Editor-In-Chief

Suzanne Shanahan

Managing Editor

Erin Collazo Miller

Editors

Samantha Deane
Dustin Webster

Editorial Board

Rosalyn W. Berne
Paul Blaschko
Karen E. Bohlin
Jennifer Frey
Abraham Nussbaum
Francis Su

Design

Karen Sheets de Gracia

Virtues & Vocations is published by the Institute for Social Concerns at the University of Notre Dame.

The Institute for Social Concerns is an interdisciplinary institute responding to the complex demands of justice through a combination of justice education and research for the common good.

Virtues & Vocations is a national forum, funded by the Kern Family Foundation, for scholars and practitioners across disciplines to consider how best to cultivate character in pre-professional and professional education.

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Spring 2026

From the Editor

Suzanne Shanahan

Part I: Joy as a Virtue

Jennifer Frey

Angela Williams Gorrell

Emily Hunt-Hinojosa

Interlude: Lessons from the School of Life

Part II: Joy as a Vocation

Good Science

J. Drew Lanham

Good Engineering

Cameron Kim

Good Medicine

Abraham M. Nussbaum

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