J. Bryan Hehir

Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life
Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations
Office Address
Belfer-123
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 143
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Contact
Phone: 617-384-7776
Email: Bryan_Hehir@ksg.harvard.edu
Assistant
Rosita Scarfo (617-496-1739)
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J. Bryan Hehir is the Parker Gilbert Montgomery Professor of the Practice of Religion and Public Life. He is also the Secretary for Health Care and Social Services in the Archdiocese of Boston. His research and writing focus on ethics and foreign policy and the role of religion in world politics and in American society. He served on the faculty of Georgetown University (1984 to 1992) and the Harvard Divinity School (1993 to 2001). His writings include: The Moral Measurement of War: A Tradition of Continuity and Change; Military Intervention and National Sovereignty;Catholicism and Democracy; and Social Values and Public Policy: A Contribution from a Religious Tradition.

 

Courses

Fall

  • DPI-225 Religion and Government: Choices of Morality, Law and Policy
  • IGA-206 The Politics and Ethics of Statecraft

Spring

  • IGA-306 The Politics and Ethics of the Use of Force

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