Kate Ward is Associate Professor of theological ethics at Marquette University, working in areas including economic ethics, virtue ethics, fundamental moral theology and Catholic social thought. She is the author of Wealth, Virtue and Moral Luck: Christian Ethics in an Age of Inequality (Georgetown, 2021) and the coeditor, with Christopher P. Vogt, of Bothering to Love: James F. Keenan’s Retrieval and Reinvention of Catholic Ethics (Orbis, 2024). She has published articles in journals including Theological Studies, Journal of Religious Ethics, Heythrop Journal, Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and American Journal of Economics and Sociology. She serves on the editorial boards of Journal of Moral Theology, Journal of Catholic Social Thought and Asian Horizons. Dr. Ward graduated from Harvard College, where she studied psychology, and earned her M.Div with concentration in Bible from Catholic Theological Union and her Ph.D. in theological ethics from Boston College. Before beginning her Ph.D. studies, she worked at AFSCME Council 31, a labor union organizing workers in Catholic health care settings. She lives in Milwaukee with her family, where they are parishioners of Our Lady of Divine Providence in the Riverwest neighborhood.

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