John P. Slattery is the Director of the Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology, and Law at Duquesne University. From 2018-2022, he served as a Senior Program Officer with the Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Washington, DC. An ethicist, theologian, and historian of science, Slattery works at the intersection of technology, science, religion, and racism. He is the author of the 2019 Faith and Science at Notre Dame and the editor of the 2020 Christian Theology and the Modern Sciences. His essays have appeared in Commonweal Magazine, Science, Religion Dispatches, and Daily Theology. The tiles below represent a selection of his recent writings and lectures.

Eugenics Past, Present, and Future: Dangerous Intersections of Race, Science, and Technology

The Enduring Problem of Eugenics, and Other Evils

In Search of a Prophetic Voice for Tech Ethics

Eugenics and the
History of Science and AAAS

Faith and Science at Notre Dame
Winner of Honorable Mention Award in Faith and Science Category, Catholic Press Association
“Slattery’s account…provides a much-needed bridge between this reactionary era in the Church’s recent intellectual history and the more open era of Catholic thought that preceded the French Revolution. Faith and Science at Notre Dame is an indispensable addition to this history.“
“Immune to Science,” Commonweal Magazine.

Neither Artificial Nor Intelligent
Commonweal Magazine
January 2022

DoSER Breaks Down Walls Between Science and Religion

Handbook of Christian Theology
& the Modern Sciences

Christian Documents of Barbarism
Cultural Encounters
Winter 2019

Teilhard and Eugenics: A Response to John Haught
Commonweal Magazine
March 2019