Joseph Capizzi

Biography

Joseph Capizzi is the McGrath-Cavadini Director of the McGrath Institute for Church Life and Associate Professor of Theology in the Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame. Prior to that, Capizzi served as the first lay Dean of The School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America. He was also the founding executive director of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America. He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues in 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. He was a visiting Senior Fellow at the Stockdale Center of the United States Naval Academy. He is the author of A Catechism for Business: Tough Ethical Questions and Insights from Catholic Teaching (Catholic University Press, second edition 2016) and Politics, Justice, and War: Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare (Oxford University, 2015). He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, his Masters in Theological Studies from Emory University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Theology from the University of Notre Dame.