Center bids farewell to David Hollenbach SJ; Daniel Kanstroom and Brinton Lykes named Center co-directors

July 2016

The Center wishes a fond farewell and expresses deep gratitude to David Hollenbach SJ, who has served as director of the Center since its founding in 2006.  This summer, Hollenbach has moved on to Georgetown University, where he has accepted a new position as the Pedro Arrupe Distinguished Research Professor at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Senior Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and Global Affairs.  Hollenbach’s dedication to the Center’s teaching and research programs, as well as his extensive knowledge and experience in ethics and forced migration, have propelled the Center these last ten years into one with a unique interdisciplinary scope, working transnationally with scholars and practitioners to engage in applied research and training to advance issues of human rights locally and globally.

The Center is pleased to announce that longtime, and founding, Center Associate Directors Daniel Kanstroom and M. Brinton Lykes will continue their leadership of the Center as the new Co-Directors of the Center.  Kanstroom also serves as a Boston College Professor of Law, and is the Thomas F. Carney Distinguished Scholar and Director of the International Human Rights Program at BC, while Lykes also serves as Professor of Community-Cultural Psychology at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. 

Hollenbach will return to BC this coming October for a special event celebrating his career dedicated to public theology and the global common good in an event co-sponsored by the Center. For more details on this event, and to register, please visit here.

The Center gratefully wishes David Hollenbach all the best in his new endeavors and looks forward to continuing the mission and work of the Center he helped to create in the years to come.