Erin Brigham

Erin Brigham directs the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition and teaches in the department of Theology and Religious Studies. She also directs the St. Ignatius Institute, a living-learning community rooted in academics, spirituality, and solidarity. Passionate about theological research, her most recent books include Church as Field Hospital: Toward an Ecclesiology of Sanctuary and Women Engaging the Catholic Social Tradition: Solidarity Toward the Common Good, co-edited with Mary Johnson. She is currently writing a book on Community Organizing and Catholic Social Thought. She grew up in the beautiful Rocky Mountains of Western Montana and now lives in the Richmond District with her family.

• Catholic social thought
• Critical feminist theory and theology
• Ecclesiology

• Sanctuary and theology
• Women and Catholic social thought

• Director, Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition

• Director, St. Ignatius Institute

• Graduate Theological Union, PhD in Systematic and Philosophical Theology, 2010

• “A Proclamation of Hope: Pope Francis’s Theology of Organizing” in Journal of Catholic Social Thought (Fall 2024).

• Church as Field Hospital: Toward an Ecclesiology of Sanctuary (Liturgical Press, 2022).

• Co-editor with Mary Johnson: Women Engaging the  Catholic Social Tradition: Solidarity Toward the Common Good (Paulist Press, 2022).

• See, Judge, Act: Catholic Social Teaching and Service Learning. Anselm Academic Press, 2013 (Revised Edition, 2018).

• “Women Religious and the Public Voice of Catholicism,” in The Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion, Vol 31/2 (2015). 

• Sustaining the Hope for Unity: Ecumenical Dialogue in a Postmodern World. Liturgical Press, 2012.