Berkley Center

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

religion and diplomacy, foreign policy, religious freedom

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

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

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

family, bereavement, and well-being; sociology of religion in China

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

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

Global safeguarding, sexual abuse prevention, clergy sexual abuse in the Catholic Church

systematic theology, spirituality, Catholic studies, Black studies, philosophy of religion, feminism and gender studies, decolonial theory, political theology, Christian spirituality