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Catherine of Siena Teaching Fellowship
The Ethics Program has among its excellent faculty two scholars
who have received the Catherine of Siena Ethics Teaching Fellowship. Usually these are younger
scholars who we think can contribute greatly to the teaching mission of the
Ethics Program. These Fellowships are one year postdoctoral appointments,
renewable up to three years.
The Fellows are teaching the introductory Ethics
course, with occasional opportunities to teach in the departments of:
- Philosophy
- Theology & Religious Studies
- Humanities and Augustinian Traditions
- As well as in the Center for Peace & Justice Education
In addition, they are very involved in the various
student-centered activities that the Ethics Program sponsors.
Current Fellows
Kathryn Getek
Kathryn is currently a doctoral candidate in the Department of Theology at Boston
College in Theological Ethics. Her dissertation, under the direction of Professor
James Keenan, S.J., develops a virtue ethics approach to justice with application
toward the reform of the American prison. As Catholic Chaplain at Suffolk County
House of Correction in Boston from 2006-2008, Kathryn developed her thinking about
prisons as well as her pastoral ministry to the incarcerated. She received her
Masters in Theological Studies (2003) and License in Sacred Theology (2008) from
Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In addition to her
interests in justice, virtue, and fundamental moral theology, Kathryn has also
researched in the area of bioethics, reflecting her undergraduate degree in molecular
biology from Princeton University (1999). Kathryn recently finished a term serving
as a student representative to the Board of the Society of Christian Ethics and is
currently the United States representative to the New Scholars Committee for Catholic
Theological Ethics in the World Church.
Dr. Mark Wilson
Before coming to Villanova, I received my Honors B.A. in Classical Studies and Theology
from Saint Louis University. After a few years of teaching middle school and running a
tennis center, I matriculated to Indiana University where I completed my Ph.D. in Religious
Studies, specializing in philosophical and religious ethics. My research and teaching
interests are driven by foundational questions about responsibility, self-interpretation,
human agency, and the emotions. Underlying my approach is a comparative analysis that
highlights the points of convergence and divergence in secular and religious perspectives.
I am currently working on a book, entitled The Virtues of Regret: Agency and Emotional
Responsibility, which explores the way that emotions like regret can have distinct and
profound moral significance. I am also researching a larger project that contrasts ancient
and modern concepts of purity of heart, beginning with early Christian texts and concluding
with an investigation of modern thinkers such as Nietzsche and Kierkegaard.
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