UCD Newman Centre Membership
UCD Newman Centre for the Study of Religions is based in UCD School of Philosophy but has associate members from across the different Schools and Colleges in UCD, including Archaeology, English, History, Sociology, Social Justice, and Politics and International Relations (SPIRE). The Centre also has members from other Irish universities including DCU, Maynooth University, and Trinity College Dublin. The Centre's Advisory Board has members from different UCD Schools as well as other Irish universities and external stakeholders.
If you are interested in joining the Centre as an associate member, please email the Director at daniel.deasy@ucd.ie.
Chair of the Advisory Board
Dermot Moran (Professor Emeritus, UCD School of Philosophy)
Centre Director
Daniel Esmonde Deasy (Associate Professor, UCD School of Philosophy)
Project Leader for Newman Studies and Religion & Science
Project Leaders
Angelo Bottone (Newman Trust & Newman Society): Project Co-Leader, Newman Studies
Dragos Calma (Associate Professor, UCD School of Philosophy): Project Leader, Neoplatonism and Abrahamic Faiths (2018-2023)
Joseph Cohen (Associate Professor, UCD School of Philosophy): Project Leader for Jewish Thought and Contemporary Philosophy
Maeve Cooke (Full Professor, UCD School of Philosophy): Project Co-Leader for Religion & Society
Áine Mahon (Assistant Professor, UCD School of Education): Project Leader, Newman's Philosophy of Education
Katherine O'Donnell (Professor of Philosophy, UCD): Project Co-Leader for Religion & Society
Affiliated Researchers
Cathy Darling (UCD School of Philosophy): UCD Newman Studies MA Researcher (2023-2025)
Cosmas Iyamu (UCD School of Education): UCD Newman Studies PhD Researcher
Edmund M. Lazzari (Assistant Coordinator of External Programs, Teaching Fellow, Department of Catholic Studies, Duquesne University)
Francesco Quatrini (Lecturer, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Religious History and Heritage, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)