The Center for Catholic Studies offers a number of lectures every year.  They are given by interesting people who draw on the Catholic intellectual tradition to speak to students, faculty, staff, and community.  Jason King, the Director of the Center for Catholic Studies, sits down with these individuals to talk about their background, how they came to their insights on the Catholic intellectual tradition, and where they see the future of Catholicism.  This conversation is Beyond the Lecture! 

Nancy M. Rourke, Ph.D

Nancy M. Rourke, Ph.D., teaches courses in religious studies, Catholic ethics and ecotheology at Canisius University of Buffalo, New York, where she has led sustainability and Catholic Studies programs. She has also taught graduate and undergraduate courses in social ethics, religions and bioethics in Rochester-area institutions. She earned her Ph.D. in Theology at St. Patrick’s College, the Pontifical University of Maynooth, Ireland and master’s degrees in Theology at Boston University. Rourke’s scholarship is in Catholic ecological virtue ethics, ecotheology and medical ethics at the end of life. She has served on the editorial boards for the Conversations on Jesuit Higher Education magazine and the Journal for Critical Animal Studies and is a member of the Board of the College Theology Society.