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Denis Goulet is Professor Emeritus, O'Neill Chair in Education for Justice, Department of Economics, and Faculty Fellow of Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His research centers on the ethics of international development. Prof. Goulet's books include The Cruel Choice: A New Concept in the Theory of Development and The Uncertain Promise: Value Conflicts in Technology Transfer , both of which have gone through multiple editions. His latest book is Development Ethics: A Guide to Theory and Practice. He has experienced at first hand the depressed communities which his scholarship addresses, working alongside local populations in Brazil, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Guinea-Bissau, Algeria, France, Spain, and Canada. He was for some time a Senior Fellow of Washington's Overseas Development Council. He is a three-time recipient of Fulbright awards.
Charles Wilber, Emeritus Professor of Economics and Fellow both of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame, studies economic development and the ethical issues which surround it. He is an expert both on economic development and Catholic social teaching, and has thirteen books and edited collections on these subjects to his credit. Early in his career, he published a great deal on the economic development policies of the Soviet Union and the United States, including two books, The Soviet Model and Underdeveloped Countries, and An Inquiry into the Poverty of Economics. Prof. Wilber has served as a consultant to the Interamerican Development Bank, the Peace Corps, and the U.S. Catholic Bishops.
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Eileen Hunt Botting, Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science, holds B.A.s from Bowdoin College and Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from Yale University. Prof. Botting is a political theorist whose research and teaching interests include Enlightenment moral and political theory, the family in Western political thought, Christian moral and political theory, liberalism, republicanism, feminism and conservatism. Her upcoming courses include a senior seminar entitled "Family, Civil Society and the State," an undergraduate course entitled, "The Enlightenment and its Revolutions," and a graduate seminar entitled "What is the Enlightenment?" She is completing a book manuscript entitled, Family Feuds: Wollstonecraft, Burke and Rousseau on the Transformation of the Family . Her article entitled, "The Family as Cave, Platoon and Prison: The Three Stages of Wollstonecraft's Philosophy of the Family," appears in the Winter 2002 issue of The Review of Politics.
Fred Dallmayr, Dee Professor of Political Science, has been an academic wayfarer for some fifty years now. A distinguished political philosopher with particular interest in the Frankforth School of social criticism and Eastern philosophy, he holds doctorates in political science and in law, and studied other subjects at the University of Brussels and The Institute for European Studies in Turin, Italy, without taking degrees. He was a professor at Purdue (where he was head of the Department of Political Science for six years), Duke, and Oxford Universities, as well as the Universities of Georgia, Hamburg, Baroda (India), and the New School for Social Research in New York. He has received both Fulbright and National Endowment for the Humanities grants. He has written fifteen books, notably Language and Politics: Why Does Language Matter to Political Philosophy?, The Other Heidegger, and Alternative Visions: Paths in the Global Village, edited five others, and written numerous scholarly articles.
Edward Goerner, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, is expert in the field of political theory. He has a book to his credit, Peter and Caesar, and is working on a second, which will address aristocratic politics. He has edited two volumes, Democracy in Crisis and The Constitutions of Europe. He has written numerous scholarly articles dealing with both the history of and current debates within political philosophy, including "Politics and Coercion," "On Thomistic Natural Law: The Bad Man's View of Thomistic Natural Right," and "Privacy, Libertarian Dreams, and Politics." Prof. Goerner founded Notre Dame's Concentration in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, and has long been associate editor of the Review of Politics.
Mary Keys, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute of European Studies, researches the history of political philosophy, ethics and political philosophy, Christian political thought, Catholic social teaching, and religion and politics. She has published several scholarly essays, including "Personal Dignity and the Common Good: A Twentieth Century Thomistic Dialogue." Fluent in several languages, she has also published scholarly work in Spanish. Prof. Keys has been the recipient of five research fellowships, including a Bradley Fellowship with the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame. In addition to her scholarly activities, she spent several years in the early 1990s as coordinator of a low-cost English language immersion program for Polish youth.
Walter Nicgorski, Professor of Liberal Studies and concurrent Professor of Political Science, studies the history of political theory (particularly the classical Roman and early American periods) and the interplay of political theory and education. His published essays include "Moral Character," "The Social Dimension of Moral Development," "The College Experience and Character Development," and "The Morality of the Liberal Arts: An Aristotelian Perspective." He has also contributed to Norma Thompson's Instilling Ethics. He has written on Cicero and is preparing a book on his moral and political thought. He has also edited collections on the thought of Leo Strauss and the ethical thought of the American founders. Prof. Nicgorski has received a number of research grants, including Danforth, Lilly, Woodrow Wilson, and National Endowment for the Humanities awards. He has been a visiting scholar at both Harvard and Cambridge Universities. He was for many years chairman of the Program of Liberal Studies at Notre Dame, the University's Great Books major concentration. He is editor of The Review of Politics.
