About Our Contributors

About Our Contributors Jeffrey R. Adams holds an M.Div. from Virginia Theological Seminary and a J.D. from Duke University School of Law. He and his wife Karen Adams, who presented their jointly-authored paper at the 2007 UFL Conference, have worked until recently at Uganda Christian University in Mukono, Uganda. They presently reside in Scottsville, Virginia with their five children. Helen Alvaré received her J.D. from Cornell University (1984) and her M.A. in theology from the Catholic University of America (1989). She has taught in the Catholic University of America School of Law and will join the law faculty at George Mason University in 2008. She has previously worked at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, first in the Office of General Counsel and later as the Director of Information and Planning for the bishops’ pro-life office. She has often spoken for the bishops to the media and has testified on behalf of the bishops before federal congressional committees and lobbied members of Congress on federal legislation concerning abortion, health care and welfare reform. Christopher Anadale is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Conception Seminary College in rural northwestern Missouri. Prior to his appointment at Conception, he taught full time at Georgia State University in downtown Atlanta. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Emory University in 2005. Roberta Bayer is currently teaching as an adjunct at George Mason University. She received her doctorate from the University of Notre Dame and has done graduate work in both Medieval Studies and Political Philosophy. She is educating her children at home. Francis J. Beckwith is a tenured Professor of Philosophy & Church-State Studies at Baylor University. Although his appointment is in the department of philosophy, he also teaches courses in political science as well as in the J. M. Dawson Institute of Church-State Studies, where he served as its Associate Director from July 2003 until January 2007. A graduate of Fordham University (Ph.D., philosophy) and the Washington University School of Law (M.J.S.), he has published many books and articles. The most recent include Law, Darwin- ism, and Public Education: The Establishment Clause and the Challenge of Intelligent Design (Rowman & Littlefield) and Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press). Grattan T. Brown, S.T.D. studied at the Accademia Alfonsiana (Alfonsianum) 687 688 Life and Learning XVII in Rome, Italy, writing a dissertation on the concept “institutional conscience” in Catholic health care. He has taught moral theology at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and will begin an appointment at Belmont Abbey College in 2008. Fr. Albert Bruecken, O.S.B., entered Conception Abbey in 1970 and was ordained in 1977 after doing undergraduate work at Conception Seminary College and studying theology at Collegio di Sant’Anselmo, the Benedictine House of Studies in Rome. He received a M.S. in Physical Sciences from the University of Missouri-Columbia (1980) and a Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry (1987) from the same institution. He currently teaches Mathematics and Natural Sciences on the Faculty at Conception Seminary College. E. Christian Brugger is an Associate Professor of Theology and Philosophy and the Director of Integrative Research at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Arlington VA. He has previously taught at Loyola University (New Orleans) and will join the staff of St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver in 2008. He received a B.A. in biology from Rutgers University (1987), an M.A. in moral theology from Seton Hall School of Theology (1994), a Th.M. in moral philosophy from Harvard University (1996), an M.St. in Christian Ethics from Oriel College, Oxford University (1997), and a D.Phil. in the same from St. Hugh’s College, Oxford (2000). He is the author of Capital Punishment and Roman Catholic Moral Tradition (2003) and has published in such venues as Notre Dame Journal of Law, Ethics, and Public Policy, The Heythrop Journal, The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly, The Thomist, Communio, The Josephinum Journal of Theology, National Review On-Line, First Things, and New Oxford Review. Marcella Colbert graduated in 2005 from Texas A&M University with a B.A. in Political Science. As a student she was involved with various pro-life activities, political campaigns and elections. She has served as the Associate Director of the Office of Evangelization and Catechesis for the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin and has organized young adult programming for the diocese. Peter J. Colosi earned his doctorate at the International Academy of Philosophy in the Principality of Liechtenstein. He is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Austrian Program of Franciscan University of Steubenville. He may be reached at: [email protected] Rev. John J. Conley, S.J. holds the Francis X. Knott Chair of Philosophy and Theology at Loyola College in Maryland. Recent books include The