Theology Department Faculty
Meghan Sweeney
Professor of the Practice
Cooney Family Director, PULSE Program for Service Learning
Meghan Sweeney
Contact
Stokes Hall 125N
Telephone: 617-552-3768
Email: meghan.sweeney@bc.edu
ORCID 0000-0002-4994-3689
Education
- Ph.D., Emory University
- Cert, Episcopal Divinity School
- M.Div., Harvard Divinity School
- B.A., College of the Holy Cross
Courses
- PULSE: Person and Social Responsibility I and II
- PULSE: Culture and Social Structures I and II
- PULSE: Philosophy and Theology of Community I and II
- PULSE for Presidential Scholars
- The Challenge of Justice
- Capstone: Personal Self, Public World
- Faith, Peace, and Justice Senior Seminar
Research Interests
Theological anthropology
Social theologies
Office Hours
M W 1-2:30 p.m., Tu 2:30-4 p.m and by appointment
Biography
Meghan T. Sweeney is Professor of the Practice in the Theology Department at Boston College. She joined the BC faculty in 2006 to teach in the PULSE Program for Service Learning, the university’s social justice education program based in the Philosophy and Theology Departments, and in 2014 became the program’s Cooney Family Director.
Before and during her years at BC, Meghan has served in a variety of contexts including in the areas of refugee resettlement, jail tutoring, legal aid, and hospital and university chaplaincies; with current PULSE community partners common cathedral, Boston Health Care for the Homeless, and St. Stephen’s Youth Programs; and in parish ministry as an Episcopal priest.
Her primary academic interests are in theological anthropology and social theologies.