He came to CUA in 2017 following a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship as Research Associate in Theological Ethics at Cambridge University, where he was concurrently a Research Associate in ethics at The Von Hügel Institute, St. Edmund’s College, Cambridge. His research focuses on virtue ethics and the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, and includes work on the theological virtue of hope, Christian social ethics, Scripture and ethics, and the art of dying. He received his Ph.D. in moral theology at the University of Notre Dame in 2014, and wrote his dissertation on theological hope.