Associate Professor
Dr. Michael F. Andrews joined Loyola University Chicago in 2017 and served as the Director of Loyola’s John Felice Rome Center campus in Italy from 2017-2021. Prior to coming to Loyola, Dr. Andrews was the McNerney-Hanson University Professor and Endowed Chair in Ethics at the University of Portland from 2011-2017, where he also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2012-2017, director of the summer campus in Salzburg, and director of the Catholic Studies Program. Previously, Dr. Andrews served in various leadership positions at Seattle University (2002-2011), including Dean of the Matteo Ricci College of Humanities, where he oversaw the preparation and implementation of the BA in Humanities for Leadership degree for global citizenship. He also served as director of the Faith and the Great Ideas Academic and Residential Program, faculty supervisor for the Sullivan Scholars Program, and director of Seattle University’s Summer Academic Program in Italy (Florence and Rome) from 2003-2011. Dr. Andrews was appointed Visiting International Research Scholar at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome, 2007-2008.
Dr. Andrews’ areas of interest include Phenomenology; Existentialism; Philosophy of Religion (Philosophical Theology); Renaissance Philosophy of Art; Ethics (incl. healthcare and biomedical); Catholic Intellectual Thought / Catholic Social Teaching, and the History of Philosophy. As the former Vice President and a Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the International Association of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES), Professor Andrews publishes and lectures widely on the thought of Edith Stein, including the relationship between phenomenology, ontology, ethics, and metaphysics, and on issues related to Jesuit and Catholic pedagogy, human rights, social and environmental justice, women’s education, and cultural empathy. He writes and speaks internationally on the importance of integrating the social and natural sciences with the arts and humanities in contemporary global Jesuit education. He has presented his work at international peer-reviewed conferences across five continents and has taught “great figures” courses and directed student theses on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Thomas Aquinas, Teilhard de Chardin, and Edith Stein.
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About Michael Andrews
Dr. Michael F. Andrews joined Loyola University Chicago in 2017 and served as the Director of Loyola’s John Felice Rome Center campus in Italy from 2017-2021. Prior to coming to Loyola, Dr. Andrews was the McNerney-Hanson University Professor and Endowed Chair in Ethics at the University of Portland from 2011-2017, where he also served as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences from 2012-2017, director of the summer campus in Salzburg, and director of the Catholic Studies Program. Previously, Dr. Andrews served in various leadership positions at Seattle University (2002-2011), including Dean of the Matteo Ricci College of Humanities, where he oversaw the preparation and implementation of the BA in Humanities for Leadership degree for global citizenship. He also served as director of the Faith and the Great Ideas Academic and Residential Program, faculty supervisor for the Sullivan Scholars Program, and director of Seattle University’s Summer Academic Program in Italy (Florence and Rome) from 2003-2011. Dr. Andrews was appointed Visiting International Research Scholar at the Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome, 2007-2008.
Dr. Andrews’ areas of interest include Phenomenology; Existentialism; Philosophy of Religion (Philosophical Theology); Renaissance Philosophy of Art; Ethics (incl. healthcare and biomedical); Catholic Intellectual Thought / Catholic Social Teaching, and the History of Philosophy. As the former Vice President and a Member at Large of the Executive Committee of the International Association of the Philosophy of Edith Stein (IASPES), Professor Andrews publishes and lectures widely on the thought of Edith Stein, including the relationship between phenomenology, ontology, ethics, and metaphysics, and on issues related to Jesuit and Catholic pedagogy, human rights, social and environmental justice, women’s education, and cultural empathy. He writes and speaks internationally on the importance of integrating the social and natural sciences with the arts and humanities in contemporary global Jesuit education. He has presented his work at international peer-reviewed conferences across five continents and has taught “great figures” courses and directed student theses on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Thomas Aquinas, Teilhard de Chardin, and Edith Stein.