Christina Gail McRorie, PhD
Assistant Professor

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College of Arts and Sciences
Theology
DHHC - Dowling Hall/Humanities Center
Christina Gail McRorie, PhD
Assistant Professor
Research Focus
Christian thought; religious ethics in the Abrahamic traditions; political economy, and the history and philosophy of economics; capitalism; and moral agencyDepartment
Theology
Position
Assistant Professor
Publications
- Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal
"The Relationship of Morals and Markets Today: A Review of Recent Scholarship on the Culture of Economic Life,” (co-authored, available here)
99.2 (May 2016), p. 136-170 2016 - Journal of Religious Ethics
"Rethinking Moral Agency in Markets: A Book Discussion on Behavioral Economics" (available here)
44.1 (March 2016), p. 195-226 2016 - Journal of Religious Ethics
"Adam Smith, Ethicist: A Case for Reading Political Economy as Moral Anthropology” (available here)
43.3 (December 2015), p. 674-696 2015 - The Hedgehog Review
(with Charles Mathewes) "Human Freedom and the Art of Nudging" 2014
Presentations
- “How Feminist Economics Can Improve Both the Study of Religion and Religious Reflection.” Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Group. American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX. November 2016. 2016
- “Do We Need Justice or Mercy in International Pharmaceutical Markets?” Bioethics and Healthcare Topic Session. Catholic Theological Society of America: Annual Convention. San Juan, Puerto Rico. June 2016. 2016
- “Capitalism, Economics, and the Need for Adaptation in Christian Ethics.” Society of Christian Ethics: Annual Meeting. Toronto, Canada. January 2016. 2016
- “Aquinas on (Intellectual) Property: A Natural Law Argument Concerning Pharmaceutical Patents for HIV Medications.” Bioethics and Religion Group. American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA. November 2015. 2015
- Invited. 'The Complicity of Economic Knowledge.' Princeton University, Center for the Study of Religion: 'Faith and Work in the New Economy: An Interdisciplinary Symposium on Religion and Work.' Princeton, NJ. June 2015. 2015
- Invited. '_Theory of Moral Sentiments_, We Hardly Knew Ye: Some Thoughts on Living in Post-Smithian Disciplines.' UCLA, Center for the Liberal Arts and Free Institutions, Commercial Republic Project: 'Adam Smith and the Moral Economy of Market Society.' Los Angeles, CA. May 2015. 2015
- “Consuming Generously: A Case for Political Consumerism as a Practice of ‘Generous Solidarity.’” Ecclesiological Investigations Group. American Academy of Religion: Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA. November 2014. 2014
- “What Do We Mean by ‘Capitalism’? Using Feminist Economics to Make Sense of Ethics in Capitalism.” New England Anglican Studies Conference at Harvard Divinity School: “Christianity and Capitalism.” Cambridge, MA. April 2014. 2014
- “Wishing for the Simplicity of Science: The Advance of the Autonomous Actor in Early Modern Political Economy (And the Retreat of the Complex Religious Subject).” Graduate Conference on Religion at Harvard Divinity School: “Ways of Knowing.” Cambridge, MA. October 2013. 2013
- “Should Political Economy be within the Bounds of “Tradition”? A Case for Reclaiming Adam Smith as a Theological Interlocutor.” Graduate Conference on Theology at Duke Divinity School: “Tradition and Traditions.” Durham, NC. October 2013. 2013
- “Divine Economics? Exploring Suffering, Giving, and Grace in the Trinitarian Theo-Economic Visions of M. Douglas Meeks and Kathryn Tanner.” Ethics, Religion, and Society Group. American Academy of Religion: Southeastern Regional Meeting. March 2012. 2012
Other
Project Grant, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, for “Markets and Morals: An Interdisciplinary Symposium”
Young Scholar Initiative Project Grant, Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), for “Markets and Moral: An Interdisciplinary Symposium” (with Brent Cebul, Stephen Macekura, and Julia Ticona)