Daniel Philpott is Associate Professor and Faculty Fellow of the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His interestes include international relations and political philosophy, focusing on sovereignty, the role of ideas in politics, ethics and international relations, and transitional justice. He recently published his first book, Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations, a historical account of how new ideas about justice and legitimate authority fashioned the global sovereign states system. He has since applied the same argument to a contemporary revolution in sovereignty, the rise of internationally sanctioned intervention. Reflecting his interests in political theory and ethics and international relations, he has also written on the morality of self-determination and on religious freedom as an end of American foreign policy. Currently, he is working on two central projects, one on the influence of religious on peace settlements, transitonal justice, and democratization, the second on the ethics of reconciliation, applied to societies undergoing transitions away from authoritarianism and war. He has published articles in World Politics, Ethics, Political Studies, The Journal of International Affairs, and The National Interest, and has held fellowships at Harvard University, Princeton University, and the Erasmus Institute at Notre Dame.
Leon Roos, Professor of Political Science and Director of the Undergraduate Concentration in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics, specializes in ancient and medieval political theory, Catholic political theory, congress, public policy, urban politics, and politics and literature. He has received many awards, both for his work as a researcher and as a teacher. He was twice the recipient of a HUD research grant, and in 1984 received the Sheedy Award for Outstanding Teaching in the College of Arts and Letters, given to one professor a year. Prof. Roos co-authored a book, Housing and Public Policy: A Role for Mediating Structures, and has published both scholarly essays in fora as diverse as Review of Politics and Studies in Short Fiction and reports on applied research, most in the area of public housing and neighborhood development. He has served in the community both as an activist for urban renewal and as a policy advisor to two South Bend mayors, a county prosecutor, and a state senator.
Catherine Zuckert, Professor of Political Science, joined the Notre Dame faculty recently after many years as the Kenan Professor of Political Philosophy at Carleton College. She writes on political philosophy, American politics, public law, political economy, and politics and literature, and has published scholarship on subjects ranging from Aristotle to Huckleberry Finn. Her books include Natural Right and the American Imagination: Political Philosophy in Novel Form , winner of the Association of American Publishers' PSP Award for the Most Outstanding Book Published in Religion and Philosophy in 1990. She is also author of Postmodern Platos: Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, and Derrida and editor of a collection that won the American Library Association's Choice award in political theory. Prof. Zuckert has received numerous grants and awards, including Woodrow Wilson, Bradley, Earhart, and National Endowment for the Humanities awards. She has been a visiting scholar at a half dozen major research universities. She is an editor of the journal Interpretation with her husband, Michael.
Michael Zuckert, the Nancy R. Dreux III Professor of Political Science, works in political philosophy and theory, American political thought, American constitutional law, American constitutional history, constitutional theory, and philosophy of law. He has several books to his credit, including his newest title, Launching Liberalism . He is also editing a collection on Machiavelli and Shakespeare. Prof. Zuckert has received 23 research grants, and has been a visiting scholar at Fordham, Cornell, and Loyola Universities, among others. He has served as a consultant to PBS and the United States Department of Education, and was for some time on the National Council of the American Political Science Association. He and his wife are also editors of the journal Interpretation.
Karl Ameriks, the McMahon/Hank Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute of European Studies, is among the most highly regarded historians of philosophy in the world. A specialist in eighteenth and nineteenth-century German philosophy, he has written numerous articles for the premier journals in his field, and has had two books: Kant's Theory of Mind , published by Oxford's Clarendon Press; and Kant and the Fate of Autonomy , published by Cambridge University Press. Prof. Ameriks has translated works by Kant and Husserl, and presently serves as series co-editor for the Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy. He was honored with the presidency of the North American Kant Society from 1991-94. He is actively interested in contemporary continental philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of science, and has several publications in these fields.
Rev. David Burrell, CSC, Professor of Philosophy and Theology, Hesburgh Professor in the Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters and Director of Notre Dame's Jerusalem Program, specializes in philosophical theology, Islamic philosophy, and comparative theology. He is active in promoting understanding between the three major monotheistic traditions in the Middle East, and has done extensive research on the state of this relationship in the Middle Ages. The recipient of numerous research fellowships, including Woodrow Wilson and Fulbright awards, he has been a visiting professor at Princeton Theological Seminary, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and the National Major Seminary in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is author of six books, including most recently Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions and Original Peace: Restoring God's Creations, many scholarly articles, and two major translations of the work of Al-Ghazali.
