The Theology Department welcomed a new faculty member for the 2025-26 academic year.
Shaun Slusarski
Professor Shaun Slusarski is a new instructor in the Theology department. Slusarski grew up outside Philadelphia but has lived in Boston since 2020. His initial interest in theology was sparked in religion class while he was in sixth grade.
After graduating from Boston College with a B.A in theology in 2012, Slusarski taught religious studies for four years--three years at St. Joe’s Prep, the Jesuit High School in Philadelphia, PA and one year St. Martin de Porres, a small Catholic grade school in Oakland, CA. In 2016, he briefly entered the Jesuit novitiate, where he briefly discerned a vocation to the priesthood within the Society of Jesus. In 2018, Slusarski started an MTS in systematic theology and peace studies at the University of Notre Dame, and after earning the degree, in 2020, he began a Ph.D. program in theological ethics at Boston College with a focus in Catholic healthcare ethics. He is currently finishing his dissertation, which investigates injustices in the prison healthcare system and proposes an alternative ethical framework rooted in the principles of Catholic social teaching and restorative justice.
