Brian Boyd

Ph.D., Moral Theology, University of Notre Dame, 2022; M.T.S., University of Notre Dame, 2017; B.A., Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, 2010; B.A., University of Notre Dame, 2008

Brian J. A. Boyd is the research assistant director of the Center for Ethics and Economic Justice at Loyola University New Orleans. His teaching explores the nature and pursuit of the good life, approached philosophically as human flourishing and theologically in light of Catholic Social Teaching. The importance of material goods to well-being leads him to focus on economic justice, understood in theory so as to be lived in practice. His work at the Center, particularly the financial literacy program, promotes bridge-building between Loyola and the broader New Orleans community. His goal is to support the undergraduate Ethics Fellows in "finding God in all things" while becoming "women and men for others."

Dr. Boyd has an extensive research agenda and often translates his scholarly work into public-facing articles and podcasts. Supported by a grant from the Acton Institute, he is preparing his dissertation on wage justice for publication with an academic press. His research also includes the nature of money, its abuse through usury, and the possibilities for a new jubilee; critical realism, corporate belonging, and cooperative social enterprises; and the social scrutiny of technology ('amistics'). He is a James Buchanan Fellow of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, a member of the International Society for MacIntyrean Enquiry, and a consultant to the journal The New Atlantis.