Graduate Students Awards 2025

The Center for Teaching Excellence awarded the Donald J. White Teaching Award to: Barb Kozee (Teaching Assistant), Jamie Myrose (Teaching Fellow), and Shaun Slusarski (Teaching Fellow).

The Center for Teaching Excellence also awarded the Apprenticeship in College Teaching to: Grace Agolia, Jean-Paul Juge, Jamie Myrose, Brett O’Neill S.J., John Steichen, and Peter Vale.

The Morrissey College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded: the Doctoral Fellowship to Grace Agolia and Jordan Parro.

In the photo (from left): Shaun Slusarski, Barb Kozee, Peter Vale, Jamie Myrose, and Grace Agolia.

Undergraduate Students Awards 2025

The Dennis Tully Theology Award has been awarded to John "JJ" Schlifske.

The Cardinal O'Connell Theology Medal has been awarded to Peter Watkins.

In the photo (from left): Dr. Matthew Kruger, John "JJ" Schlifske, Peter Watkins, Dr. Andrea Vicini, S.J.

Boston College places 13th worldwide in theology, divinity, and religious studies

The prestige and global reputation of the Theology Department in the Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences and the Clough School of Theology and Ministry helped Boston College to place 13th worldwide among schools of theology, divinity, and religious studies in the QS 2025 Rankings, released on March 12, 2025 in London.

QS rankings

Candlemas Lecture 2025: Dr. Graham Ward

2025 Annual Candlemas Lecture: Dr. Graham Ward: “Loneliness: A Theological Appraisal”

Dr. Graham Ward is the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford and Extraordinary Professor of Systematic Theology and Ecclesiology at the University of Stellenbosch.

Among his books are Cities of God, Cultural Transformation and Religious Practice, True Religion, Christ and Culture, The Politics of Discipleship, Unbelievable, and Unimaginable.

For the last ten years he has been working on Ethical Life, a major four-volume systematic theology, which includes two already-published volumes How the Light Gets In and Another Kind of Normal and the upcoming Salus.

New hire: Dr. Jos Moons, SJ

We are very pleased to announce that, in Fall 2025, Dr. Jos Moons, S.J. will join our faculty as Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology.

A graduate of Tilburg University (The Netherlands), as a Catholic theologian his areas of theological expertise encompass ecclesiology, pneumatology, and synodality.

We look forward to his theological contributions and to his teaching.

New Minors and Expanded Major

The Theology Department has launched three new minors and an Expanded Theology Major.

The new minors are Catholic Education and Theology, offered in conjunction with the Lynch School of Education and Human Development; Theology and Philosophy, in partnership with the Philosophy Department; and Interreligious Studies.

Compared to the Theology Major, the Expanded Theology Major has increased credit hours and an optional thesis.

The Theology Department continues to offer its Theology Minor as well as its popular minors in Religion and Public Life and Faith, Peace, and Justice.