Cornelius Delaney, Professor of Philosophy, works principally on the history of American philosophy and the pragmatist tradition, but has scholarly interests in ethics, philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion as well. He has authored books on the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars (Mind and Nature, The Synoptic Vision) and Charles Sanders Peirce (Science, Knowledge, and Mind), and has also written extensively on the ethical and political thought of John Rawls and the liberalism-communitarianism debate in which Rawls has played a major role. His articles in this vein include "Rawls on Justice," "Unger's Critique of Liberalism," and "Rawlsian Constructivism: A Version on Liberalism" in The Liberalism-Communitarianism Debate, a volume he edited for Rowman and Littlefield. Prof. Delaney is past president of the C.S. Peirce Society and the American Catholic Philosophical Association. Presently he serves as Co-Director of the Notre Dame Arts & Letters and Science Honors Program.
Michael DePaul, Professor of Philosophy, works primarily in ethics and epistemology. He is particularly interested in the intersection between these two subjects. His recent book, Balance and Refinement: Beyond Coherentism in Moral Inquiry, culminated a decade's worth of research in moral epistemology, much of it published in scholarly journals like American Philosophical Quarterly , Mind , and Philosophy and Phenomenological Research . He has also written on the philosophy of religion, the history of philosophy, and the ethical power of literature. Prof. DePaul has received numerous research grants, including a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for University Teachers. He has given numerous invited lectures, both in the United states and abroad.
Alfred Freddoso, Osterle Professor of Thomistic Studies in the Department of Philosophy, specializes in metaphysics, philosophical theology, and medieval philosophy. Lately, he has focused his research on the moral philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. He has produced scholarly editions (translations with introductions and notes) of works by Luis de Molina, William of Ockham, and Francisco Suarez; his editions of Ockham's Summa Logicae and Quodlibetal Questions are regarded as definitive by experts in the field. Prof. Freddoso has received over $100,000 in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was also the recipient of a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is the author of several dozen scholarly articles and encyclopedia entries, including recently "Ockham on Faith and Reason" in The Cambridge Companion to Ockham. Presently he serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Department of Philosophy.
Gary Gutting, Professor of Philosophy and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute of European Studies, works in three diverse but connected fields, continental philosophy (particularly the work of Michel Foucault), philosophy of science, and philosophy of religion, and is widely regarded as a leading authority in each. He has authored four books, most recently Pragmatic Liberalism and the Critique of Modernity (an exploration and critique of the work of leading ethical and social theorists Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, and Richard Rorty), and edited or co-edited four others, including The Cambridge Companion to Foucault . His books and articles have been translated into several languages, and he has given numerous invited lectures, including one at a symposium in his honor at the University of Utrecht. Prof. Gutting has received Fulbright and National Science Foundation awards, among others. He presently edits a major scholarly journal, American Philosophical Quarterly.
Montey Holloway, Professional Specialist and Assistant Chair of the Department of Philosophy, received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in 1981. He has published pieces in the Canadian Philosophical Review , The Southern Journal of Philosophy , and in the Review of Metaphysics . Dr. Holloway has done extensive research on the relationship of ethics and business practices, and his course "Ethics and Business" is one of the most popular philosophy courses offered in the department.
Ralph McInerny, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Jacques Maritain Center at Notre Dame, holds degrees from the St. Paul Seminary, University of Minnesota and Laval University. He has taught at the University of Notre Dame since 1955 and since 1978 has been the Michael P. Grace Professor of Medeival Studies. He is author of two dozen scholarly books and many more scholarly essays, as well as numerous general interest works. He is expert in the work of Thomas Aquinas, Soren Kierkegaard, and Jacques Maritain, and has written and lectured extensively on ethics, philosophy of religion, and medieval philosophy. Prof. McInerny is editor of an acclaimed series of translations of Aquinas's commentaries; for many years, he directed Notre Dame's prestigious Medieval Institute. In his spare time, he founded, edited, and wrote for Crisis, a journal of lay Catholic opinion, and penned over fifty novels, including the well-known Father Dowling mystery series. He has appeared on William Buckley's Firing Line and National Public Radio, and has lectured in nine countries, spanning three continents. He has served as president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, the Metaphysical Society, the American Maritain Society and the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars. He is a fellow of the Pontifical Academy of St.Thomas Aquinas. His Gifford Lectures, delivered in Glasgow in 1999-2000, were published under the title Characters in Search of Their Author (2001). He was recently appointed to membership on President Bush's Committee on the Arts and Humanities.
