

Stokes Hall 341N
Telephone: 617-552-2836
Email: kristin.heyer@bc.edu
Exploring Catholicism I and II
Catholicism and Social Responsibility
HIV/AIDS and Ethics
Immigration and Ethics (PULSE)
Modern Catholic Social Teaching
Moral Agency (graduate seminar)
Migration and Christian Ethics (graduate seminar)
Theology, Ethics and Race (graduate seminar)
Social ethics, migration ethics, Catholic social thought, religion and politics, moral agency
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“Enfleshing the Work of Social Production: Gender, Race and Agency.” Journal of Moral Theology 12 (Special Issue 1): 82–107. https://doi.org/10.55476/001c.75195.
“Walls in the Heart: Social Sin in Fratelli Tutti,” Journal of Catholic Social Thought 19.1(Winter 2022) 25-40. DOI: 10.5840/jcathsoc20221913
Christianity and the Law of Migration: An Introduction, ed. with Silas W. Allard and Raj Nadella. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021.
“Radical Solidarity: Migration in the USA as a Challenge for Theological Ethics” in Charles E. Curran and Lisa A. Fullam, eds., U.S. Moral Theology from the Margins: Readings in Moral Theology No. 19 (Paulist Press, 2020).
“Becoming Islands of Mercy in a Sea of Indifference: Migration, Social Sin, and Conversion,” in Thomas Kelly and Robert Pennington eds., An Ethic for Bridge Building: Pope Francis’ Practical Theological Approach (Herder & Herder, 2020) 77-91.
“Migrants Feared and Forsaken: A Catholic Ethic of Social Responsibility,” Interdisciplinary Journal for Religion and Transformation in Contemporary Society 6.1 (July 2020) 158-170 DOI: https://doi.org/10.30965/23642807-00601010.
“Migration, Social Sin, and Solidarity,” in Peter Phan, ed., Christian Theology in the Age of Migration: Implications for World Christianity (Lexington Books, 2020).
Building Bridges in Sarajevo: The Plenary Papers from CTEWC 2018, ed. with James F. Keenan and Andrea Vicini. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2019.
“Beyond the Northern Paradigm: Catholic Theological Ethics in Global Perspective,” with Linda Hogan, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 39, 39.1 (Spring/Summer 2019).
“Internalized Borders: Immigration Ethics in the Age of Trump,” Theological Studies 79.1 (March 2018) 146-164.
Public Theology and the Global Common Good: the Contribution of David Hollenbach, ed. with Kevin Ahern, Meghan Clark, and Laurie Johnston. Orbis Press, 2016.
Conscience and Catholicism: Rights, Responsibilities and Institutional Responses, ed. with David DeCosse. Orbis Press, 2015.
Kinship Across Borders: A Christian Ethic of Immigration. Georgetown University Press, Moral Traditions series, 2012.
Works in progess:
The Moral Vision of Pope Francis: The Distinctive Contribution of the First Jesuit Pope, ed. with Conor Kelly, Georgetown University Press: 2024.
Moral Agency and the Promise of Freedom, under contract with Moral Traditions Series, Georgetown University Press: in progress.