Presenters

Margaret Farley, RSM

Margaret Farley holds the Gilbert L. Stark Chair in Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School. She received an A.B. in English Literature and M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Detroit, and an M.Phil. and Ph.D. in Religious Studies with a specialization in ethics from Yale University. She was appointed to the faculty of Yale University Divinity School in 1971.

Farley is the author or co-editor of six books, including Personal Commitments: Beginning, Keeping, Changing; Compassionate Respect; Embodiment, Morality, and Medicine; and Liberating Eschatology. She has published more than 80 articles and chapters of books on topics of ethical methodology, medical ethics, sexual ethics, social ethics, historical theological ethics, ethics and spirituality. She is currently working on two books, one on sexual ethics, and the other on the experience of free choice.

She is the recipient of ten honorary degrees and a variety of fellowships and awards, including the John Courtney Murray Award for Excellence in Theology. She has served and presently serves on numerous editorial and advisory boards and national ethics committees. She is Co-chair of the Yale University Interdisciplinary Bioethics Committee. She is also Director of the Yale Divinity School Project on Gender, Faith, and Responses to HIV/AIDS in Africa; and Co-Director of the All Africa Conference: Sister to Sister, which facilitates responses to HIV/AIDS on the part of Roman Catholic women in Africa. She was a founding member of the Bioethics Committee at Yale-New Haven Hospital. She is past president of both the Society of Christian Ethics and the Catholic Theological Society of America.