Michael Allsopp

Professor in the Division of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Courses Regularly Taught 

• PHI 110 Critical Thinking in a Diverse World
• PHI 320 Bioethics

Year Started at Mercy College 2003

Education

• S.T.B. St. Patrick's College, Sydney, Australia (1964)
• S.T.L. St. Patrick's College, Sydney, Australia (1966)
• M.A. (Religious Sudies),Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington (1979)
• Ph.D. Gregorian University, Rome, Italy (1980)
• M.A. (Administration  Curriculum), Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington (1981)

Advice to Students

"It's a great time to be entering one of the healthcare professions--and your success is why all of us at MCHS exist."

Clinical/Field Experience

Prior to coming to MCHS,full-time faculty member at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, from 1984-1994, where I also directed Creighton's Medical Humanities Program, and Honors Program; full-time faculty member at Barry University in Miami Shores, Florida, from 1994-2000, where I set up and directed Barry's Council on Biomedical Ethics;
Academic Dean (Chief Academic Officer), Presentation College, Aberdeen, South Dakota.

Research Interests and Professional Projects  

• Foundations of Ethics
• Christian Ethics
• Decisionmaking--Moral, Life, Work
• Biomedical Ethics

Recent Publications/Presentations

• Latest book: Renewing Christian Ethics: The Catholic Tradition (Uiversity of Scranton Press, 2005.
• Regularly publishing essay-reviews for National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly--latest was a 2000-word review of Making Health Care Decisions: A Catholic Guide, edited by Ron Hamel (Winter, 2008).

Professional Memberships

• American Catholic Philosophical Association
• Society for Study of Christian Ethics
• Hopkins Association (Ireland)

Personal History

Married to Rosemarie O'Connor, two granchildren
Interests: Gardening, Book Collecting, Building Civil War Collection