Michael Le Chevallier is Senior Associate Director and Director of National Partnerships at the Lumen Christi Institute. He holds a Ph.D. in theological ethics from the University of Chicago, an M.Div from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Willamette University
Michael runs national programs, spearheading summer seminars in the Christian intellectual tradition, conferences in Economics & Catholic Social Thought, and dialogues for the Catholic Criminal Justice Reform Network. He is also responsible for the In Lumine Network, a network of institutes for Catholic thought across the nation, and has served as co-PI on two grants from the John Templeton Foundation that support nationwide efforts to expand the Catholic Intellectual tradition at non-Catholic universities.
Michael first started working at the Lumen Christi Institute in 2012 as a program coordinator for our Catholic Social Thought Program and has since served as Assistant Director, Associate Director, and Acting Executive Director. Michael is passionate about the mission of the Lumen Christi Institute to make the Catholic intellectual tradition in its depth and breadth a living dialogue partner in the modern university and within society.
Prior to coming to Chicago, Michael spent a year teaching English in Nantes, France and spent a year on a Watson Fellowship studying inculturation theology across Africa.
He is currently working on a manuscript on institutional ethics in the work of Paul Ricoeur. He also writes on the Catholic Social Teaching tradition. Michael is a member of St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Hyde Park. In his free time, he enjoys visiting beaches and museums with his wife and 2 kids, reading science fiction, and intellectual leisure wherever he can find it.