David O'Connor, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Concurrent Associate Professor of Classics, specializes in ancient philosophy, with particular emphasis on the ethical and political thought of Plato and Aristotle. He has published a dozen essays, including "Socrates and Political Ambition," "Aristotelian Justice as a Personal Virtue," "Two Ideals of Friendship," and "Leo Strauss's Aristotle and Martin Heidegger's Politics" in various scholarly journals, including Ancient Philosophy , Ethics , and History of Philosophy Quarterly . He has recently edited and introduced The Symposium of Plato: The Shelley Translation and will soon see the publication of his first book, Socrates and the Envy of the Gods . Prof. O'Connor has lectured widely, addressing the Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy, the American Political Science Association, and the American Philosophical Association. He is co-director of the interdisciplinary Philosophy, Politics, and Economics program at Notre Dame.
Philip Quinn, O'Brien Professor of Philosophy, specializes in philosophy of science and philosophy of religion, with strong secondary interests in the history of modern philosophy (the work of Kant and Kierkegaard, particularly) and ethics. His major book, published by Oxford University Press, explores the theoretical possibilities of a "divine command" ethics. Prof. Quinn is extraordinarily active professionally, presently serving as Chair of the National Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association and sitting on eight A.P.A. sub-committees. He also helped plan the recent World Congress of Philosophy. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Michigan and Illinois (Chicago Circle), and at Princeton and Ohio State Universities. He is the author of literally hundreds of scholarly articles and reviews, both in mathematics and solid-state physics (in which he holds an M.S.) and in every area of philosophy.
Kenneth Sayre, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Philosophic Institute at Notre Dame, is a true generalist, engaging areas as diverse as cognitive science, philosophy of religion, and the work of Plato and Ludwig Wittgenstein. He has received grants totaling several hundred thousand dollars from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was engaged in sponsored research, without interruption, from 1962 to 1979. Prof. Sayre has an abiding interest in environmental ethics, and has published several articles in the field, including "Morality, Energy, and the Environment" and "An Alternative Model for Environmental Ethics." He is the author of eleven books, editor or co-editor of five more, has delivered dozens of invited lectures at prestigious colleges and universities, and has been a visiting scholar at Princeton University, Cambridge University, and Oxford University.
Kristin Shrader-Frechette, O'Neill Professor of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science and Concurrent Professor of Biology, specializes in normative ethics and philosophy of science. She has authored fourteen books and more than 280 articles, many on ecology and theories of justice and rights. The National Science Foundation has funded her research continuously since 1981. Prof. Shrader-Frechette has advised the United Nations and the World Health Organization, and has addressed the National Academies of Science in three foreign countries as well as served on many committees and boards of the US National Academy of Sciences. Her work has been translated into eleven languages. She has served as President of the International Society for Environmental Ethics, Past President of the Society for Philosophy and Technology, and Past President of the Risk Assessment and Policy Association. In each case, she was the organization's first woman president. Her latest book, Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy, was published in 2002 by Oxford University Press.
W. David Solomon, the Director of the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, received his B.A. from Baylor University (1964) and his Ph.D. from the University of Texas (1972). He joined the Department of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame in 1968. He has also been a National Endowment of Humanities Research Fellow at Oxford University in 1972-73, a Milbank Research Fellow at Boston University in 1975-77, a University Research Fellow at Oxford University in 1982-83 and 1988-89 (where he was affiliated with Brasenose College), and a visiting professor at Baylor University in 1994-95. He was the founding director of the Notre Dame Arts and Letters/Science Honors Program (1981-86) and the director of the Notre Dame London Program (1985-86). His research interests have focused for the most part on issues in contemporary moral philosophy with a special interest in medical ethics. He was the coauthor of the first study of the public policy implications of the Roe v. Wade abortion decision, Abortion and Public Policy , and a study of the philosophy of Wilfrid Sellars, The Synoptic Vision . He is the author of a number of articles that appear in scholarly journals as well as in more popular journals. He has appeared frequently on television, including The Firing Line, and has been the academic advisor for many years of Notre Dame's nationally syndicated PBS television program, Today's Life Choices, on which he frequently appears. He is a contributor both to the Encyclopedia of Ethics and to the Encyclopedia of Bioethics . His videotaped lectures, Ethics in the 20th Century , are included in the Great Teachers Series. Prof. Solomon has lectured at over 100 colleges and universities in this country and Europe and has recently given the Founder's Day Lecture at Seton Hall University and the McKinlay Scholar Lectures to a consortium of colleges and universities in Ohio. He is currently working on a scholarly monograph on the recent revival of virtue ethics and two volumes of collected materials growing out of the annual Notre Dame Conference on Medical Ethics, which he has directed since 1986.
