Dr. Ed Peck, Ph.D
VP for Univ Mission & Identity
Background
Edward Peck is the Vice President for University Mission and Identity at John Carroll University. Prior to assuming this role, Peck served as the founding Executive Director of the Ignatian Colleagues Program, housed at John Carroll, for the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (2008-2014). From 2002-2008, Peck served as Associate Dean of the Graduate School at John Carroll University and taught Ethics in the MBA and Nonprofit Administration programs and in the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. In addition to his involvement in local, regional, and national Jesuit mission and identity work, Peck is trained as a spiritual director.
Areas of Expertise
- Systematic Theology
- Christian Ethics
- Ignatian Spirituality
- Spiritual Direction
- Bernard Lonergan
- Leadership
- Communal Discernment
Research Interests
Ignatian Spirituality
Jesuit Mission
Benard Lonergan and Methodological Ethics
Christian Sexual Ethics
Ignatian Pedagogy
Empathy and Ethics
Artificial Intelligence
Education
B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts
Masters of Divinity from St. Johns Seminary in Brighton, MA
M.A. in Systematic Theology from St. Johns Seminary,
Ph.D. in Christian Ethics from Loyola University Chicago,
Certificate in Spiritual Direction from the Ignatian Spirituality Institute at John Carroll University.
Courses Taught
- Business Ethics
- Nonprofit Ethics
- Ignatian Spirituality
- Moral Decision Making
- Special Topics
Publications
Presentations, Writings, and Reviews“A Lonerganian Argument for an Interdisciplinary Education” at the annual meeting of the College Theology Society, June, 1996.
“The Horizon-Broadening Contributions of Beverly Wildung Harrison” at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion, November,1997.
“Diversity and Religion,” Valuing Diversity: A Reader (Neumann College, 1998), pp. 48-59.
“Living and Learning in the Franciscan Tradition,” Accent (August, 1999), pp. 8-11.
“Leadership and Ignatian Discernment,” a presentation at the AJCU National Seminar on Leadership at Loyola University Chicago in June 2012.
“Increasing Faculty Knowledge and Understanding of Mission and Ministry” a presentation with Burt Howell at Boston College/Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education in July 2013 and July 2014.
“Understanding the Catholic Intellectual Tradition” a presentation for the Boston College/ACCU Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education in July 2015.
“Forming Partners in Mission: Lessons Learned from the Ignatian Colleagues Program” a presentation for the Lilly Fellows Program at Belmont University in October 2015.
“Mission in Catholic Higher Education” a presentation for the Boston College/ACCU Institute for Administrators in Catholic Higher Education in July 2016.
“Cultivating Mission Leadership Among Faculty” a presentation to chief academic officers at the annual Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities meeting in Washington DC in January, 2017.
Book Reviews:
Bernard V. Brady, The Moral Bond of Community: Justice and Discourse in the Moral Life (Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998). Horizons: The Journal of the College Theology Society 27/1 (Spring 2000). Pp. 219-220.
Edmond Dunn, What is Theology: Foundational and Moral (Mystic, CT.: Twenty-third Publications, 1998). Horizons 26/1 (Spring 1999), pp. 145-146
Saul Olyan and Martha Nussbaum, ed. Sexual Orientation and Human Rights in American Religious Discourse (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Horizons 28/1 (Spring, 2001)
Todd Salzman, What are They Saying About Catholic Ethical Method? (New York: Paulist Press, 2003) Horizons 32/1 (Spring 2005), pp. 181-182.
William Werpehowski, American Protestant Ethics and the Legacy of H. Richard Niebuhr (Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2002.). Horizons 31/2 (Fall, 2004).
