Jessica Murdoch
Associate Professor of Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology at Villanova University
Dr. Jessica M. Murdoch is Associate Professor of Fundamental and Dogmatic Theology at Villanova University. She specializes in the philosophy and theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, metaphysics and epistemology, papal teaching, and matters concerning women, marriage and the family from a Catholic perspective. Prior to her tenure at Villanova, she was an Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame. She currently serves the Church on the Executive Board of the National Advisory Council of the USCCB, on the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council in Philadelphia, and as a catechist at Sacred Heart Parish in Royersford, PA. Jessica and her husband, James, are the parents of four children.