Dawn M. Nothwehr, O.S.F.
Catholic Theological Union
Chicago, Illinois

 

 

 

Dawn M. Nothwehr, O.S.F. is associate professor of Ethics and chair of Historical and Doctrinal Studies Department at Catholic Theological Union. Nothwehr’s current research interests are in the areas of global climate change, environmental ethics and ecotheology in our globalized, terrorized, ecologically threatened world. Her ongoing interest in mutuality as a formal norm, the feminist ethics of power, and the relationship of ethics and spirituality informs her study. The ethics of power and racial justice are of equal interest. Additional involvements include: empowerment of the poor and vulnerable, human / environmental relations, and relations in moral disagreement. Her research has also involved the moral “Other” and how Franciscan theology shapes ecotheology and ecological ethics.

In addition to book chapters and several articles, Nothwehr has authored the following books: That They All May Be One: Catholic Social Teaching on Racism Tribalism and Xenophobia is forthcoming from Orbis Books, November 2008; Mutuality: A Formal Norm For Christian Social Ethics, San Francisco: Catholic Scholars Press, 1998 [Reprinted: Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2005]; A Franciscan View of the Human Person: Some Central Elements. The Franciscan Heritage Series, Vol. III, St. Bonaventure, NY: The Franciscan Institute, 2005; [With Sylvia Hood Washington], Struggles for Environmental Justice and Health in Chicago: An African American Perspective, Chicago: The DePaul University John J. Eagan Urban Center, 2004; and Franciscan Theology of the Environment: An Introductory Reader. (ed. Dawn M. Nothwehr) Quincy, IL: Franciscan Press, 2002.