Theology Department Faculty
Joshua Snyder
Associate Professor of the Practice
Cooney Family Director, PULSE Program for Service Learning
Director of the Faith, Peace, and Justice Minor
Joshua Snyder
Ph.D.
Contact
Stokes Hall 125N
Telephone: 617-552-3886
Email: joshua.snyder@bc.edu
Education
- B.A., St. Peter's University
- M.A., Villanova University
- Ph.D., Boston College
Courses
PULSE
The Challenge of Justice
The Challenge of Peace
Peaceful Ethics: Social Action Leadership Methods
Faith, Peace, & Justice Senior Seminar
God, Self, and Society
Introduction to Christian Theology
Research Interests
Transitional Justice and Catholic Peace-Building
Areas of Specialization: Guatemalan Catholic Church & Human Rights; Peace, Justice, & Reconciliation;聽 Public Context of Forgiveness; Efficacy of Truth Commissions;聽 Comparative Truth Commissions; Catholic Social Teaching; Nonviolent Peacebuilding, Religious Approaches to Human Rights聽
Medical & Bioethics
Areas of Specialization: Global Public Health; Health Implications of Climate Change;聽 Virtues of Accompaniment & End of Life Care;聽 Palliative Care & Social Justice
Office Hours
Tues/Thurs noon-1:15 PM
Wednesday 2:00-4:00 PM聽or by appointment
Biography
Joshua R. Snyder, Ph.D. is Associate Professor of the Practice in Theological Ethics at Boston College. He also is the Director of the Faith, Peace, and Justice Minor.聽 Joshua earned his Ph.D. in Theological Ethics from Boston College.聽 His dissertation entitled, Love Promoting Justice: An Augustinian Ethic for Transitional Justice from the Context of Guatemala explored how聽charity as a civic virtue can bring about social reconciliation in a divided society.聽 Joshua鈥檚 research focuses on transitional justice and Catholic Peace-Building with an emphasis on the Guatemalan Catholic Church & Human Rights. Additionally, he is interested in Catholic Social Teaching and its contribution to global public health with a specific focus on ethical accompaniment and end of life care. 聽聽
聽Selected Publications
With Scott Seider and Elisa Magri, 鈥淚nvestigating the Associations Between Parents鈥� Faith SocializationPractices and Young Adults鈥� Character Formation,鈥� Journal of Character Education 21, nos. 1-2 (2025): 89-110.
鈥淩econciliation: A Pathway Forward,鈥� C21 Resources: Reconciliation Healing Hearts (Fall 2025): 2-3.
鈥淐ultivating Civic Virtue and Educating for Peace: Insights from Transitional Justice,鈥� Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics聽45, no. 1 (Spring/Summer 2025): 111-130.聽
鈥淓thical Accompaniment and End of Life Care,鈥� Christian Bioethics 30, no. 3 (December 2024): 189-199.
鈥淐atholic Social Teaching & Global Public Heath: Insights for COVID-19," Journal of Catholic Social Thought 19, no. 2 (Summer 2022): 299-319.聽
鈥淧eacebuilding,聽 not Just War, is how to respond to the Ukrainian Crisis,鈥� SACRU Document on Ukraine In Light of the Holy Father鈥檚 Appeal for Peace (February 25, 2022),聽聽
鈥淭he Role of Truth, Memory & Forgiveness in Reconciling a Divided Society: Lessons from Guatemala and El Salvador,鈥� in Ajlina Karamehic-Muratovic and Laura Kromj谩k, eds. Remembrance and Forgiveness:聽 Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Genocide and Mass Violence (London and New York: Routledge Press, 2020), 98-113.聽
鈥淪hould Transitional Justice Promote Forgiveness? Insights from Guatemala鈥檚 Recovery of Historical Memory,鈥� Journal of Peace and Justice Studies聽20, no. 1 (2020): 3-24.
聽鈥淪tructures of Vice and Communities of Care: Reading Laudato Si鈥� from the Context of Guatemala,鈥� Voices: EATWOT鈥檚 Theological Journal聽39, no. 2 (July-December 2016): 89-103.