Prof. Linda Hogan
Professor of Ecumenics and Fellow of the College
Linda Hogan is Professor of Ecumenics. She has degrees from the Pontifical University Maynooth and of Trinity College, Dublin, where she gained her Ph.D. In 2007 she became a Fellow of TCD. Her primary research interests lie in the fields of Christian ethics, human rights and gender. Amongst her recent publications are Religious Voices in Public Places, Oxford University Press, 2009 (edited with Nigel Biggar); Religions and the Politics of Peace and Conflict, Princeton Theological Monographs, 2009 (edited with Dylan Lee Lehrke); and Applied Ethics in a World Church, Orbis, 2008 (ed.) which received the 2009 Catholic Book Award from the Catholic Press Association of the USA and Canada. She is also the author of Confronting the Truth: Conscience in the Catholic Tradition, Paulist Press, 2000 and From Women’s Experience to Feminist Theology, Sheffield, Sheffield Academic Press, 1995, 1998 as well as essays and journal articles in the fields of social and political ethics, feminist theological ethics and intercultural ethics. She has been the co-editor of two special issues of Feminist Theory, i.e. Gendering Ethics/The Ethics of Gender 2001 and Ethical Relations, 2003.
Professor Hogan teaches on a range of modules including Ethics in International Affairs; Human Rights in Theory and Practice; Gender, War and Peace and Ecumenical Social Ethics. Previously she held the post of Lecturer in Gender, Ethics and Religion in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Leeds. In January 2005 she was a visiting professor at the Colleges of Divinity in both Sydney and Melbourne. She also delivered the Helder Camara Lectures in Sydney and Melbourne in July 2004. Her current Ph.D students are working on a range of topics including: the utility of moral restrictions in warfare; a feminist analysis of just war; Jehanne D’Arc and concept of divinely sanctioned war; an ecumenical ethic of human rights; the role of Catholic NGOs in the construction of a social ethic; and feminist epistemologies.
She is the Principal Investigator of the 3-year IRCHSS funded research project Visioning 21st Century Ecumenism. Previously funded research projects include Health Policy Formation in a Christian Culture with Religious Minorities and Interreligious Ethics and the Cultural Dynamics of Globalisation, with Professor Maureen Junker-Kenny. She has served on the Editorial Boards of Feminist Theory; the Journal of Religious Ethics and the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics. She has been a member of the Irish Council for Bioethics and has worked on a consultancy basis for NGOs and other national and international organisations.
Areas of expertise
International Human Rights, Feminist and Gender Theory, Ethics in International Affairs, Just War Theory, Christian Social Ethics, Religion and Politics, Media Ethics
Modules taught
Education
Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin
M.A. National University of Ireland
B.A. National University of Ireland
Contact details
Email: lhogan2@tcd.ie
Direct Tel: +353 (0) 1 206 0352
General Tel: +353 (0) 1 260 1144, ext. 126
Fax: +353 (0) 1 260 1158
Select publications
- ‘Social Ethics in Western Europe,’ Theological Studies, 68(1): p. 154-171, 2007
- ‘Contemporary Humanitarianism: Neutral and Impartial?’ in Amelia Fleming, ed., Contemporary Irish Moral Discourse, Dublin: Columba, 2007
- Confronting the Truth: Conscience in the Catholic Tradition, New York and London: Paulist Press and Darton, Longman & Todd, 2000