Dr. Wojda is associate professor of theology at the University of St. Thomas.  Dr. Wojda received his B.A. in Government and Political Theory in 1984 from the University of Notre Dame. He holds a master’s degree (cum laude) in Religious Studies from Yale University Divinity School (1987), and a doctorate in Christian Ethics/Moral Theology, also from the University of Notre Dame (1993). Dr. Wojda’s research interests include Catholic fundamental moral theology, political theology, and health care ethics. His scholarly articles and reviews have appeared in the Encyclopedia of Catholicism, Pro Ecclesia, Word and World, The Annual for the Society of Christian Ethics, Theology Today, The Thomist, The Journal of Moral Theology and elsewhere.

 

Dr. Wojda served as Director of the M.A. Program in Catholic Studies (2005-10), and as chair of the Faculty Affairs Committee (2014-15). During the 2020-21 academic year he was the Chair of Faculty. He was also a founding member and chair of St. Thomas’ Institutional Review Board (IRB). Dr. Wojda regularly takes students on short-term January courses to Eastern Europe (Poland, Ukraine).

 

In addition to his duties at St. Thomas, Dr. Wojda has served as Chair of former Archbishop Harry Flynn’s Biomedical Ethics Commission. He currently chairs the board of directors of the Institute for Basic and Applied Research in Surgery, a non-profit foundation affiliated with the University of Minnesota Department of Surgery. He has served as an ethics consultant to Catholic Health Initiatives, one of the country’s largest Catholic healthcare systems, as well as on the Perinatal Bioethics Committee of Hennepin County Medical Center. He also served as a member of the National Marrow Donor Center’s Institutional Review Board. For over ten years he assisted the Veritas Institute at St. Thomas’ Opus College of Business in conducting on-site consultations with Catholic hospitals and healthcare systems in the United States, Mexico, and Chile.