2004
O’Hara, Melanie. University of Chicago. “Hans Von Balthasar and Ethics”.
Wilson, Steve. Spring Hill College. “Liturgy and Ethics”.
2005
King, Jason. Saint Vincent College. “The Community in Virtue Theory”.
Muldoon, Timothy. Mount Aloysius College. “Rethinking Procreation in Catholic Marriage: Adoption and the Postmodern Domestic Church”.
Murphy, Bill. Ave Maria University. “Theories of the Moral Act Before and After Veritatis Splendor”.
Pfeil, Margaret. University of Notre Dame. “Liturgy and Ethics: Sacramental Imagination and the Social Practices of Reconciliation”.
Vogt, Christopher. St John’s University. “Knowing the Cost of War: Prudence, Regard for Strangers, and the Measurement of Proportionality”.
2006
Bennett, Jana. Hampden-Sydney College.” The Domestic Church: Questions and Critiques”.
Clairmont, David. University of Notre Dame. “Catholic Moral Theology and Inter-religious Dialogue: In What Sense is Comparison a Vocation in the Church?”
O’Connell, Maureen. Fordham University. “The Global Samaritan? Political Compassion as an Axiom for Global Ethics”.
2007
Bagot, Matthew. Boston College. “A Catholic Foreign Policy and the War on Terror: the Virtues of Murray”.
Barrett, Melanie. University of St. Mary of the Lake/Mundelein Seminary. “Suffering and the Moral Life in Aquinas”.
Getek, Kathryn. Boston College. “The Virtue of Justice and the American Prison”.
Herman, Carolyn Weir. Boston College. “Virtue Ethics and the Formation of a Community of Holy Conversation”.
Morrow, Maria. University of Dayton. “Pornography and Penance”.
Senander, Angela. Washington Theological Union. “Catholic Scandal in the Public Square”.
2008
Austriaco, Nicanor O.P. Providence College. “Natural Law Reasoning and Scientific Data: The Test Case of Homosexuality”.
Caccamo, James. St Joseph’s University. “The Reality of the Virtual: the Internet and the Practice of Christian Virtue in the Twenty-first Century”.
Collier, Liz. DePaul University. “Negotiating the Tension between the Global and the Local in Catholic Teaching on Migration”.
Cox, Kathryn Lilla. College of St. Benedict/ St. John’s University. “Vocation and the Fundamental Option: Frameworks for a Transcendental Analysis of Moral Action”.
Daily, Daniel. St. Anselm’s College. “Virtues and Cultural Context: Catholic Habits for the 21st Century”.
Murphy, Bill. Pontifical College Josephinum. “Natural Law in Veritatis Splendor: Locating its Approach in Relation to Recent Alternatives”.
Shadle, Matthew. Loras College. “John Paul II’s Laborem Exercens in the Light of Veritatis Splendor”.
Therrien, Michel. St. Vincent’s Seminary. “The Relationship between Law and Virtue in Moral Development”.
2009
Bennett, Jana. Dayton University. “Ruining the Church: Conversations on Catholic Moral Theology and Catholic Converts”.
Clark, Patrick. University of Notre Dame. “Memory, Forgetfulness and the Self in Hauerwas and Nietzsche”.
Cloutier, David. Mount St. Mary’s University. “Centering on Christ…but Which One? Moral Theology and the Practical Implications of Christological Mistakes”.
Lichacz, Piotr. Instytut Tomistyczny. “Did Hauser Plagiarize His “Moral Organ” from Aquinas?”
Love, John. Mount St. Mary’s Seminary. “I Have Decided to Follow Jesus: Personal Relationship with Christ from a Catholic Perspective”.
McCarthy, Eli. Graduate Theological Union. “A Christian Virtue Based Assessment of Nonviolent Peacemaking”.
Overmyer, Sheryl. Duke University. “Baptized into the Virtues”.
2010
Brown, Benjamin. Lourdes College. “Rethinking Desire: Is a Kenotic Capitalism Possible?”
Chau, Carolyn. Regis College, Toronto School of Theology. “Obediential Response, Whither and How: A Consideration of the Relationship between Theologians and the Magisterium in the Work of Hans Urs von Balthasar”.
Coolman, Holly Taylor. Providence College. “Exploring Caritas in Veritate via the Economy of Communion”.
Flanagan, Patrick. St. John’s University. “Surfing with that Plastic Jesus on my Keyboard: Ethically Navigating the World Wide Web”.
Harmon, Thomas P. Ave Maria University. “Truth and History in Reading the ‘Signs of the Times.’”
Hayes, Patrick. University of Makeni. “GMOs and the Ethics of Food”.
Hirschfield, Mary. University of Notre Dame. “Prudence and the Analogy of Being: A Thomistic Alternative to the Language of Rational Choice”.
Lasnoski, Kent. Marquette University. “Bernard Lonergan’s Moral and Systematic Theology of Marriage: Cause for Dissent or Reason to Affirm”.
Shadle, Matthew. Loras Collge. “Popes John XXIII and Paul VI, Keynesianism, and the Technocratic Temptation”.
2011
Bushlack, Tom. University of Notre Dame. “Impassioned Reasoning: Passions and Prudence in Moral Reasoning.”
Carpenter, Anne. Marquette University. “The Morality of Poets: Holiness and Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theology of Poetry.”
Corneil, Richard. St. Peter’s Seminary. “Bearing, Sharing, and the Common Good.”
Green, Brian. Graduate Theological Union. “Catholic Morality and Cultural Evolution.”
Jaycox, Michael. Boston College. “The Order and Operation of Charity:An Exegetical Study of the Disputed Question of Infused Cardinal Virtues in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas.”
Morrow, Maria. University of Dayton. “Freedom and Obligation: Penance in the 1960s.”
Martocchio, Michael. Duquesne University. “The Ethics of Sustainability.”
Overmyer, Sheryl. DePaul University. “Aquinas on the Virtues: The Difference Aristotle Makes.”
Rice, Lincoln. Marquette University. “The Pluralistic Vision of the Catholic Worker: Michael Baxter’s Glaring Omission.”
Spotts, Christopher. Marquette University. “Why Catholic Social Teaching Needs the Biblical Jubilee.”