Kristin Heyer (USA), Chair

Kristin Heyer serves as Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Santa Clara University; she received her B.A. from Brown University and her Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College in 2003.  Her current research interests include the ethics of immigration, Catholic political engagement, and moral agency; she has published Prophetic and Public: the Social Witness of U.S. Catholicism, and her volume Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration will be out later this year, also from Georgetown University Press. Profile

Christine Firer Hinze (USA)

Christine Firer Hinze is a professor
 and Co-Director of The Francis and Ann Curran Center for American Catholic Studies
 at Fordham University. Profile

Bryan Massingale (USA)

Bryan Massingale, Professor of Theological Ethics at Marquette University, received his doctorate from the Accademia Alphonsium (Rome).  He teaches courses on Catholic Social Thought, African American religious ethics, liberation theologies, and racial justice.  His research focuses on stigmatized populations and the impact of religious faith as both a cause of social injustice and a resource for social transformation.  His current research projects explore the contribution of Black religious radicalism to Catholic theology, the notion of "cultural sin" and its challenge to Catholic theological ethics, and the intersections of race and sexuality in Catholic faith and practice.  He is the Past Convener of the Black Catholic Theological Symposium and a former president of the Catholic Theological Society of America. Profile

Chris Vogt (USA)

Christopher P. Vogt is Associate Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at St. John’s University (NY).  He teaches in the department of theology and in an interdisciplinary M.A. program in Global Development and Social Justice at St John’s University in New York City.  His current research explores connections between virtue ethics and Catholic Social Thought, and how theological understandings of the church/world relationship affect the field of moral theology.  In addition to writing for an academic audience, he is a contributor at catholicmoraltheology.com.

Tobias Winright (USA)