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Michael P. Jaycox, PhD
Associate Professor
Theology and Religious Studies
Special Assistant to the Vice President for Faculty Development
Division of Mission Integration
Biography
Dr. Michael Jaycox is a theologian specializing in the Catholic ethical tradition. He holds a Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College. His research and teaching address theological questions and perspectives on race, racism, and racial justice; bioethics/medical ethics; the ethics of gender and sexuality; and the role of emotions in ethical judgment and collective action. He uses a variety of interdisciplinary and critical methodologies to approach these questions, including feminist, queer, liberationist, ethnographic, and reconstructed natural law methods. He has been a member of the faculty at Seattle University since 2014, and he received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2020. In addition to his faculty appointment, he serves as Special Assistant to the Vice President for Faculty Development in the Division of Mission Integration. Prior to his academic career, he served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps as a paralegal and community organizer at a legal aid organization.
Education
- Boston College, Ph.D., Theological Ethics, 2014
- Weston Jesuit School of Theology, M.Div., 2008
- DePaul University, B.M., summa cum laude, Music Composition, 2004
Courses Taught
- THRS 4300: Major Themes and Thinkers in Christian Theology
- THRS 3230/UCOR 3100: Global Bioethics and Religion
- THRS 2206/UCOR 2100: Theology, Race, and Racism
- THRS 2203/UCOR 2100: Sexual Ethics
- HUMT 2020: Contemporary Catholic Theological Ethics
Publications
“Lifting Up the Voices of Others: James F. Keenan on the Anthropological, Historical, and Practical Conditions for Articulating a Catholic Sexual Ethic,” in Christopher Vogt and Kate Ward, eds., Bothering to Love: James F. Keenan’s Retrieval and Reinvention of Catholic Ethics (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, forthcoming 2024).
“Emotions and Christian Ethics,” in Tobias L. Winright, ed., T&T Clark Handbook of Christian Ethics (New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2021), 91-101.
“Nussbaum, Anger, and Racial Justice: On the Epistemological and Eschatological Limitations of White Liberalism,” Political Theology 21, no. 5 (2020): 415-433.
“Payback, Forgiveness, Accountability: Exercising Responsible Agency in the Midst of Structured Racial Harm,” Religions 10, no. 9 (2019): 528.
“Black Lives Matter and Catholic Whiteness: A Tale of Two Performances,” Horizons 44, no. 2 (2017): 306-341.
“The Black Lives Matter Movement: Justice and Health Equity,” Health Progress 97, no. 6 (2016): 42-47. Reprinted in Charles E. Curran and Lisa A. Fullam, eds., Readings in Moral Theology no. 19: U.S. Moral Theology from the Margins (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2020).
“The Civic Virtues of Social Anger: A Critically Reconstructed Normative Ethic for Public Life,” Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics 36, no. 1 (2016): 123-143.