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Michael P. Jaycox, PhD

Associate Professor
Theology and Religious Studies
Special Assistant to the Vice President for Faculty Development
Division of Mission Integration

Biography

Michael Jaycox CV

Dr. Michael Jaycox is a theologian specializing in the Catholic ethical tradition. He holds a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College. His research and teaching address theological questions and perspectives on race, racism, and racial justice; bioethics/medical ethics; the ethics of gender and sexuality; and the role of emotions in ethical judgment and collective action. He uses a variety of interdisciplinary and critical methodologies to approach these questions, including feminist, queer, liberationist, ethnographic, and reconstructed natural law methods. He has been a member of the faculty at 新澳门六合彩开奖结果 since 2014, and he received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2020. In addition to his faculty appointment, he serves as Special Assistant to the Vice President for Faculty Development in the Division of Mission Integration. Prior to his academic career, he served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps as a paralegal and community organizer at a legal aid organization.

Education

  • Boston College, Ph.D., Theological Ethics, 2014
  • Weston Jesuit School of Theology, M.Div., 2008
  • DePaul University, B.M., summa cum laude, Music Composition, 2004

Courses Taught

  • THRS 4300: Major Themes and Thinkers in Christian Theology
  • THRS 3230/UCOR 3100: Global Bioethics and Religion
  • THRS 2206/UCOR 2100: Theology, Race, and Racism
  • THRS 2203/UCOR 2100: Sexual Ethics
  • HUMT 2020: Contemporary Catholic Theological Ethics

Publications

“Lifting Up the Voices of Others: James F. Keenan on the Anthropological, Historical, and Practical Conditions for Articulating a Catholic Sexual Ethic,” in Christopher Vogt and Kate Ward, eds., Bothering to Love: James F. Keenan’s Retrieval and Reinvention of Catholic Ethics (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, forthcoming 2024).

“,” in Tobias L. Winright, ed., T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics (New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021), 91-101.

“,” Political Theology 21, no. 5 (2020): 415-433.

“,” Religions 10, no. 9 (2019): 528.

“,” Horizons 44, no. 2 (2017): 306-341.

“,” Health Progress 97, no. 6 (2016): 42-47. Reprinted in Charles E. Curran and Lisa A. Fullam, eds., Readings in Moral Theology no. 19: U.S. Moral Theology from the Margins (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2020).

“,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 36, no. 1 (2016): 123-143.