Ashley Logsdon is a doctoral student in Systematic Theology with a minor in Biblical Studies. Drawing upon her interdisciplinary training, she is interested in fundamental questions at the interface of Christianity and the natural sciences. Ashley is fascinated by the nineteenth-century emergence of evolutionary biology and related theological questions about human origins, suffering and death, divine action within space and time, ecology, and the biblical exegesis which undergirds Church teaching on these themes.  

After completing an undergraduate degree in biology and theology at the University of Notre Dame, Ashley taught both high school science and religion through the ACE Teaching Fellows program. She continued to serve in Catholic high schools and for five years of full-time parish ministry. These catechetical experiences have nourished Ashley’s ongoing interest in theological pedagogy, formation for discipleship, and STEM education in Catholic schools and universities.