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John Kiess

Associate Professor
Kiess

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

  • Ethics of war and peace
  • Religion and peacebuilding
  • Bioethics
  • Global health

Recent Publications

  • "Christophe Munzihirwa, S.J., and the Impact of the Rwandan Genocide in Congo," Journal of Global Catholicism (forthcoming 2025).
  • Our Greatest Weapon is Love: The Essential Writings of Christophe Munzihirwa, S.J., edited and translated. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2024.
  • "Slavery and the Work of Repair at Loyola University Maryland," Conversations in Jesuit Higher Education, No. 63 (Fall 2024), 26-27.
  • “Peace,” in Joseph S. Pagano and Amy E. Richter, eds. Saving Words (Eugene, OR: Cascade Press, 2021)

  • “The Sacrament of Anointing during Northern Ireland’s Troubles,” in The Surprise of Reconciliation in the Catholic Tradition, ed. J.J. Carney and Laurie Johnston (Mahwah, NJ: Paulist Press, 2018), 179-200

  • "Restorative Justice and the International Criminal Court," The Journal of Moral Theology 5:2 (2016): 116-142.
  • Hannah Arendt and Theology. London: Bloomsbury/T&T Clark,  2016.

Grants and Awards

  • Honorary member, Alpha Sigma Nu, 2024
  • Loyola Peace and Justice Faculty Research Grant, 2024
  • Loyola University Mid-Career Summer Grant, 2019
  • Loyola Peace and Justice Course Development Grant, 2019
  • Virginia Seminar Writing Fellowship, Project on Lived Theology, 2014-15
  • Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Scholarship, 2004-10
  • George J. Mitchell Scholarship, 2003-4

Courses Taught

  • Introduction to Theology
  • Introduction to Christian Ethics
  • Ethics of War and Peace
  • Bioethics and Social Justice
  • The Examined Life