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Mary Ann Spearin Chair in Catholic Theology

About the Current Chair

Joseph F. Flipper, Ph.D., received a doctorate at Marquette University. He came to the University of Dayton from Bellarmine University in Kentucky, where he served as the associate director of the Ethics and Social Justice Center. His research focuses on 20th century Catholicism and the intersection of ecclesiology and race. He is the author of "Between Apocalypse and Eschaton: History and Eternity in Henri de Lubac." In 2019, he was a Ford Foundation fellow at the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame and a 2020 Fulbright Fellow at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. He is the co-chair for the 2021 Conference of Ford Fellows. 

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Faculty and Staff 02.04.22

A nationally recognized scholar of Black Catholicism in America, race and religion, and 20th-century Catholic theology, Dr. Joseph Flipper recently joined the University of Dayton faculty as the Mary Ann Spearin Endowed Chair in Catholic Theology.

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