James Sterba, Professor of Philosophy and Faculty Fellow of Notre Dame's Institute for International Peace Studies, has authored over a dozen books in ethical theory, applied ethics, and political philosophy, most recently Justice for Here and Now, and has several more forthcoming from Oxford and other distinguished presses. Well known for his work on bioethics, feminism, and issues relating to war and peace, Prof. Sterba boasts an impressive list of professional honors and awards. Particularly notable among these is the Fulbright Award he received to teach courses on Peace and Justice in the Soviet Union in 1988-89. He is one of only two philosophers who has received this award.
Paul Weithman, Professor of Philosophy and Departmental Chair, specializes in political philosophy, with particular emphasis on the relationship between religion and politics in the liberal tradition. His forthcoming book, Religion and the Obligations of Citizenship, explores in greater depth themes he has articulated in numerous published articles (including the entry on "Religion and Political Philosophy" in the recently released Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy ). Prof. Weithman has also done significant work in the history of philosophy, writing on the founders of the liberal tradition and major figures in the history of Christian thought, notably Thomas Aquinas and Augustine. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, where he worked with John Rawls and Judith Shklar. He has been the recipient of numerous research fellowships, including ones from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the National Humanities Center, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Prof. Michael Baxter, Assistant Professor of Theology and Fellow of the Institute for International Peace Studies, specializes in theological ethics and the history of Christianity in America. A few years out of the Ph.D. program at Duke University, where he studied under Stanley Hauerwas, Baxter has already been recognized by the academic community with two distinguished fellowships, the Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for the Study of American Religion at Princeton University. He has published a dozen scholarly essays, including "Blowing the Dynamite of the Church: Catholic Radicalism from a Catholic Radicalist Perspective," "Catholicism and Liberalism," "Eruditio Without Religio?: The Dilemma of Catholics in the Academy," and "Is This Just War: Two Catholic Perspectives on the War in Afghanistan." Prof. Baxter has himself been extraordinarily active outside the academy. He helped found both a shelter and an employment service in the Phoenix area in the mid-eighties, and has delivered countless talks to non-academic groups, both in his capacity as a priest and as a participant in the Catholic Worker Movement. Most recently, in the autumn of 2003, he helped found a Catholic Worker House in South Bend.
Rev. Charles Gordon, Assistant Professor of Theology, is a new addition to both the Notre Dame faculty and the academic world. A priest in Notre Dame's founding order, he served a parish in Cambridge, England while working on his Ph.D. with Nicholas Lash. He also served the church for several years as a teacher of systematic theology at a seminary in Nairobi, Kenya. Prof. Gordon works primarily on the history of theology in the modern period, with lively side- interests in homiletics, narrative theology, and theological ethics. His first published essays include "Preaching Good News to Anxious People."
Gerald McKenny, Associate Professor of Theology and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute for European Studies, holds a B.A. from Wheaton College, an M.Div. from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. McKenny was previously Associate Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Rice University. His current research areas are theological ethics and the ethics of biotechnology. He is the author of, To Relieve the Human Condition (SUNY, 1997), a Choice Outstanding Book, and of twenty-five articles in Christian ethics and biomedical ethics. He is co-editor of The Ethical: Blackwell Readings in Continental Philosophy published in the spring of 2003, and is co-principal investigator on a $1 million Ford Foundation grant on Biotechnology, Religion and Ethics.
Mark L. Poorman C.S.C., Vice President of Student Affairs, was elected to that position by the board of Trustees in April 1999. Father Poorman first joined the Notre Dame faculty in the theology department in 1985. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and earned his Ph.D. From the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. He was ordained a priest in the Congregation of Holy Cross in 1982. His scholarly interest is in moral theology and its pastoral applications. He has taught courses on Christian ethics, Catholic moral teaching and pastoral practice. He has written and lectured on topics ranging from medical ethics to Christian ministry and Catholic higher education. He is the author of Interactional Morality (Georgetown Press, 1993) and editor of Labors from the Heart (Notre Dame Press, 1996), a collection of essays on mission and ministry at Notre Dame.
Jean Porter, John A. O'Brien VI Professor of Christian Ethics and Moral Theology, is an expert on the work of Thomas Aquinas and the Thomist tradition in ethics. She has written extensively on theories of natural law, virtue approaches to ethics, and other topics rooted in her historical interests. She is also interested in medical ethics, and spent several years as a junior scholar in residence at the Vanderbilt Medical Center, and in feminist approaches to ethics. Prof. Porter has published two books, most recently Moral Action and Christian Ethics (1999) and Natural and Divine Law: Reclaiming the Tradition for Christian Ethics (2000). She has received numerous research grants from sources inside and outside the University of Notre Dame, including recently the Luce Fellowship in Theology, awarded by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.
