Margaret R. Pfeil, Ph.D.
Teaching Professor (Theology/SOCO)
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325 Malloy Hall (primary)
203 Geddes Hall (secondary)
Teaching Professor (Theology/SOCO)
Margaret R. Pfeil holds a joint appointment in the Institute for Social Concerns and the Department of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. She is also a faculty fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. At the institute, she serves as co-director with Suzanne Mulligan of the Catholic Social Tradition Minor and organizes the biennial Catholic Social Tradition Conference.
Pfeil’s research interests include Catholic social thought, racial justice, ecological ethics, ecumenical dialogue, and peace studies. She is coauthor with Laurie Cassidy and Alex Mikulich of The Scandal of White Complicity in U.S. Hyper-incarceration: A Nonviolent Spirituality of White Resistance (Palgrave, 2013) and coeditor of four books: Intercessory Prayer and the Communion of Saints: Mennonite and Catholic Perspectives with Darrin W. Snyder Belousek (Pandora Press, 2022); Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly with your God: Vatican II, Pastoral Ministry, and Lay Formation for Mission with Donald P. McNeill, C.S.C. (Andrews McMeel Universal, 2016); Violence, Transformation, and the Sacred: They Shall Be Called Children of God with Tobias Winright (Orbis Books, 2012); and Sharing Peace: Mennonites and Catholics in Conversation with Gerald Schlabach (Liturgical Press, 2013).
Pfeil is a co-founder and resident of the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker Community in South Bend, Indiana.
Pfeil received her Ph.D. and M.A. in moral theology and Christian ethics from the University of Notre Dame, her MTS in moral theology from Weston Jesuit School of Theology, and her B.A. in government and international studies from the University of Notre Dame.