Joseph Flipper
Associate Professor
- Office
- 430 Malloy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - jflipper@nd.edu
Biography
Joseph S. Flipper is Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame. His interests include twentieth-century theology, ecclesiology, and black Catholicism in the US. He is the author of The Black Catholic Movement: An Unfinished Fight for Self-Determination in the Church (New York University Press, 2026) and Between Apocalypse and Eschaton: History and Eternity in Henri de Lubac (Fortress, 2015). In support of his research, he has been awarded a Ford Foundation fellowship for research at the University of Notre Dame and a Fulbright for teaching and research at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile. In 2021, he served as the Co-Chair of the Conference of Ford Fellows.
Research Interests
Black Catholicism, Ecclesiology, Theology in the Twentieth Century, Ressourcement
Selected Publications
The Black Catholic Movement: An Unfinished Fight for Self-Determination in the Church (New York University Press, 2026), https://nyupress.org/9781479841363/the-black-catholic-movement/
Between Apocalypse and Eschaton: History and Eternity in Henri de Lubac (Fortress, 2015); “Black Catholic Reception of Vatican II,” Vatican II – Event and Mandate, Volume 5: North America, Australia, and Oceania, Catherine Clifford, Massimo Faggioli, Richard Lennan, and Ormond Rush, eds. (Peeters, 2025), 175–190
“Race, Ethnicity, and Catholicism,” The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Catholicism, Second Edition, Frederick C. Bauerschmidt, James J. Buckley, Jennifer Newsome Martin, Trent Pomplun, eds. (Wiley-Blackwell, 2024), 522–535.
Education
- PhD, Marquette University