Center for Technology and Human Dignity

Dr. Mariele Courtois is an Assistant Professor in the Theology Department at Benedictine College. She is a moral theologian whose writing engages technology ethics, health care ethics, disability theology, and the thought of St. Edith Stein. She earned a Ph.D. with distinction in Moral Theology & Ethics and a Master of Philosophy in Theology and Religious Studies from the Catholic University of America. She also holds a Master of Theological Studies from the University of Notre Dame and a B.S. in Biology from Loyola Marymount University. She is a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Culture and Education’s AI Research Group and a contributing author of Encountering Artificial Intelligence: Ethical and Anthropological Investigations (Pickwick Publications, 2024). She is a Fellow for the Fr. James L. Heft, SM Generations in Dialogue Program on transhumanism and medical ethics at the University of Southern California’s Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies and a member of the International Association for the Study of the Philosophy of Edith Stein. She is currently working on a manuscript about the ethics of genetic engineering technologies at the beginning of life.