Michael Schuck, PhD

Professor, Joint appointment with the Department of Theology

 Michael Schuck, Ph.D., is a Professor of Environmental Justice in the School of Environmental Sustainability and a Professor of Roman Catholic Social Thought in the Department of Theology. He Holds a PhD. in Ethics and Society from the University of Chicago where he also received Master’s Degrees in Religious Studies and Political Science. He is the Founding Director of the Joan and Bill Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual Heritage at Loyola University and currently assists the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Human Development with global university engagement in the Laudato Sí Action Platform. His research focuses on environmental justice theory and movements, Indigenous studies, Roman Catholic social thought, and theological and philosophical ethics,. His published works include That They be One: Social Teaching of the Papal Encyclicals, 1740-1989 (Georgetown University Press, 1998), Democracy, Culture and Catholicism , with John Crowley Buck (Fordham University Press, 2015), and the online textbook in integral ecology, Healing Earth (https://healingearth.ijep.net). 

Research Interests

Roman Catholic Social Teaching