Theology Department Faculty
Joshua Snyder
Associate Professor of the Practice
Director of the Faith, Peace, and Justice Minor
Joshua Snyder
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall 453N
Telephone: 617-552-3886
Email: joshua.snyder@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., St. Peter's University
- M.A., Villanova University
- Ph.D., Boston College
Courses
PULSE
The Challenge of Justice
The Challenge of Peace
Peaceful Ethics: Social Action Leadership Methods
Faith, Peace, & Justice Senior Seminar
God, Self, and Society
Introduction to Christian Theology
Research Interests
Transitional Justice and Catholic Peace-Building
Areas of Specialization: Guatemalan Catholic Church & Human Rights; Peace, Justice, & Reconciliation;聽 Public Context of Forgiveness; Efficacy of Truth Commissions;聽 Comparative Truth Commissions; Catholic Social Teaching; Nonviolent Peacebuilding, Religious Approaches to Human Rights聽
Medical & Bioethics
Areas of Specialization: Global Public Health; Health Implications of Climate Change;聽 Virtues of Accompaniment & End of Life Care;聽 Palliative Care & Social Justice
Office Hours
Tues/Thurs noon-1:15 PM
Wednesday 2:00-4:00 PM聽or by appointment
Biography
Joshua R. Snyder, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of the Practice in Theological Ethics at Boston College. He also is the Director of the Faith, Peace, and Justice Minor.聽 Joshua earned his Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from Boston College.聽 His dissertation entitled, Love Promoting Justice: An Augustinian Ethic for Transitional Justice from the Context of Guatemala explored how聽charity as a civic virtue can bring about social reconciliation in a divided society.聽 Joshua鈥檚 research focuses on transitional justice and Catholic Peace-Building with an emphasis on the Guatemalan Catholic Church & Human Rights. Additionally, he is interested in Catholic Social Teaching and its contribution to global public health with a specific focus on ethical accompaniment and end of life care. 聽聽
聽Selected Publications
鈥淓thical Accompaniment and End of Life Care鈥� accepted for publication in Christian Bioethics, expected publication date is summer 2024.聽
鈥淐atholic Social Teaching & Global Public Heath: Insights for COVID-19.鈥澛� Journal of Catholic Social Thought. 19, no. 2 (Summer 2022): 299-319.聽
鈥淧eacebuilding,聽 not Just War, is how to respond to the Ukrainian Crisis,鈥� SACRU Document on Ukraine In Light of the Holy Father鈥檚 Appeal for Peace (February 25, 2022)聽
鈥淭he Role of Truth, Memory & Forgiveness in Reconciling a Divided Society: Lessons from Guatemala and El Salvador鈥� in Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic and Laura Kromj谩k, eds. Remembrance and Forgiveness:聽 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence (London and New York: Routledge Press, 2020), 98-113.聽
鈥淪hould Transitional Justice Promote Forgiveness? Insights from Guatemala鈥檚 Recovery of Historical Memory鈥� Journal of Peace and Justice Studies. 20, no. 1 (2020): 3-24.
聽鈥淪tructures of Vice and Communities of Care: Reading Laudato Si鈥� from the Context of Guatemala鈥� Voices: EATWOT鈥檚 Theological Journal, 39, no 2 (July-December 2016): 89-103.