Berkley Center

Ethical and religious issues in world politics, including pluralism, diplomacy, and the role of the Catholic Church

Religion and globalization (particularly the Catholic Church/Jesuits), migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, sociological theory

Religion in U.S. foreign policy and international politics, ethics and political theology, role of religion in American presidential politics

Islam, Middle Eastern and world politics, political Islam, violence and peace, religion and gender in politics

Nuclear disarmament, nonviolence and just peacemaking, Catholic social teaching, ecumenical public advocacy, religion and climate change, the Catholic Church and China

Intersection of religion with literature, art, music, film, and culture; the Catholic Church in the United States

Human rights, refugees and migration, ethics, Catholicism and religious freedom, Catholics in public life and U.S./international politics, Catholic social thought, political and public theology

Theology, philosophical and religious ethics, law and religion (globally and in the U.S. constitutional context)

Religious authority and social movements in the Muslim world, political Islam, Middle East, Islam in Europe and the United States

Role of the Catholic Church in the world, social ethics, ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, ecclesiology, public theology, philosophy

Global development (especially Africa, South Asia, and Latin America), religion and gender, peacebuilding and dialogue