Julie Hanlon Rubio is the Shea-Heusaman Professor of Christian Social Ethics and Associate Dean at Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University in Berkeley, California. Before coming to JST-SCU, she taught in the department of theological studies at St. Louis University for nearly two decades. Her research focuses on family, feminism, and reconciliation. She is the author or editor of seven books, including the award winning Hope for Common Ground: Mediating the Personal and the Political in a Divided Church (Georgetown, 2016) and Family Ethics: Practices for Christians (Georgetown, 2010). She has published in a variety of academic journals, including Theological Studies, Horizons, Concilium, the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics, and the Journal of Political Theology. Along with Paul J. Schutz, she was a principal investigator for the grant funded study, published in 2022, Beyond Bad Apples: Understanding Clergy Perpetrated Sexual Abuse as a Structural Problem and Cultivating Strategies for Change.” She serves on the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops' National Review Board, speaks in a wide variety of public forums, and writes for popular venues such as The Tablet, The Conversation, and National Catholic Reporter.
- Catholic Social Thought
- Family Ethics
- Ethics of Social Reconciliation
- Feminist Theology and Ethics
- Faith and Politics
- Can You Be a Catholic and a Feminist? (Oxford University Press, 2024)
- “A Beleza Do Sexo Na Vivência Do Matrimônio Cristão,” in Sexualidade e Virtudes: Por uma ética da sexualidade à luz das virtudes, ed. Ronaldo Zacharias, Aparecida: Santuário, 2024, 171-202.
- “Commentary on Familiaris Consortio,” in Modern Catholic Family Teaching: Commentaries and Interpretations, eds. Jacob Kohlhaas and Mary Doyle Roche, Georgetown University Press, 2024, 149-156.
- “Women’s Rights in a Divided World: Hollenbach and Contemporary Feminism,” Berkeley Forum, October 1, 2024.
- “The Synod and After- The Conversation Continues,” The Tablet, Nov. 18, 2023, 8-9.
- "The Conscience of a Catholic Feminist,” in Conscience and Catholic Education, eds., Kevin C.
- Baxter & David E. DeCosse, Orbis Press, 2022, 198-212. “Consent, Sex, Gender, and Power,” in The Human in a Dehumanizing World, The Annual of College Theology Society 67, 2021, 112-115.
- “Park Church,” National Catholic Reporter, March 11, 2021. Sex, Love, and Families: Catholic Perspectives, editor with Jason King, Liturgical Press, 2020
- “Masculinity and Sexual Abuse in the Church,” Concilium 2020/2, 118-127.