DR. MELANIE BARRETT,  S.T.L., Ph.D.

Assistant Professor in the Department of Christian Life

B.A. (Political Science), Northwestern University; M.A. (Divinity), Ph.D., (Religious Ethics), University of Chicago Divinity School. Author of “Love’s Beauty at the Heart of the Christian Moral Life: Constructing the Ethics of Hans Urs von Balthasar.” S.T.L., Systematic Theology, University of St. Mary of the Lake: thesis: “The Viability of ‘New Natural Law’ Theory.” Former archivist, Religion, Culture, and Family Project, University of Chicago Divinity School. Former affiliate scholar, Institute for American Values. Member, Society of Christian Ethics and American Academy of Religion.