Maura Ryan, Assistant Professor of Christian Ethics and Associate Provost, specializes in Catholic approaches to medical and sexual ethics. Her first book, Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction: The Cost of Longing , was published by Georgetown University Press in 2001. She has already published scholarly essays in journals as diverse as Theological Studies, Politics and the Life Sciences , and Journal of Perinatology , and has given many guest lectures. Prof. Ryan was honored with the first Jeanette Lappe Memorial Prize in Bioethics by the Hastings Center, for her 1989 essay, "The Argument for Unlimited Procreative Liberty: A Feminist Critique." She has also received fellowships and awards from the Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and from the Lilly Endowment. She is a member of the St. Joseph County Healthcare Advisory Committee and the Ethics Committee of Hospice of St. Joseph County.
Todd Whitmore, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics in the Department of Theology, also directs the Undergraduate Program in Catholic Social Tradition (a program he founded), and is a Faculty Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. His research is focused principally on the history of Catholic social thought. He has written a large number of scholarly and popular articles on just war theory, environmental and economic ethics, and medical ethics, and will soon publish his first book, The Common Good and the Care of Children: Catholicism, American Public Life, and the Challenge of Abortion. Prof. Whitmore has received research grants from the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Lilly Endowment, and the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada. In 1995, he was a visiting scholar at The Center for Theological Inquiry in Princeton. He is active in the South Bend community as a Big Brother.
Other Faculty (including faculty of St. Mary's College)
Vittorio Hösle, Paul G. Kimball Chair of Arts and Letters, Professor of German/Russian Language & Literature, Concurrent Professor of Political Science and Professor of Philosophy, and Fellow of the Nanovic Institute of European Studies, has distinguished himself in virtually every area of contemporary philosophy. Hailing from Germany, Prof. Hösle had already published more than a dozen books (not counting edited collections, general interest works, or scholarly translations) when he joined Notre Dame's German and Philosophy departments in 1999. He has worked extensively on the history of philosophy, ethics (environmental ethics in particular), and political philosophy. His largest book is Moral und Politik (English translation forthcoming). His work has been translated into fourteen languages. He is the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including a fellowship at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut Essen, the Erasmus Institute at Notre Dame, and the Heisenberg Research Fellowship, and has been a visiting professor at various universities in Europe, the USA, Asia, and Latin America.
Joseph Incandela, Professor of Religious Studies at St. Mary's College, works on a wide variety of issues in Christian ethics, including biomedical ethics, just war theory, sexual ethics, the ethics of capital punishment, and social justice. His audience is both academic and general. A graduate of Princeton University's distinguished Religion Department, he has excelled both as a scholar and as a teacher in his years at St. Mary's, receiving four grants and awards, including the Maria Pieta Award for Excellence in Teaching. His work continues to find places where contemporary ethical concerns intersect with more properly metaphysical issues explored by philosophers of religion and philosophical theologians.
Georges Enderle, O'Neil Professor of International Business Ethics, enjoys an international reputation for his work in business ethics. He specializes in the ethics of international development. A native of Switzerland, he taught at universities in three European countries before coming to Notre Dame in 1992. Prof. Enderle is author of four books, including Securing the Minimal Standard of Living in the National and International Context and The Impact of the Great Depression of the Thirties on the Personal Distribution of Income and Wealth. He also has numerous scholarly articles to his name. He has three times received research from the Swiss National Science Foundation, and has spoken at conferences and seminars for chief executives and managers in Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, Peru, Switzerland, and the United States.
