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Hille Haker

United States
Institution Loyola University Chicago
Position Richard McCormick Endowed Chair of Catholic Ethics
Email Address hhaker@luc.edu
University Profile Website URL
Prior Educational Background
  • Chair of Moral Theology and Social Ethics in the Catholic Theology Department of Frankfurt University (2005 to 2009)
  • Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Harvard Divinity School (2003 to 2005)
  • Heisenberg Research Scholar (2002–2003)
  • She holds a Ph.D (1998) and Habilitation (2002) in Christian Theological Ethics from the University of Tübingen, Germany
  • Apart from the theology degrees, she holds a MA in German Literature and BA in Philosophy
Research Interests
  • Bioethics/Medical Ethics
  • Decolonial Ethics
  • Feminist, Womanist, or Mujerista Ethics
  • Fundamental Moral Theology
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Human Rights
  • Immigration
  • Narrative Ethics
  • Philosophical Ethics
  • Political Ethics
  • Social Ethics
Recent Publications
  • Monograph: Towards A Critical Political Ethics. Catholic Ethics and Social Challenges, Schwabe, Berlin 2020 (in print 2020)
  • Edited Book: Unaccompanied Minors and the Ethics of Child Migration. Social, Legal, and ethical perspectives (co-edited with Molly Greening), Lexington, Lanham 2019.
  • Articles: (co-authored): Geneva Statement on Heritable Human Genome Editing: The Need for Course Correction In: Trends in Biotechnology,| Volume 38, ISSUE 4, P351-354, April 01, 2020,
  • Habermas and the Question of Bioethics. In: European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 11/4, 2019, 61-86.
  • “Political Theologies in a Post-Christian World.” in: Ruben Rosario-Rodrigez: Companion to Political Theology, New York: T&T Clark (2019), 547-564.
  • Political Ethics and the Rights of Unaccompanied Migrant Children. In: Hille Haker/Molly Greening (eds.): Unaccompanied Migrant Children: Social, Legal, and Ethical Perspectives, Lanham: Lexington 2019, 201-225.
  • Homeland Theology? Decolonizing Christianity and the Task of Public Theology. In: Jennifer Baldwin (ed.): Public Theologies of Activism and Resistance, Lanham: Lexington, 2019, 163-178.
  • Feminist Ethics. In: Encyclopedia of Sociology, Second Edition, edited by George Ritzer & Chris Rojek (2019). (online resource, 4 pages entry)
  • Towards a Decolonial Narrative Ethics, in: Humanities 8,3 (2019), 1-31. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/8/3/120. Reprinted in: Adam Zachary Newton (ed.): Ethics and Literary Practice, Basel 2020: MDPI, 2020, 72-102.
Professional Activities and Affiliations
  • Societas Ethica, European Society of Research in Ethics (President 2015-2018)
  • Feminist Studies of Religion Forum
  • Society of Christian Ethics
  • Catholic Theological Society of America
  • Associate Member of the International Center for Ethics, University of Tübingen, Germany
  • International Association of German Speaking Moral Theologians and Social Ethicists
  • AGENDA – Association of Women Theologians in Germany (President 2005-2007)
  • American Academy of Religion (Committee Member of the Steering Committee of the Paul Ricœur-Interest Group, 2018-
  • American Society of Bioethics and Health Care
  • German Academy of Ethics in Medicine