McGrath-Cavadini Director University of Notre Dame, McGrath Institute for Church Life | Notre Dame, Indiana The McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame has selected Joseph E. Capizzi, dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at the Catholic University of America, as its next director. He will assume the role July 1.Capizzi has been a faculty member at the Catholic University since 1997. He was appointed dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies in 2023. Previously, he served as the executive director of Catholic University’s Institute for Human Ecology from its founding in 2016 until 2023.He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues of peace and war, citizenship, political authority and Augustinian theology. He has written, lectured and published widely on just war theory, bioethics, the history of moral theology and political liberalism. Capizzi is the author of “Politics, Justice and War: Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare,” published by Oxford University Press, and “A Catechism for Business: Tough Ethical Questions and Insights from Catholic Teaching” with Andrew Abela. He is currently working on a book project focused on the right to property in the Catholic tradition.Capizzi received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, his master’s in theological studies from Emory University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in theology from Notre Dame, where he was a John A. O’Brien Fellow.View the full announcement here.Phillip Petree led this search with Jonathan Sanchez and Christina Errico.