Patrick Murphy, Professor and chair of Marketing, specializes in marketing ethics. In his scholarly work, he has argued that virtue theories provide more fruitful approaches to business ethics generally, and marketing ethics specifically. He has authored, co-authored, or edited nine books, including Marketing Decisions: The Higher Road , which won the Alpha Signa Nu Book Award in Social Sciences and Professional Fields. He has also published scores of scholarly essays, both refereed and invited, in the premier journals in his field: Journal of Business Ethics , Journal of Marketing , Business Ethics Quarterly , and Journal of Public Policy and Marketing , which he edited for six years. Prof. Murphy has also been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including a Fulbright fellowship. He served for a time as a consultant to the Federal Trade Commission's Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Oliver F. Williams, C.S.C., Associate Professor of Management, is the current academic director for the Center for Ethics and Religious Values in Business. He specializes in business ethics, Catholic social thought, and Pastoral theology. He is especially interested in the issue of how our spiritual and moral values can shape and influence our economic and business behavior. His published articles include "Can Business Ethics Be Theological: What Athens Can Learn From Jerusalem" ( Journal of Business Ethics), " Who Cast the First Stone" ( Harvard Business Review), "Catholic Social Teaching" ( Journal of Business Ethics), and "Business Ethics in South Africa" ( Encyclopedic Dictionary of Business Ethics). In addition, he authored, co-authored, edited and co-edited numerous books, including The Apartheid Crisis , Capitalism and the Common Good , A Virtuous Life in Business , Moral Imagination: How Literature and Films Can Stimulate Reflection in the Business World , and Economic Imperatives and Ethical Values in Global Business: The South African Experience and International Codes Today . Prof. Williams has served as a board member for numerous professional and public sevice organizations, and has served as the Associate Provost and Director of the M.Div. Program at the University of Notre Dame. From January 2003 to 2004, Prof. Williams served as a visiting professor of business ethics in a joint appointment from the Graduate Schools of Business of the Univeristy of Cape Town and Stellenbosch University.
Rodney Lee McClain, Associate Professional Specialist in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, holds a B.S. and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University and Unversity of Notre Dame respectively. His research activity is in the Hydronics laboratory where he participates in the design, fabrication, data acquisition, and data analysis of the "Low Flow Coil Test Program." He has published a number of scientific and technical papers and is a member of the NSPE. He is an active member of Clay United Methodist Church of South Bend and has been involved in youth mission work as part of the Russian Farms Community Project.
Gerard Bradley, Professor of Law, writes mainly on constitutional law and Catholic social teaching. He graduated first in his class from the Cornell University Law School, and worked as an Assistant District Attorney in the Trial Division under the New York County District Attorney before moving into the academy. His intellectual interests are broad: he has authored, co-authored, or edited books on organized crime, the relationship of church and state, health care for the elderly, and contemporary political theory. He has many scholarly articles to his credit, and is also a frequent contributor to popular magazines of political and cultural criticism like First Things and National Review . Prof. Bradley is past president of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, co-editor of American Journal of Jurisprudence, and a member of The Ramsey Colloquium on Theological Ethics.
John Copeland Nagle, Professor of Law, joined the law faculty as an associate professor of law in 1998 and became a full professor in 2001. He is a graduate of Indiana University and the University of Michigan Law School and is interested primarily in issues concerning environmental law, legislation, and property. He is the co-author of The Law of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Management, and is currently writing a book comparing environmental pollution, cultural pollution, and other kinds of "pollution." His published work deals with topics such as statutory interpretation, the legislative process, campaign finance, religion and environmental law, and the scope of congressional power to protect endangered species. In 2002, he received a Distinguished Lectureship award from the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board to teach environmental law and property law at the Tsinghua University Law School in Beijing. He worked in the United States Department of Justice, first as an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel where he advised other executive branch agencies on a variety of constitutional and statutory issues, and later as a trial attorney conducting environmental litigation. Professor Nagle has participated in numerous activities outside of the law school. He is a member of the executive committee of the Section on Legislation of the American Association of Law Schools, he is a vice chair on the Endangered Species Committee of the American Bar Association's environmental section, and he helps organize the annual meeting of the Law Professors' Christian Fellowship.
John M. Finnis, Biolchini Family Professor of Law, is widely recognized as one of the leading moral philosophers and leading natural-law theorists in the world. He earned his LL.B. From Adelaide University (Australia) in 1961 and his graduate degree from Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1965. He currently shares his time between the University of Notre Dame and Oxford University where he has been a lecturer, reader, and chaired professor of law. He has published numerous articles on natural law, the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, Catholic moral teaching and legal philosophy. His books include Natural Law and Natural Rights (Oxford University Press, 1980) and Aquinas: Moral, Political and Legal Theory (Oxford University Press, 1998).
Richard W. Garnett, Assistant Professor of Law and Fellow of the Institute for Educational Initiatives, received his B.A. in philosophy summa cum laude from Duke University in 1990, and his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1995. He served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and as editor of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After graduation, he clerked for Chief Judge Richard S. Arnold of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, and then for Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist. He practiced law for two years at the Washington, D.C., law firm of Miller, Cassidy, Larroca & Lewin, specializing in criminal-defense, religious-liberty, and education-reform matters. At Notre Dame, he teaches courses on criminal law, criminal procedure, First Amendment law, and the death penalty. His areas of research interest and expertise include: school choice, church / state relations, the death penalty and free exercise of religion.
