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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
Dr. Christopher Roberts
Before coming to Villanova, my family and I lived in London,
where I completed my Ph.D. at
King's College, University of
London. I have recently published a new book, based on my Ph.D. thesis,
Creation and Covenant: The Significance of
Sexual Difference in and for the Moral Theology of Marriage.
Before becoming an academic and going abroad for study, I spent several years as
a television journalist at PBS, most recently as a reporter for the program
Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly.
Currently my research interests include Christianity and money; Christian
doctrine, worship, and ethics; as well as theology and political theory. My
M.Phil. thesis at Oxford was about just war, pacifism, and eschatology. My B.A.
thesis at Yale was about environmental ethics and economic development in
Zimbabwe. A friend of mine once said that Christian theology is a great
intellectual secret; few of the devout, not to mention non-Christians as well as
ordinary church-goers, get the chance to plumb its depths and riches, and I’d
like to help change that.
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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