Dominic M Verner

After earning a B.S. in electrical engineering from Purdue University and an M.A. in philosophical studies from Mount St. Mary's University, Fr. Dominic Verner, O.P. entered the Order of Preachers and was ordained to the priesthood in 2016. He earned an S.T.L. from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception and a Ph.D. in moral theology/Christian ethics from the University of Notre Dame, where he wrote his dissertation "Saving Honor: A Thomistic Ethics of Honor." He joined the Theology Faculty at Providence College as an Assistant Professor in the Fall of 2022. His research and teaching interests especially concern the motivational role that honor, reputation, and social recognition play in practical reason and how the doctrine and example of Christ norm the pursuit of these goods. Fr. Dominic favors an interdisciplinary approach to these and related questions concerning honorable human agency, seeking to engage Thomistic anthropology and action theory with contemporary social theory, psychology, and neuroscience.