Jennifer Herdt

Associate Professor
Department of Theology

Degrees

B.A., Oberlin College; M.A., Ph.D., Princeton University

Research Profile

Jennifer Herdt is the author of Religion and Faction in Hume's Moral Philosophy (Cambridge, 1997), and of Putting on Virtue: The Legacy of the Splendid Vices, which is forthcoming in 2008 with the University of Chicago Press.  She has published over twenty articles and book chapters, which have appeared in a variety of journals, including the Journal of Religious Ethics, the Journal of Religion, and the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Religious Ethics and has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics. She has been awarded a Research Fellowship for 2008-2009 from the Humboldt Foundation for a project on "Christian Formation in the Wake of Bildung."  Herdt's primary interests are in the history of Christian moral thought since the 17th century, classical and contemporary virtue ethics, and contemporary Christian social ethics and political theology.

Contact Information

242 Malloy Hall
631-3837
herdt.1@nd.edu