Dr. Margaret Pfeil, assistant professor of moral theology at the University of Notre Dame and a leader in Bridgefolk, was recently honored as one of seven finalists for the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement for Early Career Faculty in the United States. The award “recognizes a faculty member who connects his or her teaching, research, and service to community engagement.”
The citation for on Pfeil and her service reads:
Dr. Margaret R. Pfeil is an Assistant Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Notre Dame and a Faculty Fellow of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. Dr. Pfeil’s interaction with the field of theological ethics entails a deep engagement with the “data of experience,” highlighted by four overlapping spheres: her work with the St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House, a community of live-in staff and homeless men and women who share income as well as meals and household chores, in the rhythm of daily life; her outreach within the broader local community of South Bend, Indiana; her participation in Bridgefolk, an ecumenical, national dialogue process between Mennonites and Roman Catholics that seeks to build peace; and her affiliation with the academic community of Notre Dame, which provides a framework for scholarly conversation and opportunities to share research across disciplines. Her articles have appeared in Theological Studies, Louvain Studies, Horizons, The Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, Josephinum Journal of Theology, The Journal for Peace & Justice Studies, New Theology Review, and the Mennonite Quarterly Review. She is currently finishing a book, Social Sin: Social Reconciliation? Dr. Pfeil is a co-founder and resident of St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House in South Bend, Indiana. After obtaining a B.A. from the University of Notre Dame, she earned an M.T.S. from Weston Jesuit School of Theology and a Ph.D. from Notre Dame.