Suspicion About Our Contributors 689 of Virtue: Women Philosophers in Neoclassical France (Cornell University Press, 2002), Jacqueline Pascal: A Rule for Children and Other Writings (University of Chicago Press, 2003) and Madame de Maintenon (University of Chicago Press, 2004). Gregory J. Coulter is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He received his Ph.D. from the Center for Thomistic Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. As his areas of specialization he lists the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas. Damian P. Fedoryka obtained his graduate degrees from Fordham University and the University of Salzburg after receiving an undergraduate education at the University of Louvain. He has served as President of Christendom College and has taught at several universities, including Franciscan University of Steuben- ville and Ave Maria College in Ypsilanti, Michigan. He has also done extensive lecturing and teaching in post-Communist Ukraine. His professional interests include the personalism of Karol Wojty»a/John Paul II and the philosophical analysis of the cultures of life and death. He has been involved in pro-life activities since 1970. Maria Fedoryka, Ph.D. is Assistant Professor of Philosophy. She taught at Ave Maria College, at both its Michigan and Austria campuses, for two years before joining Ave Maria University. Dr. Fedoryka specializes in the area of ethics, particularly on the nature of moral evil. She is an accomplished violinist. Dr. Fedoryka holds the degrees of B.A. from Christendom College, and both M.A. and Ph.D. from the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein. Richard J. Fehring, Ph.D., R.N., is a Professor of Nursing and Director of the Marquette University Institute for Natural Family Planning. He received his masters and doctorate in nursing from Catholic University of America and baccalaureate degrees in biology and nursing from Marquette University. He has published over 90 book chapters and articles in such journals as Fertility and Sterility, Contraception, Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health, and the Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Neonatal Nursing. Professor Fehring is the writer and editor of Current Medical Research (CMR) in natural family planning a publication of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). He is a member of the Advisory Board to the Diocesan Development Program for Natural Family Planning (a program of the USCCB). He is a board member of University Faculty for Life, the President of the Marquette University Chapter, and past president of the American Academy of Natural Family Planning. 690 Life and Learning XVII J. L. A. Garcia is Professor in the Philosophy Department of Boston College. While revising this article, he spent the spring 2007 term as Visiting Professor in MIT’s Department of Linguistics & Philosophy. In addition to his academic articles, chapters, and reviews on the virtues, consequentialism, moral absolutes, relativism, value, desert, collective identity, racism, and other topics in moral and social theory, Garcia has written on a variety of topics in bioethics, including human cloning, euthanasia, physician-assisted suicide, artificial nutrition & hydration, and double-effect reasoning, and contributed to a 1992 collection, African-American Perspectives on Biomedical Ethics, and its 2007 successor volume, African American Bioethics, both of them co-edited by Dr. Edmund Pellegrino and published by Georgetown University Press. Laura L. Garcia is a member of the Philosophy Department at Boston College, specializing in metaphysics and philosophy of religion. Her recent work focuses on the nature of the human person and the significance of this for morality. Anne Barbeau Gardiner is Professor Emerita in the Department of English at John Jay College, City University of New York. She has published two books on the Catholic poet and dramatist John Dryden: The Intellectual Design of John Dryden’s Heroic Plays (Yale University Press, 1970) and Ancient Faith and Modern Freedom in John Dryden’s The Hind and the Panther (Catholic University of America Press, 1998). She has also published a number of essays on Milton, Pope, Swift, and Catholics of the late seventeenth century. James G. Hanink, Professor of Philosophy at Loyola Marymount University, has been active in pro-life work since 1972. His special interests include Thomism, personalism, and social philosophy. He has contributed essays, editorials, and reviews to several publications, both academic and general; he formerly served as Associate Editor of the New Oxford Review and a senior writer for the National Catholic Register. Marie T. Hilliard holds graduate degrees in Maternal-Child Health Nursing, Religious Studies, Canon Law and Professional Higher Education Administra- tion; and she has an extensive professional background in medical ethics and public policy and advocacy. She is a practicing registered nurse who has been substantially involved in health-care regulation at the state and national levels.

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