Bill O'Neill, SJ

Resident Scholar, Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education
Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Jesuit School of Theology 

William O’Neill, S.J. is a Resident Scholar in the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education and the Markkula Center. He previously served as professor emeritus of social ethics at SCU's Jesuit School of Theology in Berkeley and a visiting professor of Hekima University College in Nairobi. He received his STL from the Jesuit School of Theology and his Ph.D. from Yale University. His writings include The Ethics of Our Climate: Hermeneutics and Ethical Theory (Georgetown Univ. Press), Reimagining Human Rights: Religion and the Common Good (Georgetown Univ. Press); Catholic Social Teaching: A User’s Guide (Orbis); and book chapters and journal articles addressing questions of human rights, social reconciliation, restorative justice, refugee and immigration policy, race and mass incarceration, ecological ethics and the Church and public reason. Since 2019, he has been a member of the Mission and Identity team of the Jesuit Refugee Service while serving in the Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya, the Adjumani Settlements in Uganda, and the Maban refugee camps in South Sudan.