Dr. Joe Capizzi
Professor of moral theology specializing in Catholic ethics and just war doctrine. Plenary speaker on Moral Theology and the Just War tradition.
Joseph E. Capizzi is the McGrath-Cavadini Director of the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute for Church Life (MICL). Prior to that, he was a member of the Catholic University faculty since 1997, where he served as The School of Theology and Religious Studies' first lay dean from 2023-2026. Previously, he served as the executive director of Catholic University’s Institute for Human Ecology from its founding in 2016 until 2023.
Capizzi received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia, his master’s in theological studies from Emory University and his master’s and doctoral degrees in theology from Notre Dame, where he was a John A. O’Brien Fellow.
He teaches in the areas of social and political theology, with special interests in issues of peace and war, citizenship, political authority and Augustinian theology. He has written, lectured and published widely on just war theory, bioethics, the history of moral theology and political liberalism. Capizzi is the author of “Politics, Justice and War: Christian Governance and the Ethics of Warfare,” published by Oxford University Press.