian Theology
Christian
Ethics and Social Issues
Religion
and Politics
Christian
Ethics of War and Peace
Ethics
of War and Peacemaking
Ethics,
Religion, and International Politics
Humanitarian
Crises and Refugees: Ethical, Religious, and Political Perspectives.
Human
Rights
Service at
University:
Director,
Gasson Chair Search Committee,
2002—present.
Jesuit Institute, Advisory Board,
2002—present; Acting Director, spring 2004.
International
Studies Major Academic Policy Committee, 1997—present
International
Studies Advisory Committee, 1997--2002
Participant,
Jesuit Institute faculty seminar on Justice in Jesuit Higher Education,
2000--2004
University
Academic Planning Council (UAPC), consultant to the Committee on Catholic and
Jesuit Identity, appointed by chair of the committee, Richard Cobb-Stevens,
1995-96.
Consultant
to Brennan Chair Search Committee, School of Education, 1995-1996
Search Committee for University
Librarian (1995)
Search
Committee for Dean of Graduate
Baccalaureate Sermon, Commencement
Liturgy,
Jesuit Institute Seminar on the
Alienation of Intellectuals from Religion, 1993—1998.
Convenor, Faculty Study Seminar on papal
encyclical Veritatis Splendor 1993-94.
Boston
College Committee on Sexual Diversity, response to lecture by Andrew Sullivan,
"Homosexuality and the Catholic Church,"
Carroll School of Management, Faculty
seminars on Leadership for the Common Good, (1994).
Theology Department:
Convenor,
Theological Ethics Section, 2010—, 2002—03.
Ph.
D. Admissions Committee, Ethics Section, annually
Executive Committee, 2004—2006; 1993-95
Curriculum
Committee, 2001—2003.
Graduate
Admissions Committee, 2002-2004.
Steering
committee for Ph.D. Program redesign, 1994-96.
Coordinator,
Ethics section planning committee for Ph.D. revision, 1994-96.
Ad Hoc Committee on Ex Corde Ecclesiae (chair), 1993-4.
Steering Committee for Ph.D. Programs,
1994-96
Policy
Committee for
Consultant
to Search Committee for faculty appointment in Christian Ethics,
Related to the
Society of Jesus:
Entered:
Ordained to the Priesthood:
Other
Church-Related Positions:
Leadership Team, Advanced
Presenter,
Presenter,
Consultant,
National Conference of Catholic Bishops (U.S.) and Mexican Bishops Conference,
on Church responses to proposed U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement, May, 1991.
Consultant,
National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Committee on Catholic Social Teaching
and the
Consultant
to National Conference of Catholic Bishops, Ad Hoc Committee on the Moral
Assessment of Deterrence Policy, 1987.
Consultant
to Humberto Cardinal Medeiros on pastoral letters: "Choose Life: A
Pastoral Letter on the Threat of Nuclear War," Easter, 1982, and "Stewards
of This Heritage: Religious and Moral Reflections on the Dignity and
Responsibility of Public Office and Citizenship,"
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