• B.A., 1992, Georgetown University
• M.A., 1999, Yale University Divinity School
• PhD, 2005, Boston College. 

Member of the Catholic Theological Society of America, Catholic Scholars for Worker Justice, the Society of Christian Ethics, the College Theology Society.

• Recovering Solidarity: Lessons from Poland's Unfinished Revolution (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010)
• "Economic Rights: Past, Present and Future” in Thomas Cushman, ed., Routledge Handbook of Human Rights (New York: Routledge, 2011), 291-310
• “Neither Socialist nor Libertarian: Pope Benedict’s Caritas in Veritate on the Proper Role of Government in the Economy,” Josephinum Journal of Theology Vol. 17, No. 1 (2010):157-67
• “Catholic Universities, Solidarity, and the Right to Education in the American Context,” Journal of Catholic Social Thought Vol. 7, no. 1 (Winter 2010): 145-79
• “Why Race Still Matters: Catholics and the Rise of Obama,” America Vol. 200, No. 16 (May 18, 2009): 10-14.

Catholic social teaching and tradition; the nature of solidarity and its feasibility in the contemporary world; human rights; economic justice; religion and politics; ethics of war and peace; access to education at U.S. Catholic institutions of higher learning; human evolution and morality; religion and society in contemporary Poland.