John Bosco Lugonja
Doctoral Candidate
Theological Ethics
John Bosco Lugonja
Contact
Email: lugonja@bc.edu
Education
- M.G.A., University of Notre Dame
- M.A., Religious and Theological Studies, Makerere University, Uganda
- B.A., Theology, Pontifical Urban University, Rome, Italy
- B.A., Philosophy, Pontifical Urban University, Rome, Italy
Courses
Teaching Assistant
- Perspectives on Western Culture (Fall 2022) Instructor, Dr. Henry Shea, S.J.
- God, Self, and Society (Spring 2023), Instructor, Dr. Frederick Lawrence
- Judaism and Christianity in Dialogue (Fall 2023), Instructor Dr. Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski
Research Interests
- Peacekeeping and peacebuilding
- Migration and labor externalization
- Bible and ethics
- African theology and African ethics
- Religious ethics
- Interreligious dialogue
- Catholic social teaching
Biography
John Bosco completed his Master of Global Affairs focusing on International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame with a Capstone on trafficking in persons, externalization of labor, and Uganda labor laws. At Notre Dame, he worked with the Ansari Institute for Global Engagement, participating in interreligious dialogues, and the Nanovic Institute granted him a fellowship to travel to Berlin in Germany to study German Refugee policies and interact with German government officials, refugees, and NGOs serving asylum seekers.
He also spent six months in Washington, D.C., working on labor externalization and human tracking projects in the Middle East with the African Faith and Justice Network.
Before joining the University of Notre Dame, John Bosco held various responsibilities in Uganda and ministered to different people including South Sudanese and Rwandan refugees, displaced people, and people suffering from poverty.John Bosco studies theological ethics and is interested in examining the role of theology in shaping social, political, cultural, and economic realms and how theology can live up to its prophetic role in the modern world.
John Bosco is a Catholic Priest from Uganda.