Faculty Directory
Daniel J. Daly
Associate Professor of Moral Theology
Executive Director, Catholic Health Association of the United States (CHA) Theology and Ethics Center
Daniel J. Daly
Ph.D.
Contact
Simboli Hall 327
Telephone: 617-552-2285
Email: daniel.daly.3@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., Saint Anselm College
- M.A., Boston College
- Ph.D., Boston College
Research Interests
Virtue Ethics; Issues in Contemporary Clinical Medical Ethics; Social Structures and Moral Agency
Expertise
- Chaplaincy Studies and Medical Ethics
- Moral Theology and Christian Ethics
Profile
Daniel Daly, Associate Professor of Moral Theology, earned his Ph.D. in Theological Ethics at Boston College in 2008. Before joining the CSTM he was Associate Professor of Theology at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH. He served as the Theology department chair for five of his thirteen years at Saint Anselm.
Daniel is an experienced clinical medical ethicist, having served on the ethics committees of the Catholic Medical Center and the Elliot Hospital in Manchester, NH. He was also a member of the Catholic Health Association鈥檚 Theologian/Ethicist committee. Daniel is an active member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, The Society of Christian Ethics, and the Catholic Theological Ethics in the World Church initiative.
His monograph,聽The Structures of Virtue and Vice, was published in 2021 by Georgetown University and Press and was awarded First Place in the Theological and Philosophical Studies category by the Catholic Media Association in July of 2022.聽
In the summer of 2024 Dr. Daly will become the founding Executive Director of a healthcare ethics think tank sponsored by The Catholic Health Association. He will remain on the faculty of Boston College and will teach a course each semester.聽