Profile
Daniel Madigan
Ruesch Family Associate Professor
Georgetown University
139 New North
Georgetown University
Washington DC 20057
USA
Daniel Madigan S.J.
… is an Australian Jesuit priest who joined Georgetown's Department of Theology in 2008. From 2009 he was Director of Graduate Studies, developing the new doctoral program focusing on issues of religious pluralism. He is also a Senior Fellow of The Al-Waleed Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, and associate faculty of the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies. Madigan is also a Professorial Fellow of the Australian Catholic University. Before moving to Georgetown he taught in Rome (2000-7), where he was was the founder and director (2002-7) of the Institute for the Study of Religions and Cultures at the Pontifical Gregorian University. His main fields of teaching and research are Qur’anic Studies, Interreligious Dialogue (particularly Muslim-Christian relations) and Comparative Theology, particularly Christian theologies that take Muslims seriously as theological interlocutors. He has also taught as a visiting professor at Columbia University, Ankara University, Boston College and Central European University.