About US

The Joan and Bill Hank Center
for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage

The Center is a venue for faculty, students, and staff to learn about and investigate Roman Catholic thought and its link to all academic disciplines. With its strong emphasis on scholarly research and discussion, the Center is a productive space where the fruits of that research can be engaged, debated, and shared.

The center was founded in 2006 aiming to preserve and foster Catholic intellectual heritage not only at Loyola University Chicago, but also in the community. On April 24, 2007, Loyola University Chicago renamed its Center of excellence in honor of two most generous friends and benefactors - Joan Los (BS'54) and Bill Hank.

The Center offers a number of opportunities to learn about and interact with the Roman Catholic Tradition. Here are just a few initiatives aimed at helping our community to connect with, research, and communicate the Catholic intellectual heritage.

• Connecting to Roman Catholic though.
  Catholic Classic projects offer students and faculty an opportunity to read and discuss a classic text in the Catholic intellectual heritage. Students conclude their projects by watching a film, viewing art, or listening to music linked to their text.
• Researching Roman Catholic thought
  Faculty research projects fro both individuals and groups concerned with or connected to Catholic intellectual heritage are funded by the Center. The typical goal is a published text, but it can also include an organized conference or team-taught course.
• Communicating Roman Catholic thought
  Issues panels are audience participation events featuring speakers and panelists who address a current social topic connected to concerns within the Catholic intellectual heritage. Other programs include Faculty Publication Luncheons, reading groups, a Catholic Minds, Catholic Matters lecture series, and the maintenance of a Catholic Heritage Library.

The Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage stewards the Jesuit principal of finding God in all things, which is at the core of Loyola University's mission. At the Center the rich and variant lines of the Catholic intellectual  tradition are explored, communicated, and renewed.

STAFF 

Dr. Mark Bosco, S.J.
Director
Associate Professor of English and Theology

Michael Murphy, Ph.D.
Director, Catholic Studies Program

Gabija Steponenaite
Assistant

John Crowley-Buck
Graduate Research Assistant

ADVISORY BOARD

John J. Hardt, Ph.D.
Assistant to the President for Mission and Identity
Assistant Professor, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and
Health Policy at the Stritch School of Medicine

Richard C. Holz, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Science
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry
Loyola University Chicago

Andrew J. Radde-Gallwitz, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
Loyola Unviersity Chicago

Jane Locke, J.D.
Associate Professor, School of Law
Loyola Unviersity Chicago

Lorraine A. Ozar, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, School of Education
Loyola Unviersity Chicago

Stephen Schlosser, S.J., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Theology
Loyola Unviersity Chicago

P. Ann Solari-Twadell, Ph.D., RN, MPA, FAAN
Associate Professor, School of Nursing
Loyola Unviersity Chicago