Berit Reisenauer Guidotti is a doctoral candidate in Theological Ethics and an outdoor-loving native of the Pacific Northwest. Before beginning her doctoral studies, Berit worked as a management consultant in the technology and manufacturing industries. 

Berit’s dissertation explores the ethical implications of Artificial Intelligence in light of Catholic social thought, feminist and liberation theologies, and theological anthropology. Berit’s research attends to the systemic underbelly of AI, demonstrating that advanced science and technology should be ‘peripheral’ to human flourishing and prudentially ordered toward the common good, rather than individual benefit, corporate profit, or technocratic control.

Berit is a recipient of the Louisville Institute’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship, the Michael J. Garanzini, S.J. Fellowship in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and a Boston College Presidential Fellowship.

She is a student member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Christian Ethics, the College Theology Society, and the Catholic Theological Society of America.

Berit and her husband Tony spend the rest of their (non-research and teaching-oriented) time caring for their two young children and tending their small-but-bountiful community garden plot.