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Christina Astorga is a professor and chair of the Department of Theology at the University of Portland and has served in this capacity since 2014. She previously served as the chair of the Theology Department of the Ateneo de Manila-Loyola Schools. Additionally, she was a visiting scholar at the Weston Jesuit School of Theology from 1996 to 1997; Astorga was a fellow at the Jesuit Institute of Boston College in 2003 and at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University in 2004. She was the founding director of the Center for the Study of Catholic Social Thought at Duquesne Univesrity from 2007 to 2011. In 2014, her second book, Catholic Moral Theology and Social Ethics: A New Method (2014), received the College Theology Society’s Best Book Award. Astorga received her B.A. and M.A. from the College of the Holy Spirit in Manila and her Ph.D. from the Loyola School of Theology. 
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