• THFS 101. The Way of Francis and Clare

• Ph.D. in Theological and Social Ethics, Fordham University, 2021
• M.A. in Theology, St. John’s University, 2015
• B.A. in Psychology, Michigan State University, 2013

Dr. Ott earned her Ph.D. at Fordham University, where she studied theological and social ethics and also taught for several years. Her dissertation focused on the role of conflict in Catholic social teaching and theological ethics, and an updated version was published with Routledge in 2024 as Conflict and Catholic Social Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

Prior to coming to SBU, Dr. Ott worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at KU Leuven in Belgium, where she was part of a project called “Dissenting Church.”

Books

• Conflict and Catholic Social Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Approach (Routledge, 2024).

Journal Articles

• LaCouter, T., Bobrowicz, R., Ott, T., & Gruber, J., “Contra Silentium Obsequiosum: On the Roman Catholic Approach to Dissent and Tradition,” Theological Studies, 85, no. 4 (2024): 652-669.
• “Living Into Tension: Conflictual Relationships as a Site of Creative Possibility,” in special issue “The Future of Theology,” ET Studies 2/23 (October/November 2023).
• “Destructive Activity in an Ecological Ethic of Co-Creation,” Studia Philosophiae Christianae, Vol. 56, No. 3 (2020).
• “‘I Was Never the Hero that You Wanted Me to Be’: The Ethics of Self-Sacrifice and Self-Preservation in Jessica Jones,” in Theology and the Marvel Universe, ed. Gregory Stevenson, Lexington Books (2019).