EDUCATION

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, expected 2007
Doctor of Philosophy in Theological Ethics   

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 2002
Master of Theological Studies

Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA, 1998
Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics
Minor:  Music


DISSERTATION

"Migration, Borders and Human Rights:  Through Solidarity and Subsidiarity to Justice"
Advisor:  Professor David Hollenbach


FELLOWSHIPS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

Flatley Fellowship in Theological Ethics, 2002-2006
Ernest Fortin Memorial Foundation Grant for Summer Research, 2006
Boston College Summer Language Study Grant, 2004


PUBLICATIONS

"Sovereignty as Responsibility:  A Model for Confronting the Problems of Irregular Migration," in Heuser, Stefan, ed.  Political Ethics and International Order (working title).  Muster: Lit-Verlag, 2007.

"'The Tyranny of Caprice': Absolutism and Relativism in the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger," in Timmerman, Christine et al.  Faith-Based Radicalism:  Christianity, Islam and Judaism between Constructive Activism and Destructive Fanaticism.  In: Gabriel Fragnière, Gods, Humans, and Religions, P.I.E.-Peter Lang: Brussels, 2006.


PAPERS

"'For You were Strangers: A Biblical Perspective on Undocumented Workers in the United States," paper to be read at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Scriptural Reasoning Group, Washington, D.C., November 2006.

"Sovereignty as Responsibility:  A Model for Confronting the Problems of Irregular Migration." International Joint Conference of the Society for the Study of Christian Ethics (UK) and Societas Ethica, Political Ethics and International Order, Wadham College, Oxford, UK, August 2006.

"Border Control and Alien Admission:  State Sovereignty from the Perspective of Catholic Social Teaching." College Theological Society Annual Meeting, Denver, CO, June 2006.

"'The Tyranny of Caprice': Absolutism and Relativism in the Thought of Joseph Ratzinger," Universitair Centrum Sint Ignatium Antwerpen Summer Seminar, "Faith-Based Radicalism: Christianity, Judaism, Islam," Antwerp, Belgium, September 2005.

"Distinct from What?: The Distinctiveness of Christian Ethics and Inter-religious Dialogue," Engaging Particularities II: Comparative Theology Conference, Boston College, March 2004.