Joyce Kloc Babyak

  • Francis W. & Lydia L. Davis Professor of Religion

Education

  • BA, College Holy Cross
  • MA, Yale University
  • MPhil, Yale University
  • PhD, Yale University

Biography

Joyce Kloc Babyak’s teaching is in the area of religious social ethics, with an emphasis on Christian, Jewish, and Muslim ethics. Recent courses offered have focused on ethical issues in death and dying, medical ethics, war and peace ethics, Catholic social teaching, and literature and ethics. She also offers a course on law and society as a field.

Her research focuses on theological anthropology, fundamental issues in religious ethics, and literature and ethics.

She held administrative positions from 2009 to 2017.

Spring 2025

Literature and Ethics: American Novels — RELG 242

Medical Ethics — RELG 249

Capstone Colloquium — RELG 402

Fall 2025

Legal Advocacy — LAWS 400

Monograph

  • Finite, Contingent, and Free: A New Ethic of Acceptance. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003. 

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