Doctoral Candidate
Theological Ethics
Catholic Health Care Ethics Track
Stokes Hall N 420B
Email: slusarsk@bc.edu
Teaching Assistant
Teaching Fellow
Other Teaching
Title: “Restorative Bioethics: Promoting Health Justice in U.S. Prisons”
Director: Dr. M. Cathleen Kaveny
Readers: Dr. Stephen Pope and Dr. Andrea Vicini, S.J.
Shaun Slusarski is a doctoral candidate in theological ethics. He graduated from Boston College in 2012 with a B.A. in theology and, from the University of Notre Dame, in 2020 with an M.T.S. in systematic theology and a minor in peace studies.
His research interests include Catholic social teaching, bioethics, prison reform and abolition, gender and sexuality, as well as faith-based social movements.
Shaun’s dissertation explores the inadequacies in the U.S. prison healthcare system and proposes an ethical framework for the distribution of care rooted in the principles of restorative justice and Catholic social teaching.
Shaun holds a doctoral fellowship from the Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy. He has also taught at Massachusetts Correctional Institution-Shirley through Boston College’s Prison Education Program.