Margaret Monahan Hogan
Executive Director, Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and
American Culture,
McNerney-Hanson Chair in Ethics, and Professor of Philosophy
University of Portland
Margaret Monahan Hogan is the Executive Director of the Garaventa Center for Catholic Intellectual Life and American Culture, the McNerney-Hanson Professor in Ethics and a professor of philosophy at the University of Portland. She has demonstrated her commitment to Catholic teaching in a variety of roles: as the founder of King's College Center for Ethics and Public Life, in numerous consulting positions (to the Bishop of Scranton, the Wyoming Valley Health Care System, and Allied Health Care), and as a wife and mother of six children. She publishes in the areas of medical ethics, business ethics, the intersection of the Catholic tradition and philosophy, and natural law. She also serves as a member of the board of directors of the Center for Academic Integrity at Duke University. Her most recent publication is "Legal, Ethical, and Public Policy Implications of Market Share Liability in DES Litigation," forthcoming in the Journal of Business Ethics . During her time at the Center, Professor Hogan worked on a second edition of Finality and Marriage, her 1993 study of the development of Catholic teaching in the twentieth century on the nature of marriage, the multiple goods to be accomplished in marriage, and the relation and proper characterization of those goods within marriage. She is currently collaborating with the Center's director, David Solomon, on a collection of case studies and commentaries in medical ethics and an edited collection of Notre Dame's J. Philip Clarke Family Lectures in Medical Ethics.
Professor Hogan delivered the J. Philip Clarke Family Lecture on Medical Ethics entitled, "Bioethics and its Gordian Knot," at the annual Medical Ethics Conference in 2007. She has been an invited speaker for our "Culture of Death," "Culture of Life," "From Death to Life," "Formation and Renewal," "Epiphanies of Beauty" and "Joy in the Truth" conferences. She was Visiting Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, Fall 1999-Spring 2000.
