Ramon Luzarraga, Ph.D.

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Chair, Theology and Religious Studies

Associate Professor, Theology and Religious Studies

Areas of Expertise

  • Christian Ethics
  • Roman Catholic moral theology
  • Political theology
  • Development of religious life
  • The thought of St. John Henry Newman
  • U.S. Hispanic theology
  • Caribbean theology

Education

Ph.D. in Systematic Theology and Ethics, Marquette University (2006)
M.A.R., Yale Divinity School (1994)
B.A. in Political Science and Theology, Fordham University (1991) 

Background

Ramon Luzarraga’s research interests deal with ethics and moral theology, questions surrounding the inculturation of Catholic religious practice in culture, political theology in all its varieties and the inevitable ethical questions which arise from that, as well as Hispanic and Caribbean theology. Luzarraga has presented and published across the country and internationally. Currently, he is Vice President of the College Theology Society. The Dicastery for Evangelization, a department of the Roman Curia of the Roman Catholic Church, named him a member of their Church of the Sheaves project. He has served as president of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States and on the board of the Society of Christian Ethics and the Theological Education Committee of the American Academy of Religion and served as a convener for the College Theology Society, the Catholic Theological Society of America, Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church, and Caribbean Theology Today. As department chair, he spearheaded the development of academic partnerships with the Archdiocese of Seattle and the Diocese of Yakima.