Michael F. Andrews, PhD
Professor
Dr. Michael F. Andrews is Professor of Philosophy and Professor, Graduate Faculty at ÎçÒ¹AV. Before coming to ÎçÒ¹AV in 2017, Dr. Andrews was the McNerney-Hanson University Professor of Ethics (2011-2017) and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Portland.
Dr. Andrews is the author of the monograph , a volume in the SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2024, 348pp). He is editor of , volume XII in the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists Series, ed. Michael F. Andrews and Antonio Calcagno (Dordrecht: Springer Academic Press, 2022, 243pp).
Dr. Andrews is the author of more than forty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, including in the official Edith Stein Collected Works presses in Germany (Verlag-Herder) and the USA (Institute of Carmelite Studies Press). He has presented over fifty formal papers at some of the most prestigious international academic conferences across five continents, including the American Philosophical Association, the International Husserl Circle, the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, the Society for Phenomenology and the Human Sciences, the North American Society for Early Phenomenology, the World Phenomenology Institute, the International Max Scheler Society, and the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein, where he also served two terms on the Executive Board. In 2019, he was an invited keynote speaker and member of the concluding roundtable discussion at the United Nations-sponsored 13th International Conference on Human Rights in Doha, State of Qatar. In 2007-08 and in 2025. Dr. Andrews was appointed Senior International Research Fellow at the Archivium Romanum Socitatis Jesu / Jesuit Historical Institute in Rome.
In addition to his scholarly expertise, Dr. Andrews successfully served more than fifteen years in senior university and international administration. He is the former Director and Chief Administrative Officer of ÎçÒ¹AV's famed Rome Campus (2017-2021) in Italy; former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Portland, where he also directed the University's summer campus in Salzburg and the Catholic Studies Program; and former dean of the Matteo Ricci College of Humanities, director of the Faith and the Great Ideas Academic and Residential Programs, faculty supervisor for the Sullivan Scholars Program, and director of Seattle University's "Philosophy of Art" Summer Academic Program in Florence and Rome. He has received numerous awards for teaching excellence, including "Most Inspirational Faculty Award in Recognition of Academic Excellence in Teaching" and twice received the "O Captain, My Captain Outstanding Teacher of the Year" award at Seattle University.
Dr. Andrews' areas of research include Phenomenology; Existentialism; the History of Philosophy; Philosophy of Religion (Philosophical Theology); Greek and Medieval Metaphysics; Renaissance Philosophy of Art; Ethics (including healthcare, biomedical, and Catholic Social Teaching); and Catholic Intellectual Thought. He is an internationally-recognized scholar on the importance of integrating the social and natural sciences with the arts and humanities in contemporary global Jesuit education. Dr. Andrews publishes and lectures widely on issues related to Jesuit pedagogy, human rights, social and political thought, environmental justice, women's education, social ontology, and cultural empathy, including contemporary issues impacting migrants, immigrants, and refugees. He has taught "great figures" courses and directed undergraduate and graduate theses on Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Thomas Aquinas, Teilhard de Chardin, Martin Heidegger, Jacques Derrida, and Edith Stein. He regularly leads student/faculty/staff/alumni immersion and Ignatian discernment and academic-centered retreat experiences that explore global intersections of faith and justice in places such as Morocco, Sarajevo, Ecuador, Assisi, Spain, and Rome.
Originally from Providence, RI, Dr. Andrews holds dual citizenship in Italy and the USA. He is fluent in Italian and has reading proficiency in French, German, Latin, and Russian. He was awarded the BA degree in systematic theology from Georgetown University; the M.A. in philosophical theology from Yale; the Ph.L./M.Phil degree in Greek and medieval metaphysics from the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome); the M.A. degree in the History of Philosophy and the Ph.D. in Philosophy from Villanova University; and a Higher Education Certificate from the Institute for Management and Leadership in Education at Harvard University. Dr. Andrews is a former member of the New England Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). When he isn’t cooking dinner with friends or writing or tinkering on the piano, he enjoys slaying dragons with his daughter, riding his vespa, and taking long walks along the shore with his wife and their dogs, Pepino and Luna.
Education
PhD, MA Villanova University
MPhil / PhL Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome, Italy)
MA in Religion Yale University
BA Georgetown University
Research Interests
Phenomenology; Philosophy of Religion (Philosophical Theology); Renaissance Philosophy of Art; Catholic Intellectual Thought / Catholic Social Teaching; The History of Philosophy
Great Figures: Edith Stein, Soren Kierkegaard, Teilhard de Chardin, SJ