David Cloutier

David Cloutier is Ordinary Professor of Theology/Ethics at the Catholic University of America, joining the faculty in 2016 after spending ten years at Mount St. Mary’s University (MD), where he held the Knott Professorship of Catholic Theology. He is the author of four books, including the award-winning The Vice of Luxury: Economic Excess in a Consumer Age (Georgetown University Press, 2015), and Walking God’s Earth: The Environment and Catholic Faith (Liturgical Press 2014). He is particularly interested in connecting Catholic moral theology to research about human behavior from the social sciences, and received a $40,000 grant from The Happiness and Well-Being Project at Saint Louis University to collaborate on publications on the ethics of virtue and human agency with psychologist Anthony Ahrens of American University. He teaches moral theology, with particular interests in economic ethics, sexual ethics, and the environment, and received the College Theology Society’s 2018 Monika Hellwig award for teaching excellence. Dr. Cloutier is active in traditional and web-based media, having been published in Commonweal, The Washington Post, U.S. Catholic, and other publications. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Society of Christian Ethics in 2019. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. in religion (theology & ethics) from Duke University.