Professional Bio

Education

Ph.D. Graduate Theological Union
    Religion and Society: Christian Ethics

J.D. Duke University
    School of Law

M.A. Duke University
    Philosophy

B.A. University of Notre Dame
    Program of Liberal Studies 

Dissertation

The Interdependence of Narrative and Casuistry in Practical Moral Reasoning.

Professional Experience

Director, Catholic Studies Program, Regis College
Member, Ethics Committee, Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital
Chair, Department of Religious Studies, Fall 2011-Spring 2013

Courses Taught

Religion and the Human Quest
Catholic Moral Tradition
Christian Moral Life
Catholic Social Justice
Catholic Health Care Ethics 
Catholic Imagination and Film
Catholic Literature
Senior Honors Seminar: Magis and the Search for Meaning

Research & Scholarship

Narrative ethics and casuistry
Moral psychology
Virtue ethics
Health care ethics

PUBLICATIONS  

Review of Happiness and the Christian Moral Life: An Introduction to Christian Ethics, by Paul J. Wadell.  Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, 31:1 (Spring/Summer 2011). 
 
“Ethics and the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services:  Text and Context,” Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital, Ethics Committee portal, 2010.

Review of New Wine, New Wineskins: A Next Generation Reflects on Key Issues in Catholic Moral Theology.  William C. Mattison III, ed.  On the web for H-Catholic at http://www.h-net.org/~catholic. (September, 2007).

“The Call to an Expansive and Discriminating Civic Engagement in Gaudium et Spes.”  Josephinium Journal of Theology.  12:2 (Summer/Fall, 2005).