Adjunct Instructor
Brian J. A. Boyd is a moral theologian with particular interest in Catholic Social Teaching, and he serves as the director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. Dr. Boyd is delighted that his role at Loyno offers the flexibility to teach also at NDS because the formation of seminarians and active laity is essential to the flourishing of the faith. The son of an Italian immigrant who has lived in seven states and three countries, he and his family now hope to put down strong roots in, and help to grow, Catholic Louisiana.
Dr. Boyd holds three degrees in philosophy or theology from the University of Notre Dame and a fourth from Blackfriars Hall at the University of Oxford. Besides publishing scholarly work on the just wage and related topics, he is a consultant and contributor to The New Atlantis on the ethics of artificial intelligence, using the framework of “amistics.” He has been a James Buchanan Fellow of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, and in 2024-2026 he will engage transhumanism and the body as part of the “Generations in Dialogue” cohort at the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at the University of Southern California — or, as Domers will insist on calling it, “Southern Cal.”