John Robinson, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Law School, completed a Ph.D. in philosophy and taught for a time in Notre Dame's philosophy department before turning to law. Before coming to Notre Dame in 1981, he taught philosophy as an assistant professor at the University of San Francisco (1973-76), served as an instructor at the University of Miami (1979-80) and clerked at the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut (1980-81). To this day, he pursues scholarly interests at once legal and philosophical. Professor Robinson's areas of legal academic interest include civil procedure, jurisprudence, and trusts and estates. He has published many articles on the ethics and law of medicine. Prof. Robinson also works on education law and policy, and edits the Journal of College and University Law. In addition, he has been a member of the Human Rights Committee of the Logan Center in South Bend, Indiana since 1989. He spent ten years as Director of the White Center on Law and Government and is frequently sought as a lecturer, especially on topics relating to law and medicine.
Robert E. Rodes, Jr., joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1956 as an assistant professor of law, achieved the rank of associate professor of law in 1958, and professor of law in 1963. In 2000, the University honored Professor Rodes's more than 40 years of teaching and scholarship in the fields of legal ethics and jurisprudence by naming him the first permanent holder of the Paul J. Schierl/Fort Howard Corporation Chair in Legal Ethics. He earned his A.B. from Brown University in 1947 and his LL.B. magna cum laude from Harvard in 1952, where he also served on the staff of the Harvard Law Review. A member of the Massachusetts Bar since 1952 and the Indiana Bar since 1959, Professor Rodes has worked as an attorney with Liberty Mutual Insurance Company in Boston (1952-54), with Kaufman & Harris in Pittsburgh (summer 1977), and with the Legal Services Program of Northern Indiana (summer 1982). He has also taught as an assistant professor of law at Rutgers University (1954-56). Professor Rodes teaches and writes in the areas of administrative law, civil procedure, ethics, jurisprudence, law and theology, legal history and welfare legislation. He is a member of the Catholic Commission on Intellectual and Cultural Affairs.
James H. Seckinger, professor of Law, teaches and writes in the areas of deposition techniques, evidence, professional responsibility and trial advocacy. Since 1973, he has been a member of the faculty of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), which is headquartered at Notre Dame, and served as its director from 1979 to 1994. He earned his B.S. from St. John's University (Minnesota) in 1964, his M.S. from Vanderbilt University in 1968, and his J.D. from Notre Dame in 1968, where he served as articles editor of the Notre Dame Law Review. He co-authored Problems and Cases in Trial Advocacy , one of the leading books used to teach trial-advocacy techniques both in law schools and in continuing-legal-education programs for practitioners throughout the country. As a NITA faculty member, he frequently gives workshops on trial advocacy and deposition techniques at many of the nation's most prestigious law firms and to other legal organizations around the world. In 1996, he helped the Rwandan War Crimes Tribunal establish a system for conducting proper trials. In 1996, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field of post-admission legal education, the ALI-ABA Committee on Continuing Professional Education bestowed on Professor Seckinger its prestigious Francis Rawle Award.
Thomas Shaffer, Robert and Marion Short Professor of Law Emeritus, graduated first in his class from University of Notre Dame Law School (1961) and joined the Notre Dame Law School faculty in 1963 teaching primarily in the area of estate planning. From 1969 to 1971 he served as associate dean, and from 1971 to 1975 as dean. He rejoined the Notre Dame faculty in 1988 as a chaired professor. For most of his recent tenure, he has been a supervising attorney in the Notre Dame Legal Aid Clinic, teaching clinical ethics and guiding the legal practice of the law students who serve the needy of the South Bend area. While on the faculty of Washington & Lee University Law School from 1980 to 1988, he served as the director of its Frances Lewis Law Center (1983-85) and was named the Robert E.R. Huntley Professor of Law (1987-88). His expertise has given him numerous visiting scholar opportunities including visiting professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles, University of Virginia, and University of Maine, and distiguished visiting professor at Boston College Law School and at the University of Maine. His membership in professional organizations includes the Society of Christian Ethics, the Jewish Law Association the AALS Executive Committee (1975-76) and the ABA Accreditation Committee (1975-81). He has published over 300 scholarly works, most of his recent publications focusing on legal ethics, and he has authored and co-authored over a dozen books. The Notre Dame Law review published a "Propter Honoris Respectum" issue (festschrift) in his honor this spring (vol. 77, No.3, March 2002). Most recently, Professor Shaffer has been appointed Visiting Professor of Law at Valparaiso University for the Spring of 2003.
