Veteran journalist Julia Lieblich joined Loyola University Chicago in 2006 as an instructor who earned her current position as Assistant Professor beginning in fall 2008.  Lieblich oversees the journalism capstone experience and teaches Reporting & Writing, Historical and Critical Issues in Journalism, Human Rights Reporting and Critical Ethnography.

Lieblich's substantial career in journalism has focused on issues surrounding religion, human rights and business. After receiving a Master’s degree in Theological Studies from Harvard’s Divinity School, Lieblich went on to work as the religion writer for the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune, a business writer for Fortune magazine, a correspondent for ReligionLink, and was honored as an Ochburg Fellow at the well-known Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma. She has also served as a Fellow at Northwestern Law School’s Center for International Human Rights.

In the 1990s, Lieblich published a New York Times cover story about four defiant nuns in the Roman Catholic Church, which led to the successful book publication of "Sisters" by Ballantine Press. Currently, she is completing a book-length manuscript on "Finding Meaning After Terror", which tells the story of a Bosnian survivor of concentration camps.

Recently, Lieblich was invited back to Harvard by the Nieman Foundation of Journalism to speak on issues of religion and human rights.